Point To Point

As much as I love the current Macbook, I am desperate for an update. I have been seriously considering buying one of these beautiful machines for a while now, but was turned off it by the outdated integrated Intel graphics card. It is the only shortcoming in what I know (my room-mate has one) is an excellently designed laptop, which runs well on both XP and Tiger to boot. So today, after speculation that a new brand of Macbook with the Santa-Rosa setup would be released on the general public, Apple had the audacity to release the same laptop with the same configuration, other than a .16 GHZ increase in the processor speed. I mean, come on, was it really worth it? It probably cost Apple more buying all those new chips than they’re going to make in this silly move.

I really respect Apple as a company- they create innovative, beautiful products which have become more affordable of late- but they must realize that they need to hold on to the popularity they currently have. Sure, people are avidly awaiting the iPhone, but I personally don’t think it can possibly live up to the expectations of the world; the only way Apple can retain our interest is by consistently bringing out new and enhanced versions of their famous products. These include the iPod, Macbook (Pro) and the iMac, the latter two of which are becoming style icons, just as the iPod did.

So what has happened over at Apple to reduce the amounts of updates? Why has there been no iPod update in over a year now, when we were promised a ‘real’ video iPod at the Macworld conference? I really think that the Mac tech guys need to prioritize better: just because the iPhone is popular doesn’t mean you have to switch you iPod engineers over to it! I hope for Apple’s sake they sort their act out soon, or they will at least have lost me as a customer…