Microsoft’s Apple keyboard, mouse
p2p news / p2pnet: Apple shakes Mac universe to the core, says the Advertiser in Adelaide, Australia. And what’s shaken Macolytes up? The fact there’s now an Intel Core Duo processor inside an Apple computer.
At this year’s Macworld, Steve Jobs “set in motion what may prove to be a watershed year for the company, as he revealed arguably the most radical products in the company’s history,” says the story. “Perhaps not radical for a legion of Windows PC makers but, for the Mac faithful, it’s a move many thought would never happen.”
The media seem totally blown away that Apple’s newest merchandise has Intel inside. But historic?
What it boils down to is this: Jobs and his marketing and advertising wizards and they are wizards want Macs to be iPods (well, almost). And they’re confidently relying on overblown media hype rather than pure computer power to make it happen.
However, the new Mac laptop is just a box with computer stuff inside, and at two thousand dollars for the cheapest version, it’s an expensive box at that.
But what really is interesting is that this summer, Microsoft plans to release a $100 wireless mouse and keyboard for Apple’s new Macs.
Microsoft, though, could not get permission to use the Apple logo normally found on a key at the bottom left of an Apple keyboard, “so the key will have a clover instead,” says TechWeb News. But the key will perform all of the same functions.
” Microsoft decided to ship the Mac-only product after hearing from customers that its Mac-compatible keyboards, which also worked on PCs, were lacking some features for Apple computers,” says the story, adding:
” ‘There are certain features Mac users want that are missing in one keyboard targeting both (platforms),’ the spokeswoman said, citing, as an example, a hotkey for ejecting a DVD or CD’.”
Also See:
Advertiser – Apple shakes Mac universe to the core, January 14, 2005
TechWeb News – Microsoft Readies Mouse, Keyboard For The Mac, January 13, 2005
