Changing of the Spots
I don’t believe it! How could my favorite fruit company do this to me?! Don’t they know that I have been pining for the new release of OS X as the cherry on the silicon sundae of a new Mac? How I long for the sublime refreshment of its new features and the unspecified (but surely surprising) zippy tang of its secret ones?
Well, yes, of course they do. I’m also quite certain that they know of my hatred for buggy and unfinished operating systems, and I’m glad that they’ve chosen not to release one as soon as possible. However, I’m no different than any other Mac fan, and it’s not hard to notice that Apple’s primary focus of late is on the new baby in the crib. Heck, this year an entire Macworld keynote was devoted to its charms! I’m just a little peeved that the Mac platform seems to be getting short shrift these days. While it’s true that iPhone is the coolest electronic device in the entire galaxy, it won’t be something for me until the price goes down, features go up, and AT&T cellular service (or a blessed equivalent) comes to my part of the cosmos as part of version 2.0.
All is not lost, though. We should be seeing new consumer Macs rolling out with Intel’s new “Santa Rosa” notebook platform very soon, and since all of Apple’s hardware (save the Mac Pro) is currently built with mobile innards in mind, that means some nice upgrades will make their way across the lineup. Nevertheless, I call upon the Cupertino faithful to make a small sacrifice (perhaps that of an Apple II High-Speed SCSI card) to ensure that WWDC will spill all the yummy secrets of Leopard and Macworld 2008 will really be about the Macintosh.
Posted by Jamie
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