"Year of the Laptop"...

Naw steve shoulda said the Years of the Laptop. More and more people are getting laptops (and desktops). I hope a really fast PPC 970's gonna be in the powerbooks when they come.

BRING IT ON....

I've run PowerBooks since the 160, I love 'em the little darlings...

Now, a dual 970 based Ai 17" PowerBook would be worth selling the cat for

well steve also said when he introduced us to the flat screen imac that it was the end of the crt. and look the g3 imac is still around and he released the emac soon after. so you have to take what mr. jobs says with a grain of salt. i think focusing on the laptop line with bluetooth and wifi becoming mainstream and popular is a good move. but desktops will have their year again i'm sure.
on a side note: i would like to see apple get rid of the g3 imac. the emac should take over that all in one crt market some how.
that's my two cents or three....
later,
ed

RDF for the year Powermac sales tanked

"Year of the Laptop" is RDF spin to divert attention from tanking PowerMac sales.

His slide showed sales as a percentage, not units.
So if tower sales are down, spin it into "laptop sales are way up!" (as a percentage of sales).

As for the G3 iMac, Steve also once said (on the occasion of 5 millionth shipped) he was looking forward to the 10 millionth going out the door.
It is like the beetle, the development is paid for, it is cheap to make, everybody knows what it is, and it is perfectly adequate for some people (lot of schools). Put the old G3i on a good stand, it still looks pretty good. there have been problems with the eMac.