Highlights from MacWorld

Apple made some very interesting announcements at last week's MacWorld. Among them:

- During the holiday season, Apple sold 100 iPods a *minute*; total of 14M units Q4 '05
- Apple has now sold a total of 42 million iPods
- iTunes has sold over 850M songs; well on track to exceed 1B song per year run rate
- 83% MP3 player market share
- Chrysler to offer iPod integration on all models
- Apple announced several new Macs featuring dual-core Intel processors, including the new MacBook Pro notebook:
- Up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4;
- One inch thin, weighing only 5.6 pounds
- Built-in iSight video camera, an Apple Remote and Front Row software
- The new agreement between Apple and Intel is fueling speculation that it may be possible to run both Windows and Mac OS on the new Macs; this is an intriguing option, particularly in the laptop area
- First billion dollar quarter for Apple stores
- Last quarter revenue: $5.7B: a record. Market value of Apple now more than Dell!

Should be an interesting year for Apple. With the Intel partnership, it will be very interesting to watch the corporate market--if PC users can get a machine that runs both Mac OS and Windows, will they switch? The MacBook Pro could very well be the new 'power' notebook for road warriors.....