Apple Announces MacBook Pro With Intel Core Duo and intel based iMac
Today Apple announced the much anticipated MacBook!
This laptop has an intel processor, and has much better specs as far as performance and heat.
You’ve dreamed about it long enough. Now it has a name: MacBook Pro:

15.4-inch TFT display with 1440x900 resolution
1.67GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 Cache
667MHz frontside bus
512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
80GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory
Also noet the new iMac:
Rev up your digital life at speeds twice as fast as the previous iMac. Intel Core Duo and iLife ’06 raise the bar — again — of what makes a personal computer so personal.

17-inch widescreen LCD with 1440x900 resolution
1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 cache
512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
update:
MacBook Pro Comparison Charts
"the footprint of the new laptop is slightly larger (slimer, true, but still with a wider footprint) and there seems to be a few things missing. For example, S-video and composite video seem to be gone. And so is the built-in modem (now available as an extra, sold separately) and so is a firewire 800 port. On the other hand, you get a remote and a video camera with the new laptop."
Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus: Comparing the MacBook Pro to the PowerBook G4
"Apple's new MacBook Pro looks great, but raises some serious questions. The most obvious is battery life"
Price Deathmatch: Apple MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron E1705
I can't help but feel like the famed "Mac price premium" is a myth here. Dell currently offers cheaper Intel based computers than Apple, but feature-for-feature Apple's pricing is fair. I'm posting PDFs of both stores so you can double-check my work.
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