Author: Daniel Brusilovsky

VP, Technology at Golden State Warriors.

Review: New iMac’s and keyboards

Since I went to the Apple Store today, and spent over an hour using the new iMac’s and keyboards, I think it is time for a review! Lets start with the new iMac’s.

The latest iteration of the Apple iMac ($1,499 direct, $1,649 with 1GB of RAM) comfortably straddles the worlds of consumer and business. It’s the fourth generation of the popular system, if you count the first as the CRT G3 iMacs, the second as the “Luxo-style” iMac G4, and the third as the white plastic iMac G5 and Intel systems. Though the last white iMac was marketed as the “consumer Mac” (the Mac Pro was the “professional Mac”), the latest iMac doesn’t fall into the pigeonholes of “business” or “consumer.” Its aluminum and black appearance can work in the home, next to your iPhone, or in the office next to your Aeron chair. With its Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows compatibility, it is certainly the “computer for the rest of us,” making good on the promises put forth in the original “1984” Macintosh ads.

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Apple Universe Episode #42 & #43

Apple Universe will be recording an episode on Monday with Wil Harris. As we all know and are waiting, Apple will be having an invite only event on September 5th, at 10:00 at the Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. After the event is over, and all the news is everywhere, I will we doing a “breaking story” episode reviewing the keynote.

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Press Release- iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Shows

Apple on August 31, 2007 announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with more than 50 cable networks, are signed up to sell TV shows from their upcoming season on iTunes at $1.99 per episode.

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