Microsoft's attempt to steal some of Apple's costumer by introducing the ultra-books was short lived. It was a fun ride and yeah you gotta admit that those Ultra-books really looked awesome but it's nothing with what Apple introduced yesterday at the annual WWDC in San Francisco.
Apple, finally updated their Mac lineup with the new Macbook Pro that has a stunning RETINA DISPLAY with a 2880 by 1800 pixels resolution 15.4 inch screen. Also running with Intel's latest processor, the 3rd Generation i7 quad core processors aka IVY Bridge, 8 Gigabytes of RAM (expandable up to 16GB), 720p HD camera, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching and many more amazing features. Well I was asleep during the WWDC but I had the chance to watch the full keynote at Apple's website. I'm still disappointed with Apple deciding not to introduce the next generation iPhone but the Retina Display Macbook Pro is enough for me. IOS 6 is basically IOS 5 with little improvements. It's not like when apple introduced IOS 5 everyone was dying to download the said software. With IOS 6, it was just full of disappointments. Siri's finally going to the New iPad which was already expected. Facebook integration is crap. Twitter was enough I don't need facebook integrated into my (old) iPhone 4. They did introduced a new Map application which is said to be better than the previous maps that was provided by Google. I don't really use facetime so it wasn't a big news for me that it's finally going to work on cellular data plans which before it only worked through wi-fi networks. You can view more of the "new" features here. IOS 6 will be available to the public this fall and it will be compatible with iPhone 3gs and newer versions, Ipod touch 4th Gen and of course the iPad 2 and the new iPad.
All in all it was a solid keynote by apple. I still think they should have started their keynote by introducing IOS 6 first before introducing the new lineup of Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs and of course the Latest Generation Macbook Pro and OS X Mountain Lion. It kinda got dull in the end, I think the only reason why people stayed in their seat was they were still hoping that Apple's going to introduce the next generation iPhone but like what we witnessed they didn't. After the keynote apple has finally taken a step up in the battle of the notebooks. This goes to show you that Microsoft is nowhere near them. Yes, apple products are a bit overpriced but that's just the price you pay for innovation. It's a membership, once you go Mac you can't go back. Now I ask you, after seeing all those features that the new OS X Mountain Lion has and what Windows 8 is going to offer. Which one would you pick?
MS hasn't even released Windows 8 yet but inside my head it's already losing the battle. The Ultra-Books tried to stop the bleeding. Windows 8 is MS' last resort and this hurts (as a MS loyal user) but it's not going to be near the caliber of Apple's latest OS and hardware.
