Well, Apple did take away some of Microsoft's thunder yesterday with the release of new hardware. Forget the earnings report, that 27 inch iMac is astonishing. I do have one gripe about the new iMacs; there should have been an eSATA expansion port added to the 27 inch model since Apple is touting it as a Final Cut Studio workhorse. The eSATA interface is an industry standard for external storage devices.
I like the SD slot, especially since some video cameras use SDHC cards, but there should have been an eSATA slot for offloading video projects onto external drives for editing.
So, two new iMacs, a totally revamped Macbook and an updated Mac mini that includes a server version with two 500GB hard drives with OS X 10.6.x server installed.
There were other smaller updates as well. The $20.00 Apple Remote received a make-over. The Airport Extreme and Time Capsule wireless routers now have reconfigured internal antennae that increase its range by 50% over the previous 2009 model.
There's a new mouse, the Magic Mouse, that is wireless and multi-touch and comes standard with the new iMac as does a wireless keyboard. Both devices are Bluetooth enabled and don't require a Bluetooth USB key as Bluetooth is built-in to or is an option on all Mac models.
That should just about do it for this year for Apple hardware updates. Next up will be the January release of what is rumored to be the first Apple tablet computer.