But when the faithful gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the annual MacWorld convention last month, Jobs’ keynote address hewed to the computer side of the business. After giving the audience the astounding, beat-the-street numbers for the Christmas season — 14 million iPods sold, $5.7 billion in sales —Jobs said, “but this is MacWorld, so let’s talk about the Mac.”
The hardware Jobs debuted doesn’t look very different from last year’s iMac and PowerBook models. But inside beats a different heart. Six months earlier than predicted, the new Macs feature — heresy — dual-core Intel chips. They do the same thing, running the latest version of Apple’s OS X Unix-based operating system.
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