[ajprice]

OK so here we are at the back end of the CES show, where all the big PC names have shown off their new dual core Intel Core Duo (Yonah) laptop PC's. The PC makers have shown their hands with the dual core, and Apple are unable to show what they have until MWSF next week.

After CES,I think its pretty much a given now that Apple will have Intel computers next week, or else they are going to look soooo 2005. So should Apple join in with the CES crowd now that they are going to be using the same processors as the others, or stay in their own little MWSF bubble? Option 3 would be to move MWSF to before CES next year, and get the first showings themselves.

[Salty]

That'd put Apple really too close to New years if they moved any earlier, not to mention WAY too close to Christmas. That said, Apple doesn't always refresh it's product line entirely at MacWorld SF. That said, I could see Apple being invited to join CES and I imagine right now that'd go over really well with the trade show makers... though I imagine that could take away from some of the other aspects of MacWorld SF. I dono... tough question... So in the end... I imagine they'll stay put.

[Tesseract]

I'm sure the CES people would love to have Apple, given the recent wild success of the iPod. On the other hand, having an event of their own is probably an advantage for Apple in terms of getting lots of media coverage.

[Chuckit]

They should not move it before CES. If they do that, all of a sudden 50 other computer makes will have been working on something suspiciously like Steve's One More Thing.

[mdc]

Having it before CES might have whatever Apple talks about being overshadowed by CES. Having it during would have Apple having to 'share' the media with everyone else. Having it after CES gives them the media and they get to overshadow everyone else.

I think they should stay where they are. And just because they are using the same processors, they are still Apple and it's still Mac OS.

My opinion on why Apple should stay after CES.

[Nodnarb]

Originally Posted by ajprice

After CES,I think its pretty much a given now that Apple will have Intel computers next week, or else they are going to look soooo 2005. So should Apple join in with the CES crowd now that they are going to be using the same processors as the others, or stay in their own little MWSF bubble? Option 3 would be to move MWSF to before CES next year, and get the first showings themselves.

Of course Apple is going to realise Intel computers at Macworld. that was a given before CES. They announce they were moving to Intel in 2006, unless there was some very strange reason, it is a no brainer that Apple will have new Mac's running with Intel at MWSF.

Just because Apple is "using the same processors as others" in no way makes Apple one of the gang of the CES exhibitors. It has already been said, but it's still a Mac and uses Mac OS X, not Windows. Apple is the only one of these computer makers with a foundation stable enough and popular enough to have a conference of that kind. Imagine Dell having a Dellworld. Sounds exciting, right?

After CES is the best possible time to have Macworld, becuase then as the new products come out at Macworld, CES is old news.