A (New) Chip on His SHoulder

About the same--this with a dual processor [chip]! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook's] G4.

How will the speed of these machines compare to Windows machines?

You're asking a very interesting question, a software question. On the same hardware, what is the performance of Mac OS X plus Safari [Apple's browser] compared to Windows XP, plus Internet Explorer? You need to get the apps in native code [to judge], so I can't say definitively. But I think people will be surprised at how fast OS X is.

Your heavy-duty professional machine is the PowerMac, and it hasn't gotten its Intel transplant yet. Won't this kill sales in the meantime?

Yes and no. If you're an individual that's probably true, but if you're a business, you're thinking, "I've got someone who's going to use this four hours a day with PhotoShop. Photoshop might not be available [in native code] until the spring or summer, and I need Photoshop native. So I better get one of those quad PowerMacs while they're still around."

You also announced that you sold 14 million iPods during the final quarter of 2005.