Apple: Both Winner and Loser in 2005 - Softpedia

Apple: Both Winner and Loser in 2005 - Softpedia: "PCWorld has published the "Winners and Losers 2005", an article written by Dan Tynan, in which "one observer's completely unscientific and highly opinionated picks for the biggest winners and losers of the year in technology" are revealed to the world.

Apple is mentioned three times through out the article:

"WINNER: Apple Computer: Apple started the year with the Mac Mini, a pint-size $499 Macintosh sans monitor, and ended it with the long-awaited video-enabled IPod. In between, Apple announced it would start using Intel chips in its new line of Macs. The first Intel-based Macs should debut at around the same time as Windows Vista, which could lead to the first serious OS competition since, oh, 1989. All in all, a very good year in Apple-achia."

Apple has stated that the new 'Intel Inside' Macs will be available by June 2006. If all the buzz that is going around the Internet is to be believed, they might even become available after the Macworld Expo in January. Amitabh Shrivastava, corporate vice president of the Windows core operating system development division, announced that the final release of Vista will be made available just in time for the 2006 holiday season and not sooner. Now, let's see... before June and just in time for the holiday season... a four month difference at the very least... hardly around the same time."