Attendees at the Macworld Conference and Expo look over the new MacBook Pro laptop computer in San Francisco January 10, 2006. [Reuters]BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet)--Could 2006 be the year that personal computers once again dominate the technology news? PC innovation has been in short supply, but this year promises to bring major changes in both software and hardware.
Apple and Microsoft will again provides the bookends for the year. In January, Apple introduced Intel-based Macintosh computers, including a new generation of mobile chips designed to bring more desktop-like performance to Windows and Mac laptops.
In the fall, Microsoft is expected to release a new version of Windows, called Vista, that will bring the first major change in the look and feel of the operating system in a decade.
Even without seeing the final product, critics already are deriding Vista as just another pretty face. But its real importance lies in security enhancements designed to attack the plague of viruses, worms, and spyware that is crippling computers and damaging consumer confidence in online commerce.
The advances in PC all reflect the importance of digital entertainment. After all, we don't need more powful computers to improve the experience of reading e-mail or writing memos. The power boost is required for a better rich-media experience, especially high-quality video.
There are still lots of problems to work out before one can easily download TV-type programming and view it wherever he wants. A new Intel platform called Viiv is designed to make this easier.
Viiv will appear in early 2006 on Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs, to build media-sharing capabilities into standard PC hardware. And the big surprise of 2006 could be an Apple-Intel alliance that brings Viiv capabilities to the new Intel-based Macs.
With new products like Intel-based Macs and security-featured Vista, Apple and Microsoft will give us PCs that are not only more entertaining but considerably more reliable.
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