Schiller Announces MacPro at WWDC
Monday, August 7th, 2006
To the usual applause and enthusiasm his appearances generate, Phil took the stage near the beginning of the Keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference. He announced the final and best Macs to make the transition to Intel processors: the Mac Pro and the XServe.
Phil didn’t waste any time before getting dirty with technical specifications, much to the delight of the nerdy audience, but he also elegantly described the decisions that lead to the more subtle improvements inside the Mac Pro and Xserve: 2 optical drives, 4 internal hard drives, a double wide graphics card slot, and redundant power supply on the Xserve.
“In addition to amazing performance, we’ve also added some highly requested features. With more space in it now, thanks to the better thermal environment of the Xeon, we get to add redundant power.” The crowd goes wild!
Phil is great at rattling off tech specs while making a larger point, and those skills were well used at WWDC. But while this Keynote gave many usually hidden Apple Execs the chance to stand in the limelight, Scott Forstall and Bertrand Serlet both deservedly got to make many new fans, Phil got the juicy segments when he announced the MacPro (and XServe) and also took a dig at Dell when he showed that their most similar config to the Mac Pro costs a clean $1200 more.
Awesome Phil, can’t wait to see you in January!