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MacWorld San Francisco January 2007 Keynote Featuring Steve Jobs

(Steve Jobs) “Good morning…”. James Brown… So thank you. Thank you for coming. We’re going to make some history together today. So welcome to MacWorld. You know, it was just a year ago that I was up here and announced that we were going to switch to Intel processors. A huge, heart transplant to Intel microprocessors. I said that we would do it over the coming 12 months. We did it in 7 months. And it’s been the smoothest and most successful transition that we’ve ever seen in the history of our industry. And it was because we made a beautiful, seamless version of OS 10 for Intel processors. And our team created Rosetta software which lets you run PowerPC apps on top of OS 10 on Intel processors. Our hardware team got to cranking out a new Mac with Intel processors every month. And we completed this transition in 7 months. …We didn’t do this alone… We did this with the help of a lot of folks. Our new colleagues at Intel. Really helped us. Thank you very much. Our third party developers, rapidly moving their apps to Universal versions… to run at native speeds on Intel processors. Thank you very much. And most of all, our users… the minute you saw these lightning-fast machines, you bought ‘em. And we’ve had an extremely successful year, and I want to thank our users very much.

(Switchers) Now, as many of you know, our retail stores have for a while, been selling over half their Macs, to people who’ve never owned a Mac before. Switchers. I’m pleased to report, that now, in the US, Macs selling through all channels, over half of them, are selling to people who have never owned a Mac before. It’s not just limited to our retail stores anymore. Half the Macs we’re selling in the US. We are picking up lots and lots of new members of the Mac family, and we couldn’t be happier. As a matter of fact, here’s one that might be coming on soon… Jim Allchin of Microsoft was quoted recently that if he didn’t work at Microsoft he would buy a Mac, and he’s retiring soon, so I’ve alerted our Seattle stores to keep an eye out for him. Give him really good service. You know, Vista’s coming out, and our ads with the Mac guy with the PC guy, we’ve made a little ad for Vista, and I’d like to show it to you know, if you’d like to see it. So let’s go ahead and run it. [Upgrading to Vista "Surgery" PC and Mac guy ad runs]. So, 2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac. But this is all we’re going to talk about the Mac today. We’ll move on to some other things, and over the course of the next several months we’re going to roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac. But for today, we’re going to move on.