It's that time of the year again - Macworld! There are so many accounts of the latest announcements from iLife to Intel and beyond, but I think the best thing to do is watch it yourself. That being said, I'm pretty impressed by TUAW's coverage of the keynote and will simply link to some of their pieces because anything else would just be repetition.

Let's start with the Intel machines. Apple has announced their new line of laptops, which will replace PowerBooks ultimately. They're called MacBook Pros. Does that mean iBooks will be replaced with MacBooks? I have to be honest - I think the name is awful, but they boast four times the speed of a current PowerBook. How can that be bad? So we have our new Dual Core Intel laptops and iMacs, among other machines. Soon there'll be more there.

Apple also announced iLife '06. The biggest feature for me here is Photocasting as it lets you publish photos and an RSS stream to the web. It strikes me as an answer to Flickr, but more importantly a stab at Yahoo!. I'm guessing this because Yahoo! owns Flickr and also purchased Konfabulator - er, excuse me, Yahoo! Widget Engine. Since there were headaches over where Apple picked up the idea for Dashboard and all it doesn't really surprise me to see a passive stab at another Yahoo!-owned piece of software.

Oh yeah, and there's also iWork '06 which I have nothing good to say about.

There's much more, too. I suggest you just watch the presentation.