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DT MWSF 06 Keynote live text feed
-Keynote over. Time to hit Apple.com. We’ll return to normal operations shortly. Thanks to everyone who helped with the keynote coverage!
-showing a photo of woz and jobs during the early days of apple, 30 years of making the best personal computers n the world
-Steve wants to thank the intel people
-all products will be moved over over the course of the year
-two models, $1999 model with 1.67Ghz/$2499 for the 1.83Ghz model, X1600 radeon card, ExpressCard slot, 667DDR RAM, ships next month
-1 inch thick, 5.6 pounds, can feed 30 inch display
-MagSafe: new feature: every had the powerbook go flying when tripped over the powercord? the new power adapter is held on by a magnet so tripping over it won’t cause it to break
-apple remote, front row built in
-Demos iSight, calls Schiller. Phil in the audience of the keynote
-fastest laptop ever, thinnest mac ever, 15.4 LCD screen (as bright as cinema dispaly!), iSight camera built in
-4-5x faster than PB G4
-MacBook Pro: intel coredup chip, dual cores in every macbook pro (who came up with these names??)
-performance per watt: .27 performance for watt for the G4, .23 for the G5, 1.05 for the core chips
-ONE MORE THING! talking about the powerbook “they were consulting the pope for power problems with the powerbook”
-New ad about the intel chip being set free from the PC world
-iMac Shipping TODAY. $1299, $1699
-It always takes a second to load...and it is still loading (ouch!): won’t be enough for professionals
-rosetta works like a champ-photoshop running in rosetta.
-official agreement with apple; they will continue to ship new versions of office for a minimum of 5 years
-adding syncservices for entourage.
-adding smart card and spotlight support for entourage
-shipping updates to messanger too, supposed to be ready for download in march
-Roz Ho on stage, discussing move to universal binaries
-"Office runs great on Rosetta”
-one of the applications is not universal yet...Office
-quark has announced xpress 7.0 will be universal, beta is universal from the start.
-heh, can trade in pro apps disks for universal binaries for $50 each; pro apps universal in march
-all demos were done on a coreduo.
-10.4.4 is running natively on the intel coredupo
-iLife and iWork are universal binaries
-IBMs compilers on the G5, intels on the Core DUo
-the new iMac has slower Ghz rating
-what’s different? says it is 2-3xx faster than the iMac G5, includes the intel coreduo chip. benchmarks.
-first in a new generation: the imac: apple remote with frontrow and Intel based, offering them in the same sizes
-Macintel today!
-wants to say how good it was to work with eachother. --now they’re hugging.
-we started partnership underr a year ago to make this happen”
-apple’s ready too
-huge silicon wafer the guy was wearing a bunny suit walks out.
-and some guy is coming out with a silicon chip; intel is ready
-by june of 06 shipping macs with intel procs (heh, some smoke and fire)
-1.25 million macs sold last quarter or something
-moving on to hardware! talking about the intel shift
-$79, available today, 30 day free trial on all new macs
-image reflections now, freeform shapes and masking, tables with calculations, new themes and templates.
-new version of iWork, 3d charts now, advanced image editing in iWork
-over 1 million .mac subscribers
-.mac has new box logo
-dotmac updates
-iLife $79
10:06 AM
-demo over
- Safari shows podcasts inline with artwork
- Publishing to .mac, is taking a while
- “Send Podcast to iWeb” in Garageband packages up your file and adds it to your site
- *Demo* Drag in music onto site and a link to the iTMS is added, actual music not uploaded, drag photo album and you can subscribe to photocast by pressing a button
- One button publishing, Ajax photo browser
- Apple designed templates, iLife media browser, blogs.
- “iWeb is about easy and beautiful”
- Builds websites showing blogs, videos, podcasts
- Now onto the Website: iWeb
- New jampack: World Music
- 8 lb iPod with 10” screen, music volume goes down so you can here voice input
- No more wood, lots more black. Demo: “Super Secret Apple rumors” - Steve Jobs weekly Podcast
- Steve Jobs drinks water
- GarageBand: Podcast Studio, 200 royalty free samples, speech enhancers so you can use built-in mic
- iDVD: Widescreen menus for DVDs, vastly improved projects, supports 3rd party DVD burners, new media browser
- New effects, like iDVD but better
- iMovie: real time effects in titles, multiple projects open at once, iPod export
- “Steve Jobs pretends to be Grandma Taylor”
-iPhoto demo...more demo…
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-photocasting podcastinfg for photos: sharing over the internet: everytime an album is updated, subscribers automatically get the new photos--it automatically uploads the photos to .mac (for photocasts), supports passwords-subscribers get a special item in their sourcelist that says it is subscribed. they can use the photos for anything they want--desktops, order prints, greeting cards
take away the machinary and it’s just like magic
you have to be a .mac member to publish
uses RSS so anyone can subscribe, even windows users
-can now make cards (greeting cards, postcards): push a button, order them online
-calendars, with photos both in the top and the dates. So photos can replace the date boxes.
-blur the edges (basically CoreImage is added), all new cards, calendars, dramatically better books; quality is dramatically better
-now has an effects panel: shows 8 events in a panel, and the oiginal in the center
-fullscreen compares, 8 photos at once, One click effects.
-iPhoto: new limit is 250,000 photos: “scrolls like butter”...full screen editing, looks like iTunes 6
-iDVD, IMovie, iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes, iPhoto is faster (again)
-iLife ‘06: filmstrip on the box cover.
-iLife: new box
-10.4.4 is out, get new widgets
-apple made new widgets: google, address book, snow condition, new calendar, whitepages, ESPN
-now widgets! tons of widgets! over 1500 widgets available
9:22 AM
-more Aperture demos
-talking about aperture...basic product description...now a cvideo for it...Showing a wedding photographer
-rest of the day about the mac
-new iPod ad...winton marsellous (sp?) in it (trumpet player): all blue background. Like the eminem ad, but blue
-iPod+cars: 3million cars will have iPod integrationover 40% of cars will hav e iPod integration
-iPod remote! remote control for iPod it is also an FM tuner---when attached a new radio menu appears in the iPod
nano, 5th generation iPod only: $49
-samurai delicateson or whatever
-the coneheads..
-Rose Bowl top video, SNL content added
-iTunes 8 million videos sold, 83% market share
-14 million iPods sold last qtr! 42 million since release
-ipod “best music players in the world”
-$1 billion in retail sales
-retail update...135 stores
9:07: jobs on statge
9:06...waiting for keynote
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