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MacWorld: Steve's Keynote

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Well, his keynote starts in a few hours, and I'm sure everyone is filled with anticipation. :P I'll be watching a live stream of the keynote, and I'll try to edit this post when something important happens. The only problem is that I will be in school, so it might not be updated as fast as it could be (thanks, small form-factor iPhone). So if any other staff members see anything that I missed, feel free to add it here! The keynote is supposed to begin at 9:00 PST, which is UTC-8.

 

I will be editing this original post.

Live Steams: Cunning.TV, MacRumors Live and ArsTechnica.

 

Starting any minute now... :D :D :D:P

For those who haven't noticed, the Apple Store is down...

8:58: Media let inside.

Music is now playing.

9:14 am: New Get a Mac commercial: Happy New Year. PC has had a bad year, but looking forward to this year. Steve is now on stage.

9:15 am: Four things to talk to us about today

New product: Time Capsule: Small hard drive for laptops, 2 versions: 500 GB version - $299, 1 TB $499.

9:21 am: 20,000 iPhones per day average

9:26 am: Maps with location, Webclips, Customize home screen, SMS multiple people, chapters in videos, subtitles, lyrics (sounds like firmware 1.1.3). It's available today.

9:34 am: For iPod Touch: 5 new apps. Mail, Stocks, Notes, and Weather

9:36 am: 4 billion songs sold as of last week on iTunes

9:37 am: iTunes Movie Rentals. Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, FOx, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony. Over 1000 movies (available 30 days after DVD release). DAMMIT. Library titles: $2.99, New Releases: $3.99. HD rentals are $4.99. 100 titles today

9:43: "What about this flat-screen TV I just bought?" Lol, Steve, lol. Rent them in DVD quality and in HD. Rent directly from widescreen TV. We tried with Apple TV, now we have Apple TV take 2, no computer required.

9:51 am: Steve demoed starting a movie just after having rented it. He has an extremely fast connection. The movie was downloading at 1% per second.

9:58: Flickr isn't serving up photos for Steve. Hehe

10:04: This I'd a free softwre update and it will be out in Two weeks.

10:10: New notebook, MacBook Air. :o Competition specs: 3 lbs, .8-1.2 inches, 11 or 12" display. 10:13 am: display is LED backlit. iSight is built-in. MacBook-like keyboard, but with an ambient light sensor

10:12 am: Magnetic latch, 13.3" widescreen display

10:12 am: MacBook Air is 0.16" to 0.76". The thickest part of the MacBook Air is thinner than the thinnest part of the Sony. It fits inside a envelope. Multi-touch trackpad. Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb. Of course, pinch-zoom. Ships with 80GB standard, option of 64GB solid state disk "a little pricey but fast!" Hard disk is 1.8" hard drives from the iPods. 1.6 GHz Standard, 1.8 GHz Option -- Intel Core 2 Duo.

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-Remote Disk will show you all the Macs and PCs in your vicinity that have software and "ask to borrow optical drive" so you can install software from a CD or DVD

-We have a new feature called "Remote Disk" for the MacBook Air

10:25: 2 GB Memory standard. -Pricing at $1799 Pre-orders today, shipping in two weeks. I WANT ONE.

Apple.com updated. Check everything out!

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A.I.Ghost
Because you can't upgrade memory, thus they give your the max. All is built on.

 

Good point.

 

Even though i dont see a real use in this one (as i seen none in AsusEEE). This would make a good present for my girlfriend, so she'll have a cool and stylish Apple computer, fast enough to run photoshop and play with photos on the go. :D

 

Still, what's the iGPU? X3100 (the GMA950 successor)? And does it support Full HD?

 

EDIT:

LOL, my iGPU guess is correct.

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user2

I think the price is reasonable considering the r and d that had to have gone in to something like that. I just can't imagine them selling too many of them, kind of a niche market. I am surprised they did not use the mobile penryn as battery life and performance would have been better.

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Neilis
Still, what's the iGPU? X3100 (the GMA950 successor)? And does it support Full HD?\

 

Sub-notebooks aren't really built around anything but their size and weight. Any chip that can display the desktop at the screen's native res is good enough. Beyond that they are probably looking at power consumption and physical size much more closely than performance.

 

This is not a desktop replacment. This isn't even your normal laptop replacment. This is what you carry when your main laptop would be too much hassle to carry :).

 

All in all though, this WAS a dissappointment. The Macbook Air is cool, but beyond that all pretty much "blah" software updates. I wish the Mini had gotten some better specs :D.

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sandmanfvrga

The Air isn't puny. Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs ram, decent hard drive options. If you had external hard drive, you can edit some video, but without firewire your are limited. It is powerful and pretty much those that always go and never stop. Not my thing but oh well. I to wanted beefed up Mini's, I am planning to finally get one.

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macgirl
I am amazed, the ethernet port is optional! Now that is dumb, no offense to Apple.

 

I TOLD YOU since day 1 of Leopard.

 

Thats why Leopard has an USB to Ethernet Kext in its IONetworking kext.

 

And it is not DUMB, every day more wireless less wired.

 

Who remember when NO-Floppy was DUMB?

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Trance2007

Intel Core 2 Duo processor

2GB memory

80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive1

Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Ships: 2-3 weeks

Free Shipping

$1,799.00

 

Is this a Joke? or Apple Ceo's doesnt know what $ is!. I just bought Macbook Pro 2.2 at a price 2000.- usd which is more and more better than this {censored}.

I see a weak config with a huge cost! Didnt like it... It should be around 999.- usd which sounds normal.

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sandmanfvrga

Trance2007, you need to understand economics. It costs money to get Intel to shrink a chip by 60%. It costs money to get a laptop that small, have a big screen, big keyboard, etc. Now I am not into the price either, but I do know it wasn't going to be cheap. As time goes on and smaller chips come out, it is go down. New technology is always high.

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Maxintosh
1799 for ..for.. naaah!

Actually I think the high-end model is closer to 3100.00. I want one and I've added it to my 'Things to Buy" list... right under the Bugatti Veyron :D

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macgirl

There is no "final" 10.5.2 seeded even to developers, what do you expect.

 

There was never an update announced on MW. no matter if it is 500MB large or wahtever.

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Harloe

This was my first Macworld since having my MacBook Pro and I can definitely say I am disappointed. No MacBook updates? No MacBook Pro updates? I thought they'd redesign the notebook line completely! Guess all those rumors of a black MBP was bull. =[

 

Oh well.

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Shyos

So what is actually new tonight???

 

Only the Macbook Air.... thats it..

 

Indeed a software upgrade on iTunes, iMovie and Quicktime... no iPhone 1.1.3...???

Presenting a bunch of rental :P thats about it.

 

Apple TV take doesn't exist yet... No Leopard upgrade which is really needed...

 

The could have fitted this in 15 minutes.... <_<

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SurferSD

Time Capsule is ridiculous! I just bought the latest AirPort Extreme and have a 1TB LaCie HD hooked up to the USB port and I can't use it with Time Machine without some hacks...

 

Just my $.02

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