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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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HyruleKnight

If you think it's expensive, compare the price and specs to this: Sony VAIO TZ. ($2999, for those too lazy to follow the link)

 

IMO it's appropriately priced and spec'd for its target low-power highly-portability market.

In addition, it's a great piece of engineering work, both from Apple and Intel. When you're buying smaller-than-standard technology, it always comes with an added price, this is nothing new. Plus, it's an Apple Mac with OSX and not a lame PC with Vista (*shrug*). 'nuff said.

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Maxintosh
WTF WHERE IS 10.5.2

Probably being tested by the *cough* developers *cough* so not sure on your reasoning that it would be released today ;)

 

Oh well, at least there's a Front Row update :pyth:

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Harloe

Don't get me wrong I think the MBA looks nice, the black on silver design brings it out well. But for an extra £100 you can buy an Entry Level MBP. I guess Apple are really focusing on the portability factor of notebooks. Still, no alternate colors.. =[

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Maxintosh
Why?

Why? ;) Because it takes the clunky optical drive completely out of the equation. Lower weight... Thinner size... Less cost... Higher reliability... No moving parts... All good things in a laptop :pyth:

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user2
Why? ;) Because it takes the clunky optical drive completely out of the equation. Lower weight... Thinner size... Less cost... Higher reliability... No moving parts... All good things in a laptop :pyth:

 

 

yes but this is nothing new. You could do this in Windows 98

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empreality

Anybody else a bit...ehhh...about the iTunes Movie Rentals?

 

No Blu-ray or HD-DVD rentals...Idk, sounds like Netflix is still a win, heck I guess you can even say...more for your money.

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andrewf

Is the stream still not online or am I missing something? I wanted to stay away from spoilers and see it myself Steve showed it. But going to the apple site was already a huge spoiler..

Anybody's seen any video yet?

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user2
Anybody else a bit...ehhh...about the iTunes Movie Rentals?

 

No Blu-ray or HD-DVD rentals...Idk, sounds like Netflix is still a win, heck I guess you can even say...more for your money.

 

 

I think streaming a 1080p movie would be just a tad tricky

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Neilis
I think streaming a 1080p movie would be just a tad tricky

 

I don't think they will be streaming all of this stuff. You likely will just download the whole thing (with the option of watching it as it comes across - so you CAN stream, but don't have to) and then the DRM will lock it out at the appropriate time.

 

They said on the site that HD would be available for $4.99 per movie. Now I'm sure by "HD" they mean 720p, but still.

 

Overall though, I'm just not excited about rentals. I've always been more the type to buy the movie if I like it (and for half the cost of purchasing it, I'd rather buy even if I've never seen it - seems like financially I'd be better off buying everything rather than renting first and then buying what I like, effectively adding 50% to the cost of all my purchases).

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Sabr
Is the stream still not online or am I missing something? I wanted to stay away from spoilers and see it myself Steve showed it. But going to the apple site was already a huge spoiler..

Anybody's seen any video yet?

 

Yeah - I went to the Apple site hoping to watch the whole thing before reading this topic, but it kind of ruined the whole surprise! :P

 

If you look here: http://www.apple.com/search/mac/?q=macworld there is a link to it, but it says page not found after clicking...

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apowerr

I do like the 'Time Capsule' idea, and its good that AppleTV finally doesn't suck. Still, while I really do like and appreciate what the Macbook Air is: what's the point? It's the same screen size as the Macbook, but is less powerful and more overpriced. If I was loaded I would buy a Macbook Air and love it, but since I'm not I would buy the Macbook. I just don't see how the Macbook Air is a decent edition to their laptop line up. It's about as niche as you get, its not UMPC, its just a thin notebook.

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Special-K

My thoughts on the Keynote:

 

Steve screwed up a number of times in the first 10 minutes. He even called Leopard, Tiger. It was pretty funny.

 

Time Capsule=Orgasmic.

 

$20 for an upgrade? {censored}.

 

No 3G iPhone? Not Cool.

 

Rotten Tomatoes best review site? {censored}!

 

AppleTV

TV Shows: I saw Weeds and Californication. I thought that was pretty funny.

Music: First thing I saw, Radiohead - In Rainbows. Awesome. And then he searches for Linkin Park. Hilarious. Sadly it was their horrible new stuff.

Podcasts: What a {censored}. The guy used a parachute. =P

Movies: They finally have Garden State. Yay! (The poster was behind Steve's dome)

 

MacBook Air is still a {censored} name. But it's amazingly cool, but not for $1799. Remote Disk is pretty badass.

 

Environmentalism they got going on, sweet.

 

I was hoping for Trent Reznor or John Mayer again, but Newman's fine, and funny.

 

Lmao, the Toy Story theme.

 

(All written during my watch of the Keynote)

 

Overall, disappointing MacWorld.

 

Oh and Max, I want my left nut back! I told you the ultra-thin was gonna be expensive!

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X-Ray Mac

I missed it and I can't find a website that has it streaming or for download.. bummer..

 

MBA is cool I guess?.. I don't understand why its so expensive for such low specs, but whatev, I'm happy with my MBP.

 

Time Capsule seems cool.

 

REALLY REALLY REALLY upset at the lack of a 10.5.2 update.. that's the one I was actually looking forward to..

 

It seems, from what I've read and see, that this was a great Macworld for Apple to get money (price of MBA and Apple TV and iTunes features), but noting too exciting or that current people can really benefit from updates(iPhone and Leopard)... but whatev I still haven't watched it so my opinion will most likely change a little.

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