The Official WWDC Live News Thread

I get off work in a few - time to sit and stare at an IRC channel excitedly - who else but mac lovers

Well, if the image is accurate, they have both frequencies operating.

Thats not really news - 5.8ghz is 802.11a which the intel pro wireless cards all support - i think the noteworthy fact was that apple are using this 55mbps wireless system which older macs can't connect to.

 

Thanks for clarifying that for me Ouch. I'm in a bit of a frenzied mode here, trying to put whatever news I can find on this page. I'm glad to know community members are stepping up to get to the facts.

This is just a quick clarification... hop on irc.macspeak.net and connect to #WWDC for some collective "live" coverage. We will be pulling from multiple sources and posting as fast as we can.

 

If you are having difficulty connecting, try connecting to one of these specific servers:

comrade.macspeak.net

irc.fr.macspeak.net

irc.de.macspeak.net

From MacRumors: Apple Online Stores are down, or at least being "updated"

 

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/

dammit you just beat me to it

dammit you just beat me to it

 

 

Okay munky, you've got the next 5 minutes buddy. I've got to go make a nice hot cup of tea

 

Edited August 7, 2006 by locuras

Everyone keeps talking about IRC, but I still haven't found an OS X client that I like. Any suggestions?

 

As a side note to the mole for next year, I will probably be there. I only live a few min. outside S.F. I wanted to go this year but have to fly out soon. Oh well, always next year.

Ready guys?

bring it on

w00t w00t.

okay I'm back. Maccabbi, Colloquy is pretty good for IRC.

 

MacRumors reports "spontaneous crowd applause - false alarm"....and I think that's hilarious. lol

too much exitement

Jobs takes the stage!!

10:01 AM: Jobs takes the stage and the crowd goes wild!

 

Edit: apparently he's a bit of a funny man, spinning his lines into the "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" adverts, and to much laughter I might add.

Jobs is onstage

at 4,200 attendees, largest WWDC ever!

 

3/4 of a million registered developers for mac

 

over 140 discounts during the time of the conference.

 

1000 apple engineers on site. (at 1 engineer for every 4 attendees)

yah blah retail update

 

1.3 million macs shipped last quarter - best ever

 

3/4 of them intel based

 

UPDATE: "PowerMac says its goodbyes..." - Schiller takes the stage

IS ANYONE SHOWING THE LIVE VIDEO TELECAST !!

17 million visitors to Apple stores in the last quarter alone, with 50% of purchases being to new Mac owners. Also shipped 1.3 million macs, 3/4ths of whcih were intel macs, with MBP leading the pack.

 

In the past year, half a billion in 3rd party products

 

All of this lead to a stock market skyrocket in june

 

 

Edit: all this is great, but where is Leopard? New MBP? New Mac Pro?

 

I spoke too soon, they're talking about the new Mac Pro now!

 

Specs:

 

Two optical drives, same G5 Tower case, Woodcrest Processors based on Cord 2 duo, All dual core, up to 3ghz, with 4MB L2 cache, 128 bit vector engine and 64 bits of raw computing power!

(bingo:) mac pro: check

 

woodcrest i knew it

 

All dual woodcrest

 

(bingo:) mac pro quad: check

Mac Pro - Woodcrest, two optical drives, case unmodified

 

he mentioned 64-bit..... interesting!

 

UPDATE: Every mac pro has two woodcrest processors.