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New iMacs "Pros say they think it looks more like a pro product"
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So Cuppertino is having a little get together with the tech press and this is what they got so fay.
Goodbye 17inch
So without being too much of a hater apple is going to likely get critical praise for something so obvious to do.
so it just ads a little more functionality to the digital camera app I already use on PC. But If you are a shutterbug I can see how this would be a godsend
sure you're going to put a higher then DVD resolution video on youtube??? what the fuck that will make it look AWFUL, stupid idea apple.
BUT Steve Apple guy says macs are for fun not spreadsheets
What about the inside? Up to 2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4GB of memory. ATI Radeon HD graphics card, up to 1TB of hard drive storage. 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.0 built-in. What models will we have? Up until now, 17-inch, 20-inch, and 24-inch. Well, today we're replacing the 24-inch, lowering price by $200, 20-inch at same $1499. replacing 17-inch with $1199 model."
Goodbye 17inch
Give them their assets as they're meant to be seen. New iMac. Also, new keyboard. You might have seen this on the web. Two USB ports. 0.33", full complement of keys, including dedicated keys for screen dimmer and brighter, expose, media controls, volume controls, eject for optical drive. This is the new iMac with the new keyboard and mouse. Wireless? New wireless keyboard, beautiful, very compact. People love to hold them in their lap. Bluetooth 2.0, all these dedicated keys as well."
Note that the Mac mini is still pictured as part of Apple's product line. "Alright, next thing is applications that run on the Mac. Apple invented category of digital lifestyle applications. Computer is the hub of digital life. We've increased our lead over the PC industry. Introducing iLife '08. Totally new, biggest jump since we introduced it. iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD and GarageBand. We're replacing one of the apps with something that takes it to a new level."
"iPhoto. We're adding "Events". Digital cameras have made it so easy and inexpensive, photo libraries have grown, not unusual to find photo library with 5 or 6 thousand photos. It's getting hard to find 'em. We make albums, go to some event, take photos, and look what's happened. We have tons of albums. They're centered around events. Birthday party, family reunion. We label the albums. We have a computer, we could do this automatically. Automatically makes events out of your photos. Around 50 photos per avg per event. What that means is, instead of looking through 5K, you're just looking through 100 events. Makes photos manageable again. What photos go in an event? When it automatically makes an event, what does it do? All photos taken in a day. All photos yesterday, put in an event. photos taken two days ago in an event, and so on. What happens if I go to a b-day party in the morning and wedding in the afternoon? Just pick first photo and splits automatically into two events. Multi-day events can be joined together into single event."
So without being too much of a hater apple is going to likely get critical praise for something so obvious to do.
. I can open up event, look at all the photos. If I pick another photo I like to represent that event. Pick which photo you like. Very simple. Once in, we can look at the photos very easily. Double click and instantly preview for you. Saves a ton of time. Don't have to go into edit mode. Really, really great. Now, let me go into 'Becky's Birthday". There was a wedding that afternoon. I want to split. Go to first pic of wedding, hit split. Type "Annie's Wedding", now I've got another event. When I go back, have birthday party and event. Pick a key photo for that event. I can also merge events. Have two events. Trip to Mammoth Lake, can hit "merge" or just drag one event onto another."
so it just ads a little more functionality to the digital camera app I already use on PC. But If you are a shutterbug I can see how this would be a godsend
"When you get your hands on this, you'll think it's great. We're all familiar with .Mac. It's our internet subscription service. We're pleased to announce we have over 1.7M .Mac subscribers, we're going to see it grow even faster after today. Marry .Mac and iPhoto. Announcing .Mac Web Gallery. Works hand in glove with iPhoto '08. What does it do? Has one button photo sharing. integrated into iPhoto '08. Makes web gallery, uploads automatically. Users get rich Web 2.0 experience [Did Steve really just say "Web 2.0'?]. You can see photos in gallary, mosaic. can see in any browser you'd like. Now people that view photos, if you let them, can download print quality downloads. Users can contribute photos from anywhere. You publish on .Mac, someone is on a PC, there is special email address they can get from the web gallery, and they will appear on your web gallery. Photos will sync to your iPhoto library, too.
"Out with your iPhone, we've added "Send to Web Gallery" on your iPhone. Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery. Can tell friends about it, View others' web galleries right on your iPhone, great iPhone experience, fully integrated." Demo time!
10:35AM: "Here we are, back in iPhoto. Gonna say, publish this. Who can view? Anyone, family, friends? Allow users to download? Allow to upload? Allow uploading by email? Show email address to visitors? Communicating with .Mac, uploading photos. Now you can see the pictures uploading. What we're gonna do is go ahead and miniaturize, and go to Safari. Go to my .Mac web gallery. Already have a bunch of other galleries. I have skimming right on the web page. This is a true Web 2.0 app. Web app behaving just like iPhoto on my desktop. Look at individual photos, get information about them. It's pretty neat. Can view in different ways, view as mosaic, just click around, can resize photos in mosaic to any size I want. View as carousel, scroll around like this. I can view as a slide show."
10:36AM: "Now I want to show how easy it is for other people to contribute to my .Mac web gallery. Phil Schiller has his iPhone, has snapped a photo, gonna send to my gallery right from his iPhone. Went right into my .Mac web gallery. Will auto download to my iPhone as well. Going back to my gallery. So that is .Mac Web Gallery."
Next up: iMovie.
This is really interesting. Let me tell you the story. One of our video engineers went to the Cayman Islands, shot a lot of underwater HD, wanted to make a video for his buddies in half an hour. We found out couldn't do it. Engineer got out Final Cut Pro. Couldn't do it. Couldn't do great movie in 30 minutes. So he created an app that could do it. We were so blown away that we decided to use it. We're still calling it iMovie, but we're giving a new icon so we can show it's a whole new app. One library for all your video."
"Got one library for all video you've shot. Can scroll through it all just like your photos. Can rediscover and enjoy all your video as well as make movies more quickly. Takes video from any source. HDV, still cameras that do video, brand new AVCHD camcorders. This new Panasonic one is the best. Records hour of super high quality video on 8GB flash card. Skim to preview, doing for photo, why not for video? Can skim through it in faster than real time. Completely -- it's a far superior way to find stuff in your video library. Allows for super fast movie creation. Select video like you select text. Build a movie almost instantly. Add polish quickly, add music, sound effects, can drag photos, great titles, great transitions. All sorts of effects. Can view and share almost anywhere. This is the real key. You can go to share menu, make version for iTunes. Watch on computer, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV. Put on .Mac Web Gallery."
"You can decide to have encoded in multiple resolutions. Large resolution is higher res than DVD. No more sending DVDs to friends and grandma. They're going to see in higher res than DVD. You may want to send to the world. Can send to YouTube, will encode and upload it for you. Some great features." Demo time!
sure you're going to put a higher then DVD resolution video on youtube??? what the fuck that will make it look AWFUL, stupid idea apple.
Lots of applause. "We're slinging around HD video we've taken. You can imagine making a movie in 20 minutes. It's very well thought through. Can share it, pick resolutions that I want. One of things I want to show you is .Mac Web Gallery. put a few movies on there. You can see, it's higher res than a DVD, anyone can see this. This is the movie our video engineered made. You can make it in 20 minutes and put it on the web. This is a much better and much faster way to do it. There's a mobile resolution for watching on your iPhone. If you want, people can download to their own computer as well."
10:55AM: "So now I'd like to talk about iWeb. Enhanced version of iWeb, make even better websites. Live web widgets. Add GoogleMaps, we've made it so you can put it right in. You can add any web snippet, paste it into your website. Live web widgets. Another thing you can add is Google AdSense. Register with Google, type in registration, decide what format, Google will put ads in there that are appropriate. Media index page. A lot of us have sites with photos on them, we'd like index page. We've added that, you can create index page, add your content in. Page with all the photos. Taking up just one position in the navigation. Put pointers to .Mac page as well. Personal domain support. If you have a personal domain, that's now supported. Themes, you can change theme now if you like. We've shipped some great themes. This is iWeb in iLife '08"
10:55AM: "iDVD. There are some people who still want to make DVDs, we're adding pro encoding, new themes. Really high production values. We're making even better with iDVD and iLife '08"
10:59AM: "GarageBand, multi-take recording. Magic GarageBand, way to experiment, best way to communicate is just to show you. Let me show you." Demo time! "Magic GarageBand gives me genres to play with: blues, rock, jazz, country, reggae, funk, latin, another rock style, and slow blues. I'm going to audition latin. Gives me little jazz club with my instruments." Looks like you can switch instruments playing each part of the preloaded track. Changing violin to trumpet, removing the drums. "When I've got something I like, can add my own voice and instruments, loops, change around however I want to. Way for musicians and non-musicians alike to get into GarageBand. That's GarageBand. And these are the five new apps in iLife '08. Sells for just $79, one of the best bargains on the planet. Available today."
"iLife ships free with all new Macs, starting today. That's iLife. We talked also about .Mac. Series of great services, now we're adding Web Gallery. Also, offering 1GB of storage. That might be a little small. Offering all subscribers 10GB of storage. .Mac $99.95, one year subscription."
11:05AM: "That leaves iWork. Keynote and Pages. I'm very pleased to announce we've sold 1.8M copies to date. New iWork '08. New Keynote, new text effects, new transitions, Instant Alpha. Instant Alpha, get a photo, lets us take out the background, just keep part of photo you want. Smart Builds, lets anyone make very high production value animations. Go to Media Viewer, drag photos in, anything you want. Keynote generates animations for you. A to B animations, you can create your own animations. Easily build slides that mere mortals can figure out to use. Great new themes that are really beautiful. Of course you can add animations to these. These are so easy, so easy to make slides that look this good. So, these are just some of the features as part of Keynote '08."
11:06AM: "So Pages, this is a word processor optimized for page layout, but some wanted just as a word processor. So now it's super easy to do both. Want WP, just get that, want page layout, get great page layout. Distinct modes. Get contextual format bar. Text, photo, table. Built-in change tracking, compatible with Word document. And 140 Apple designed templates, have cool templates built-in. So that's Pages."
BUT Steve Apple guy says macs are for fun not spreadsheets
"We've got Keynote and Pages, but when you think of productivity, think of third app: Numbers, a spreadsheet for the rest of us. Done in the style of Keynote and Pages. We've got intelligent tables. Readable formulas. Checkboxes and sliders. Sort and filter, pick column and just sort. Simple stuff. Flexible canvas. Want to change formatting of one part without screwing up the other part. Numbers lets you have multiple formats on single page. Move things around. Charts, images, and text labels. Can make gorgeous looking spreadsheets very quickly. Interactive printing, if I want to print, can scale easily to fit everything on one sheet, or move things around to put on different pages. Customizable templates, use what we supply or create your own. And of course, import and export all Excel documents." Demo time!
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I like my iMac so far, but it's really just an in-between machine that lets me use my old programs while I switch to a gaming PC. It kind of stopped keeping up the moment I got it, though. The integrated graphics tend to be a bit of a hobble.
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Apple needs a midrange tower period. They have to stop dicking customers so much on the upgrade aspect without making them drop the cash on a mac pro.
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ya, see, if you look at another shot, one from the side, it shows a keyboard that looks like it has a numpad.....so i dunno.
I woulnd't like it if there was no numpad.
t Qorzm: October.
...looking at benchmarks (and I can only find ones for the xt so technically its even a tad lower) its at best an equivalent to a 6800ultra.
Its meh at best
and the bench I'm looking at is Dark Messiah at 1024x768x32 no AA/AF and max settings and its an average of 43fps. so this isn't going to do shit for the games coming out this fall.
and you can look at the bencmarks here Toms Hardware the video cards will already be highlighted
There seems to be two designs: one with a space above the top row of keys and one without. The one with a space has nu num pad, and I'd guess is the BT one.
Ah, how strange! hope it has one.
it'll probably be modified and underclocked too, looking at the pictures theres no way they could fit a full sized normal 2600 in there
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Pretty much. I've always been a Mac user, so it was in my interests to keep something that could use my legacy software. And to be fair, everything I've bought from them so far is still functioning, no repair necessary. One of our computers is currently 14 years old, and still what my dad uses for filing.
So they're solid, they're decent, and they don't cost much more than the equivalent pre-built PC. but they're also unupgradeable black box midrange computers unless you buy something that starts at around $2000.
And after seeing the "build me a computer" thread, I'm building my next computer. One setup had a 768 Mb graphics card, and it cost less than my iMac. Plus, god willing you could upgrade parts at the right time, and keep it up to date without spending too much.
Agreed. Well, kinda. The iMac is basically a midrange PC, it just comes in a shitty form factor. I'd also like to see them get back into the low end market with an intel version of the Mac Mini. They offer absolutely nothing for people who don't want to drop at least a grand on a PC, and that's just too expensive.
Well fuck. The biggest reason I was waiting for an iMac update for was for a better graphics card than what was in the old models.
I was looking forward to playing Order of the Phoenix.
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The Mac Mini is already intel
Just still rocking Core Duo's....I'd like to see at least a Core 2 Duo in them
I'm behind the times.
Fuck you apple you do it cause you know people are stupid enough to buy them often enough.
At least it will be a tax writeoff?
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11:06AM: "So Pages, this is a word processor optimized for page layout, but some wanted just as a word processor. So now it's super easy to do both. Want WP, just get that, want page layout, get great page layout. Distinct modes. Get contextual format bar. Text, photo, table. Built-in change tracking, compatible with Word document. And 140 Apple designed templates, have cool templates built-in. So that's Pages."
Awesome, I can ditch Word.
NM, taking the question over to the Mac thread.
Well, Im always up for an ipgrade. I still get by on the G4 mini.
Honestly, I would upgrade straight away if they got rid of the intergrated graphics.
If you can afford it, why not?
http://guides.macrumors.com/Buying_a_MacBook_versus_MacBook_Pro
that should help you decide
I have a Macbook, from when they first came out, and it is awesome, and I really don't need anything more. I got windows on VMWare fusion/bootcamp, I got more than enough speed and memory... plus, it's nice and easy to carry around.
Though those new Pro screens are badass.
Should I ditch MS Office?!
"Didn't mention Mac mini today, how is it doing?"
Tim: "We're refreshing the Mac mini today."
awwwwh yeah
Beated X) but still... awesome.
Fucking finally.
Steve: "We're here to talk about Mac, we'll have some news for the Apple TV soon, but nothing to talk about today."
...interesting. I always thought the aTV was a good product with some really lacking features...Love to see it be more fully fleshed out.
I'm using Office on my MBP now, and wondering the same thing... :?