This feed made possible by the kind offer from Joern and Klaus from Mac-TV.de - Klaus providing us with English -> German -> English
translations of their Keynote feed.
Special thanks to timmi / http://home.subnet.at/timmi for
trying to get us the satellite feed.
Please visit and support Subrosasoft
for their sponsorship of this event.
- That's it... steve leaves the stage.
- 79 euro each.
- keyboard looks like the newer emac kb uses 4 batteries and last 9 month
- the mouse looks like the old one - it's white and has a switch on the bottom that turns it on and
off and covers the lense batteries last 3 month. Only one button.
- A New mouse and keyboard. No wire, but bluetooth. adaptive frequency hopping - a new
technology to keep a better connection. 128-bit encryption.
- New 15" PowerBook: Aluminum. Slot Loading Drive. Backlit Keyboard. 15.2" TFT. 1.25GHz, G4. Up
to 2GB DDR RAM 333MHz. Radeon Mobility, DVI, FW800, 2 USB, Airport Extreme. $1999 Combodrive
model. Superdrive for $2499. One config has 1GHz, 60GB, 256MB. 1.25GHz has 512MB RAM and 80GB
HD. Available today
- PowerBooks are 80% thinner than PC Laptops
- New 12" PowerBook: 1GHz with 512k Cache, $1599 Euro. GeForce fx go, usb 2.0. Both available
today. $1799 Euro 12"/Superdrive. Yes, they all have the 7457 Chip.
- New 17" PowerBook: 1.33GHz, 2GB RAM Max, $2999 Euro. Mobility Radeon 9600. 2x Superdrive.
- PowerBooks: 42% of Macs are mobile.
- Panther to be available by end of the year.
- iChat is based on standards and should be compatible with Windows software soon
- iChat Downloaded 500,000 times.
- Demo of iChat with Full screen video conferencing with someone in London.
- Steve discusses the advantages of instant messaging compared to phone calls. you always know
if someone is available
- Now demoing iChat AV with the iSight and says it's one of the most incredible things he's
seen.
- steve now shows fast user switching
- 20 sec with preview compared to 71 sec with acrobat
- Done with Pixlet, Steve now shows Preview, and how fast preview is compared to any other PDF
reader. Does scrolltetst with 1600 page document.
- the
facts are not new: high definition, 48 bit, no artifacts great sound
- he now talks about the new pixlet codec, and shows demo clip
- he shows file vault - on the fly encryption of the home directory
- he demonstrates expose
- he praises the new finder that's not computer-centric anymore,he does a very fast search for
documents - the audience applauses
- 150 new features, works better with windows, smb printing is supported,freebsd 5.0
- Mentions the new functions in Panther
- Jaguar was a huge success
- Now, starting to talk about Panther
- Steve says he hopes that everybody gets a chance to test one out (the G5)
- He shows a video of the G5 (the same video)
- he talks about the new system controller and shows it magnified with a microscope
he repeats that the g5 will hit 3 ghz by the end of summer '04
- he talks about the incredible bandwidth and says the xeons are not as good
- (Sidenote: US Apple Store Down)
- he repeats the details about the g5 - same information as given at the introduction
- he thanks ibm for the chip and says it's faster than the itanium
- "G5 is one of the most important product announcements we've made in a long time"
- Talks about the G5
- iPods are selling like crazy
- Steve enters the stage, dressed as always
- Techno music to set the mood.
- the setup seems to be the same as usual - a small desk with waterbottles
- photographers are trying to get good spots for their photos
- Poor lighting conditions at the
keynote
- UK Apple Store Down
We should be able to get some live keynote updates, if not a full live transcript. Keynote starts at 10AM CET, 4AM
EDT, 1AM PDT.