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Keynote Quicktime Stream - starts at 12noon EST time.

1/7/02 @ 12:00-current - KeyNote Coverage

1. Update
Sold 125,000 iPods (Nov 10-Dec 31,2001)

Opened 27 retail stores in 2001
- 40% doesn't own a Mac
- In Dec, 800,000 visitors

Maine wants to equip every 7th and 8th grader with an iBook
- 36,000 iBooks

Mac OS X
- 2500 OS X Apps today
- Stanganu Narayen from Adobe on stage to demo. After Effects 5.5 is now shipping. Go Live announced. LiveMotion. Demo of Photoshop for OS X!

Palm - Todd Bradley of Palm takes stage for demo - demos Palm Desktop for OS X.

Final Cut Pro 3
- Mike Evangelist demoing FCP 3 for OS X.

Wolfram Research
- Mathematica demo.

Aspyr
- Mike Rogers on stage for a demo of Harry Potter. Sims add on avail 1st part of this year. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds from Lucas Arts coming to Mac.

LucasFilm
- Dan Gregoire from Lucas Film takes the stage. George Lucas video is played addressing the MacWorld Expo. He talks about use of Mac OS X to create demo movies for the film. Uses Maya, Mac OS X. He demos Maya for OS X showing an animatic for storytelling purposes. Also demoing After Effects 5.5.

2. Mac OS X
All new Macs will boot into Mac OS X.

3. Digital Hub
Steve talks of Digital Video, MP3s, Camera.

Two categories

1. Devices that are dramatically enhanced with the Mac: 1) Camcorder/iDVD

2. Devices that are not useful without a computer: 1) MP3 Player 2) Digital Camera.

iMovie 2, iTunes 2, iDVD demos.

6 Million Digital Cameras sold in the U.S. 30% of all cameras in the US last year

4th digital hub app... iPhoto

- Import, Edit Print
- Colorsync is utilized.
- Demo of iPhoto

[ed note: iPhoto looks awesome. I dare say, this may be the killer app... ]

4. iBook
Low End iBook drops in price by $100
Elinimate the DVD model
Drop the Combo drive model to $1499
Introduce a new 14" iBook - same thickness. 600mhz G3.
All avail today.

5. iMac
- New iMac - complete redesigned from the ground up. The ultimate digital hub. To connect to all your digital devices. To run the suite of digital hub applications. Loudest request: Flat Screen. 15inch LCD screen standard across the line. Same viewing area of 17" CRT. 1024x768, millions of colors. 2nd loudest request: Put a G4 in it. Every new iMac has a G4 in it running at 700mhz or 800mhz. 3rd loudest request: Superdrive. $5/disc blank DVD. Every new iMac has a 32mb GeForce2 MX. USB, Firewire, Ethernet, Microphone, Headphone jack, Apple Pro Speakers, Optical Mouse.

Design: working on this for 2 yrs. "This is the best thing I think we've ever done".

Power supply in the Base.
Four screws on the bottom of the iMac - add up to a Gig of memory and Airport card.

3 Models

1st model: 15" LCD, 700mhz, 128mb RAM, 40gig, CD-RW. $1299.
2nd model: 15" LCD, 700mhz, 256mb RAM, 40gig, Combo Drive. $1499.
3rd model: 800mhz 256mb RAM, 60gig, Superdrive, $1799.

Available Jan (3rd), Feb (2nd), Mar (1st).

That's it... no towers!

Discuss

Stream is up...

Scan of iMac and iPhoto

More Scans from the Magazine

http://www.apple.com/home/ (Update: Link now redirects to main site) has been redesigned for the new iMac... while the image link is broken, the specs are on the page's "alt" tags.

15-inch Active Matrix LCD, 800-MHz G4 with Velocity Engine, SuperDrive (CD-RW/DVD-RW), GeForce2 MX Graphics, USB - FireWire - Ethernet, Apple Pro Speakers, AirPort ready, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD

Presumably, this means the Pro Macs need to be bumped well above 800mhz. ;)

14" iBook is also listed in the alt tags.

MacMinute.com is reporting that Mac OS X will become standard boot as of today on all Macs. This is a big step that will certainly help the mass acceptance of OS X.

Someone has pointed us to a recording (.WAV file) of Jobs' reaction to the Time-Canada screwup. (Presumably some sort of always-on office recording system.)

The show starts at 9 a.m. Pacific
Watch the live webcast in Quicktime

On http://www.apple.com/

TimeCanada.com has been changed to point to Time.com. However, one user pointed out that this link works. As well, you can see the pictures at Think Secret or MacAnonymous.

Alex Garipian wrote in: Mediafour posted a prerelease of XPlay to let you use your iPod under Windows machines.

TimeCanada.com posted pictures and an article about the new Flat Panel iMac.
MacMinute.com has a cover shot.

Reportedly a G4, and Superdrive in the high end $1799 model. Base model is $1299. Apple will also introduce iPhoto software:

Organize your digital pictures, and easily crop and edit them. Or create a 10-page photo album, which Apple will turn into a hardcover book for $30