Keynote Quicktime Stream - starts at 12noon EST time.
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.
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... ]
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).
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.
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