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Not Mentioned in Keynote: A single new PowerMac G4 avail today... per someone at the
Apple Store.
Single G4 1.25 $1299
Working on getting details....
- Thank You Very Much. The End.
- Talking about their strategy to innovate. Talking about PowerBooks 12" and 17".
Safari. iLife. Keynote. Final Cut Pro 4.0. iPod. iTunes 4. iTunes Music Store.
Panther. iSight. Xcode. PowerMac G5. And it's only the first 6 months of the year.
- Jobs thanking people... for various work on the products...
- Video is showing now... still showing
- The future: Today announcing to be at 3GHz in 12 months!.
- "we've caught up with the pc and past them"
- G5 Pic: http://www.slimemould.org/tech/wwdc2003/
- demos and benchmarking
- World's Fastest personal computer. Comparing spec tests.
- Shipping in August.
3 Models:
1.6GHz $1999
1.8GHz $2399
Dual 2GHz $2999
- Enclosures! 9 9 fans! but quieter.
- Single/Dual processors. Up to 8GB Memory. Can talk to mem @ 6.4GB/s. 4x
Superdrive in each. Geforce fx5200 in lower, radeon 9600 pro in higher mode.
- System - G5 System Controller - dedicated bandwidth to each subsystem. IBM is
fabricating it. 6x faster than G4, 8GB bandwidth, 1processor doesn't slow down the
other one. 400mhz DDR memory, AGP 8x Pro, 133mhz PCI-X slots. Hypertransport. Serial
ATA. 1.5GB/s bandwidth. independent interfaces to each drive. Rest of the i/o - high
performance. optical digital i/o and analog i/o, fw800 ,usb 2.0
- Introduced Dr. Johnny Kelly the 3rd on stage. "very advanced technology"
- This is a new generation architecture.
- Massivly parallel. Up to 250 inflight instructions. -- can be processed at the
same time. The G4 can do 16. Floating point "monster". Two fully symetric integer
units. massive branch prediction logic.
- fastest front sidebus - ever. designed for dual processor systems.
- We're calling it the G5. It is a 64-bit processor. The first first 64-bit
desktop processor. Runs our existing 32-bit apps no problems.
- The Chip - we turned to IBM several years ago.
- We are delivering today - the Worlds Fastest Personal Computer.
- "Premature specifications" - it was a mistake, and it's true.
- 3 responses: 1) Can't be true 2) It's true 3) It's great marketing
- One more thing... some of you may have noticed on the net...there was a funny
thing that happened last thursday... where specifications were posted.
- Demoing Xcode
- Comparison. Jaguar: 29-some seconds to compile. in Panther 3 seconds.
- "Fix and Continue"
- Predictive compile. Compiles while you are editing! removes half the compiling
time.
- Zero link. Linking out of the equation.
- Xcode. GCC 3.3. Fast compiles. can set up to do distributed builds over the
net.
- Really nice mounting system. Aluminum body.
- Eyes and Ears of iChat. Remarkable video camera. Full motion video at 30fps,
24bits/pixel. Auto focus. low light. 640x480. bulit in mic. Firewire connector.
"iSight cam is the size of a AA battery, at half the length" - usercomment
- Video Camera - called iSight.
- Panther will be $129.
- Included in Panther. $24 for the Final Jaguar version.
- Free beta of iChat. Runs on Jaguar and Panther.
- Al Gore on the iChat cam.
- "It's totally gonna change the way we work".
- Demo of talking to someone in Paris.
- There's a Picture in Picture of you when video conferencing.
- It works with Firewire cameras, camcorders. Demoing it.
- Text, audio and video chats. Zero setup or config. You literally plug in the
camera and everything else is done automatically. It tells you exactly what your
buddy is setup for (text, audio, video).
- iChat. Now AV. Audio chats. and Video Chats. It's remarkable. Video
conferencing for the rest of us.
- Pro font management. Find fonts quickly.
- User switching rotates the full desktop mapped on a cube!
- People cheering in response to demo!
- Fast User Switching - the only feature in Mac OS X that windows beat us. We're
going to catchup and beat 'em. Switch between multiple users easily. Demoing...
- In addition to reading PDFs, on the fly postscript->pdf conversion
- Demo of preview... faster than acrobat on the PC, fast searching PDFs
- Preview in Panther is the fastest PDF viewer in the world.
- It's based on wavelet tech. HighDef quality. 48bits/pixel source data. No
artifacts. demoing...
- New Quicktime Codec: Studio grade quality on a Personal Computer in history.
Pixar requested... called "Pixlets". Super high quality codec for film quality
material
- By Popular request, built in Fax in Panther. Fax button on every print panel.
- Demoing new mail
- Addresses are now objects.
- Mail - much improved - uses threads, built in Safari HTML
- File Vault - secures your whole home folder
- Expose: "every window that you have open, from all open applications will make
something
like a contact sheet or a iphoto page, and you can click on any and ir go go there,
so if you have 5 oppen apps, with 3 open windows in each one, you can with a click
make something of a page with little pics of all windows, and then click and open the
one you want" - one viewer of keynote describing expose
- Uses
quartz extreme.
- Demoing Expose! "super nice!!"
- you're on a scavanger hunt.
- shows cluttered window... how do you find that one window you want?
- Next up - new feature called Expose. We've made it so wonderful to use multiple
apps at once - that people do. Such beautiful multitasking, etc...
- Ideal for using the iDisk from multiple computers. Keeps the documents in sync.
- When you modify files in your idisk, it is automatically mirrored
- iDisk - .mac with will auto sync with iDisk
- Enhanced iDisk significantly for Panther
- Demoing the new Finder
- Dynamic Network Browser - search for specific servers
- Labels added.
- Action button added - which shows u what you can do with a document
- Fast Searching is now implemented
- New user-centric finder.
- What was wrong with the old finder? The old finder was computer-centric.
- Panther with brand new finder...
- Janguar is dead...
- Now, Mac OS X .... doing really really well.
- Safari SDK (Dev Toolkit) today
- Safari Gold! Today
- "We have so much good stuff for you today..."
- "Good morning... thank you" - steve jobs
- (Apple Store is updating)
- Music is playing...
- Will start at 1pm EST.
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