August 7th Updates: iMacs, iLife '08, iWork '08, Mac Mini (Keynote Video)
Apple introduced quite a few updates today, so we summarized them here to make sure you didn't miss any of them:
iMacs - brushed metal, with thin keyboard, up to 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme Processor. (unboxing, more unboxing)
iLife '08 - completely new iMovie and updated iApps (video tour)
iWork '08 - updated Keynote, Pages and new spreadsheet called Numbers. Downloadable demo available.
.Mac - personal domains, increased storage (10GB) and transfer limit (100GB), Web Gallery (example)
Mac mini - Core 2 Duo processors at 1.83GHz/2.0GHz.
Airport Extreme - now with Gigabit ethernet.
Mac Pro RAID - build-to-order RAID card for $999,..
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Apple has posted a quicktime video of today's event.
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