"And lo, Steve came to Mac faithful and said, 'I have presents that you have only dreamed of.' And then, it was good." --Joseph Vogas
Today marks the beginning of a convention called Mac World San Francisco. This is Apples biggest and probably the most important convention of the year. Steve Jobs, Apples CEO, gave the keynote speech where he announced and introduced many new products. If you are reading, please go watch his keynote off of Apple's web page. You must have QuickTime to watch this.
http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.html
Here is a list of what Apple released today:
1. iLife 06 - iLife is a suite of programs designed to enhance your digital life style. It contains 6 programs, one brand new one released today. Check out very cool demo of each application at http://www.apple.com/ilife/
iPhoto - a program that allows you to store and organize up to 250,000 photos at lightning fast speeds and now create photocasts. Think of a photocast like a subscribible slide show that the owner can change at any time so you can always keep up to date with new pictures.
iMovie HD - allows you to create and edit videos from your camcorder, even in high definition. These can then be easily transferred to make a dvd in....
iDVD - an extremely easy to use application to create DVDs. Allows you to make menus, titles, organize your clips, all in very few steps.
iTunes - ok who hasn't heard of this one. It plays your music and is gets you to the iTunes music store where you can buy songs for 99c a piece or $ for most albums. They have recently added video content as well such as TV shows and music videos all for $1.99 a piece.
GarageBand - (yes it is suppose to be one word) This allows anyone to create and mix music in a very streamlined and easy way. I have made and remixed a few songs on here my self such as Work by Jimmy Eat World or The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang. Today they added the feature of allowing you to use iChat as an interview tool for creating podcasts. Think of podcasts as free subcribable radio programs online. iChat is a Mac only, AIM compatible chat program. In this new feature, if you have an audio or video chat going on with someone, you can have Garageband automatically record what is being heard to be placed and used for a podcast. Also allows you to use you iPhoto library to create the title and chapter pictures for your podcast.
iWeb - This brand new app today allows you to very easily take almost anything these other applications have done and place them into your own web site that you can create and customize in a huge number of ways. After you have finished creating your site, it can be uploaded to your .Mac account with just the click of one button. (for more info on what a .Mac account is, please visit Apple.com
iWork 06 - another suite of applications. This time designed to help you with your business purposes.
Keynote - lets you design and make slide show presentations with amazing transitions, images, and videos. The new version is Power Point compatible.
Pages - a pretty simple and easy way to create different types of documents such as news letters, journals, resumes. (not used to replace Microsoft Word as your main word processor....yet. But used to create more of a multimedia document or formal document.
Also announced today were the first few Macs with Intel processors inside. Apple is currently undergoing a change from using IBM PowerPC chips to Intel chips. Lets take a look at the new models.
3. MacBook Pro - Apples replacement for its professional line of laptops known as the PowerBook (which are still on sale) It comes in two versions. Keep in mind that these are made for professional users who need a lot of power on the go.
15.4-inch TFT display with 1440x900 resolution
1.67GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 Cache
667MHz frontside bus
512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
80GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory
iLife 06
Total Price: $1999
15.4-inch TFT display with 1440x900 resolution
1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 Cache
667MHz frontside bus
1GB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
iLife 06
Total Price: $2499
4. Apple also introduced a new line of its iMac computers with Intel chips. Its all the same just with an intel chip so I wont post any specs here. If you want to know just to go apple's online store and check them out.
Well there you have it. All the major updates and new programs Apple released today. I cant tell you enough how important it is to go to Apples web page and see what all these things can do. Especially iLife 06 and all of its new features. Apple does an amazingly good job at showing off their stuff on their web site so follow the links and just look around for a while. You will be amazed at what you can now do.
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