Posted on 08/07/2006 9:57:34 AM PDT by dighton
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New Pro models with dual Intel Core 2 Duos - effectively 4 processors.
New Xserver servers.
CNBC showing highlights this afternoon.
1. "Time Machine", upon first inspection, ROCKS! This is exactly what I've been looking for, both for myself and for the people I (unofficially) support. Just get them to buy an external drive or two, and let it rip - don't sweat any details.
2. Steve Jobs was only up on stage half the time. Many of the demos were given by other Apple employees. I wonder if he's starting to wind down things and let others take the reigns. He seemed otherwise healthy.
3. Lots of ripping on Vista and how it cribbed its look, feel, and features from Mac OS X. Presenter (some French guy, not Jobs): 'When we put up banners at WWDC04 saying "Redmond, start your photocopiers", were were just joking!!!' (Huge applause).
4. New Quad Xeon at $2500 looks good. You get about 1.8x faster performance than previous quad G5, but since power is lower, more space in case for dual optical, quad drive bays, more space for big PCI-express graphics cards. Lots of emphasis on how Apple is considerably cheaper than Dell.
5. With "Web clippings", any section of a website now becomes a Dashboard Widget. No mention of Widgets on the Desktop yet, though!
6. Enhancements to iChat range from useful (tabbed chats, and "iChat Theater", where one can show a presentation while you're still on-screen), to silly (Photobooth effects, automatic still or video backdrops.)
7. 64-bit all the way around, side by side with 32 bit apps. No special OS, no special mode, and now apps with a GUI can be 64 bit as well.
8. Some things were missing, like a new Finder. But on the other hand, Steve launched the whole thing by saying, essentially, "MS copied us so completely with Vista that we're keeping a lot of things secret until later".
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