New Apple stuff
Just woke up and went straight to apple.com. The new displays are impressive … they’re impressive in a-company-can-only-afford-it kind of way. 30, 23, 20 inch displays are going to be available soon starting at $1299.
MacRumors probably gets the credit for posting the Dashboard screenshot first. Since it’s now confirmed, my feeling stays the same… those things are desktop clutter. Well, you can flip them for the controls and it’s nice to show them off to PC people but you won’t see me use those in the long run. Like Konfabulator, the Dashboard will be fun to play with for the a few days then after that will always be Exposé’d off the screen permanently.
Here are the Keynote highlights as posted by MacMinute:
o Video in Tiger’s iChat will be based on H.264 for better quality
o New iChat to allow video/audio conferencing with multiple people
o “Automater” is a visual scriptng application for repetitive tasks
o Tiger will feature “Dashboard” — “Exposé for Widgets.” (like Konfabulator)
o Tiger will include much tighter .Mac integration
o New “Core Image” graphics technology coming in Tiger
o New version of Safari to include RSS newsfeed support
o H.264 MPEG video standard to be part of Tiger
o Major OS search upgrade called “Spotlight” allows powerful searching
o Tiger will offer full 64-bit processing, over 150 new features
o Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will ship in first half of 2005
o More than 12 million OS X users; over 12,000 apps
o Jobs moves on to Mac OS X
o 30-inch model ($3,299) requires Power Mac G5 with $599 Nvidia card
o 20-inch model costs $1,299, 23-inch model costs $1,999
o FireWire and USB on new displays; require DVI instead of ADC
o New models feature one piece aluminum stand
o New 20, 23 & 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays
o Jobs gives overview of iTunes, iPod, AirPort Express, Power Mac G5
o 3,500 developers at this year’s conference (17% increase over 2003)
winexprt 11:18 AM on June 29, 2004 Permalink
I just watched the Jobs conference video on Tiger and all I can say is a BIG WOW!!! I am DEFINITELY moving to Mac as soon as I have the $$$ for a PowerBook. ;)
Joel 11:25 AM on June 29, 2004 Permalink
It never fails to make me smile when I hear people considering switching. :) Hoping for the best! (And I’ll keep on posting more Mac stuff in here to keep you up to date.)