WWDC Pre-Keynote Roundup

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Posted by pudge on Monday June 23, 2003 @04:59AM from the get-yer-mac-on dept.

jonknee writes "Apple fans are diehard... MacMerc is covering the WWDC keynote in real time. The show starts at 1 p.m. EST and should last a few hours." rfernand79 writes "Still some time to go to WWDC, and mac.com has iDisk for Panther preview specifications. Offline access to iDisk sounds really cool." Oculus Habent writes "For those of us who didn't have the money or time to make it to WWDC today, we can catch the keynote. Don't for get to upgrade to QuickTime 6.3 for best performance. I wonder if you can watch it on cell phones, now." The keynote stream is delayed; it begins after the keynote ends.

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Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:03 · Score: 2, Informative

I'm at an Apple store in Hartford, CT watching the keynote. I don't know whether this is something to brag about or it means I'm such a nerdy person I'm making the journey to the Apple store.

Only time will tell.

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1. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:20 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Let's see...
  1 millionth iPod
  panther stuff - faster searching, another "right dock" type widget in column view style
  automatic iDisk synchronization
  
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2. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:23 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  ExposÃ© - he's opening windows
  expose "tiles" and shrinks windows to find a specific window
  It looks like a hotkey combination - configurable!
  two modes - one application's windows or all windows
  
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3. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:26 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  ExposÃ© continued - another hotkey to get to the desktop by "clearing" windows
  
  uses quartz extreme - no exposÃ© for me, i've only got 8 MB of vram =\
  
  Lost notebook service - Filevault encrypts and decrypts the home folder on-the-fly (CPU intensive =\)
  
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4. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:30 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Mail.app:
  Much faster
  Safari HTML rendering
  thread view - first email starts a thread, all replys are under that heading (much like the finder's list view)
  addresses are objects
  Composition - draggable address objects
  
  IPsec VPN stuff
  
  Fax button built into all print panels
  Fax numbers from address book
  
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5. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:36 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Pixlet - new Quicktime codec
  "Professional grade quality on a personal computer"
  Uses wavelet technology
  48 bits per pixel source
  no noticeable visual artifacts
  no interframe compression
  
  (comment: a new codec? AWWW, crap.)
  
  1 GHz G4 can decode and encode HDTV quality stuff
  (Jobs is playing trailers and scrubbing back and forth on half-HDTV source)
  
  Preview - fastest PDF reader in the world
  PDF - core of OS X
  Rendering - 978 pages, one page at a time
  Windows 71 seconds
  Preview takes 28 secondds
  
  Something about searching PDFs, I missed it
  
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6. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:42 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Preview continued:
  Search - finds and highlights text in PDF's (very fast)
  
  On-the-fly postscript to PDF
  Inkjet looks like postscript on network - all postscript support
  
  Fast user switching in Panther
  Menu in corner - multiple users changed quickly
  "cube transition" type switch - looks like multiple sides of a cube (WOW)
  
  Fontbook - pro font management
  when font is clicked, preview, and install font button
  search box for fonts - "condensed" - only condensed fonts come up
  
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7. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:46 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  iChat - iChat AV.
  Audio and video chat. Hot damn.
  "Videoconferencing for the rest of us"
  buddy list videoconferencing
  zero configuration
  no reconfiguration with network switching or other network stuff
  Rendezvous videoconferencing!
  audio works on 56k
  Audio + video on DSL and up
  
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8. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 05:57 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  iChat - fullscreen videoconferencing! Hurray!
  Speakerphonelike - nifty
  services availiable change instantly! (SO COOL.)
  Some france bashing ensues
  Al Gore comes on and stuff.
  
  Panther shipped by the end of the year (OMG. OS X released again!?)
  Some Windows bashing ensues with Longhorn setbacks
  
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9. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 06:39 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  SPEC test
  3 GHz P4 vs 2 GHz G5 vs 3.06 xeon
  VeriTest - independant tester
  Scores:
  
  INT:
  P4 - 889
  xeon - 836
  G5 - 800
  
  Float:
  P4 - 693
  Xeon - 646
  G5 - 840
  
  SPECint-rate
  P4 - 10.3
  Xeon x2 16.7
  G5 x2 - crap, didn't get it, edged out xeon
  SPECfp-rate
  P4 - 8.1
  Xeon x2 - 11.1
  G5 x2 - 15.7
  
  Adobe impressed with performance on G5
  Phil Schiller - photoshop test
  (HOLY MONKEY. THAT WAS FAST.)
  
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10. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 06:50 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Luxology - 3d visual effect stuff
  G5 does transforms, rotations and other stuff much better than the Xeon
  ~13 FPS G5, ~6 FPS Xeon
  Recompile for G5 took 3 minutes
  
  Wolfram research - Mathematica 5 is being introduced
  mathematica on G5 is 2x as fast as Xeon
  also faster than high-end unix workstations
  ~266% of Xeon performance
  
  Gerhard Lingaling - eMagic
  I have no idea what this guy is saying, but it sounds impressive.
  
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11. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · 2003-06-23 07:01 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  The PC chokes several times, but the G5 is handling it well, 25-33% CPU USAGE
  
  Hot damn, that was impressive.
  
  Summary -
  Pshop - 2.1x as fast
  Luxology - 2.3x as fast
  eMagic - 2.3x as fast
  music test - ?
  
  A video!
  funky music and testimony.
  8 RAM slots - nifty. (I wonder how much a 1 GB ram stick costs)
  
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MacMinute special page by phillymjs · 2003-06-23 05:15 · Score: 2, Informative

Here. Refreshes every 60 seconds.
Some info - From MacNN coverage by mkarpinski · 2003-06-23 05:16 · Score: 4, Informative

# Safari 1.0 goes GM (golden master) today. Apple will release it on the Web in a few hours. Apple is also releasking an SDK to embed Safari funtionality in other applications. In the past 6 months of beta, Apple has had over 5 million downloads.
# Apple says that later today Apple will sell the millionth iPod and that as of last Saturday, it has sold over 5 million songs. He demos a Jay Leno bit showing Osama in iPod advertisement.

# Jobs then talks about rtail stores, noting that Apple has 58 sores with over 17 million visitors. He shoed Apple SoHo and Grove. He notes that Chicago store is opening this week and San Francisco is opening next spring.

# Apple was the first to ship 802.11g in the industry. He provides an overview of AirPort Extreme.

# Apple has 300,000 registered Apple developers, which has tripled since Mac OS X introduced. Apple has also has many Unix and Java developers.

# Jobs on Stage. [1:03 pm]

# 12:31: Reporting from Apple Store SoHo. Roughly 300 people present even an hour before the keynote is scheduled to begin. Store employees showing random video clips as well as old Apple commercials.
# Keynote begins at 1 PM ET.

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Links fixed ;) sorry about that by JoshuaBrown · 2003-06-23 05:17 · Score: 2, Informative

http://66.246.110.221/forum/index.php?showtopic=14 49 http://66.246.110.221/forum/index.php?showtopic=14 51 ok now i got it right, sorry about that!
Re:Still online in Japanese. TRANSLATION by muonzoo · 2003-06-23 05:18 · Score: 2, Informative
Thanks to SYSTRAN and Sherlock:

Panther iDisk Preview:

With Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac online storage service and the use of iDisk furthermore become simple and convenient. Mac OS X Panther*, using completely new architecture, in order to access iDisk, brings ultimate performance and convenience to automatic operation synchronizing of information in regard to offline access and the desktop and Internet.

The Advanced Capability of iDisk which can be used with Panther is introduced.
- Preeminent performance and file operation at of speed iDisk, speedy it is not different from the operation with the local computer with it is possible to do. Retain there are no times when lag occurs the case such that the contents of iDisk because it is retained in local hard drive the file, browse the directory, are opened.
- As for ultimate convenience iDisk when you use with Panther, because it is displayed in Finder, there is no access and the what change to normal hard drive. To that, the file is opened, because it edits on iDisk it is possible, to retain, it is not necessary to upload and/or to download the file.
- Being automatic, with the iDisk architecture whose synchronizing Panther is completely new, as for the file it is copied to the local hard disk first. Because it is reflected on the server of the apple periodically and automatically, always it can access the modification which does in the desktop the up-to-date file from with any computer. In addition, when multiple Mac are used, it is possible to access the up-to-date file directly from with Finder of which computer.
- When being connected to offline access Internet to iDisk even, it is possible to open the file, to edit, to retain in iDisk. After that when you connect to Internet, all modification contents synchronization are done in iDisk.
- *Mac OS X 10.3 Panther is the difference sale.
Just FYI by tbone1 · 2003-06-23 05:27 · Score: 4, Informative

The Mac Observer is doing this as well, for those stuck at home.

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Font DA mover by nocomment · 2003-06-23 05:45 · Score: 2, Informative

AFter reading the keynote live ;-) on the macobserver I saw this...

[10:44 AM] Pro Font Management. You can install fonts with a button, preview them, and do all the other things that several companies make their living providing.

Funny, they had this functionality in system 6

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Re:Panther delayed? by babbage · 2003-06-23 06:16 · Score: 2, Informative

Okay, I stand corrected:

11:08 AM - Here are the g5's. He's talking about the leak.... Was it true?
11:09 AM - It's true!
11:09 AM - World's fastest PC is here. There are three things. Chip, System, Product. The chip is the 970 (g5). 64-bit. Made by IBM. Screw Motorola.

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of the G5 by nocomment · 2003-06-23 06:42 · Score: 2, Informative

more pic as I find them.

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesi gn /images/G5-PowerMac.jpg

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