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Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC
DonaldGelman writes "Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600. The display requires a new Nvidia card with 2 parallel DVI connections. The display is going to retail for $3299 in August, and the Nvidia card for around $599." Jobs also announced new 20- and 23-inch displays, for $1299 and $1999 in July. All three feature a new aluminum enclosure, and DVI. Also from WWDC...
Jobs also previewed Tiger, with Spotlight (fast iTunes-like searching in all apps, and systemwide), Dashboard (Konfabulator-like widgets combined with Exposé for fast showing/hiding), Automator (visual AppleScript, combining prewritten actions into scripts), H.264 code for QuickTime (high definition scalable video from MPEG), iChat AV conferencing (up to 10 for audio, four for video), RSS reading in Safari, Core Image and Core Video (realtime filters at the core OS level), and system-wide Sync Services. All of this is extensible (except for iChat conferencing), with SDKs available for developers.
There's a lot here, and a more detailed description is forthcoming. Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005.
Let the copying of Tiger features into Longhorn... begin!
If it's quiet around you, you can probably hear the collective screaming of the Longhorn team from Redmond WA that sounds like "AGHGHGHGHHGHHHHHH!!!!"
"Peter, did you copy all that down?"
"I got only the first half before I fainted. You?"
"I got most of it. Ok, the Longhorn features spec meeting is Wednesday morning, we have two days to put all that new Tiger stuff in!"
(marketing drone sitting around table with other marketers. All sipping lattes)
"so, get this: Are you ready? We release computer displays. TA DA!!
BUT WAIT, there's more. Not only do we release displays that are the same as our current ones, but we will demonstrate the innovation... BY CHANGING THEM TO BE MADE OUT OF METAL!!!!
Everyone knows metal is faster than plastic. But, wait for it, wait for it, get this: we'll keep them the same price that they have been for over a year!!!!!!!!"
(thank you's and hugs for everyone followed by a power lunch, martinis and more fucking crazy pills)
'the Internet is right.'
Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005.
Yeah. Going by this display in the recent USOpen, me thinks we definitely need to wait till 2005...
Can you say "purchase order?" I'll take five.
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I knew I picked a bad week to not be rich.
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I prefer to think of it as What we Would have Done with Copland.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Apple ought to be taking unsuccessful software ideas and incorporating them into the OS instead
Ahh, so THAT's where CowboyNeal has been hiding while he is away from the Poll options! :)
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600
Jobs also previewed Tiger
There Grrrrrrreaat!
Who Would Do Cowboyneal?
I dunno. If I had the $$ I'd buy something even better! Everyone could use a 92" flat screen ;)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
You should simply never buy anything, and that way you'll never have that problem.
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RTFJ.
Fortunately they also announced these products to the development teams today.
In other news, starbucks stores around the Apple campus are open 24 hours a day over this summer...
-Adam
Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers!!
16:9 is OK for watching movies, I guess, but when I'm writing code, it's VERTICAL SPACE that's at a premium, not horizontal space.
I would love a "tall" (or at least 4:3) Apple Cinema Display instead of these shorties they keep making.
Best Buy can have you arrested
Wow, Apple will sell you a computer that was obsolete 3 years ago for $800. What a deal!
Sheesh!
--- Ban humanity.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html
Also, those who are FIREFLY fans will note the movie is mentioned in the post...
If you look at the calculator in the Dashboard demo, you'll notice it says 1.337!
I love a company with a sexy UNIX based OS and a sense of humor.
... okay so now opinions are wrong? I'm just saying I like the software and dislike the hardware prices, is that so wrong? Why even have a replies if all your gonna do is say "STOP SHARING". I'm not going to force apple to do anything, I just would like it if they did this...They mos def will not listen to a single post, and btw Unicorns went exthinct a long time ago...weirdo. Of course, you only said that because you are an idiot, and I am not disappointed.
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I do hope they meant "rsync".
I prefer "Why We Ditched Copland"
"To change the color or font for a sticky note, flip the note around -- all Widgets controls are on the back to keep them out of sight until you need them."
Sounds like Sun and Apple are finally taking computer users to the next level with 3D interfaces. It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft comes up with.
Microsoft has this idea covered already. Each copy of Longhorn will come with a colorful selection of Post-It notes that can be affixed onto the back of your monitor. I think they already have the pattent application in the works too. Admit it... the people at Microsoft are just too smart for the rest of us.
How about a tiger, the animal. The one in the jungle.
How is it copyright infringement? Unless apple copied/stole the code from Konfabulator, it's perfectly legal.
On Apple Input Peripherals: They're okay, I guess, but I was really hoping for a one-key keyboard and a 109-button mouse
You almost were, but since you've posted as an AC they didn't know who to give the prize.
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
I didn't know there was that kind of money in waiting tables and hanging out on street corners with a can.
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If you look at the quicktime movie of the Dashboard in action, one of the Widgets is a little game called "Tile" that is like the "Puzzle" desk accessory in OS 6+... Now nobody can complain anymore that there aren't any games for MacOS!!!
Please tell me you're joking. As far as technical competence goes, bioligists are just above the pre-med morons in my book. I know biologists - at a top school - who use tables to figure out buffer pH's because using a simple equation from freshman chemistry was too hard.
I try to avoid gross oversimplifications, but generally chemists do a LOT better in bio classes than the other way around. (I'll let the physicists make similar comments about chemistry, and the mathematicians do the same for physics).
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We Will Decapitate Competitors?
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Hallelujah, Brother! This is just what I was about to mention. Dashboard is very much Desk Accessories using Expose with a touch of the original control panel for the interface. I should think nearly everyone who used Macs prior to System 7 (particularly those of us who used Macs before the Multi-Finder) would compare Dashboard to DAs rather than to Konfabulator. I suppose those attacking Apple for stealing Dashboard from Konfabulator might also attack them for stealing the trash can from the recycle bin :/ .
You realize you posted your username when you cut and pasted all that crap, right OverlordQ?