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Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC

Posted by pudge on from the 77-percent-larger dept.

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.

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  1. Microsoft... by smaug195 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the copying of Tiger features into Longhorn... begin!

    1. Re:Microsoft... by eyeball · · Score: 4, Funny

      Apple thought of this already. One of the banners at WWDC said "Introducing Longhorn" as well as a few other jabs at MS.

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    2. Re:Microsoft... by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Funny

      you got it wrong, the longhorn dev cycle is nearing the point at which they will silently start dropping years ago announced features.

      yes I'm trying to be funny/sarcastic().

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    3. Re:Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      yes I'm trying to be funny/sarcastic().

      I hope that int sarcastic() { doesn't return 0.

  2. SHHHH.... by Frac · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

    1. Re:SHHHH.... by eyeball · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!"

      Wow, it's going to be such a long time before Microsoft copies OSX Tiger, and Linux gets around to copying Microsoft Longhorn. Attention Linux developers: cut out the middle-man and start copying Tiger directly.

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  3. Marketers pitching new display ideas... by _LMark · · Score: 3, Funny

    (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)

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  4. Yum by transient · · Score: 4, Funny
    Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display

    Can you say "purchase order?" I'll take five.

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  5. Re:Now this is exciting... by FirstTimeCaller · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew I picked a bad week to not be rich.

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  6. Re:To those who ask "What's WWDC?"... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer to think of it as What we Would have Done with Copland.

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  7. What would Tony say? by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600

    Jobs also previewed Tiger

    There Grrrrrrreaat!

  8. Well by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should simply never buy anything, and that way you'll never have that problem.

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  9. Fortunately... by stienman · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  10. I wish apple came out with displays... by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 3, Funny
    I wish Apple made displays that weren't "short."

    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.

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  11. Geezus, people... by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 5, Funny
    You're correcting the grammar of a tiger.

    Sheesh!

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  12. Slashdot and CowboyNeal on the Apple site! by llamafirst · · Score: 5, Funny
    So, how did CowboyNeal and Slashdot.org get into the image at the top of this page on the Apple site? Sucking up to Slashdot, perhaps? :-)

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html

    Also, those who are FIREFLY fans will note the movie is mentioned in the post...

  13. Apple is 1337! by metalligoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  14. Re:I think the important part by dasmegabyte · · Score: 4, Funny
    nuts. I was hoping MS would force us to drop to dos and a do a
    dir select *.* from files where artist like '%Dylan%' and type IN ('AAC','MP3','M4P','M4A')
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  15. Re:Core Image... by cmacb · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.

  16. Re::| Damn it Apple. by jlaxson · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is it copyright infringement? Unless apple copied/stole the code from Konfabulator, it's perfectly legal.

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  17. Re:iPod SDK! by bursch-X · · Score: 4, Funny
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...


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