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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!

  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. 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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  4. 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!

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

    Sheesh!

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  6. 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...

  7. 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.