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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. Slashdot on Apple website by Capital_Z · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Looks like /. got a little shout-out from Apple.
    The Apple website page

  2. Apple Employees Read Slashdot!? by amitofu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did anyone notice that the sample RSS feed on the Safari RSS page shows a Slashdot story?

  3. Re:You missed the important part. by jkabbe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    2. Use DVI instead of ADC, so you don't have to have mac hardware to use them.

    True for the 20,23 but not true for the 30. According to the presentation it requires a mac-only video card.

  4. Re:Okay by BandwidthHog · · Score: 0, Redundant
    From Arlo Rose himself:
    I think you'll all be surprised how low Apple has sunk on Monday.
    A sad day, indeed, if what he's saying/implying is true.
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  5. Re:What about FAT filesystems? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As I understand it, resource forks are now a legacy feature of Mac OS 9.

    Deprecated, but fully supported.

    Can't we finally retire this non-feature that was a clever idea if anybody else was going to support it, but a horrible impediment to cross-platform compatibility?

    Nope. You're just going to have to learn to deal.

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