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Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac
Apple just announced new iMacs. They are aluminum and come in 20" (two models) and 24". There's a new view called "Events" in iPhoto that should make it easier to deal with large photo libraries. Apple's .Mac service is enhanced with .Mac Web Gallery, which integrates with the new iTunes and also the iPhone. It's a Web 2.0 app now. And iMovie is being replaced by a completely new app of the same name. Steve Jobs claimed that with it you can put together a 5-minute movie in 30 minutes, and he demo'ed that from the stage. iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand get new features too. And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage. Here is Engadget's blow-by-blow coverage, and Wired's.
I suppose it's healthier than obsessing over Paris Hilton, but it's still pretty pathetic.
Does the power supply die after 300 uses and have to be sent back in to Apple for a week while it is replaced at a paltry cost of $100?
Spotlight will search within documents including PDF's and you can create these things called "smart" folders which behave like smart playlists in iTunes. Nice try troll.
Obviously you can't read a post properly or have you used anything but OS X.
There is a grand difference between 'smart' folders, called 'search' folders in Vista, and 'stacks', and 'inherented search' folders, all features in Vista that make OS X's search and organization look very pathetic; however, that is NOT WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
There is a BIGGER difference of an ability of the OS Search engine to look for WORDS represented as TEXT in a document like a PDF, as OS X can do, and the ability of an OS to be able to take a scanned document and when you type 'Idiot' if that word appeared in that IMAGE of the SCANNED DOCUMENT, it returns that document to you in the search results, which Vista can do. It is actually doing OCR on top of NORMAL search.
There is also a difference when the SEARCH ENGINE in Vista supports searching AUDIO for words that were said in the AUDIO.
Searching inside PDFs is NOT THE SAME, searching inside PDFs is something Windows users have been doing since Windows95 (12 years ago), Windows95 also had saved Search Folders, which is what Apple OS X calls 'Smart Folders' today and it is SCARY that Mac users think Apple is innovative or new with this idea.
And this simple lack of knowledge on things VERY SIMPLE prove my point completely. Apple users and SlashDot readers are SO OUT OF TOUCH with the basic technology in MS products they run to prove how stupid they are; thank you for your post.
Go my ignorant troll, go stick your head back in the sand and keep repeating to yourself, "Apple is the greatest and nothing else compares."