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Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac

Posted by kdawson on from the more-goodies dept.

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.

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  1. Finally by Lockejaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage.
    Yay, now there's enough space to actually put something there!
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    (IANAL)
  2. That time of the year again by hcdejong · · Score: 4, Funny

    "On the morning of Steve Jobs's keynote presentation, the online Apple store grinds to a halt as Mac-heads set their browsers to refresh every 15 seconds."

    (from the Apple Product Life Cycle)

  3. Geez by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we wait until the press event is over before an article is posted about it? At present isn't there still a product on stage under black cloth? Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?

    1. Re:Geez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?
      Windows Vista.
    2. Re:Geez by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?

      Goths.

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      Blank until /. makes another boneheaded UI decision.
  4. It's a Web 2.0 app now... by Biff+Stu · · Score: 5, Funny

    But is it backwards compatible with Web 1.0?

    Some of us Luddites are a bit slow to upgrade.

  5. I got a small chuckle from.... by Schnoogs · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...this quote. "There are some people who still want to make DVDs" I guess these's a fringe movement of people who want to cater to the 100 million or so DVD players out there! ;) Someone tell these people that DVD is soooooooooooo last year! Other than that everything looked pretty solid.

  6. Wow, does he really talk like that? by Sax+Maniac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talk short. No long sentence. Simple words. Over soon. Screw verbs. Noun adjective. Adjective noun. Noun, noun, noun. And, articles! So, no prepositions. Adverbs bad. Baaaad adverbs, no-no-no. See Dick run. Run, Dick run!

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    I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
  7. Dovetails nicely with iPhone. by Lethyos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple is slowly phasing tactile response out of their input devices. Started with mice, then the iPhone, and now with keyboards. Soon, we will live in a polished world where nothing lets us know we touched it! I hope Apple never enters the sex industry.

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    Why bother.