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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.
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The event is going on for another hour still. They just added that they're updating iWork too. Damn, talk about jumping the gun.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I checked apple.com and haven't seen any updates yet. I think this is the first time in years where a product announcement has been made and their website wasn't updated at the same exact moment. :^)
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I'm not really into all-in-ones at present since all I do is plug my screen into my tower, laptop, or mini at present.
HOWever - if Apple did manage to introduce something along the lines of this bit of fan-fic (with OS interface extensions to match), I'd be drooling, barking at the moon and standing in line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxa3zHdRxxA
Still, it's a nice update.
"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)
13" MacBookPro! 13" MacBookPro! 13" MacBookPro!!!!!
Please?
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
The iMac will also come with a new Bluetooth keyboard that will look like this prototype./a
CATS/Diebold '08- All your vote are belong to us!
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?
With their spreadsheet application and upgrade to Pages to include a word processor, it looks like Apple wants to establish an entire office productivity suite. I wonder if it will be a successor to WriteNow in the near future?
But is it backwards compatible with Web 1.0?
Some of us Luddites are a bit slow to upgrade.
They also updated the Mac Mini.
"Didn't mention Mac mini today, how is it doing?"
Tim: "We're refreshing the Mac mini today."
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
...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.
Anyone got some video of the keynote?
From the mysterious future
In case someone's wondering, the Mac mini will be refreshed today. This was mentioned during their Q & A. But there was no mention of any specs.
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!
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
(apologies in advance)
Do we really need that kind of visual, considering fanbois' well-documented oral fixation with everything Apple?
*ducks*
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Is it just me or is the whole industrial brushed aluminum appearance of "modern" devices go against the entire concept of aesethics? I would have preferred that Apple keep the white and added black as a colour for the iMacs.
I will never understand how FOSSies can think it's evil to charge for Windows (and software in general)... but they spooge all over their 15 year old Lunix machine when they discuss Apple stuff.
Apple is a far more brutal monopoly than Microsoft could ever dream of being. Apple destroyed the Apple-compatible market, they destroyed the Apple reseller market, and they shut down any store which dared to sell Apple stuff. Now if you want anything more than an iPod, you need to buy directly from Apple. And oh wow... iTunes doesn't sync with any MP3 player besides an iPod.
That's a pretty brutal monopoly in my book. And everything they sell is at least 50% more expensive than it's PC-based counterpart.
first quote: "What about AMD chips?"
.mac doesn't support HD Jobs goes- Well, we do support HD, well actually slightly less than HD- you know what I call not quite HD- NOT HD! Everything just seemed a little small fry.
Steve: "We use Intel chips"
hehehe, sounded a li'l like the intel chip implanted into his head kicked in there.
second, why is the imac so underpowered in the RAM department, I mean the specs in one of the pictures showed the iMacs, all the way up to the biggest $1800 version only has 1gig- with all the RAM you get in normal PCs now days (4gigabytes not unusual) is this not a little strange?
Finally, is it just me, or have they slighyl repackaged everything, made no huge advances, like for example, why did they bother to minimize a keyboard, which for someone like me, would just be annoying. iLife? It's had nothing added, they just repackaged every single feature, and when asked why
If you want the same security, stability, and lack of choice in software you had on your Mac, you can run Linux!
But here's the best part...
We don't have to beg for anything! In fact, they beg us to buy their products, because PC manufacturers actually have something called "competition"! What a novel concept!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Am I the only one who thinks it's ironic that they've only recently completely done away with brushed metal in their user interfaces, in favor of a more plastic-y, smooth feel, but are now introducing brushed metal iMacs to replace their plastic-y, smooth-looking old ones?
I like the change, but...how? Some auto-negation bug in the intra-office memo software? "!brushed_metal = brushed_metal....SENT"
It's a Web 2.0 app now
No it's not, because there's no such thing as a "version" of the Internet OR the World Wide Web.
Just because O'Reilly and a bunch of bloggers like it, doesn't mean you should use it.
Please help metamoderate.
... Or to powerfull."
But your integrated screen can still be to high!
This is what annoys me the most about the iMac and they didn't fix it. I'm using a 20" iMac at my current client and the screen is about 8-10cm to high for my tast. And you can only pivot it on the iMacs, not raise or lower it. I'd've thought they'd've fixed that with this release. Shame they didn't.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
But the more important announcement (IMHO) is iWork which now includes Numbers: http://www.apple.com/iwork/ Finally, I can get rid of Office.
"Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average." - A. W. Tozer
Glossy screens have been scientifically proven to cause eyestrain, headaches and premature need for glasses because the eye keeps trying to focus between the two images.
Steve Jobs says "Customers prefer glossy screens" But this is a in Store poll or results from some sales from the ignorant young of the dangers of glossy screens.
Us OLDER longtime computer and CRT users know glossy screens cause eyestrain. In FACT a MacPoll Survey shows overwhelmingly that people choose MATTE SCREENS OVER GLOSSY.
So is Apple ripe for a lawsuit?
Polite mistake pointing-out: every instance of "to" in your above post should be "too." When you can replace the word with "overly", it has two Os.
The United States of America: We do what we must because we can.
Even laptops have drive bays and PC Card slots ya know, and there's no reason (not even looks) why iMacs couldn't have these features.
I've been considering a Mac desktop for a while, and now that a new one is out, perhaps I'll buy it.
One thing I need, though, is to be able to run Linux and OpenBSD in virtual machines on my desktop. Does anyone have any experience with how the new VMWare Fusion compares to VMWare Workstation? Is there any difference between the two (aside from the price, and that unity view for Windows, which does not affect me)? I mean, in terms of features and running other OSes?
I assume you'll be able to get something like this for the new iMacs...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
One thing that bothers me is the decision to go with a glass screen. These screens, to me, are nothing more than a fad that help make the display look more impressive on the showroom floor. Once someone has to actually use them day-to-day glass screens are a huge distraction because of all the reflections and glare. This iMac is going to inspire a deluge of crappy glass-covered displays.
Seeing these new Macs, however, I can't help but wonder why in the hell PC makers don't actually start putting some damn effort into the manufacture and design of their machines. Instead they go for quick, cheap gimmicks like Dell and the goofy interchangeable color covers for their laptops. Even worse are the third party case manufacturers.
There are a million ideas out there for very elegant designs that could be just as impressive, if not more so, than anything Apple has designed. But instead what are we going to see? Dozens of crappy clones of the Apple design. Either that or half-hearted attempts that scream of cost-cutting over thoughtful design. Even Nintendo couldn't help but cloning the MacBook design with the DS and to a lesser extent the Wii.
Apple has nice design, but they are far from being the pinnacle of high design. If only other companies weren't cheap and unimaginative.
So, if I buy one of these now, does Apple do the right thing and give me the upgrade to 10.5 for free, since it's only a month or so away, or do they burn me hard and make me pay another $129 when it comes out (especially since iWork/iLife08 are supposed to be heavily drawing upon the 10.5 features)?
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.
Why bother.
I suppose it's healthier than obsessing over Paris Hilton, but it's still pretty pathetic.
Yeah. I have a Macbook pro, almost a $3000 computer; and the keyboard is terrible.
Uhm. You're talking about different keyboards. The MacBook Pro has a "normal" notebook keyboard, while the MacBook (without Pro) has the "new style" keyboard, which is very similar to the one being used in this new Apple keyboard, from the looks of it.
Am I the only one out there who thinks that the iMac's design has never been better than in its 1998-2001 (or so) version, before it started involving flat screens? I think it has never looked better than that, but that they couldn't keep it cause :
-They had to move on to a different design for the sake that it was a few years old because people don't like "old" stuff
-They had to put a flat screen in it because that's what people want
-They had to make it increasingly slimer and such because that's what people expect from futuristic computers
-Later they couldn't go back to it anyways so they have to move on into the forced design futurism
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You just got troll'd!
Other than that, the subject of this post answers any remaining salient points you made. The rest are mere trolling drivel.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
But can is possibly blend?
Don't be crazy anymore!
"I hope Apple never enters the sex industry"
...but what the hell... I could always use a spare at the office.
I disagree. Entirely.
I'd be more than happy to wait in line for 6 hours so I can take home a stunningly beautiful iGirl that doesn't give me any feedback no matter how much I touch her, doesn't break when dropped, doesn't scratch easily, is good for up to 8 hours of activity (as long as I turn her wireless off), goes to sleep at the touch of a button and comes with a 2 year warranty.
For sure. Sign me up.
Of course, I'll probably regret it when they come out with a model next year that's a little bit lighter, and a little bit thinner...
I want to use the iMac for playing adventure games on, in Windows. The new iMac has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro videocard. Does any one of you have experiences with this card? How good is it compared to other cards in its class? Although of course the highest number of frames/s is not very important in adventure games, I'd like to know how oldfashioned the video card in the iMac will be in three years' time.
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The best part, of course, is that the only time Jobs uses these crappy styles in his Keynote presentations is when the shows them off. Apple knows perfectly well about Tufte, but some of their customers are used to WordArt and might think Apple's stuff is inferior if they can't do the same ugly crap in the iWorks apps.
Apropos Intel, via Daringfireball.net:
One question that came from the audience wondered why Apple doesn't participate in the "Intel Inside" program, in which PC manufacturers affix the well-known labels to their computers."We like our own stickers better," Jobs said. "Don't get me wrong. We love working with Intel. We're proud to ship Intel products in Macs. They're screamers, and combined with our OS, we've tuned them well. It's just that everyone knows we use Intel processors. We'd rather not tell them about the product that's inside the box."
I'd say Numbers is the biggest news of the day, and because someone had to be OMGFIRSTTOSUBMIT, it's not even in this story.
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You tout form factors and you tout using a USB/Firewire drive. I think that if you care about both, having your iMac thin and sexy and having greater than 1 drive worth of storage, that you too would want an extra HD bay in your iMac. Who wants an ugly, external firewire drive sitting next to your computer with wires and power supplies dangling around? Not to mention FW800 enclosures being $$$.
Somehow I think they would have plenty of space, at least on the 24" model, to support an extra drive bay, without a great increase in iMac thickness, or cost. Plus, do you really care that much if your desktop is 0.5 inches thicker?
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
My wife hates the new look. She loves the white iMacs. Bring back the white or I'm not allowed to upgrade... :(
++Informative
Perhaps not great for gaming, but as a media PC even the older Intel mini could handle 1080p video.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple's UK website hasn't updated to show the new iMacs yet (either because there'll be a few-week delay in getting it over here or because the webmaster had already packed up and gone home).
But isn't the new machine just gorgeous?
The problem I have with propietary lock-ins is when they're badly made (think Vista). I really can't fault Macs in anything but the price, and that's why they're such an attractive option - they're functional and decorative, which is something Micro$oft seems not to have grasped the concept with yet (at least with Windows and certain horribly-designed personal music players).
And TBH, Macs will run quite a lot of stuff. They'll run most UNIX apps, they can dual-boot with Windows if you want and triple boot with Windows and Linux if you want. They automatically recognise and install most hardware without fail. They'll link up with your WiFi network, talk to Windows (even if Windows isn't in the mood to talk to it) and I fully expect that Leopard will be compatible with the upcoming iToaster element2.
Now, if I can find £900 to spare, as soon as Leopard appears I'll be scooting off to Southampton to buy one.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
Have you considered OS X with X11 and KDE?
If you want both Aqua/OS X & KDE, that's the way to go, as it means nearly zero overhead for your Mac compared to some virtualisation or dual-boot solution. Don't forget that OS X is a full-blown Unix (bash Terminal, GNU Toolkit and all) that can easyly provide all the Linux goodies you want. It's even got this OSS project called Fink which offers a full apt-get (as in Debian Package Management) enviroment including a usefull GUI tool (Fink Commander) to operate it. Here's a post on KDE support in Fink
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
the liberal bias eats at your brains, sooner rather than later.
If the keyboard isn't a seller for you, odds are you've never spent much time with an IBM "Model M" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M/ keyboard. People can get quite attached to them http://www.dansdata.com/ibmkeyboard.htm/.
Decent for self-defense, too.
where Mac users store their custom configuration and lisp functions?
I'm tempted by the new iLife bundle, but will ship with the Leopard upgrade when it's finally released? Or is iLife only included with Mac hardware?
I know the answer to this one! I have been running the Fusion beta since the beginning, and bought it just before the release (which was this past weekend). I have tested Fusion with 64 and 32-bit versions of Linux and Windows and they all work flawlessly. I have also tested OpenBSD, Solaris, and even the Vmware image of the OLPC software and it's all been great. Fusion is based on Workstation 6, and the only glaring omission is that it doesn't have multiple snapshots; it can do a single snapshot but not the trees of snapshots like in Workstation.
I have not used Parallels as I am a big VMware fan (use Workstation and server at work) and can't compare between the two. I will say that if you are happy with VMware products for Linux or Windows, the Mac version is definitely in the same camp...it's been rock solid (even the first beta!) and performance is excellent on my MacBook Pro...I have a Solaris virtual machine running Oracle 10g that I use for development, with some tables having millions of rows, and performance is great (for a single developer).
no, worse, you have terribly bad taste.
and $599.00 for a Combo Drive and 2x512 of ram? with only a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. It is still a rip off as you can buy systems for less with the same cpu and a DVDRW drive.
The new versions seem to have a serious price drop compared to the previous ones. I mean, 20 and 24" screens (and they are nice) for 1200-2200. Sure, a white box you build yourself is going to be cheaper but this is a nicely designed system.
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Ahhh! I feel better!
The game.
Use Bluetooth. It would have been even more stylish. Maybe they want to sell upgrades, or maybe they don't want people thinking they can use the keyboard from fifteen feet away.
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iPhoto Events - Brilliant...
This is almost as elegant or easy as Photo Gallery in Vista.
Although the stacks, searching, and import tagging is easier in Vista and also works better for document management scans for business too since you can search for words in a scanned document. Even meeting sound recordings can be text searched, but give Apple a few years. Of course TabletPC users or OneNote users are already use to this type of technology from back in 2002/2003 so this isn't that new to them when using Vista.
But good job Steve, and maybe Apple will address these features to catch up to Vista in OS XI.
Of course I'm being a smart ass before anyone assumes otherwise. Here is my main point:
How come we get these great press releases on SlashDot for every little 'tiny' thing Apple does, yet when MS is releasing technology changing the industry it gets NO mention whatsoever.
The irony is the average SlashDot user becomes more and more ignorant of 'technology' on a whole because of the dismissal or non-reporting of anything MS.
It DOESN'T hurt the SlashDot world to PAY ATTENTION to what MS is doing if they want to remain 'informed' or competitive. And it certainly wouldn't hurt for SlashDot readers to offset the 'we love Apple' with facts or information that shines some light on the 'Jobs distortion field', as when he talks 'revolutionary technology' it is often stuff that is OLD NEWS and already been done by the #1 OS running on almost 1 billion desktops, yet the Apple and *nix crowd doesn't even realize this.
You just should remove the 'news for nerds' and replace it with 'SlashDot users, proud of their ignorance and determined to keep it.'
Wireless versions of the new keyboard (without USB ports) and the mighty mouse are available for about $150 total. See the Apple Store for details.
They've got wireless and wired versions. The wireless ones look even MORE like Macbook keyboards.
You *like* lugging those big heavy jujubes with their absolutely horrible screens (a huge step back from the Trinitron screens Apple previously used) around?
It's not about style, it's about the CRT iMacs being a dead end.
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?
Get rid of the bloody GMA950 and put something in there with decent OpenGL support.
Just bumping the processor to Core 2 Duo doesn't cut it. That's not the bottleneck. That's not what you need to speed up.
That keyboard looks like the Macbook keyboard.
It's certainly less ergonomic than the previous model... you put skinny keyboards in laptops because you need to save space, not because they're actually *good*. Every new laptop I've used has had a skinnier keyboard and it's been more painful to work on. I can't use the Macbook Pro keyboard at all... fifteen minutes and I'm in pain.
At least you're not stuck with them, like you are with a laptop.
I think you're stretching on the RAM, though. They have 2GB installed but you can upgrade them all to 4GB... for less than Apple would charge.
So, if Apple enters the sex business, there will be utilities for “iGirl” that will make her produce sounds upon contact? Not sure about others here, but I dislike fakers.
Why bother.
iLife '08, iWork '08, and iMac '08. Oh, and all Mac computers now run exclusively on 64-bit processors. Let's square that year!
I started using the VMWare Fusion beta a few weeks ago so I could run FreeBSD and Window XP. It runs very smoothly, the Unity feature is very well done, and it autodetects any Boot Camp partitions you have and lets you run them as VMs. I can't compare it to Workstation, so I'm afraid I may be wasting your time with this reply, but I can say I really do like Fusion.
I've been a long time user of VMWare Workstation and have recently purchased Fusion (and I was using the betas). Fusion is a solid product if you want to just run an OS.
If, however, you want the advanced features of VMWare Workstation--multiple snapshots, simulated LANs with simulated packet loss, cheap clones, etc.--you will be disappointed with Fusion.
A lot of people don't need the features in VMWare Workstation. If you just need to "run Linux / OpenBSD / Solaris in Mac OS X" it's a slam dunk. If you need more, you're currently screwed. I personally hope that VMWare will make a workstation version for the Mac with all the whistles and bells. I'll pay for it.
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Macs come with clustering built in. Under the Sharing preference pane, you can enable XGrid. Any XGrid capable apps will automatically send data packets to it for processing. All Apple machines and OSes ship with an XGrid capable app. XCode will use XGrid for compiling.
Do you work for Microsoft or are you just an unfunny troll? I've read some of your post history and it's almost constantly about praising Microsoft for this and that. And now you're saying we don't talk about Microsoft often enough. Sigh... why am I even bothering... any retard can see that you have an agenda going here.
I'm sorry, but the old iMac with the double-shot plastic looked clean and high-tech and expensive. The color scheme and plastic look like a Dell. I mean, Dells do look pretty good nowadays, so it's not like it's hideous, but it's definitely not up to Apple's design standards.
They're talking a *MacBook* keyboard, not a MBP - the two are fundamentally different. I prefer the MBP keyboard to the MB's myself.
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a minute - he already does.
"Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?"
I guess that would be the top secret Leopard features left out in WWDC 06 keynote.
Apple has announced a HW RAID card fro both the Mac Pro and Xserve. I see specs of 304MB/s how do they do this? This is incredible performance ! !
non-Apple stores that sell Macs... like Best Buy? Microcenter? CompUSA? there are also still tons of little indie stores.
hell, Philadelphia itself doesn't have an Apple store, though the city is surrounded with a few. we don't really need one because we have some really good Apple authorized resellers (like springboardmedia.com). i'm sure the city will get one eventually, but there is no hurry.
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
If you've been paying attention to Apple's product development, you already know the plan for backup - external USB drive hooked to Airport Express, acting as a Time Machine repository for all your macs when Leopard is released. Pretty nice and better to keep the backup at least slightly physically seperated from the primary anyway (offsite is always better of course).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
YES Computers is the perfect example of why "friendly local Apple stores" are dying out.
10 years ago YES sold mostly Macs, printers, etc. There'd be one rack of accessories in the corner. Now, 90% of the place is laptop bags, wrist rests, iPod cases, $100 software, etc. Low price, high margin stuff.
Most independent Apple stores are becoming accessory shops. Apple's squeezing their independent resellers from the bottom. Time when you'd pay $7000 for a IIfx is long gone. The official Apple Stores have the attractive displays, highly trained employees, consistent service, and most of all, inventory that tends to make customers stick with them over time, and of course at the same prices as the local guys.
Wrists killing you? Not in 2 weeks. Learn Dvorak.
Get rid of the bloody GMA950 and put something in there with decent OpenGL support. Just bumping the processor to Core 2 Duo doesn't cut it. That's not the bottleneck. That's not what you need to speed up.
Why? Not every machine needs to be equipped for higher end gaming. There are probably more people out there that need an inexpensive general purpose machine and the Mini serves that role quite nicely.
Who cares if it's bigger? The last version was bigger than this version, and it was small. Do you people actually use your computers, or do you stand over them wanking while measuring them with a micrometer?
(I personally use Macs because they have an OS that just works, without viruses. I just want a computer, and to suggest I should buy a Mac Pro to get standard, expected features that come in computers that cost ten times less is outrageous.)
I was so excited yesterday afternoon when I read this at work. Someone's buying a new computer :D
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I have a website
Why? Not every machine needs to be equipped for higher end gaming.
The GMA950 hurts any 3d application, and any application that pushes the limits on RAM - and not only because it eats 64M of real memory. It's not just third-party software (let alone games) that exceed the limits of what the GMA950 can do, Apple's own software uses 3d effects all over the place, so it's got to load their software OpenGL to cover for the shortcomings of the GPU regardless. And it's going to be using more and more of them over time.
I mean the original Mini's GPU was marginal, and Tiger required more than it could handle mere months after it was released... and *it* was more capable than the GMA950. It's only because they could afford to waste CPU power to inefficiently cover for the Intel GPU that they got away with it in the first place.
If you look at the photos of the keyboard available at http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html, you'll see that the F-keys have been remapped. F3 has what looks like an Expose "All Windows" icon (normally, F9) on it, and F4 definitely has a Dashboard icon (normally F12) on it. Volume controls have been moved to F10-F12 from their "old" location above the numeric keypad, and in their place are now F16-F19. Also, F7-F9 are now rew/play+pause/ff buttons, presumably for iTunes.
That's all nice and dandy, but I wonder how does it interoperates with factory settings in Mac OS X. I mean, if I install Mac OS X from scratch and look at System Preferences, Expose All Windows will be F9 and Dashboard will be F12 by default. Of course, it's perfectly possible that there are "secret" key codes for those somewhere, and this new keyboard emits those...
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Where is the mention of Open Standards (ODF and OOXML) or Open Source Software. Oh wait, this is an anti-M$ site... 5 Years from now, everyone will be complaining how monopolistic and evil Apple is :)
I was surprised when I walked into a Best Buy a few weeks ago and found Macs, not just iPods, on sale there. They have a huge eye-catching display you can see from the front of the store (even though the macs are near the back), too.
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There's a button on the trackpad on the MacBook? Oh, yeah, there it is... Dude. Tap to click. Get with the program. It's in your system preferences. Turn it on and use it for a few minutes, you'll forget all about the mouse button on the trackpad.
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Not everyone likes the Model M either. I've got one in the cupboard, but I prefer a split ergo keyboard. MS Natural 4000 in use these days. The old IBM had fabulous tactile feedback, but my wrists feel better with a split keyboard... and I like to have dedicated buttons for volume control.
Wow, that's really interesting! And it seems to be true. Here's a picture, and here's a discussion.
Some people claim that it's legal to do so with a special permit. One possible reason for his doing so might be that his license plates get stolen by fanboys as souvenirs if he leaves them on. Another might be that you can't find out where celebrities live if you can't get their license plate numbers.
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Most of the Apple resellers killed themselves by being incompetent. Those that didn't are still around. New ones even crop up now and then, like Best Buy.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Here's an initial review of Keynote '08:8 .html
http://ernstdehaan.blogspot.com/2007/08/keynote-0
Control-click = right click.
:)
a two button mouse just makes that click one keypress less. and i like that.
Sure there are ways to do almost everything in context menus in some other way, but i like all my commands in the reach of one hand.
oh, in a completly un-suss way of course
I've been using Pages and it's got all the structural problems of Word, with no nesting and primitive directly-manipulated layout. Apple would be better off, I think, making HTML a primary target of the editor rather than trying to mimic the structure of Word documents. Is the new version any better?
What? Mods don't give bonus points to corporate shills?
A pity it's an AC. I was hoping to expand my foes list