Oh my god, what a bunch of dorks. I'm at the SOHO Apple store now waiting for the WWDC (World Wide Develolper Conference) satellite feed. There is a theatre on the second floor that is showing it. I figured there would be a few people here, but it is absolutely packed. The whole second floor is filled. I've never seen so many gadgets in one crowd at a time. Weird. It's like a Grateful Dead show for computer geeks. I feel strangely at home. Play by play in the thread below if it is possible for me.
S.J. Takes stage 1:03.
802.11g - apple first, official spec now. Over 300,000 g products shipped.
Apple retail. 58 stores. 17 million visitors. Crowd goes crazy when he shows pic of SOHO store.
(Holy cow. He's not wearing a mock turtleneck!)
1 millionth ipod will ship today.
Music store. 8 weeks old. 5 million songs sold.
Safari browser. 5 million downloads. Today it goes to 1.0. Downloadable today. Safari SDK released for developers.
OS X.
Panther (10.3) 4th major realease. 100 new features. Highlights:
#1 unix OS.
Revamped finder. Somewhat like the left column in itunes and iphoto. Is'nt this just the dock in the finder window?
Folder actions. Labels. Fast find (live like itunes? Not sure.)
Demos finder. Okay, looks cool. Very good for new users. Hides te weirdness of the unix file system layout.
Yes, search is live. Cool.
IDisk.
Autosync. Local folder auto syncs whenever you update folder. This works across machines.
Expose. New feature. Wow. Wow. This must be what piles turned into. MB is going to love this. Hard to explain, I'll say more later. It basically takes a cluttered desktop with multiple windows and instantly reduces the screen so that every window becomes a small visible thumbnail. This is for quickly finding a butied window. Very useful. Another example of quarz extreme paying off.
File vault. New feature. Encrypts and decrypts home directory on the fly. One check turns on / off.
Mail. Faster. Safari rendering built in for html. View by thread capability for reading.
Ipsec vpn built in.
Fax support built in. Fax... Button on every printing pane. Works w/ adress book.
Pixlet image format (codec.) Film resolution standard. No inter frame compression. 48 bits per pixel. Has a one half full depth setting can be decoded on 1 ghz g4 in real time. Hard to see on the sat feed how good (or bad) it looks.
Fasr user switching. (like XP.) OMG. The graphic is so cool. The screen literally flips over when you switch to another user account. Pull down in menu bar showing all accounts.
Font book. Pro font management. Nice nice nice. This was keeping designers frowm switching from 9 to 10.
IChat. Now iChat AV. Adds audio and vieo chat. "video conferencing for the rest of us." "Best ting we've ever done." Zeroconf. Works with any firewire camera. Audio works over dial up. (yes that means free phone calls over the net to anywhere in the world.) Steve is auio chatting with someone in Paris (quip while waiting to connect: "it takes a little while to negotiate with france...")
Al Gore makes incomming video chat call. "This thing is very cool." Funny.
Is Steve's camera the new apple cam?
IChat beta released today. Works on jaguar.
ISight video camera.
Works with iChat.
640 x 480 @ 30 fps.
Built in mic.
Firewire.
Mounts on the screen.
Looks like the barell of a camera, with nothing else. ICannon?
$149
XCode. New developer tools.
GCC 3.3
Distributed builds across a network! I think we'll be seeing this in a lot of places.
Predictive compile - constantly compiling in background as you are editing.
One more thing...
Joke about leak: "premature specification."
It was a mistake. It's true.
Announcing world's fastest PC. IBM 970 = G5.
64 bit.
Up to 2 ghz.
1 ghz frontside bus.
Full SMP support.
(all known...)
I think steve just hypnotised the crowd by flashing thm with the 300 mm wafer (RDF reflector?)
IBM bigwig takes stage.
Nvidia Geforce fx5200 in 2 lower models
Ati 9600 pro in top model.
4x superdrive across line.
Up to 8 GB RAM.
Up to 500 GB internal storage.
Entry model. Single 1.6. $1999
Single 1.8. $2399
Dual 2.0. $2999
Zoinks.
Ship in august. All 3. D'oh. (still okay though. Hopefully not aug 31. I wonder wy smeagol - 10.2.7? Won't panther be ready?)
That's it.
Where is the 15 inch laptop?
iSight camera page at apple.com. This seems really cool to me. Classic Apple: a very simple design that doesn't really break any new ground - but designed and built so well, combined with being integrated so seamlessly with the OS, that it is a breakthrough. (The iPod is another great example of this.)
Here is a gallery of the new towers.
Nice. Are they aluminum?
Yes. I'm calling it the "cheese grater" tower. They've yet to show or mention the keyboard and mouse so there is some hope of a wireless bluetooth arrangement which would be cool. Two button mouse would be cool too, but I'm not holding my breath.
I can't wait to upgrade MB and H to these machines. Not any time soon though I fear. I need to wait for Panther (10.3) for the font management, and that's only promised "by the end of the year." So maybe Christmas will bring a new machine. I sure don't need it, but I just want to see it go...
For a few dollars less, here's the real deal!
mmmmmmm cheeeeeeese
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- jim 6-23-2003 8:52 pm
S.J. Takes stage 1:03.
802.11g - apple first, official spec now. Over 300,000 g products shipped.
Apple retail. 58 stores. 17 million visitors. Crowd goes crazy when he shows pic of SOHO store.
(Holy cow. He's not wearing a mock turtleneck!)
1 millionth ipod will ship today.
Music store. 8 weeks old. 5 million songs sold.
Safari browser. 5 million downloads. Today it goes to 1.0. Downloadable today. Safari SDK released for developers.
- jim 6-23-2003 9:11 pm
OS X.
Panther (10.3) 4th major realease. 100 new features. Highlights:
#1 unix OS.
Revamped finder. Somewhat like the left column in itunes and iphoto. Is'nt this just the dock in the finder window?
Folder actions. Labels. Fast find (live like itunes? Not sure.)
Demos finder. Okay, looks cool. Very good for new users. Hides te weirdness of the unix file system layout.
Yes, search is live. Cool.
- jim 6-23-2003 9:18 pm
IDisk.
Autosync. Local folder auto syncs whenever you update folder. This works across machines.
Expose. New feature. Wow. Wow. This must be what piles turned into. MB is going to love this. Hard to explain, I'll say more later. It basically takes a cluttered desktop with multiple windows and instantly reduces the screen so that every window becomes a small visible thumbnail. This is for quickly finding a butied window. Very useful. Another example of quarz extreme paying off.
File vault. New feature. Encrypts and decrypts home directory on the fly. One check turns on / off.
- jim 6-23-2003 9:27 pm
Mail. Faster. Safari rendering built in for html. View by thread capability for reading.
Ipsec vpn built in.
Fax support built in. Fax... Button on every printing pane. Works w/ adress book.
Pixlet image format (codec.) Film resolution standard. No inter frame compression. 48 bits per pixel. Has a one half full depth setting can be decoded on 1 ghz g4 in real time. Hard to see on the sat feed how good (or bad) it looks.
- jim 6-23-2003 9:37 pm
Fasr user switching. (like XP.) OMG. The graphic is so cool. The screen literally flips over when you switch to another user account. Pull down in menu bar showing all accounts.
Font book. Pro font management. Nice nice nice. This was keeping designers frowm switching from 9 to 10.
IChat. Now iChat AV. Adds audio and vieo chat. "video conferencing for the rest of us." "Best ting we've ever done." Zeroconf. Works with any firewire camera. Audio works over dial up. (yes that means free phone calls over the net to anywhere in the world.) Steve is auio chatting with someone in Paris (quip while waiting to connect: "it takes a little while to negotiate with france...")
- jim 6-23-2003 9:50 pm
Al Gore makes incomming video chat call. "This thing is very cool." Funny.
Is Steve's camera the new apple cam?
- jim 6-23-2003 9:53 pm
IChat beta released today. Works on jaguar.
- jim 6-23-2003 9:55 pm
ISight video camera.
Works with iChat.
640 x 480 @ 30 fps.
Built in mic.
Firewire.
Mounts on the screen.
Looks like the barell of a camera, with nothing else. ICannon?
$149
- jim 6-23-2003 10:02 pm
XCode. New developer tools.
GCC 3.3
Distributed builds across a network! I think we'll be seeing this in a lot of places.
Predictive compile - constantly compiling in background as you are editing.
- jim 6-23-2003 10:09 pm
One more thing...
Joke about leak: "premature specification."
It was a mistake. It's true.
Announcing world's fastest PC. IBM 970 = G5.
64 bit.
Up to 2 ghz.
1 ghz frontside bus.
Full SMP support.
(all known...)
I think steve just hypnotised the crowd by flashing thm with the 300 mm wafer (RDF reflector?)
IBM bigwig takes stage.
- jim 6-23-2003 10:20 pm
Nvidia Geforce fx5200 in 2 lower models
Ati 9600 pro in top model.
4x superdrive across line.
Up to 8 GB RAM.
Up to 500 GB internal storage.
Entry model. Single 1.6. $1999
Single 1.8. $2399
Dual 2.0. $2999
Zoinks.
Ship in august. All 3. D'oh. (still okay though. Hopefully not aug 31. I wonder wy smeagol - 10.2.7? Won't panther be ready?)
- jim 6-23-2003 10:33 pm
That's it.
Where is the 15 inch laptop?
- jim 6-23-2003 11:10 pm
iSight camera page at apple.com. This seems really cool to me. Classic Apple: a very simple design that doesn't really break any new ground - but designed and built so well, combined with being integrated so seamlessly with the OS, that it is a breakthrough. (The iPod is another great example of this.)
- jim 6-23-2003 11:56 pm
Here is a gallery of the new towers.
- jim 6-24-2003 7:02 pm
Nice. Are they aluminum?
- steve 6-24-2003 7:26 pm
Yes. I'm calling it the "cheese grater" tower. They've yet to show or mention the keyboard and mouse so there is some hope of a wireless bluetooth arrangement which would be cool. Two button mouse would be cool too, but I'm not holding my breath.
I can't wait to upgrade MB and H to these machines. Not any time soon though I fear. I need to wait for Panther (10.3) for the font management, and that's only promised "by the end of the year." So maybe Christmas will bring a new machine. I sure don't need it, but I just want to see it go...
- jim 6-24-2003 7:39 pm
For a few dollars less, here's the real deal!
- bruno 6-25-2003 6:10 pm
mmmmmmm cheeeeeeese
- mark 6-25-2003 7:16 pm