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Digital Hub improvements have been made, along with the long awaited DVD Playback. Performance has been improved, along with enhancements to Aqua, including a moveable Dock. The Dock can be put on the left, bottom or right edges of the screen. CD mastering now works - Jobs demonstrated burning a data CD from the Desktop. Keyboard activated brightness and volume is also supported. DVD playback was also demonstrated, using, Toy Story 2 - a product from Steve Jobs’ other company, Pixar. System status icons now populate the top menu bar, with functionality ranging from AirPort to screen resolution, and so forth. There’s a new “Scale” effect designed to complement the “Genie” effect for minimizing applications and documents, and that works faster too. Jobs showed off by launching five applications at once, including IE, Mail and others. Apple keynote live coverage mac os x#Jobs demonstrated Mac OS X 10.1, and showed off speedy menus and quick application launching. Apple keynote live coverage for free#Mac OS X will be released for free this September (shipping and handling charges apply, however). Jobs called the reviews from mainstream press “unbelievable.” Jobs also talked about the PowerBook G4’s success. First up was a recap of the company’s success with the iBook, remodeled and introduced in May. Jobs then turned his attention to hardware. The 500MHz are in Indigo or Snow, the 600 comes in Snow or Graphite. The two low-end models are available today, with the 700MHz model to follow in August. CD-RW on entry level, SuperDrives on higher two models. Top end includes dual display card with support for for ADC and VGA. 128 – 256 MB of RAM, storage from 40 to 80 GB, GeForce2 cards in lower two models. QuickSilver sports a modestly redesigned external casing. 133 MHz, AGP 4x, FireWire, 3 drive bays, Gigabit Ethernet. Dual 800MHz tops out the line with dual 2MB 元 cache - 12 Gigaflops of sustained throughput. Three models - all “Very Fast.” 733 MHz is now the entry level Power Mac G4. Jobs Introduced “second generation” of the Power Mac G4, called QuickSilver. Jobs joked that the poster answers the question, “What will you be doing on November 2nd?” Apple keynote live coverage movie#Photoshop was also demonstrated - using a movie poster for the forthcoming computer animated film Monsters, Inc. The example shown is the Spider Man motion picture teaser trailer made available from Apple’s Web site beginning last week. As you might expect, the Power Mac G4 smoked the Pentium. Both systems were shown de-interlacing video, cropping, and encoding using the Sorenson 3 codec. ![]() The units have the same memory and video card configurations, and were shown using Media Cleaner 5. Apple VP Phil Schiller was brought on stage for the now-familiar showdown. Jobs compared the 867MHz Power Mac G4 against a 1.7GHz Pentium 4. Rubenstein explained some of the architectural tradeoffs in chip design. Schiller calls the Dual system Apple’s “new bad dog.”Īpple senior VP of hardware Jon Rubinstein preached to the masses about the “Megahertz Myth,” Apple’s phrase to describe the perception that a faster CPU clock speed is all that matters, regardless of how the processor is designed. Video of the Power Mac G4 was shown, with testimonials from Apple customers and more comments from Phil Schiller. Screen Saver can automatically point to a folder containing digital camera pictures and use them. Apple keynote live coverage download#The system will automatically download images from a digital camera. Jobs went back to Mac OS X to take a third crack at getting a digital camera to work with the operating system (previous attempts had failed). Dual G4s can now encode MPEG2 video on DVDs at 1x, rather than 2x like 733MHz systems. Jobs read testominals and reviews praising iDVD from leading publications. He said that DVDs “are exploding” - market research suggests 25 percent of US homes will have DVD players by the end of this year. iDVD is consumer-oriented DVD mastering software. IDVD - Jobs said that between 100-200,000 SuperDrive-equipped Power Mac G4s. Jobs demonstrated some of the many new themes. Apple keynote live coverage upgrade#The software runs on Mac OS X in September - a free upgrade for iDVD users. Also supported are new themes, soundtrack in slideshows, background encoding, and support for DVDs with up to 90 minutes of video. Jobs introduced iDVD 2, which takes DVDs “even more impressive” than most Hollywood DVDs through the use of motion menus. ![]()
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