Apple WDC

[crypt]

When is MacWorld Paris?

[BTs_Mysterio]

They'll put up a stream after the keynote ends. They always do.

[Civrock]

When is MacWorld Paris?

31st august - 4th september

[crypt]

That's not very soon, it'll have to be way before that. The iMac needs an update more than any other computer on Apples line, it hasn't been updated since October.

[BTs_Mysterio]

That's not very soon, it'll have to be way before that. The iMac needs an update more than any other computer on Apples line, it hasn't been updated since October.

True but there is one product which needs it most. The Apple Studio displays are getting to be old. Pinstripes is so 10.2... And lest we forget that there are also New HDs available from Toshiba like the current iPods at 60 GB.

[BFG]

Interesting both macroumers and thinksecret reported an apparent leak of 10.4 last night - some pictures were up but nothing much of huge interest - some little widgets for controling itunes, notebook and stickies with calc etc... no big "WOW" elements and the authenticity was questionable... kinda looking forward to seeing what they have in the bag for us though!

[BTs_Mysterio]

Mac Rumors is going to have a live update starting at 1  PM EST. I have a GR chat ready

[BFG]

Thank god... New displays as predicted!

23" display. Aluminum enclosure. one piece alumnium stand. Small bevel.
One cable from the monitor which then splits.

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oops almost forgot:
30" Display. 4.1million pixels. same one piece alumn enclosure.
firewire/usb.  

[BTs_Mysterio]

TIGER OWNS LONGHORN! Every feature matched and then some!

[BFG]

Damn right. Tiger is going to look pretty damn smexy. All i need now is a brand spanking new 3.0 Quad G5 and a 23 (i would go for 30 but i want a better Graphics card) sweet new smexy monitor

... oh and of course the cash to buy it!

[crypt]

If anyone is gonna buy a current G5 now, they should try and wait until next year. With 64 Bit Tiger OS X, and whatever the top of the line G5 is by then would be smoking. Not to mention adding a 30" Apple Cinema Display with a nVidia 6800 Ultra DDL to the experience. Maybe at MacWorld SF?

Someone has gotta have the cash to do this.

[BTs_Mysterio]

I'd do it but I just lost my right to beg for money form parents cause I just bought a iPod.

[BFG]

Holy crap... well i just watched the Webstream of the WWDC Keynote.. and oh my god.

1 displays - no way im gonna miss out on slapping one of those babies on my desk... jesus imagine having two of the 30inch displays lined up as you edit in FCP !!! Phwar!
2. Don't like those damn widgets - did they shut their eyes when it came to the design of these things?
3. Tiger - shit tiger omg im liking new interface and as for searchlight ....
4. ichat av.. hehe multi party confrencing - 4 way video chat - so sweet.

[Mr. Lothario]

     I dunno, BFG. Didn't Jobs say that the designs of the widgets were still under construction? Even if they do stay like that, I don't mind having a seperate class of apps which have a funkier and more interesting design ?sthetic. The only thing I didn't see in the Dashboard demo was the ability to tag widgets to stay "Expos?d" even after all the others have been dismissed. Calculating things contained within a document or watching a webcam are two situations I can think of where I'd like to have a widget or two hang around pretending to be normal apps.

     Searchlight looks sweet. I do find it kind of amusing that Apple's going back to the metadata fold after making such a sharp break from the heavy metadata structure of the classic Mac OSes.

     The interface for multiple video conferencing is exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from Apple. Lovely and functional. I always enjoy seeing how they've leveraged their low-level additions to each OS to enhance the apps shipping with it. Given the existence of Core Video and Core Image, the videoconferencing interface is a snap (but it still took that special sump'in' sump'in' to put two and two together).

     I also liked their focus on getting SDKs into the developers' hands. Smart move, in keeping with the relatively new, smarter Apple.

[the oNe]

Man, over 1000 people are downloading the developers preview now...damn pirates.

[crypt]

lol, You were looking for it!

[the oNe]

actually no, I'm dling a game mate ;o

[Supernatural Pie]

I'm horribly disappointed with WWDC.

 

[BFG]

Thats very true loth, and thinking about it i suspect these things will be disgustingly easy to modify and tweak.  I think we'll be able to keep widgets up as well - like u said for a webcam or say stock ticker...shouldn't be hard
And  when browsing the apple site there was somthing it said about how you could adjust the widgets just by spinning them round as all the controls/settings were on the reverse/!? sounds interesting!!

Searchlight does look fantastic, and very fast.. and yeah its slightly amusing how apple have traveled around with their search features - from the finder to Sherlock up here, down there, left right up and back and here we are back again - mind you this looks like the best yet and i can't wait! The power of harnessing the meta data is inpressive.

Its clear to see where Core Image and Video are going to become invaluable - I expect we will see MAJOR updates to ilife - the implementation of these technologies could raise the bar for programmes like iphoto and imovie tenfold.

Snipe i dunno why your so dissapointed - i thought what we saw of Tiger was extreamly promising - lots of 'under the hood' work seems to be going on and one of the most inpressive things i think i saw other than the stunning new monitors was the new Video Codec  - it is simply quite awsome.

All in all i thought it was good stuff, lots of encoraging info and titbits ... ok so we didn't get a new line of imacs etc.. but we all knew that wasn't going to happen... this was a WWDC ... not a consumer show

[crypt]

I'm horribly disappointed with WWDC.

 

Tiger looks amazing. The displays were and are stunning, but not being able to afford one, I don't care about them. They introduced only 10 of the 150+ new features of Tiger, which is still a year off.