MacWorld 2005 - San Francisco

[Stoo]

So, what's to look forward to?

• Something about the sub $500 Mac
  
• iLife '05
  
• iPod Micro
  
• PowerBook Upgrades
  
• Firm Details of OS X 10.4 Tiger

Expect confirmations/more details as and when we can get a live feed of the Keynotes Speech

[daverobev]

http://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2005.html

Software stuff so far!

[CocoPops]

Apple introduces Mac mini. New member of Mac family Slot-load Combo optical drive. Play DVDs, burn CDs. Queit. Tiny, FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.o, both DVI/VGA output. Very tine. Height is half the size of an iPod mini. BYODKM. Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse. Firs tone is $499: 1.25GHz 256MB/40GB More memory and larger hard drive for $599. Will ship on January 22. Ships in a box smaller than the regular iPod box

[daverobev]

1.4 GHz version also! For $599. But the burning question is WHAT GPU?

[Jonny M]

Don't think it matters, you won't be playing games on it.

[daverobev]

Why not? PB with Radeon 9700 would be fine (at £1400)....I guess its probably another 9200, though. I'm so fed up with noisy PCs, I just don't fancy something with a crappy 5200 in (ie iMac at £900). If it'd play World of Warcraft okay, I'd grab it! (at what, £400?? Which is why it can't have a better GPU than the iMac...)

[Gordy]

g4 I think it looks very tasty!

[CocoPops]

We'll know once the store comes back up.

But at the size they are talking (marginally bigger than a CDROM drive), it'll do nicely thanks.

[Nemeliza]

So when is this happening? today??

and whats this im hearing about micropods?

[daverobev]

http://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2005.html link to this http://webpages.charter.net.nyud.net...tman7/mini.jpg pic...!

[CocoPops]

Apple does it again

IPod Shuffle joins Apple family of iPods offering lots of choice. Jobs show new commerical to be aired. May be available at the Apple Store in San Franicsco. [10:58 PT]

iPod shuffle features new iTunes with auto-fill that will automatically select songs for iPod shuffle. Can also be used at flash storage device. 256MB usually cost $149. iPod shuffle in two versions: 512MB ($99) and 1GB ($149). Neon green box. Now shipping. Apple offers four accessories: Dock, Battery extender (20hours of battery life), Car adapter--each $29. Due in next four weeks. [10:56 PT]

Apple introduces iPod Shuffle..flash based player. Smaller than most packs of game. Weighs the same as 4 quarters (less than 1 ounce). Volume/Up dow. Simple LED to provide feedback. No display. Either shuffle or album-based playback. USB 2 transfer connector under connector at the bottom. 12-hour rechargeable battery. Mac/PC compatible. Ships with a laynard that connects directly to bottom connector for easy carrying

[Stoo]

what's really screwed us is the fact that there's no live video feed for this at all, and apparently they're hyper paranoid hunting down bloggers etc and ejecting them from the conference..

[Stoo]

here's a realtime (ish) text link..

http://mwsf.macnn.com/

[daverobev]

Store back up, but overloaded!

[CocoPops]

I wanna see proper specs and pics of this new mac mini

Kinda arcs back to the G4 cube days

[daverobev]

http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/specs.html Radeon 9200 it is