WWDC 2006 - News as it happens

[Stoo]

5 Minutes until the keynote starts...

Stuff will appear here..

• Red Hot Chili Peppers starts playing.. wooo..
• Jobs is on-stage..
• 4200 attendees from 48 countries - largest WWDC ever..
• 1000 apple engineers on-site
• 5th avenue NYC store - 17million visitors in the last quarter alone..
• 1.3 Million macs sold in last quarter, making rapid gains in market share.
• 3/4 of macs shipped now Intel based, almost all macs now sold are intel based.
  
• PowerMac bows out, Mac Pro to take the helm.
• Uses the old G5 case, but with dual optical drives.
• Using woodcrest cpu's - based on core 2 duo
• Up to 3GHz, 4MB L2 Cache
• 64bit, 128bit Vector engine
• Up to 3x performance of current Xeons
• Every Mac Pro now quad core (Dual Core 2 Duo)
• 1.6 - 2.1 x the performance of the old G5
• up to 2TiB Internal Storage, with 4 HDD's due to less cooling hardware.
• 4 PCI-Express slots, including a full size GFX Card at the bottom of the case
• No tools needed, drives use snap-in carriers
• 2.66GHz Dual, 1GiB RAM, 256MiB GF7300 GT, superdrive, $2500..
• BTO options - Up to 16GiB Ram, 2TiB storage, gfx up to x1900 or FX4500, BT, Airport
  
• New XServe
• Still 1U, now using Woodcrest CPU's similar to Mac Pro.
• Up to 5TiB Storage, now with redundent power supply due to extra space.
• Only BTO
• $2999 base price
  
• OS X... Party Time..
• Apple's most successful software product ever, 19 Million active users
• 86 Million lines of code ported in 210 days (umm.. I thought they were porting *long* before the transition was announced?)
• Over 3000 Universal Binary apps now
• Major competitor now? Vista..
• "Redmond - start your photocopiers!"
• Oh wait, you already did that.. [specific shots of Tiger & Vista] - Spotlight, RSS, Mail, Calendaring, Addressbook, moved search top right of screen.. Wow.. The innovation...
• Redoing the windows logo to have an aqua feel..
• If you can't innovate, impersonate.. [shows pics of Elvis Impersonator]
• Previewing Leopard today, secret features not being shown, just letting us know what they are instead..
• Don't want the photocopiers being started too early..
• Now Fully 64bit, from unix core all the way through to the UI, fully 64bit Carbon UI.
• can run both 32 and 64bit code side by side natively, no emulation, no translation.
• Time Machine..
• Most people don't back up properly, with only 4% using fully automated secure backups
• How to solve this? Time Machine..
• Fully automated backup solution built into Leopard
• any changed file automatically backs up
• files can be restored individually, or everything at once..
• backup to HD or Server..
• Overwrote the wrong file? Now you can restore a file by date or time..
• Instantly back, can go back a day, two days or more, right in finder, with a visual timeline
• File previews without full restore
• desktop warps back to place in time..
• Works with 3rd party apps too, not just finder..
• can search for documents in the past too..
• Works in iPhoto too, rolls back entire deleted roll.
• BootCamp to be shipped with Leopard as standard
• New versions of front row and photobooth in Leopard
• Virtual Desktop - cluster apps together
• Time Machine Logo:
• Improved spotlight
• Can now search all networked macs/servers
• lots of dev requests built into new version, search by file type, adding recent items..
• Core animation
• thousands of layers, start space, goal space, keyframes..
• core animation handles everything else, colour, opacity, size etc..
• Demo screensaver with an icon, start, end, Core animation does everything else automatically
• zoom, camera moves, etc, uses 50% less code than other screen saver solutions, and much easier to use.
• easily adding richness to your apps
• New text to voice technology, sounds incredible apparently, very natural..
• More pics:
• More pics:
• Mail has been overhauled
• stationary, notes, to-do list..
• stationary - standard html emails, loads of templates
• notes kept seperate from normal emails
• to-do list - alarms, priorities etc
• take any incoming mail message and turn it into a to-do
• checkbox on emails to create to-do item, linked to iCal, any app can contribute and create to-do items
• Notes demo apparently..

[Stoo]

• Notes are easily visible in Mail
• to-do demo..
• checkbox.. "it's that easy"
• only 3 of many new features in Mail
• Dashboard - new features
• over 2500 3rd party widgets now available
• new developer facility - dashcode - to help create new widgets, design, develop, debug..
• great visual editor, css etc, add new parts - search boxes, rss etc
• use webclip to turn any part of a website into a new widget
• using dilbert as an example, 4 clicks and a new widget is born.
• live widget of a section of a web page, create top-10 lists? Easy..

New pics:

Mail templates:
Notes:
Widgets:
dashcode:
dashcode:
webclip:
Mac Pro:

• iChat improved, new realtime effects, show iPhoto slides to iChat recipient
• transitions etc
• backgrounds.. videos etc..
• just 10 of the many new features in Leopard..
• xcode 3 released today
• lots of other improvements, iCal moving to multi-user
• Developer Preview TODAY
• Leopard to Ship Spring '07

That's all folks!

[Stoo]

I think I've worn my fingers out

[uchiha_itachi]

One question, is this the only part of WWDC '06 where new apple products are announced? Or will we here more announcements later on in the week?

[Stoo]

I suspect there may be a few more bits surfacing as people get to play with bits over the next week, but as a rule of thumb it's generally only the Keynote speeches that annouce new products and major updates

[CocoPops]

Very disappointing imho.

[Stoo]

Mac Pro now in UK store, base config £1699..

[Stoo]

Very disappointing imho.

Yup, not much there other than the Mac Pro, but most people know exactly what would be in that anyway..

Didn't expect Dual Dual Core as the base config though..

Edit: cheapest model actually £1,439.01 using 2GHz processors and a 160GB drive..

[Stoo]

Just for giggles, the top spec mac pro runs in at £11,556.03

Quad Cores * 3GHz
16GB Ram 8*2GiB FB-DIMM
2TiB HDD (4*500GiB SATA II drives)
FX4500
2*Superdrive
2*30inch TFT Displays
AP Extreme, BT 2.0+EDR
AppleCare ()

[BroadbandPlacey]

lol, i like the fact they openly said that m$ is ripping off their ideas :hehe:

leopard looks promising.... cant wait

its been put back again though hasnt it, spring 2006?

[Nick F]

Just for giggles, the top spec mac pro runs in at £11,556.03

Quad Cores * 3GHz
16GB Ram 8*2GiB FB-DIMM
2TiB HDD (4*500GiB SATA II drives)
FX4500
2*Superdrive
2*30inch TFT Displays
AP Extreme, BT 2.0+EDR
AppleCare ()

I'll take two

[Nick F]

Wow, just noticed this. Looks great

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/

Does anyone know yet if we will be able to run Vista on macs?

[charleski]

You missed the biggest news.

There was NO 'One More Thing'

WTF!1!!1?
That's it, it's all over, nothing to see here lady, just move along.

[EvilWeevil]

So what's up with Time Machine?

"Time Machine uses up your hard drive, so you don't have to."

Surely it means that when you delete something it actually NEVER gets deleted?


I love the way they present adding silly backgrounds and effects to video conferencing as innovation. Putting a web page on your desktop...Windows 98 anyone?

[Spud1]

Does anyone know yet if we will be able to run Vista on macs?

Yes, i've done it (see other thread in this forum)

Runs nicely on my base-spec macbook (none pro)..

I'm a bit dissapointed with the new Mac Pros, looking at getting one at the end of this year and the base graphics card is poor However, swapping it out for an X1800XT and then dropping the CPU speeds gives you decent graphics for the same sort of price..

Looks to be around 1200quid for the base spec model with Higher Ed discount - not bad at all price wise

Now I just have to convince the guy from our work who's there to lend me his leapord DVD when he gets back next week hehe

[Lowe]

Just for giggles, the top spec mac pro runs in at £11,556.03

Quad Cores * 3GHz
16GB Ram 8*2GiB FB-DIMM
2TiB HDD (4*500GiB SATA II drives)
FX4500
2*Superdrive
2*30inch TFT Displays
AP Extreme, BT 2.0+EDR
AppleCare ()

I might be having 3. No joke.