Official Apple Keynote Thread - webcast online at about 3 pm est.

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Darien

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I hope the new towers aren't exactly like that. From what I can tell, there's only 1 optical drive and front usb and firewire ports are lacking.



Still, that's one sexy machine :)
 
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I'm curious to see street dates and MSRP's. I hope the G4's go down in a hurry then. :)
 
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Lifer
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The keynote is RIGHT NOW. The 3 pm thing is for the repeat webcast. Maybe you should change the title of the thread.

Current highlights:


58 stores with 17 million visitors.

Apple shows Jay Leno iPod ad with Osama.

1 million iPods sold

Safari 1.0 browser released today.

OS X.3 Panther has over 100 new features.

New Finder, in brushed metal.

FileVault - encrypts entire folders on the fly - just one check box.

Mail app is now integrated with Safari rendering engine. Faster. Threaded view of email.

Fax sending is now built in to all print panels.

New QuickTime codec called Pixlets - requested by Pixar! High def 960x540 at 48-bits 24 fps stereo can be done on a 1 GHz G4 TiBook. (I knew I had a good reason to get my GHz TiBook. :))

Preview is the fastest PDF reader, about 3X the speed of the fastest PC, or so Jobs says. Also on-the-fly postscript to PDF conversion.

Fast user switching. Jobs: "Windows beat us to this, to be honest, but we're doing it nicer, though."

New font address book. Organizing fonts.

Audio/Video iChat, supports AIM, .Mac, Rendezvous. Jobs demos conference with France ("Takes a little longer to negotiate with France."), and with Apple board member Al Gore. Uses the iSight camera/mike which every attendee gets free. :disgust: 30 fps at 640x480.

Panther shipping before the end of the year for $129. (Preview for developers already availalble.) Shows picture of a Longhorn eating grass, while Panther is prancing around in the jungle.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: JackBurton
Where is the link to teh web cast? The one on the original post doesn't work.
Click to expand...

It's not a simulcast. It's AFTER the keynote is over.
 
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Lifer
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"Apple shows off the worlds fastest PC with three things: chip (G5), system, product. The G5 has some amazing properties: it's a 64-bit processor, runs up to 2GHz, and has a 1GHz front-side bus. It offers full SMP ("designed entirely for SMP"). The G5 has a the industry's highest bandwidth using an entirely new architecture. It has a 12 unit core with 2 FPUs."
 
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Lifer
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More info:

It is massively parallel with a 12 unit core with 2 FPUs and is capable of 16 in-flihgt operations.It uses the world's most advanced chip fabrication by IBM: 130nm process, SOI 8 layer interconnects, 58 million transistors, 300 mm (12-inch wafters. IBM VP says it "costs $3 billion to fab this thing" because they "shrunk the gate length to 6 atomic units."

What do you think Wingz?
 
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Lifer
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  • Apple shows off the worlds fastest PC with three things: chip (G5), system, product. The G5 has some amazing properties: it's a 64-bit processor, runs up to 2GHz, and has a 1GHz front-side bus. It offers full SMP ("designed entirely for SMP"). The G5 has a the industry's highest bandwidth using an entirely new architecture. It is massively parallel with a 12 unit core with 2 FPUs and is capable of 16 in-flihgt operations.It uses the world's most advanced chip fabrication by IBM: 130nm process, SOI 8 layer interconnects, 58 million transistors, 300 mm (12-inch wafters. IBM VP says it "costs $3 billion to fab this thing" because they "shrunk the gate length to 6 atomic units."



  • Next: System. It offers 8GBps of bandwidth using DDR memory. The G5 processor are connected to the system controller by independent busses. There is no competition for bandwidth because it has 12x. It features a 400Mhz 128-bit DDR Memory (RAM) with 6.5 GBps of bandwidth. Grahis is AGP 8x Pro Graphics with 2GBps of bandwidth (power for Pro Cards) and HyperTransport for the drives, 133MHz PCI-X, FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Optical Digital Audio (new).


  • Now Product. Up to 8 GB of memory. Eveything is on independent buses so there's no bandwidth clogging. The memory is 40x faster. You can transfer an entire DVD in one second if everything was in RAM. It features a Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX Pro chip in the low-end and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro in the high-end. It has a new case with a more advanced, slightly more boxy enclosure. It is light grey, aluminum enclosure, which is very thin. The rear has a mesh backing. It has handles ("straight up" not diagonal). The front is totally mesh for air circulation (as is the back). There are 4 separate thermal zones (power supply...
 
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Wow, between the OSX.3 and the new G5 architecture I am starting to feel some true Mac envy. :( It's too bad I'd have to sell one of my children on the black market to afford one though.
 
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Woah, Apple's doing the "whole new direction" thing again. That said, I like what I see.:D
 
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