Apple Keynote MacWorld Expo

Apple, Cell Phones — By on January 6, 2009 12:00 pm

So we are here with summarized feeds from gdgt and Gizmodo. Remember that the older time stamps are at the bottom…

1:32pm
Tony Bennett on stage to play music and we are done!

1:29pm
iPhone and iTunes music store works over 3G

1:28pm
DRM free iTunes Plus… by end of 1Q09, all 10 million songs will be DRM free

1:28pm
New prices… $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29 depending on the music label… out April

1:27pm
One last thing… iTunes…

1:25pm
7hrs using the 9600m GT video card and 8 hrs using the 9400m GT video card… price? $2800 in 1 configuration shipping late January

1:21pm
Batteries should last up to 5 years!

1:20pm
Adaptive charging where each battery has a chip to allow and adjust the current to charge and use power efficiently

1:17pm
Battery can not be removed, which allows more room for a bigger battery, hence the huge increase in battery life

1:17pm
Battery lasts up to 8 hours with 1000 recharges

1:16pm
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 2.93Ghz, 4 8GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 512MB 9600m GT and 9400m GT Edit: [010709] the 2.93GHz dual core processor and 8GB RAM are upgrades to the 17″ MacBook Pro

1:16pm
A $50 anti-glare option on glossy screen which requires a special build in

1:15pm
0.98inches thick, 1920×1200 resolution, 6.6 pounds

1:11pm
New 17inch MacBook Pro

1:03pm
iWork.com is like Google documents, you can share online. The beta will be announced soon… you need Mac OS X Leopard and you can get the bundle (iLife, iWork, OS X Leopard) for $169 shipping late January

12:53pm
Pages, Keynote and Numbers like Word, PowerPoint and Excel

12:50pm
Learn to Play with Artist Lessons at $5 a lesson:

John Fogerty, Colbie Caillat, Patrick Stump, Sting… “That’s a few of the guitar players!” Big applause. On piano: Sara McLaughlin, Ryan Tedder, Norah Jones. “Incredible artists, we’re going to continue to add more and more along the way… they teach you the songs!” More applause.[gdgt]

12:43pm
GarageBand to teach you how to play a musical instrument

12:35pm
You can take the audio only section of a clip to overlay into other clips

12:31pm
Precision editor, advanced drag and drop, more themes

12:29pm
iMovie 09

12:22pm
Books is a theme within iPhoto which allows you to make a book of where you took photos, a map and a story

12:19pm
Eric (my office mate): “[iPhoto] makes it easy so you can stalk!”

12:17pm
Allows you to tag and ID people who you don’t know from Facebook. This will sync with iPhoto for future reference

12:16pm
iPhoto now with built-in support for Facebook and Flickr

12:14pm
GPS geotagging for iPhone pictures

12:09pm
iPhoto 09 has “faces” which will allow you to manage your pictures based off of people’s faces

12:08pm
3 new things… first is iLife 09

12:07pm
First up on the talk is the Mac

12:00pm
Phil Schiller takes the stage. Remember that Steve Jobs is not giving the talk this year due to his hormonal issues from therapy

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