Apple WWDC Keynote June 8th, 2009

Apple — By kurteng on June 8, 2009 at 12:15 pm

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13:05 Mac, iPhone, iTouch updates… took 7 years to get 25 million users on OS X, and then another 2 to get to 75million users…

13:06 Mac updates… looks like MacBooks

13:07 New 15inch MBPs, built in batter, unibody, 7hrs battery life… SD slot, 60% more color gamut, upto 3GHz, 8gb ram, starting at $1700

13:12 From CrunchGear

$2299 – 2.8 Ghz, 4gb DDR3, 500gb HDD, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD card slot

$1999 = 2.6 ghz 4gb DDR3 320gb hdd, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD slot

$1699 with 2.53 ghz, 4gb of ram, 250gb drive, 9400m, sd slot

13:13 13inch MacBooks… same 7hr battery, new SD card slot and upto 8GB RAM, backlit keyboard, firewire 800… all like the MBPs only smaller for $1200

13:14 13inch MacBook is now as 13inch MBP

13:15 From CrunchGear

$1499: 2.53 ghz, 4 gigs of ddr3, 9400m, sd card slot

Base model is $1199, 2.25 ghz 2GB DDR3, 9400m Graphics, 160GB hdd, Sd card slot

13:16 MacBook Air update… starts at $1500 and $1800 for SSD HDD

13:18 OS X now…

13:20 Making fun of Windows Vista and 7… Apple feels that users shouldn’t need to know registries, DLLs, defragging and alerts… Snow Leopard is their new OS

13:21 Install is faster… Expose is built onto dock now… oh boy!

13:24 Safari 4 is being shipped out today! Supposed to be 7.8x faster than IE8… who uses IE or Safari?

13:25 Crash resistance… plugins are separate feature for Safari… 64-bit JavaScript performance, new Quicktime…

13:28  Snow Leopard… previews and thumbnails can be used to play movies and scroll through PDFs directly from icon…

13:31  Safari si the “fastest browser on any platform”…. we’ll see about that (go FireFox)

13:33 Coverflow of history for browsed websites?  what happened to dynamic websites?

13:35 Quick video editing in QuickTime X

13:36  Applications are now 64-bit in Snow Leopard… handles multi-core better

13:37  “Grand Central Dispatch” used to support multi-core for Snow Leopard… (GCD)

13:39  OpenCL instead of OpenGL… new video graphics support… Hardware Abstraction, C-based language, Automatic optimization, Numerical Accuracy

13:41 Exchange support for mail, iCal and address book… shouldn’t this have been done years ago?

13:46 All Intel Macs can run Snow Leopard…. $29 for current Leopard users… $49 for family pack… Avail this September…

13:48 iPhone time!

13:55 iPhone OS 3.0

13:56  MMS… send photos, music, calendar, notes… available this summer?  It should be avail now!

13:59  Tethering now avail as built in

14:02  LOL no mention of AT&T about one of the carriers to tether…. HA

14:04 Find my iPhone feature if you’ve lost your phone…

14:07 Damn… must be a MobileMe customer for that one…

14:09 But a remote wipe of all data… now that is awesome… you can restore it by plugging it back in once you find it… if you find it…

14:20  Been a lot of updates on different apps… no hardware yet…

14:24 ooooo TomTom turn-by-turn GPS as an app!

14:42  End of 3.0 OS demos…. anything else?

14:45  new iPhone???

14:46  iPhone 3GS!  S for speed

14:47  3-4x faster… 2.4x faster for games…. 3x faster java script… opengl 2.0… 3.0megapixel autofocus camera

14:51  Video capture!

14:53  videos at 30fps with audio, edit and share as MMS

14:55  Voice activated dialing, playlists, etc

14:58  9hrs of surfing

15:00  $99 for 8GB, $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB

15:03  Availible June 19th

15:05 No Steve Jobs….

DONE!

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