MacScoop live transcript of the MacWorld SF 2006 Keynote
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START FROM THE BOTTOM, READ UP.
- Keynote ends with pictures of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- Steve thanks people
- Mac Intel ad showed again
- shipping in February, order today
- 1.67 Duo for $1999, 1.83Ghz Duo $2499
- new feature: MagSafe, a magnetic power cord
- Support for Front Row Remote
- Demo of the Mac Book Pro, with Phil Schiller
- (Apple stock up 7%)
- iSight built-in!
- Thinner than the 17", brighter displays (15.4 inch)
- 4 to 5 times faster than current Powerbooks!
- Mac Book Pro: dual core (Intel Duo)
- Jobs cites power consumtion and performance per watt issues
- Powerbook: "We've done everything possible" to put a G5 on a
Powerbook...
- "One More Thing!"
- Mac Intel ad! "Intel chip will be set Free" :)
- All Macs to go Intel this year!
- iMac Intel ships today
- Demo: Safari on the iMac
- Photoshop on Rosetta: showing a photoshp script execution, quite fast
- MS: Office demoed on Rosetta (transparent PPC emulation)
- MS is commited to shipping Office for at least the next 5 years
- MS: Updates will ship by March
- MS: to ship updates for Office & Messenger, making sure these appz
work well on Intel based Macs
- MS: Rose Ho comes on stage, speaks about Office and Messenger
universal binary roadmap
- Third party developers: Quark ships univesal binary beta today
- Pro appz to go Intel native by March, you can trade your curren
version with the universal version for $49
- iLife and iWork '06 are both Intel native
- ships with native appz (iLife, Mac OS X...)
- faster than former imac but at lower processor speed
- Intel Duo processor: dual core, each core faster than a G5
- still same features & design, same price, but intel processor 2 to
3 times faster
- iMac Intel!
- First Intel Mac today!
- (Apple stock reaches $80, +6%)
- Intel Macs ready!
- Hardware: Intel's new logo appears
- iWork '06: new features: 3D charts, spreadsheet??, more themes and
templates, $79, ships today
- .Mac : 1 million subscribers
- features recap, still $79, bundled free with any mac, ships today
- Demo: publishing a podcast with iWeb
- Easy publishing of the site with .Mac
- Demo: slideshow (based on AJAX), vmaking layouts "very easy", total
integration with other iLife appz
- AJAX gallery, templates
- iWeb let's you share everything: videos, music, blogs, podcasts, 1-
click publishing
- iWeb!
- "World Music" Jam pack
- Demo: Jobs makes an apple rumours podcast parody :)
- Demo: Jobs records a podcast, puts artwork trough drag & drop
- GarageBand podcast studio: jingles, effects, everything to do an
interview
- GarageBand: support for podcasting, podcast artwork
- iDVD: supports third party DVD burners
- Magic iDVD: new feature to make movies easily in a few clicks
- iDVD: now supports 16/9 menus
- Demo: now multi-project, podcast exports, themes (feat. song
"Americano")
- iMovie: animated themes, real-time effects, improved audio editing
- showing photo-casting: announce your photo-casting with mail, it's
an RSS feed, "very easy" :)
- demo of iPhoto: showing improved and fast scroll, photo editing,
effects, postcards, birthday cards...
- photo-casting: share your photos over the internet, works with .Mac
(membership)
- iPhoto: improved quality for photo books and calendars, one-click
effects, postcards
- iPhoto: faster browsing, support for larger libraries
- adds blog
- iLife '06: ships today
- new widgets will be included on Mac OS X 10.4.4 :
- widgets: google, white pages, sport news...
- New widgets coming from Apple
- Jobs shows some widgets
- Widgets: more than 1500 widgets for Tiger
- demo finnished
- demo of aperture
- New iPod ad
- FM Tuner and remote for nano, $49
- SNL content
- 8 million videos in two months
- iTunes: 850 million songs sold, more than 80% of the market share
- (Apple Store closed)
- iPod: 14 million iPods sold this qtr!!!!
- overall quarter revenue of $5.7B
- 26 million visits on the stores last quarter, $1B revenue this qtr
- Jobs talks retail stores: 135 open
- Jobs enters, big applause thanks the audience
- applause
- the audience is asked to turn off cell phones...
- 9:00: it's supposed to start now!
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