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Apple to Host 'Back to the Mac' Media Event on October 20th
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10.7
Themeable UI. This will allow the return of apps like shapeshifter. I LOVED my themeable mac back in the day.
Truly Scalable UI. This will be built in to Cocoa, this will allow ILife, Cal, Finder and mail to look spectacular in...
The New Macbook Air. Just slightly smaller as we move the keyboard, edge to edge. Slightly new shape to improve rigidity and still be incredible thin, and the new laptop sized Retina/near-retina display. This puts this mac back into the exclusive lust area of the corporate CEO. And puts notice on the rest of the world (Adobe), to kill carbon and move to cocoa. A little bit heavier, because everyone wants a bigger battery. And the new benchmark Nits/microwatts. The brightest screen with the least energy use.
Rest of the macs to receive minor upgrades, the kid's laptops 13" and Plastic will receive nice Nvidia ION upgrades. Operating system access to the video cards, and hardware accelerated Quicktime. With hopefully, flip4mac, divx and flash already seeded for improved performance. Killer frame rates for video games.
Themeable UI. This will allow the return of apps like shapeshifter. I LOVED my themeable mac back in the day.
Truly Scalable UI. This will be built in to Cocoa, this will allow ILife, Cal, Finder and mail to look spectacular in...
The New Macbook Air. Just slightly smaller as we move the keyboard, edge to edge. Slightly new shape to improve rigidity and still be incredible thin, and the new laptop sized Retina/near-retina display. This puts this mac back into the exclusive lust area of the corporate CEO. And puts notice on the rest of the world (Adobe), to kill carbon and move to cocoa. A little bit heavier, because everyone wants a bigger battery. And the new benchmark Nits/microwatts. The brightest screen with the least energy use.
Rest of the macs to receive minor upgrades, the kid's laptops 13" and Plastic will receive nice Nvidia ION upgrades. Operating system access to the video cards, and hardware accelerated Quicktime. With hopefully, flip4mac, divx and flash already seeded for improved performance. Killer frame rates for video games.
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I'm actually quite excited
I hope they enhance Expose to have the side by side feature from Windows 7.
That would be nice, particularly if it snapped to full resolution in multi-monitor setups.
I actually expect a MBA Air redesign. It's been rocking the same chassis since launch, is using an aging chipset with no path forward that doesn't include an IGP and has serious competition from the likes of the Vaio Z series. It's time to push the design envelope again.
FTMFW
Yeah, Apple needs to start adopting these standards and embrace SSDs with some TRIM support.
I also think they need to be more aggressive about adopting the latest graphics standards. That means being fully OpenGL 4.0 compliant. With steam, they are positioned to begin to challenge Windows as a gaming platform, but they need to be serious about updating and supporting it to do so.
And as someone else mentioned, resolution independence.
8 negative ratings so far. What is there negative about this announcement?
We have to wait a week to find out anything
Yes!
So excited! Mostly cause there were no leaks of this event that I heard of before the official announcement, so it is a complete surprise!
So excited! Mostly cause there were no leaks of this event that I heard of before the official announcement, so it is a complete surprise!
We have to wait a week to find out anything
So it's a preemptive negative rating!
I don't think I would count ejecting hairballs out out the CD slot as a 'feature'.
Wow, what an awesome surprise.
My guesses:
10.7 with new UI Previewed, taking cues from MobileMe.
iChat 6.0 for OS X and Windows, with FaceTime. Free download.
iLife /iWork for sure. Love how they are pre-empting the Office 2011 release a week later.
(I doubt we will see a OS X Cougar as Puma was 10.1 which is the same thing. But that was before apple started really marketing using the cat names, so anything's possible.)
My guesses:
10.7 with new UI Previewed, taking cues from MobileMe.
iChat 6.0 for OS X and Windows, with FaceTime. Free download.
iLife /iWork for sure. Love how they are pre-empting the Office 2011 release a week later.
(I doubt we will see a OS X Cougar as Puma was 10.1 which is the same thing. But that was before apple started really marketing using the cat names, so anything's possible.)