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Macworld 2009 Keynote Stream Available
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It's not a baseless rumor that Apple during previous years has presented new and updated macs in the January keynote. Furthermore, since Apple has been pushing the iPhone and MacBooks lately, desktop users have good reason for feeling neglected (just look at the buyers guide update statistics).
Imho I'd say that Schillers line about this year being all about the mac (slightly paraphrased) is an indicator that Apple is aware that the company has neglected desktop macs to sell cell phones and notebooks. Question is what they'll do.
Or maybe anotherSuper Bowl commercial! 2/1/2009
Boy would I love to see that! Unfortunately my realism detector says: "Ain't gonna happen"
Yes, I have done engineering research. And if you tell the bosses that the reason the products aren't ready is that "stuff happens," you'll soon be looking for another position!
Best one I heard in years.
Sorry Steve, you know that ultra thin iShazaam that you where expecting yesterday? We'll, ehm ... you tell him Dan.
Okay ... Steve, you see ... the product ain't ready 'coz stuff happens. iStuff.
Okay, true it was a lame keynote. I hoped for a MacPro update. Guess I have to go back to Windows and build my own beast with i7's. April/May is too long for my company to be out of decent computers. By then I'm out of bussines. And I sure as hell ain't going to buy yesteryears tech in an overpriced cheesegrater. Macfan or not. I love my mac but I'm really considering switching back and work with XP until W7 is ready.
That's the problems you get when you don't allow people to build their own and are holding out on tech that is available.
iLife '09 looks nice, but I have the pro apps, so no interesting stuff for me. And iWork? I have office, why bother. Don't even get me started on presenting a product as new when you should have presented it together with the rest. By then you could've guessed that this keynote would be nothing.
Too bad for me, I missed out on the Apple good stuff, well, back to you Bill.
Nah, okay, I wait till the end of Feb for a MacPro update.
Let's say all the rumors were true and in addition to what was presented, new Mac Mini's, iMacs and iPhone Nanos were all released - then the rest of the year all we'd see is Snow Leopard and some performance boosts on the current line-up. It makes sense to me that Apple would want to spread things out a little - which is why the 17" wasn't released in October.
I'm not convinced there will be an iPhone Nano. I don't really care. But if there is going to be one, I would imagine it would not be out until iPhones can have 32 GB (iPod Touch with 64 GB). I'd imagine the iPhone 8 GB and Touch 16 GB would be dropped and biggest iPhone and Touch Nanos would have those storage capacities. From my understanding, those larger 32 GB chips are just now being manufactured - so if we'll see an iPhone Nano it may not be for a month or two.
The whole "Spotlight on Notebooks" last year was a pretty good sign that Apple will have a "Spotlight" on desktops at some point this year - more likely sooner than later.
I just don't comprehend all the waiting and subsequent disappointment. If someone needs a computer, they should get one. If someone has a decent one already and they want to wait for a new product, more power to them - but they can't go off the handle if the company doesn't tailor to their needs and they run the risk of having to wait even longer.
Personally, the update to iMovie made yesterday worth it for me. I love iMovie HD. It's very easy to use. Unfortunately, it does not work with my new camcorder and I have to load it with iMovie '08, which is ok but not nearly as useful or easy as HD. Half of my videos are exported to Quicktime and then loaded in HD for editing. My opinion is that $79 is worth getting rid of that hassle. I'm on the fence about iWork '09. I'm not a heavy user so I don't think I'll need the upgrade. I only use iTunes as a backup for buying songs I can't find on other sites so that update didn't really phase me. And I would never spend over $2000 on a computer so I didn't care about the 17" MBP - though it looks pretty sweet.
I'm not convinced there will be an iPhone Nano. I don't really care. But if there is going to be one, I would imagine it would not be out until iPhones can have 32 GB (iPod Touch with 64 GB). I'd imagine the iPhone 8 GB and Touch 16 GB would be dropped and biggest iPhone and Touch Nanos would have those storage capacities. From my understanding, those larger 32 GB chips are just now being manufactured - so if we'll see an iPhone Nano it may not be for a month or two.
The whole "Spotlight on Notebooks" last year was a pretty good sign that Apple will have a "Spotlight" on desktops at some point this year - more likely sooner than later.
I just don't comprehend all the waiting and subsequent disappointment. If someone needs a computer, they should get one. If someone has a decent one already and they want to wait for a new product, more power to them - but they can't go off the handle if the company doesn't tailor to their needs and they run the risk of having to wait even longer.
Personally, the update to iMovie made yesterday worth it for me. I love iMovie HD. It's very easy to use. Unfortunately, it does not work with my new camcorder and I have to load it with iMovie '08, which is ok but not nearly as useful or easy as HD. Half of my videos are exported to Quicktime and then loaded in HD for editing. My opinion is that $79 is worth getting rid of that hassle. I'm on the fence about iWork '09. I'm not a heavy user so I don't think I'll need the upgrade. I only use iTunes as a backup for buying songs I can't find on other sites so that update didn't really phase me. And I would never spend over $2000 on a computer so I didn't care about the 17" MBP - though it looks pretty sweet.
Never say never now ... But OMG ... 64-bit Vista?
well, hey, I get 64-bit photoshop and on the mac i don't. And I get quad core and so my encoding times on handbrake are barely nuthin!
I think this is the best post in the thread.
I was hoping to buy an iMac to replace my dual mirror door G4 (which is OLD and slow).
I think we'll see some new things by the end of the month, and an Aniversary celebration and some hardware announcements then make a lot of sense.
No harm in waiting a few more weeks for something.
Time will tell
--Pete
I was hoping to buy an iMac to replace my dual mirror door G4 (which is OLD and slow).
I think we'll see some new things by the end of the month, and an Aniversary celebration and some hardware announcements then make a lot of sense.
No harm in waiting a few more weeks for something.
Time will tell
--Pete
Blueray
What a bad Macworld was this???
If you´re working with multimedia applications you´re told
BUY A MAC!!!
I hoped for a high resolution 15,4" Probook and Blueray Disc Drive.
I mean every other brand, even cheap ones like Acer have built blueray in their laptops and also 1080x1920!!!
Why a laptop like the 17" Probook has no blueray if I have to pay 2799$
Why Apple the "most progressive" brand in things like media or movie editing, cutting etc...
All the Videoshops change their discs to blueray (at least here in germany) and you can buy more and more. I don´t want to buy a separate player if I have a computer. And as a macuser at least one Model should have it. If Sony, Acer and Toshiba can, why not Apple???
The argument, that it sucks much battery isn´t good, cause for movies I´d always have it on my external LCD and the "HD ready" 720 solution in Itunes store is no alternative for 1080!!!
I feel pranked!
What a bad Macworld was this???
If you´re working with multimedia applications you´re told
BUY A MAC!!!
I hoped for a high resolution 15,4" Probook and Blueray Disc Drive.
I mean every other brand, even cheap ones like Acer have built blueray in their laptops and also 1080x1920!!!
Why a laptop like the 17" Probook has no blueray if I have to pay 2799$
Why Apple the "most progressive" brand in things like media or movie editing, cutting etc...
All the Videoshops change their discs to blueray (at least here in germany) and you can buy more and more. I don´t want to buy a separate player if I have a computer. And as a macuser at least one Model should have it. If Sony, Acer and Toshiba can, why not Apple???
The argument, that it sucks much battery isn´t good, cause for movies I´d always have it on my external LCD and the "HD ready" 720 solution in Itunes store is no alternative for 1080!!!
I feel pranked!
HAHA thats so true. And just a question here, but is anyone really surprised that they didnt come out with an iPhone nano? Come on, for Apple to really make one wouldnt be their best move.
I think iLife and iWork 09 look great.
Integration with Facebook (beyond the crippled plugins available now) is gonna be great! (Yes, I'm a student...) And finally Numbers will be able to do the things I need for real lab reports (beyond 3rd Grade level stuff) with error bars and trendlines. However, as I am a poor student... I'll wait and (hopefully) buy the Snow Leopard Box Set. (Assuming they keep the same Mac-in-a-Box Deal) If they had an iLife/iWork Set, they could prolly con me into that then SL separately, but I can't see $142 now for iLife and iWork, then another $130 for SL in the summer. I've already got Office 2008 Mac through school (yay cheap) so it's gonna stay that way until Snow Leopard.
Integration with Facebook (beyond the crippled plugins available now) is gonna be great! (Yes, I'm a student...) And finally Numbers will be able to do the things I need for real lab reports (beyond 3rd Grade level stuff) with error bars and trendlines. However, as I am a poor student... I'll wait and (hopefully) buy the Snow Leopard Box Set. (Assuming they keep the same Mac-in-a-Box Deal) If they had an iLife/iWork Set, they could prolly con me into that then SL separately, but I can't see $142 now for iLife and iWork, then another $130 for SL in the summer. I've already got Office 2008 Mac through school (yay cheap) so it's gonna stay that way until Snow Leopard.
Re: The 24th
I wouldn't bank too heavily on Apple using the 25th Anniversary of the Mac as launch date for anything. Steve Jobs is notoriously UN-sentimental about these things. All accounts suggest he hates anything that's tied to the past, especially his own. So if Apple did want to use the anniversary as a marketing tool, it would be surprising if they had Steve's permission to do so.
I wouldn't bank too heavily on Apple using the 25th Anniversary of the Mac as launch date for anything. Steve Jobs is notoriously UN-sentimental about these things. All accounts suggest he hates anything that's tied to the past, especially his own. So if Apple did want to use the anniversary as a marketing tool, it would be surprising if they had Steve's permission to do so.
This is the second time this has happened to me. The people who organize the podcast are pretty useless.
Well i dont really agree with that i mean honestly if i have a nice big high end 1080p tv why the hell do i want compresed 720p video they send over the internet? incase you didint know the apple tv even though it says HD only has 720p video on the web that is really compressed compared to blueray
no offense to you or anything
I agree gatepc. Blu-ray is SOO much better quality than compressed 720p. But it's like Apple and DRM music with iTunes. The quality of the music, until now with DRM-Free 256kbps, has been crappy 128kbps, but people seem not to care.
Seems like the same things with movies. iTunes movies are crappy quality in comparison to blu-ray 1080p goodness, but people seem to not care. I mean, I have a PS3 and watch blu-ray movies on them and they undoubtedly look better than iTunes movies at 720p.
They just fixed it, I downloaded the whole thing and it looks fine and long enough.
So here again for all.
The keynote is now available (and complete) on the "Apple Keynotes" podcast in iTunes.
Blu-Ray clan unite!
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Submit feedback to Apple. We don't want your Apple TV as our only option. We want a Blu-Ray option.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Submit feedback to Apple. We don't want your Apple TV as our only option. We want a Blu-Ray option.
that's a great perspective for most people in the forum, myself included. thanks.