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Macworld 2009 Keynote Stream Available

doug in albq said:
I bet the 17 inch Macbook Pro was purposely held up in its release just so Apple would have SOMETHING to show at this Macworld.
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Yeah, who knows - but at least it was announced! As for other hardware updates (iMac, Mac mini, Apple TV) I could see Apple releasing updates to these in the very near future without an event - they have done it many times before...
 
Seems to be the wrong keynote, they did have the correct one on their for a short amount of time.
 
Desktop Event

So today we saw no Desktop Mac updates. They are all due for updates too. Especially the Mac Mini.
I think that what Apple will do is that within the next 3 months they will have a Desktop Mac Event where they will focus on the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini. I highly think thats what will happen. So lets just wait and see. But I think we'll see another event before the end of March for sure.
Remember. This is just what I think though.
 
MacFever said:
I suspect Apple is keeping alot of the Snow Leopard features secret...
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Not much of a secret. Applw will give out copies of Snow Leopard to anyone who signs up and pays a small fee to get on the developer's list. I asume Microsoft has many people signed up. I hope everyoe at MS' Mac Office team is.

If you can't afford the fee, All the latest Snow Leopard builds end of on bit torrent sites. Anyone who wants a look can go there and download it.

For the typical end user there is nothing to see. Some new APIs to learn if you are writing software

If you want to play with ZFS you are best off geting Solaris and running that inside VMware. ZFS is mature on Solaris but not ready yet on Mac OS.
 
WPB2 said:
Apple believes Blu-Ray is dead (or going to be dead soon), they are pushing streaming content over AppleTv.
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Thats going to be a little hard considering Comcast and Time Warner are capping their bandwidth now. Probably to help keep their Cable TV divisions going....
 
chadder007 said:
Thats going to be a little hard considering Comcast and Time Warner are capping their bandwidth now. Probably to help keep their Cable TV divisions going....
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Why would they do such a thing? :rolleyes: ;)

Yeah, that could definitely end up being costly for those wanting to move everything online in this respect. Physical media will still be around for a long time to come. :cool:
 
fingers crossed ...

Yvan256 said:
I think we'll see the new Mac mini at the end of january, when iLife '09 is ready.
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Everything that was announced today looks good but I *NEED* a new Mac mini as I've just upgraded my TV to 1080p and my 1st gen G4 mini needs more poke to drive it without glitches.

So I guess I must wait yet again ... still if it means I get a free upgrade to iLife'09 then sweeeet :cool:

The mini is still the best value mac around and super for a HDTV media centre (Elgato eyeTV is simply excellent as a tuner).
 
thedoctor said:
Everything that was announced today looks good but I *NEED* a new Mac mini as I've just upgraded my TV to 1080p and my 1st gen G4 mini needs more poke to drive it without glitches.

So I guess I must wait yet again ... still if it means I get a free upgrade to iLife'09 then sweeeet :cool:

The mini is still the best value mac around and super for a HDTV media centre (Elgato eyeTV is simply excellent as a tuner).
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You may not need to wait long. Apple has often released hardware updates after big events - just because they didn't announce something today doesn't mean you will necessarily have to wait forever. Give it a few weeks and see if the initial rumors are true - I'd be surprised if Apple truly EOLs the Mac mini. The only way I see this happening is if they transition it into a larger home media server, combining it with the Apple TV and Time Capsule.
 
I love how Phil is using one of the older cinema displays instead of the new one with the glossy screen. Probably because using a glossy screen monitor with all those studio lights would be near impossible to read the content on screen.....hmmmmmmmmm :rolleyes:.



Granted Steve has used glossy screen iMacs for keynotes. Just saying.
 
Lame MWSF.

Steve passed the torch to Phil to avoid the embarrassment of announcing no big deal products.

I guess Apple indeed did not like MWSF anymore. What a horrible way to end the keynotes experience there.

Hopefully soon a special event will bring what we are really looking for.
 
Joelg88 said:
So today we saw no Desktop Mac updates. They are all due for updates too. Especially the Mac Mini.
I think that what Apple will do is that within the next 3 months they will have a Desktop Mac Event where they will focus on the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini. I highly think thats what will happen. So lets just wait and see. But I think we'll see another event before the end of March for sure.
Remember. This is just what I think though.
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And this event will be marked by the release of Snow Leopard.

What is the goal of Snow Leopard?
- Stability
- Smaller binaries dropping power pc support

Considering that the new hardware is not ready and you still have changes creeping into the operating system from that angle and you got beaten up for relasing mega patches for Leopard. What would you do?

New hardware and snow leo will come hand in hand. Releasing snow leopard at the same time and not earlier will put another hardware generation between power pc's and the end of life in Mac OS.
 
next tuesday apple will probably have a special event for the landmark stuff with steve.. in a smaller less populated area
 
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