Macworld Announcements

Retail Sales figures

Apple retail sales of $1 Billion for the last quarter of 2005

Apple total retail sales for holiday quarter 2005 were $5.7 Billion

14 Million iPods sold in the holiday quarter. 42 Million total iPods sold. 32 Million in 2005.

850 million songs sold on iTunes. 3 million per day. 83% share of the music download market

iPods

FM Tuner remote control. Radio tuner interface on the iPod. The interface looks cool. Has the "needle" type tuner with digital read out and presets. $49.00

New iPod "Jazz" ad with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis iPod Ad

New Widgets in OS 10.4.4 update

Google, ESPN Sports, Calendar, new Address Book, Snow conditions and White Pages

iLife '06 ($79 USD, $99 Family)

iPhoto

Support for 250,000 Photos. Improved performance. Steve says it "flys"

Photocasting (RSS). Requires .Mac to publish but any app can subscribe.

Full screen editing

One-click effects. A little panel, B&W, Sepia, Antique, Fade Color, Boost Color, Matte, Vignette and Edge Blur. Can combine effects.

Cards, Calendars and improved books with better printing.

Integration with new iWeb for Gallery and Blog publishing in one-click

iTunes

New TV content. SNL from NBC

New "Mini Store" in the Library. Can be turned off from icon or Edit menu (Apple+Shift+M)

Is the Mini Store a privacy concern? Adware and Spyware all in one? (I think that is a bit extreme).

iMovie HD

Really cool Themes. Makes it easy to create a pro looking movie with matched titles, transitions graphics and effects.

Real time effects and titles using core video and core image, if your Mac supports it.

Core audio effects like EQ, reverb, etc.

Multiple projects open at once

iPod export and support for video Podcasting with iWeb integration

iDVD

Magic iDVD. Wizard to create quick DVDs. Select video, photos and theme and then it generates a DVD

Support for Widescreen DVD.

Autofill dropzones. Select all the photos you want to use and then auto fill will populate all the drop zones.

Improved DVD Map view

Support for 3rd party DVD burners. This is BIG.

Garageband

Podcast recording studio. Add images and links for enhanced podcasts. Auto "ducking" for background audio

royalty free jingles, stingers, sound effects for podcasts

Vocal enhancements and noise filters

iChat recording. Each participant is recorded to a separate track.

Video Track for iMovies so you can add scores and time audio and sound effects.

Integration with iWeb for publishing.

iWeb

A brand new app.

Really nice templates and iLife integration for adding media

Blog and Podcasts pages with RSS

Photo slides shows utilize AJAX technology to add a little slide show controller in the web page.

Works with .Mac for easy publishing, but does have an HTML export.

Universal

iWork '06 ($79 USD, $99 Family)

Pages 2 and Keynote 3

New themes. HD Themes

3D Charts, Tables with Calculations

Freeform shapes curves and masks

Address Book mail merge

Reviewer comments

Universal

New Intel iMac

Same models (17" and 20"), same prices ($1,299 USD and $1,699 USD)

1.83 GHz Core Duo and 2.0GHz Core Duo

ATI Radeon X1600 PCI Express graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory

Built-in iSight, Frontrow, remote.

2-3 times faster than the current iMac G5 (raw benchmark)

Some iMac purchasers may be upset. Lesson, if you care, think twice about buying a Mac near MacWorld.

Extended desktop support using the new Mini-DVI connector. Listener Leo saw this in the user guide.

Developers who bought a $999 Developer Transition Kit are now eligible to get a free 1.83 GHz 17" iMac.

New Intel MacBook Pro

New Intel based Mac Pro laptop. The MacBook Pro. Love the machine. Kinda hate the name.

Apple MacBook Pro

1.67GHz Intel Core Duo ($1999 USD) or 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo ($2499 USD)

4-5 times faster than the PowerBook G4. (raw benchmark)

15.4" Screen 67% brighter than G4 display.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor, dual link DVI support, 128MB of GDDR3 on 1.67 GHz configuration. 256MB GDDR3 on 1.83GHz configuration

Built-in iSight. IR sensor and Remote for FrontRow.

4x single layer instead of 8x dual layer SuperDrive??!

One FireWire 400 port, Two USB 2.0 ports, ExpressCard/34 slot (new PCMCIA spec. The 54 is full size the 34 is smaller).

Slightly thinner than the 17" PowerBook

The power cable is held in place magnetically. MagSafe.

Ships in February.

No battery life specs?

A comment from a rep at the Expo, "These are pre-production models, so we're not commenting on battery life."

The processor should give better battery life, but maybe the brighter screen is using more battery. It better be at least 4 hours.

New Apple Intel TV Ad

Finally an ad that is not iTunes

play the tv spot

Apple Intel Ad

"trapped inside PCs--dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks."

Intel says their customers are not "dull", but wouldn't complain if the Apple partnership helped their other customers be more creative.

Many are pointing out the similarities to The Postal Service "Such Great Heights" music video.

The Postal Service Video

Remember Apple was sued for the Eminem iPod videos similarities to a Lugz shoe commercial.

Technology may make Intel Mac Dual booting a challenge

Phil Schiller still says that Apple will not prevent users from booting Windows, but the technology inside the new Macs may.

The new Intel Macs use Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of BIOS.

Windows XP 32bit does not support EFI at this time, so booting Windows XP may not be possible without some tweaking.

Pro Apps Universal in March

FinalCut, Aperture and Logic

Can trade in current disks ("crossgrade") for $49.00

3rd Party Apps

Quark is Universal

Microsoft Office and Messenger in March

Adobe Photoshop committed to universal

Rosetta until then. Steve says Office runs "great" under Rosetta

Quicktime 7.0.4 released, pulled and re-released

The first release of the day was available via Software update, prior to the Keynote web stream being posted. It contained a security flaw. The flaw effected Mac and Windows and could allow an attacker control of the effected system

The file was pulled and an uninstaller (revert to 7.0.1) was put in it's place.

Quicktime 7.0.1 Reinstaller

Apple then re-released the 7.0.4. update

If you think you have the bad one best bet is to run the 7.0.1 re-installer and then run Software Update to get the known good update of 7.0.4

Fixed Quicktime 7.0.4 Update

Trevor Tye from the OptionKey podcast noted that the QT update on OS 10.3.9 messes up the Macromedia Player 8 Flash plugin on Firefox and Safari. Just re-install Flash 8 to fix it.

Apple Stock closes at an "Intel" Price.

On the day of the launch of Intel based Macs, Apples stock price closed appropriately at $80.86

The 8086 was the original 1978 Intel processor that spawned the x86 architecture.

Levis announces iPod jeans

a small built-in iPod cradle “invisibly” housed within a side pocket and a special joystick remote control located into the jeans’ watch pocket.

Google Earth now available for Mac OS X

Google has finally launched Google Earth for OS X

Google Earth for OS X

Fly through, satellite imagery, points of interest.

Open API so cool add ons like Flickr Photos

Requires OS 10.4 and a minimum of 500 MHz processor.

Apple starts using "Vingle" trademark

The trademark was filed in October

Being used on the iTunes music store to refer to new Pussycat Dolls a Video Single.