ITS THE START OF A NEW YEAR AND THE END OF A LEGACY....THIS WILL BE APPLE'S LAST KEYNOTE & STEVE JOBS WILL NOT BE DELIVERING IT...
INSTEAD HIS 2ND IN COMMAND PHIL SCHILLER WILL BE HEADLINING TODAY'S NOTE...
FIRST THING IS iLIFE::
IPHOTO 09:
You can organize photos by people, and when you click on the Faces on the left, it’s a thumbnailed board of people in your photos. It uses “face detection”, and automatically detects faces, which you can name later.
The other way to organize your photos is “Places”, which sorts by where snaps are taken. When you click the Places icon, iPhoto gives you a map with pins of where photos are taken.
There’s also now built-in support for Facebook & Flickr.
NOW THE NEW
IMOVIE 09:::
THEY ADDED VIDEO EFFECTS, & SLOW MOTION... YES!!!
NOW THIS IS COOL...
GARAGEBAND 09::
It’s the most “exciting” feature, and a “true breakthrough”, which will help people to play a musical instrument. It’s called “Learn to play.”
When you fire it up, there’s an instructor and a representation of the instrument facing you. Essentially, an instrument tutor
You have 9 basic guitar and 9 basic piano lessons built in.
Who are some of the artists? JOHN…Fogerty. And Cobie. Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy. STING...
On the Piano, Sarah McLachlan, Ryan from OneRepublic, Norah Jones...
NOW HARDWARE::
MACBOOK PRO 17":
The 17-inch MacBook Pro, is the .98 inches thin, 6.6 pounds, and is the world’s lightest and thinnest 17-inch notebook. There’s a 17-inch LED backlit display, 1920×1200. “This is the best display we’ve ever shipped in a notebook.” 700:1 contrast ratio, 60% greater color gamut than the previous 17-inch display.
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz Dual Core, 6MB L2 Cache, 8GB memory at 1066 MHz DDR3.
Like the 15-inch, there’s both integrated 9400M and 9600M graphics cards. 320GB HDD standard, or 256GB SSD upgradable drives.
It starts shipping late January.
WELL IT LOOKS LIKE THATS IT...
THEY ALSO SPOKE ABOUT ITUNES...
NOW U CAN HAVE YA MUSIC SHARED ON ALL OF YOUR COMPS...
BUT NOTHING BIG WAS ANNOUNCED...
MAYBE SOMETHING LATER IN Q1..
