Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC 832
DonaldGelman writes "Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600. The display requires a new Nvidia card with 2 parallel DVI connections. The display is going to retail for $3299 in August, and the Nvidia card for around $599." Jobs also announced new 20- and 23-inch displays, for $1299 and $1999 in July. All three feature a new aluminum enclosure, and DVI. Also from WWDC...
Jobs also previewed Tiger, with Spotlight (fast iTunes-like searching in all apps, and systemwide), Dashboard (Konfabulator-like widgets combined with Exposé for fast showing/hiding), Automator (visual AppleScript, combining prewritten actions into scripts), H.264 code for QuickTime (high definition scalable video from MPEG), iChat AV conferencing (up to 10 for audio, four for video), RSS reading in Safari, Core Image and Core Video (realtime filters at the core OS level), and system-wide Sync Services. All of this is extensible (except for iChat conferencing), with SDKs available for developers.
There's a lot here, and a more detailed description is forthcoming. Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005.
Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
SHHHH.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Peter, did you copy all that down?"
"I got only the first half before I fainted. You?"
"I got most of it. Ok, the Longhorn features spec meeting is Wednesday morning, we have two days to put all that new Tiger stuff in!"
Marketers pitching new display ideas... (Score:3, Funny)
"so, get this: Are you ready? We release computer displays. TA DA!!
BUT WAIT, there's more. Not only do we release displays that are the same as our current ones, but we will demonstrate the innovation... BY CHANGING THEM TO BE MADE OUT OF METAL!!!!
Everyone knows metal is faster than plastic. But, wait for it, wait for it, get this: we'll keep them the same price that they have been for over a year!!!!!!!!"
(thank you's and hugs for everyone followed by a power lunch, martinis and more fucking crazy pills)
Woods (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah. Going by this display in the recent USOpen, me thinks we definitely need to wait till 2005...
Yum (Score:5, Funny)
Can you say "purchase order?" I'll take five.
Re:Now this is exciting... (Score:5, Funny)
I knew I picked a bad week to not be rich.
Re:Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
yes I'm trying to be funny/sarcastic().
Re:To those who ask "What's WWDC?"... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah (Score:1, Funny)
Re:SHHHH.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Peter, did you copy all that down?"
"I got only the first half before I fainted. You?"
"I got most of it. Ok, the Longhorn features spec meeting is Wednesday morning, we have two days to put all that new Tiger stuff in!"
Wow, it's going to be such a long time before Microsoft copies OSX Tiger, and Linux gets around to copying Microsoft Longhorn. Attention Linux developers: cut out the middle-man and start copying Tiger directly.
Polls (Score:3, Funny)
Ahh, so THAT's where CowboyNeal has been hiding while he is away from the Poll options! :)
What would Tony say? (Score:5, Funny)
Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600
Jobs also previewed Tiger
There Grrrrrrreaat!
Re:To those who ask "What's WWDC?"... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)
I hope that int sarcastic() { doesn't return 0.
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:3, Funny)
Well (Score:5, Funny)
Fortunately... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, starbucks stores around the Apple campus are open 24 hours a day over this summer...
-Adam
Redmond (Score:1, Funny)
I wish apple came out with displays... (Score:3, Funny)
16:9 is OK for watching movies, I guess, but when I'm writing code, it's VERTICAL SPACE that's at a premium, not horizontal space.
I would love a "tall" (or at least 4:3) Apple Cinema Display instead of these shorties they keep making.
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:0, Funny)
Geezus, people... (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh!
Slashdot and CowboyNeal on the Apple site! (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html [apple.com]
Also, those who are FIREFLY fans will note the movie is mentioned in the post...
Apple is 1337! (Score:5, Funny)
If you look at the calculator in the Dashboard demo [apple.com], you'll notice it says 1.337!
I love a company with a sexy UNIX based OS and a sense of humor.
Re:should work on software (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I think the important part (Score:5, Funny)
*NSync? (Score:3, Funny)
I do hope they meant "rsync".
Re:To those who ask "What's WWDC?"... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Core Image... (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like Sun and Apple are finally taking computer users to the next level with 3D interfaces. It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft comes up with.
Microsoft has this idea covered already. Each copy of Longhorn will come with a colorful selection of Post-It notes that can be affixed onto the back of your monitor. I think they already have the pattent application in the works too. Admit it... the people at Microsoft are just too smart for the rest of us.
Re:Being Microborged (Score:2, Funny)
Re::| Damn it Apple. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:2, Funny)
I didn't know there was that kind of money in waiting tables and hanging out on street corners with a can.
This is Monumental!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Sarcastic? (Score:3, Funny)
Please tell me you're joking. As far as technical competence goes, bioligists are just above the pre-med morons in my book. I know biologists - at a top school - who use tables to figure out buffer pH's because using a simple equation from freshman chemistry was too hard.
I try to avoid gross oversimplifications, but generally chemists do a LOT better in bio classes than the other way around. (I'll let the physicists make similar comments about chemistry, and the mathematicians do the same for physics).
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot?
Re:To those who ask "What's WWDC?"... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not original at all (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sarcastic? (Score:3, Funny)
Exception, meet Rule.
Re:iPod SDK! (Score:2, Funny)