WWDC Pre-Keynote Roundup 74
jonknee writes "Apple fans are diehard... MacMerc is covering the WWDC keynote in real time. The show starts at 1 p.m. EST and should last a few hours."
rfernand79 writes "Still some time to go to WWDC, and mac.com has iDisk for Panther preview specifications. Offline access to iDisk sounds really cool."
Oculus Habent writes "For those of us who didn't have the money or time to make it to WWDC today, we can catch the keynote. Don't for get to upgrade to QuickTime 6.3 for best performance. I wonder if you can watch it on cell phones, now." The keynote stream is delayed; it begins after the keynote ends.
Re:live feed? (Score:1)
Nothing I know of online...
Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
Only time will tell.
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Is Everquest for Mac in stock there?
Pic of G5 (Score:2)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:1)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
1 millionth iPod
panther stuff - faster searching, another "right dock" type widget in column view style
automatic iDisk synchronization
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
expose "tiles" and shrinks windows to find a specific window
It looks like a hotkey combination - configurable!
two modes - one application's windows or all windows
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
uses quartz extreme - no exposé for me, i've only got 8 MB of vram =\
Lost notebook service - Filevault encrypts and decrypts the home folder on-the-fly (CPU intensive =\)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
Much faster
Safari HTML rendering
thread view - first email starts a thread, all replys are under that heading (much like the finder's list view)
addresses are objects
Composition - draggable address objects
IPsec VPN stuff
Fax button built into all print panels
Fax numbers from address book
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
"Professional grade quality on a personal computer"
Uses wavelet technology
48 bits per pixel source
no noticeable visual artifacts
no interframe compression
(comment: a new codec? AWWW, crap.)
1 GHz G4 can decode and encode HDTV quality stuff
(Jobs is playing trailers and scrubbing back and forth on half-HDTV source)
Preview - fastest PDF reader in the world
PDF - core of OS X
Rendering - 978 pages, one page at a time
Windows 71 seconds
Preview takes 28 secondds
Something about searchin
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
Search - finds and highlights text in PDF's (very fast)
On-the-fly postscript to PDF
Inkjet looks like postscript on network - all postscript support
Fast user switching in Panther
Menu in corner - multiple users changed quickly
"cube transition" type switch - looks like multiple sides of a cube (WOW)
Fontbook - pro font management
when font is clicked, preview, and install font button
search box for fonts - "condensed" - only condensed fonts come up
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:5, Informative)
Audio and video chat. Hot damn.
"Videoconferencing for the rest of us"
buddy list videoconferencing
zero configuration
no reconfiguration with network switching or other network stuff
Rendezvous videoconferencing!
audio works on 56k
Audio + video on DSL and up
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
Speakerphonelike - nifty
services availiable change instantly! (SO COOL.)
Some france bashing ensues
Al Gore comes on and stuff.
Panther shipped by the end of the year (OMG. OS X released again!?)
Some Windows bashing ensues with Longhorn setbacks
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
640x480 video at 30 FPS
F/2.8 arpeture
Autoexposire
microphone
Firewire connection - video, audio, power over 1 cable
three mounts
rotate and tilt
shutter
carrying case - looks like some sort of round, single cigar type case.
All for $149
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Interesting)
Fast compiles
gcc 3.3 compiler
Build of finder takes 377 seconds
code warrior takes 233 seconds
distributed builds - automatically uses distributed computing
1 more host - 208 seconds
4 more hosts - 96 seconds
No linking needed for recompile
predictive compile - compiles while you type
half compiling time
fix and continue - make changes to applications while they are running
turnaround times:
Jaguar tools - 29 seconds
code warrior - 9 seconds
Xcode - 3 seconds
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
searching by filters in Xcode
target settings changeable - search box!
Target explanations availiable in inspector
Demonstration of compiler and turnaround by employee #8
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Interesting)
Premature specification -
The specs released on Apple's site are true!
"World's fastest personal computer"
Uses a "G5" - AKA 970 processor
runs 32 bit apps
Runs at up to 2 GHz - fastest 64 bit processor
1 GHz FSB
built for Full SMP
up to 215 in-flight instructions
2 velocity engine
2 FPU's
2 int units
2 load and store units
lots and lots of branch prediction logic
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Interesting)
Some technical details etc
Some IBM R&D bragging
G5 system controller
point to point architecture
dedicated to main memory
G5 details:
8GBps
DDR
64 bit
bi-directional
no slowdown for 2nd proc
latest nVidia and ATI slots
1 133 MHz 64 bit slot
2 100 MHz 64 bit slot
Serial ATA - apple designed chip - hypertransport
Firewire 800/400
USB2
all the usual stuff
Optical audio
Single or dual processors
up to 8 GB memory (HOLY CHRIST)
4x superdrive
New enclosure!
all aluminum
ports on front
9 fans
35 dBA
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
1.6 GHz/256/80/5200
1.8 GHz/512/160/5200
2x2.0/512/160/9600
Ships in august
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
3 GHz P4 vs 2 GHz G5 vs 3.06 xeon
VeriTest - independant tester
Scores:
INT:
P4 - 889
xeon - 836
G5 - 800
Float:
P4 - 693
Xeon - 646
G5 - 840
SPECint-rate
P4 - 10.3
Xeon x2 16.7
G5 x2 - crap, didn't get it, edged out xeon
SPECfp-rate
P4 - 8.1
Xeon x2 - 11.1
G5 x2 - 15.7
Adobe impressed with performance on G5
Phil Schiller - photoshop test
(HOLY MONKEY. THAT WAS FAST.)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
G5 does transforms, rotations and other stuff much better than the Xeon
~13 FPS G5, ~6 FPS Xeon
Recompile for G5 took 3 minutes
Wolfram research - Mathematica 5 is being introduced
mathematica on G5 is 2x as fast as Xeon
also faster than high-end unix workstations
~266% of Xeon performance
Gerhard Lingaling - eMagic
I have no idea what this guy is saying, but it sounds impressive.
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:3, Informative)
Hot damn, that was impressive.
Summary -
Pshop - 2.1x as fast
Luxology - 2.3x as fast
eMagic - 2.3x as fast
music test - ?
A video!
funky music and testimony.
8 RAM slots - nifty. (I wonder how much a 1 GB ram stick costs)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd (Score:2)
Recap of Apple's products - Stuff that you probably know.
***END KEYNOTE***
404 Not Found (Panther iDisk Preview) (Score:2)
Re:404 Not Found (Panther iDisk Preview) (Score:1)
Still online in Japanese. (Score:2)
Re:Still online in Japanese. TRANSLATION (Score:3, Informative)
Thanks to SYSTRAN [systransoft.com] and Sherlock [apple.com]:
Panther iDisk Preview [mac.com]:
With Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac online storage service and the use of iDisk furthermore become simple and convenient. Mac OS X Panther*, using completely new architecture, in order to access iDisk, brings ultimate performance and convenience to automatic operation synchronizing of information in regard to offline access and the desktop and Internet.
The Advanced Capability of iDisk which can be used with Panther is introduced.
offline iDisk ... a.k.a. regularDisk (Score:2)
The all-new iDisk architecture keeps a copy of your files on your local hard disk, then regularly and automatically synchronizes any changes you make to Apple's servers. Your latest changes are accessible from anywhere, so if you use multiple Macs you'll have the same up-to-date files available directly from the Finder on any of them.
I'm sorry, but I thought the point of iDisk was to have offline storage. If I'm just keeping a copy of the stuff on my HD, why don't I use iSync to
Live Coverage? (Score:1)
Re:Live Coverage? (Score:1)
macnn.com is doing a running description.
So is macrumors.com
Re:Live Coverage? (Score:2)
MacMinute special page (Score:3, Informative)
IRC (Score:2)
4OSX has semi live coverage (Score:1)
Re:4OSX has semi live coverage (Score:1)
Some info - From MacNN coverage (Score:4, Informative)
# Apple says that later today Apple will sell the millionth iPod and that as of last Saturday, it has sold over 5 million songs. He demos a Jay Leno bit showing Osama in iPod advertisement.
# Jobs then talks about rtail stores, noting that Apple has 58 sores with over 17 million visitors. He shoed Apple SoHo and Grove. He notes that Chicago store is opening this week and San Francisco is opening next spring.
# Apple was the first to ship 802.11g in the industry. He provides an overview of AirPort Extreme.
# Apple has 300,000 registered Apple developers, which has tripled since Mac OS X introduced. Apple has also has many Unix and Java developers.
# Jobs on Stage. [1:03 pm]
# 12:31: Reporting from Apple Store SoHo. Roughly 300 people present even an hour before the keynote is scheduled to begin. Store employees showing random video clips as well as old Apple commercials.
# Keynote begins at 1 PM ET.
Apple Store closed (Score:2)
"solid specs" (Score:2)
Thanks, but if they don't stack up well against the specs on the rumor sites, I'll just stick with those. ;-)
Links fixed ;) sorry about that (Score:2, Informative)
More info: From MacNN (12:14 PM Central Time) (Score:1)
# Apple has added over 100 major new features. Mac OS X is the No. 1 Unix OS. He lists many of the Unix features of Mac OS X, including the latest version of Samba, which can be browsed in the Finder. Other features include IPSec-based VPN, better Active Directory support, a new Finder that is User-centric. All the user stuff is on the left (i.e., much like bookmarks).
# Jobs moves on to Mac OS X. He says that there are 7 million active users of Mac OS X with over 6,000 native applications. He says that
Keynote conversion (Score:5, Insightful)
Just FYI (Score:5, Informative)
Nice Commentary on Panther (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent way to put it in perspective
Font DA mover (Score:3, Informative)
[10:44 AM] Pro Font Management. You can install fonts with a button, preview them, and do all the other things that several companies make their living providing.
Funny, they had this functionality in system 6
Re:Font DA mover (Score:2)
If you have a few dozen fonts, no big deal... Font DA Mover was probably well suited. Large ad agencies with dozens upon dozens of clients may have hundreds or thousands of fonts. Font DA Mover was never sufficient for this. We have situations where various clients all have their own versions of Helvetica, for instance. One client likes the way the fi ligature looks in
Live on IRC (Score:2)
Just for giggles... (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm...
Panther delayed? (Score:2)
Re:Panther delayed? (Score:1)
Except for this:
Apple's iSight is the "eyes and ears" of iChat AV. It offers full motion video at 30 fps at 640x480 at 24-bit color. It offers auto-focus with a F/2.8 aperture, a built-in microphone, single FireWire connection for video/audio as well as power. iSight has a better lens, better sensor, and very high quality imaging. Jobs then compares it ot the iPod. The iSight has a very convenient mounting system, with different mounts for each computer model, including 3 stands for top of screen mountin
Re:Panther delayed? (Score:2)
Re:Panther delayed? (Score:3, Informative)
I like Apple (Score:1)
Live snapshot (Score:2)
http://nuche.homedns.org/wwdc/wwdc46.jpg
Re:Live snapshot (Score:2)
More pics (Score:2)
http://www.chaosmint.com/wwdc/isight.jpg
of the G5 (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdes
side image of G5 (Score:2)
The Beefed Up PowerMac from the Apple Store. (Score:2)
â 8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
â 2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
â ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
â Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
â Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter
â AirPort Extreme Card
â Bluetooth Module
â SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
â Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
â Mac OS X - U.S. English
â Logitech Z-680 THX 5.1 Speakers & Monster 2-meter Cable
â AirPort Extreme Base Stat
Photos (Score:2)