Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac

Apple just announced new iMacs. They are aluminum and come in 20" (two models) and 24". There's a new view called "Events" in iPhoto that should make it easier to deal with large photo libraries. Apple's .Mac service is enhanced with .Mac Web Gallery, which integrates with the new iTunes and also the iPhone. It's a Web 2.0 app now. And iMovie is being replaced by a completely new app of the same name. Steve Jobs claimed that with it you can put together a 5-minute movie in 30 minutes, and he demo'ed that from the stage. iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand get new features too. And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage. Here is Engadget's blow-by-blow coverage, and Wired's.

Finally

[Lockejaw]

And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage.

Yay, now there's enough space to actually put something there!

That time of the year again

[hcdejong]

"On the morning of Steve Jobs's keynote presentation, the online Apple store grinds to a halt as Mac-heads set their browsers to refresh every 15 seconds."

(from the Apple Product Life Cycle) [misterbg.org]

Geez

[iamdrscience]

Can we wait until the press event is over before an article is posted about it? At present isn't there still a product on stage under black cloth? Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?

It's a Web 2.0 app now...

[Biff Stu]

But is it backwards compatible with Web 1.0?

Some of us Luddites are a bit slow to upgrade.

Re:I, for one, welcome our...

[Anonymous Coward]

They look nice, but...

This seems to be a common phrase wherever Apple products are concerned.

I got a small chuckle from....

[Schnoogs]

...this quote. "There are some people who still want to make DVDs" I guess these's a fringe movement of people who want to cater to the 100 million or so DVD players out there! ;) Someone tell these people that DVD is soooooooooooo last year! Other than that everything looked pretty solid.

Wow, does he really talk like that?

[Sax Maniac]

Talk short. No long sentence. Simple words. Over soon. Screw verbs. Noun adjective. Adjective noun. Noun, noun, noun. And, articles! So, no prepositions. Adverbs bad. Baaaad adverbs, no-no-no. See Dick run. Run, Dick run!

"Blow-by-blow" coverage?

[goldspider]

(apologies in advance)

Do we really need that kind of visual, considering fanbois' well-documented oral fixation with everything Apple?

*ducks*

Re:Geez

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?

Windows Vista.

Re:New iMac keyboard

[rthille]

Just switch to emacs. Pointing devices, we have no need of pointing devices...

Balloons

[CopaceticOpus]

"Here are photos of girls with balloons. I don't want to throw them away, just hide them."

That is a direct quote of Steve Jobs from the Engadget article. Apparently he accidentally revealed his women popping balloons [slashdot.org] porn on stage, and then tried to hide it.

Re:Can we please kill off "Web X.Y"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully your issue will be resolved by the time Web 2.1 is released.

Re:Balloons

[SpudNYC]

He needs this tip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCi6KmQsAhc [youtube.com]

Dovetails nicely with iPhone.

[Lethyos]

Apple is slowly phasing tactile response out of their input devices. Started with mice, then the iPhone, and now with keyboards. Soon, we will live in a polished world where nothing lets us know we touched it! I hope Apple never enters the sex industry.

Re:Wow, does he really talk like that?

[schiefaw]

Screw verbs

But "screw" IS a verb!

I disagree

[encoderer]

"I hope Apple never enters the sex industry"

I disagree. Entirely.

I'd be more than happy to wait in line for 6 hours so I can take home a stunningly beautiful iGirl that doesn't give me any feedback no matter how much I touch her, doesn't break when dropped, doesn't scratch easily, is good for up to 8 hours of activity (as long as I turn her wireless off), goes to sleep at the touch of a button and comes with a 2 year warranty.

For sure. Sign me up.

Of course, I'll probably regret it when they come out with a model next year that's a little bit lighter, and a little bit thinner... ...but what the hell... I could always use a spare at the office.

Re:Geez

[Farmer Tim]

Have you ever known something hidden underneath a cloak of black cloth to not be important?

Goths.

Re:I disagree

[encoderer]

No, no.. I already have the dock adapter!

Re:I disagree

[dan828]

And another big bonus is that you don't have to worry about virus protection. Not like those skanky virus ridden PCs.

Is .Mac

[skeeto]

where Mac users store their custom configuration and lisp functions?

Re:What's the videocard like?

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to use the iMac for playing adventure games on, in Windows.

This card should work fine for adventure games. I have used it for Zork I,II and III
the whole Sorcerer series and my personal favorite Suspended and the card was always
able to keep up.

Re:Down with the Apple monopoly

[PopeRatzo]

Here in Chicago, MicroCenter is a full-feature Apple dealer. When I used to work on a dual G4, I bought my system, cinema display and all my gear there (at least the stuff I didn't buy online). Their sales staff in that part of the store are pretty knowledgeable too. And they don't have that look you find on employees at the Apple store. The only way I can explain it is that Margaret O'Conner in my grammar school had that look. She was Mary in the May Crowning two years in a row and thus felt that she was closer to God than the rest of us. Her mother used to cut the crust off her sandwiches and she lifted her pinkies when she'd eat them during lunch period.

For some reason, I think of her whenever I see the people who work at the Apple store. They look like someone cuts the crust off their sandwiches for them, and they're proud of it.

But anyway, if you want to buy Apple in Chicago and don't want to pay 18 bucks to park downtown (and get skeeved out by the people who work in the Apple Store), MicroCenter has a nice big parking lot, and there's a PetSmart next door so you can buy kibble for you ferret when you're done.

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Re:Geez

[n3tcat]

/me roles 1D20 to see if your insult has any effect