Apple’s World wide Developer’s Conference is going on now, and the Apple Keynote just wrapped up. Here is the summary of announcement with commentary where needed.
MacBook Pro
- New 15” Unibody MacBook Pro
- Includes new built in super battery with up to 7 hours of power before recharge.
- SD Slot replaces the Express card slot on the 15” MBP
- Up to 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo
- up to 8GB of memory
- Lower Price starting at $1699 ($300 less)
- New 17” Unibody MacBookPro
- SD and Express Card slots in new 17” MBP
- New 13” Unibody MacBook becomes a MacBookPro
- Includes new built in super battery with up to 7 hours of power before recharge.
- LED Backlit Keyboard
- FireWire 800 Included
- SD Card Slot
- New Lower Price Starting at $1199 (Less expensive than the model it’s replacing)
- New MacBook Air
- 1.8Ghz for $1499 ($300 less)
- 128 GB Model for $1800 ($700 less)
- Every Notebook from Apple now meets EPEAT Gold and Energy Star v5, making them the greenest line of notebooks in the world.
Snow Leopard OS X 10.6
- All Cocoa Finder
- New Improved Dock, integrated with Expose
- Smaller HD Footprint (6GB of space less than Leopard)
- Safari 4 Final (Ships today) Fastest JS Engine by far.
- Browser Plugins can’t crash browser or other apps
- Faster Mail
- New Quicktime Interface, content first. (Quicktime X), with http streaming
- Takes Huge advantage of 64 bit hardware (Core 2 Duo and up)
- Open CL takes advantage of the Graphics Accelerator to increase general computing speed.
- Exchange support built in, Mail, Calendar, & Address book all support it.
- New Low Price, just $29 for upgraders (Leopard was $129), $49 for a family pack to upgrade all your Macs.
- Available in September
iPhone Firmware 3.0
- All the stuff previously shown off at teh developer preview
- MMS supported at launch by many Carriers but not on AT&T until later this summer. (You can bet your patooki this is because AT&T wants to charge you for it)
- Rent or purchase media from the iPhone.
- Tethering included and supported at launch by many carriers but not AT&T
- Support for HTML 5 in mobile Safari and HTTP Streaming.
- New find my phone feature, lets you see on a Google map where you phone is, and send it a message or remote wipe it if needed.
- Accessories, you can now pug in hardware to your iPhone to use or connect via Blue Tooth.
- Multiplayer support for gaming
- TomTom to provide an App and accessory to provide turn by turn directions (finally)
- Available June 17th, a free upgrade to iPhones, and a $9.95 for iPod Touches (unfortunate but standard operating procedure now.)
iPhone 3GS (new iPhone)
- The S stands for Speed over 2x faster (estimated) across the board.
- Support for 7.2Mbs HSDPA
- New Camera 3mp, Autofocus (tap to focus), Auto white Balance, Auto Exposure, Auto Macro (10cm), And Video.
- 30fps VGA video
- Editing of Video right on the phone.
- Send video via MMS if (and when) your carrier supports it. (Boo AT&T)
- Voice Command, Dialing and general Phone and iPod control with your voice
- Built in Digital Compass
- Text to speech, can read the screen to you.
- Better battery life, up to 9 hours WiFi, 10 hours video, 30 hours audio, 12 hours 2G talk, 5 hours 3G talk time.
- and it’s really green too yada yada yada
- $199 for 16gb version, $299 for 32gb Version, and the existing 3G iPhone will stay on and be available for $99 (starting today).
- iPhone 3GS available June 19th.
OK so that’s the official stuff. Now what wasn’t there?
- Additional Carriers in the US, I didn’t think there would be, but, the rumors of a Verizon device were hot an heavy this time.
- Media Pad, despite rumors of an iPhone based netbook or tablet, there was not even the hint of such a device mentioned.
General Thoughts.
I was very happy to see Apple really taking Microsoft to talk with their $29 Operating System Upgrade, but I was disappointed that we won;t be seeing it until September.
I loved seeing the SD Card Slot being built into the Mac Book Pros, but the expensee of the Express Card Slot in everything but the 17” is a shame.
I’m very happy to see a 13” Pro lappy. I miss my old 12” sometimes, if they don’t come out with a tablet I may drop down to that and a large screen monitor on my next purchase. ( My 17” Mac Book Pro is getting long in the tooth )
I loved seeing all the price cuts, I’m glad Apple is making this recession a bit easier to bear for us fan boys. :)
Thank you GDGT and MacRumors for providing really excellent and up to the minute updates to their Live Blog.
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