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ahhh! only 6 days until the WWDC!
I keep thinking about what Steve is going to talk about. And I'm getting so excited.
I'll be catching a flight home about the time that it will be starting, unless it gets grounded. Supposedly, Florida (where I am) is going to be getting a bad storm on Monday. Any last minute thoughts? |
What is WWDC? and who is steve?
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I would love to see all the things appearing that have been suggested on the rumor sites.....
8 core Mac Pro's released months ahead of schedule... iPhone (yes I know there have been rumors of these for 5 years now) Updated Mini's and iMacs with faster processors... Would like to see a preview of Leopard... apparently is boots in record quick time... Would like to see the 'Mac Book Thin' laptop appear too. :D Funnily.... Autodesk released Maya 8 this morning.... its optimized for G5 chips!... (just as they are being faded out) and No Intel support is being offered..... No wonder Autocad have such a crap reputaion.:mad: |
I would love to see an iMac with a Core 2 Duo inside of it.
I am mainly looking forward to Leopard and perhaps a release date. 5 days left! |
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Anyone going beside me? :p
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do you know what I would really love to see in Leopard?
The ability to open files while they are in the trash. I hate having to move documents or PDFs or anything out of the trash to see them. |
My daily workaround for this is to store PDFs and docs that you may want to read in the Documents folder instead of the trash.
Nifty, huh! :cool: |
Great idea Platypus70!
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It is a pain, albeit a small one, to have to move it to the desktop, open it, and then, based on whether I will keep it or not, delete it or move it elsewhere. This only happens to files that are odly named. Of course I have folders that I keep everything valuable in. |
Yeah, sorry for my trite joke, pantherman -- I couldn't help myself.
In any event... only 4 days to go! I am actually anxiously awaiting it too as my decision to switch to Mac (or when, or which Mac) kinda depends on it... |
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I am gonna hang on for Leopard, a Mac Pro & Adobe CS3 before I switch from my G5 iMac. |
Will this be aired live somewhere?
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ahhh I'm not sure about aired live, but I can't wait until I can watch on Quicktime later on Monday.
ahhhh! 4 days! |
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In light of this milestone WWDC that is 4 days away, I thought I'd share this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY Watch how pissed off Bill Gates looks while everyone is booing him. :p You can tell that Steve is getting angry because of all the booing. edit: Note what Bill is talking about. For the most part it's just nonsense, but he does say the word transition and says that Office 98 is more advanced then what is being done on Windows. hmmm...isn't Apple finalizing a transition now? hmmm...isn't Apple doing things with the desktop computer that is more advanced then what is being done on Windows? spooky |
I really liked that video, gives me a whole new faith in unity. Back in the days before iPods...
It's nice to see just how far we've come, I mean honestly, I almost didn't recognize him without the turtleneck. |
3 days now guys. :)
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Please, please, please tell me you aren't being serious, and that I am just as gullible as I think I am.... |
what I really want see...
Remember at the 2003 WWDC? When Steve showed us fast user switching in Mac OS 10.3?
That was awesome. They way he clicked and the entire screen flipped to the next account. The entire audience was amazed. Wouldn't it be awesome if they did the same thing with Boot Camp in 10.5? If Steve clicked a button and a moment later, he was in a Windows partition. It's probably an unrealistic dream, but it would be very cool. |
Or even if he just opened some windows only application (Messenger Live?) and it opened and just worked.
Now then I would get very excited. :D |
Pantherman, I'm really afraid that you will not enjoy even an hour of sleep this weekend.
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It is going to be very difficult to sleep Sunday doing into Monday, I can tell you that much.
I really want to vist any tech web pages, especially Apple.com, which is my homepage, until after I watch the Stevenote. I would like to be surprised at what is announced. I think I'll change my homepage until after I watch the Stevenote. On a simillar note, has anyone seen that list of Leopard features floating around? I think it's silly since I saw no mention of anything Boot Camp, nor did I see any new technologies. So yeah, I'm really pumped. :) |
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Monday is the only the long-anticipated date of the World Wrestling Data Crackdown and its reigning champion, Steve "Bad Sector" Superblock will attempt to defend his title!!! I can't wait for some awesome rasslin'! Oh wait, I'm in the wrong forum...I think this is about the other WWDC... |
2 days now guys...
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I'm thinking we'll see the last of the PowerPC units become Intelized. The Power Mac has got to be ready for release. I think that the internal volume of the housing will be reduced giving us the smallest Power Mac desktop thus far. Even smaller, even thinner! |
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Adobe’s Creative Suite in Universal Microsoft Office in Universal On the software front, I wish those could be expedited. That’s actually far more important than Leopard. |
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Adobe & Microsoft's business interests are not necessarily aligned with Apple's. |
It was my impression that Office runs fine in Rosetta. Is this not the case?
I know that Word runs fine. It opens slowly, but once it is up it is fine (Parents new Mac mini). I could see potential problems with PowerPoint and slides with a lot of graphics though... Also...let's all cross our fingers for Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros at WWDC...so I can get a new laptop for school! :p |
Aside from performance the benefit of having all-Universal apps is that you do not have to invoke Rosetta and its RAM/CPU footprint. When MS and Adobe get their suites out, you essentially will get back a certain amount of RAM and CPU performance that is now being sucked up by Rosetta to run PPC apps.
Of course you want them all to be Universal, both big and small apps, because if you have just paid x hundred dollars to upgrade Office and Adobe and you think your life is now fine, if you boot just one little tiny PPC utility, Rosetta starts and there goes some RAM and CPU again. Kind of like Classic. So while we need universal versions of Office and Adobe, for the full benefit of Intel, don't forget to dump every last PPC utility you have, too. Anyone know how many core utilities that ship with OS X are still PPC? |
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tomorrow! It's tomorrow! woo-hoo!
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What time does the conference begin? What is the time frame in which Apple usually puts the conference on their site?
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Those crazy kids at Apple are at it again!
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It's like being a kid on Christmas Eve......
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No, I actually think I am more excited now then I was on christmas eve.
Now that is saying something about the way Apple presents their new products. |
I think that is because as a fully grown adult, Santa Claus no longer brings me cool stuff.......but Steve Jobs does!
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like oh my gosh!
today is the big day. The WWDC will be upon soon. Well, not really soon, but it's still the 7th.:D
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It's funny when you live halfway around the world like some of us do.
Today is WWDC but I won't get to see much of it if any until tomorrow. Its times like this when the concept of Beats time really works |
long term
Here's a few thoughts of what I think might happen after WWDC:
Next year or two: Apple will try to introduce another "home run" product like they did with the iPod. I have no idea what the new product will be. I think it will be successful. iPod: Apple will continue to put pressure on and extract money from accessory manufacturers. Of course more video emphasis and maybe bluetooth. No big changes in this area. Computers: Support is the tail that wags the dog here. Apple is already supporting two OS's, X and Classic. They will be content to let Parallels have the glory of running, and supporting, Windows inside of OS X. They will not make a major computer move until the PPC machines drop off of AppleCare. In three years or so Apple will make it's next big change in the computer area. It will license OS X to other manufacturers and gradually stop making computers itself as OS X sales to other manufacturers pick up. Computer hardware design will be spun off into another company which will attempt to make a go of it designing computers for Dell, Acer, etc. This explains why Apple's designs today aren't as dramatic as they were in the past. They will continue to push out nice looking but basically boring machines in the next few years, machines that Dell or Acer would be happy to have in their lineup. Apple wants to make it easy for other computer companies make the decision to sell OS X boxes when that time comes. These other companies will be able to go to Intel and order their OS X motherboards just the way they order Windows motherboards, which will be reassuring. They will be able to look at Apple's computer line and see products that are similar to their own running OS X, which will be reassuring. Basically what Apple is doing now and for the next few years is working the bugs out of the Intel's OS X reference motherboards so that they can be sold to other manufacturers. |
Finally someone posted the international times for WWDC.
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Does anyone know where we can get a live feed of the keynote from?
cheers Mark |
there most likely will not be a live feed
there has not been one at a key note in quite a while however with in a short while you will be able to see it on the apple site they always have the quicktime stream |
ooo! Scary dream you guys.
I am being serious. I really dreamt this last night.
I dreamt it was the readt WWDC, except steve wasn't wearing is trademark turtleneck and jeans, he was wearing some crazy weird suit thing that I think was polkdoted, and he was talking with an english accent. He also said nothing about a Mac Pro, nor did he show Leopard at all and the only thing I saw on the website when I checked (in the dream, of course), was a new Macbook. Then I woke up and said to myself "Thank goodness that was a dream! Today is the real WWDC." |
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I remember watching the switch to intel announcment feed at about 11:30pm to 1am |
boarding the plane now.
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I love the way that 7 minutes before the WWDC, the Apple website looks so completey normal, as if nothing is about to happen.
I'll talk to you guys in a few hours. |
Is Jobs presenting today?
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Yep...we can get our dose of RDF once they put up the stream :)
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If you go to macsurfer.com they always have a list of available transcripts and streams for these events. I usually have several open in tabs because some sites get totally slammed and others do a better job of reporting.
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Mac OS X Leopard: Introducing Vista 2.0
http://images.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc06...WDCleopard.jpg |
The Apple Store (online) is down!
Come on Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros!! |
IT'S STARTED !!!!!
Among others, HERE is one site with tracnscripts. Hightlights: Mac Pro: |
Ah, no MBP announcement...there's always the next few Tuesdays, though :)
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Store is back up.
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Is there already video material of the keynote speech available somewhere?
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Probably later tonight, from the Apple site
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Go to Apple's website. Everything mentioned is being displayed. The Leopard sneak-peak has several QT video showcasing the new features mentioned. |
Ha ha ha, I just knew everybody rumoring about an Apple phone or Apple tablet was going to be wrong, dead wrong.
I was hoping there would be a better media center though. |
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was it my imagination, or did Steve look a little thin today?
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was it my imagination, or did [the Leopard demo] look a little thin today. :D
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i noticed that also.
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I think it's the first time that we have the concurrence of the presentation of a new OS X while MS is in the middle of developing a competing OS. I would have been cautious too.
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Its the World Wide Developers conference anyway, they got the Mac Pro and Core Animation, as well as the excitement of leopard preview (+ copy for themselves) to keep them ticking over.
Y'know the leopard preview is just to make microsoft **** themselves even more, and for the apple loving consumers to be happy to wait till MW '07 for more dirt on leopard. Ignore the rumour hype (or take it with a pinch of salt) and its been a very fine and exciting WWDC Keynote, with more coming during the week apparently! |
Yea, exactly. It's a developer conference. Analysts were disappointed in Apple because they didn't release a new gadget and their stock has been going down since.
Don't those analysts realize this isn't the place to introduce a Mac mini that does TiVo? |
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I don't believe so...
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I don't think even the original iPod was announced at any of these big shows. Wasn't it a "special event?"
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