Apple WWDC

[Vapor 0]

Today is the Apple World Wide Developers Conference. The new Mac Pros are assumed to be released today. Apple 10.5 Leopard is also supposed to be previewed at the conference today. Rumors of new ipods, new nanos, and a movie buying service through iTunes have slowly died down. The conference starts at 10am PST. More to come when the conference begins.

[mack 44]

So no bigger flash iPod. That's craptastic.

[Miike 1]

I take it you'll update us on everything as soon as you hear of it?

[Vapor 0]

So no bigger flash iPod. That's craptastic.

September, rumors are 8 and 12 gb for the nano

[M-Cohen 0]

Why do they name all there OS's after exotic animals?

[Vapor 0]

I take it you'll update us on everything as soon as you hear of it?

Up to the second updates.

[KYHockey3 0]

but if tyhey make 8 gb nanos theyll end up costing as much as the videos

[Jason Harris 31]

Vapor, I must say that you've got me thinking about owning a Mac again.

We owned a couple in the early 90's, before I finally came to the conclusion that "Apples were easy to use, but hard to own." What I meant was all the peripheral products were so much more expensive due to less choices -- modems at $129 when the PC modems were as low as $39.

When Windows 95 closed the gap, we switched back. (I had owned a couple of DOS machines in the 80s.) I'd occasionally read articles stating the virtues of Mac, and a neighbor expressed he was thinking of going in that direction, so I wasn't fully close-minded on switching back, but I'd say it's been your enthusiastic touting of Apple that caused me to be looking at one at CompUSA on Saturday.

What do you do for work? It's seems to be somewhat computer related.

[Vapor 0]

Why do they name all there OS's after exotic animals?

The theme of OS X for some reason has been felines, I do not know why.

[Vapor 0]

but if tyhey make 8 gb nanos theyll end up costing as much as the videos

Absolutley not. The price in flash memory has dramatically come down.

[Vapor 0]

Vapor, I must say that you've got me thinking about owning a Mac again.

We owned a couple in the early 90's, before I finally came to the conclusion that "Apples were easy to use, but hard to own." What I meant was all the peripheral products were so much more expensive due to less choices -- modems at $129 when the PC modems were as low as $39.

When Windows 95 closed the gap, we switched back. (I had owned a couple of DOS machines in the 80s.) I'd occasionally read articles stating the virtues of Mac, and a neighbor expressed he was thinking of going in that direction, so I wasn't fully close-minded on switching back, but I'd say it's been your enthusiastic touting of Apple that caused me to be looking at one at CompUSA on Saturday.

What do you do for work? It's seems to be somewhat computer related.

In the mid eighties, Apple made the best home computers. But from windows 3.1 all the way to windows 2k, Microsoft has been a better option. Apples computers in the early to mid nineties just did not measure up. Since 2001 and the introduction of OS X I believe that the Mac is by far the supperior computer.

I am currently a student and I work at Bergdoff Goodman (Specialty Luxury department store on 5th ave). I have been on a computer ever since I was 6. I taught myself everything by just reading and trying stuff out via trial and error. I taught myself a couple of programing languages over the years and kept up on all the technology news.

Most Apple users are avid apple users. When people joke about Apple being a cult, I laugh but then think... hmmmmm

[mack 44]

The games still suck ass, but I use mine now more for video/pics/music and it's a shit ton better than trying to do so on a PC.

[Vapor 0]

you can boot windows on a mac, so you can play the same games.

[Vapor 0]

[Vapor 0]

New Mac Pros (Replcing powermacs) were avalible today

Specs:

TWO 2.6 Ghz dual core intel woodcrest processors

1 GB of RAM

Two Superdrives

250GB Hard Drive

Nvidia geforce 7300GT, 256 MB

$2499

This is the base sytem. You can have up to 16 GB of Ram, 2 Terabytes of Storage, 4 DUAL CORE PROCESSORS (thats 8 streams of data) up to 3GHZ each.

[KYHockey3 0]

r they coming out with ne other colors for the ipods?

[mack 44]

New Mac Pros (Replcing powermacs) were avalible today

Specs:

TWO 2.6 Ghz dual core intel woodcrest processors

1 GB of RAM

Two Superdrives

250GB Hard Drive

Nvidia geforce 7300GT, 256 MB

$2499

This is the base sytem. You can have up to 16 GB of Ram, 2 Terabytes of Storage, 4 DUAL CORE PROCESSORS (thats 8 streams of data) up to 3GHZ each.

Helloooooooooo, WarGames.

[Vapor 0]

r they coming out with ne other colors for the ipods?

word is the new nanos will be avalible in different colors in 8 and 12 gb capacties in the old metal alloy enclosures (but at the same nano size). It will either be released in the next hour or in september.

[M-Cohen 0]

Wow! I may have to get me a new Mac Pro... That is freakin amazing. And it runs windows? Yeeeap, new computer.

[Vapor 0]

compared to the most comparable dell

[M-Cohen 0]

Vapor, this is going to seem like a retarded question but. I hate the mac mouse and if I'm going to run windows I need two button so, can it run any USB mouse?

[Vapor 0]

Apple Leopard features

1. True 64 Bit support via carbon UI (canr un 32 and 64 bit apps nativley, no emulation.

2. Time Machine - Automated Backup system built into OS X. You can set it to automatically backup files as they are saved and updated.

COOL FEATURE: Ever had time where you work on a doc and you do a save as and overwrote the wrong one? With time machine, you can get those files back by entering a date or time. NOW THAT IS COOL.

More features to come...

[Vapor 0]

Vapor, this is going to seem like a retarded question but. I hate the mac mouse and if I'm going to run windows I need two button so, can it run any USB mouse?

yes you can. I use a regular microsoft mouse on my G5. Apple dosent make great mice.

[Vapor 0]

3. Boot Camp - It has been avalible for public download via the apple website. Boot Camp lets you boot windows and OS X, when you start the computer you choose which OS to boot to.

4. Virtual Desktops - Lets you organaize multiple desktops. You can have a desktop for browsing, then one for photoshop, then one for music. With a keystroke you can go to the other desktop. (This has been avalible in the third party market for years). One cool thing: you can drag from desktop to desktop.

5. Spotlight: made its debut in apple 10.4 tiger. It is new and improved. Faster searches, and more powerfull. The COOLEST feautre is that spotlight can search MULTIPLE COMPUTERS. So if you have more than one mac on a network (and you have permissions to access it) you can search for files on the mac and launch files from your pc all instantly!!!

More coming soon...

[Vapor 0]

6. Core Animations - this is more for developers. Adds a great deal of production value ability to Apple developers. This will make it easier for software developers to make good looking and powerfull apps.