New Apple Lust Objects

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10548

(Other/better recommendations welcomed.)

providing updates nothing new announced so far

01:05 PM - Spotted on stage, small metallic box with Apple logo...

01:04 PM - The president of Sony is on stage talking about HD. Steve is a fan of Sony's prosumer HD video camera (just $3499).

12:58 PM - iMovie 05: Faster, non destructive trimming, more transitions and effects, mpeg 4 video, Magic iMovie (auto movie). Biggest feature: HD.

12:45 PM - iPhoto '05: Better searching, More formats, far more powerful editing, more book designs, better organization (folders, calendar view), advanced slide show (Ken Burns!). Supports MPEG 4 movies. Supports RAW. Prices for prints cut to 19 cents a picture. Really plugging the books feature, auto layout etc. New sizes: softcover 11x8.5, softcover 8x6, pocketbook 3.5x2.5. All 20 pages minumum, double sided printing.

12:44 PM - iLife '05: Major upgrades of everything but iTunes.

12:43 PM - Next topic: HD. 2005 will be the year of HD video. Final Cut Pro HD is the leading HD editing product in the world. But that's not enough: Final Cut Express HD. LiveType, SoundTrack, seamless iMovie import. Motion importing. Price point is $299 and available next month. $99 upgrade price.

12:42 PM - Tiger: Long Before Longhorn.

12:41 PM - The usual iChat demo, showed off 4 way video conferencing. Paris included as one of the video feeds.

12:40 PM - AAPL is trading down nearly 6%. Better hope for the $499 iMacs.

12:38 PM - The Apple Store is down... New toys are on their way!

12:36 PM - Funny: currency exchange rate--ooh might not want to do that (Dollar vs. Euro).

12:35 PM - I'd like to thank Om Malik for the internet access--everyone's trying to get on and I have a speedy connection from Verizon.

12:34 PM - Speaking of AAPL, it's trading down. Steve sez: "Still more Keynote to go!"

12:33 PM - Now demoing Dashboard. "Dashboard is a place for widgets to live." New converter module and a ditcionary. Stock ticker (with AAPL). Flight tracker. Translation. Yellow pages. Weather.

12:31 PM - Steve is showing off QuickTime 7's H264 features in QuickTime 7. Lossless scaling video.

12:29 PM - QuickTime 7 will be in Tiger, biggest update in the last decade. Live resizing. Full screen overly controls, HD playback. MPEG-4. New codec, h.264.

12:27 PM - Still showing Tiger, Mail.app being shown off. Ties in with iPhoto to add pictures you get in an email.

12:23 PM - Demo not working, Bill Gates style "I have a little bug here."

12:18 PM - Showing off Spotlight in Tiger.

12:16 PM - Tiger should ship in the first half of this year, over 200 new features. He's going over what was shown at WWDC

12:15 PM - Now for an update on OS X.

12:15 PM - The new iMac (LCD) is the most popular Mac.

12:15 PM - Please do not refresh the page, auto refreshes every 2 minutes. The server load is obviously high.

12:13 PM - Steve giving update on the iMac

12:12 PM - First MacWorld with HD projection

12:11 PM - Steve is on stage

12:11 PM - Make sure to join the chat.

12:04 PM - U2's Vertigo playing loud warming up the crowd.

06:50 AM PT - This page is the placeholder for MacMerc's live keynote coverage for MacWorld SF 2005. To the right you should see a box that will (once the show starts) contain the biggest news items. Underneath will be images from the show so it's quite likely that this space will house some of the first images of new Apple products to hit the web. This show is the first Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in quite some time (1 year) which has added to the buzz factor. Moreover, there are tons of rumors about new products that will keep us all on the edge of our seats. So sit tight and get ready--the good times start rolling at 9AM PT.

realtime notation
crowd impressed with the demo
John Mayer comes on stage to demo
debuted 1 year ago - great response - lots of requests
multitrack simultaneous recording added
recorded tracks now as flexible as loops
new jampacks available today
Next - Garageband
iDVD demo over
another demo
_R, +R, -RW et +RW supported
demo of iDVD
one step dvd creation
Next - iDVD

(msg brought to you by "clicked on this thread by accident but decided to be bitchy anyway inc.")

demoing pages
invites Phil on stage
awesome starting points for documents
40 apple design templates included
all featured you expect in a good word processor
pretty easy to work in Pages
can do almost anything
Pages - word processing
flash output
scrapbook
animation built in - fully automated
new presentation styles - new transitions, animated text
Keynote 2
Appleworks long in the tooth - time for replacement
Next - iWork

Liking Apple is sometimes oh so hard.

You guys actually try to watch computer expos live on the internet? I'm dating one of you and yet still amazed any of you get laid, ever.

Does this say more about us or more about you? *flees*

now over 400 accessories available
amazon's top buy consumer electronics product
crossed 10 million ipods sold
ipod & ipod mini
constantly retooling for new contents
15 countries, 70% global market
70% market share, even with all the competition
averaging half a billion songs per year
iTunes - more than 230 million songs sold
http://webpages.charter.net.nyud.net:8090/mattman7/mini.jpg
$499 with 1.25 G4, 256, 40 gig, Combo
prices for mac mini: $499 and $599
available Jan 22
most important new mac 'ever'
another at 1.4 Ghz
1.25 Ghz G4
coming 1st half of 05
half as high as an iPod Mini, surface of a little dish
comes with Panther & iLife 05
analog, digital video out
pizza box style - like engadget fake
quiet, fw, usb2, video out, ethernet - very very tiny
very tiny
Mac Mini
Headleass stripped mac - Macs

my fucking $3K powerbook is 1.25Ghz. God dammit.

I need Garageband 2

Also: Pages.

Is anybody else hitting refresh on the apple store page over and over again right now or just me?

iPod Shuffle
new device
something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle
flash player based around shuffle
want to make something really great
forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player
next?
marketshare of players has DOUBLED since last year
Going back to Jan 2004 - marketshare was decent - introduced mini to go after high-end of flash market
did phenominally
cell phones -
itunes client on cell phone - showing sample to the crowd
brought cars to preview - on floor at macworld
show
mercedes offering ipod jack in new cars
new ways to use ipod in the car

http://grizzlor.org/mini.jpg

iPod shuffle: Apple introduces iPod shuffle, its flash based player. Its maller than most packs of gum and weighs the same as 4 quarters (less than 1 ounce). iPod shuffle features volume up/down controls, a simple LED to provide feedback, but no display. The player offers both shuffle or album-based playback. It uses a USB 2.0 transfer connector at its base to interface with computers and sports12-hour rechargeable battery. Available for both Mac and PC. iPod shuffle ships with a lanyard that connects directly to bottom connector for easy carrying. Jobs shows new Apple commercial for iPod shuffle.

wowsa is nothing british, I'm thinking he's channeling rodney dangerfield

http://www.apple.com/macmini/