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Just attended Apple’s presentation for MacBook Air and all other products coming from MacWorld Expo 2008.
Impressed by the MacBook Air: so thin, so usable!
Manage to get your hands on one of these and see for yourself.
It’s so easy to forget this is an ultra-portable computer: full size keyboard, 13,3″ screen (LED-driven, immediately bright and soooo much shiny).
2 Gigs of RAM and a 5-hours+ battery get you running & working for a long time!
Quite impressed by Time Capsule: a must for every serious Mac (and Windows) user.
Will put update all info pretty soon; for some picture, have a look at my Flickr page.
Ok, most of us won’t be amazed by the new XServe: only guys hiding in server farm will actually, but the value-for-money ratio is quite impressive.
Under US$ 3,000 will get you a screaming Leopard server!
The real news is about the (not only) improved Mac Pro:
The fastest Mac ever, the new Mac Pro has eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor.* It combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage […]
What about graphics?
All-new high-performance graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA make Mac Pro graphics technology even more cutting edge. The standard graphics card — an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0, and two dual-link DVI ports — provides great performance for typical creative applications. And you get dual 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display support out of the box.
For motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering, or animation, you’ll need the greater graphics horsepower offered by the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and latest-generation NVIDIA GPU technology.
The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics card is the ultimate workstation-class graphics card available, with a massive 1.5GB of GDDR3 memory and a 3D stereo port for stereo-in-a-window applications.
All of these cards feature the latest-generation unified shader model support. Compared to dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, shaders are no longer special-purpose and can now be utilized based on the needs of the graphics application.
RAW image decoding support for the following cameras: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50, Leica V-Lux 1, Olympus E-400, Olympus EVOLT E410, Olympus EVOLT E510, Canon EOS 40D
Improved reliability when running VMWARE’s Fusion
Improves syncing between iPhone and Yahoo! address books
Allows the use of the special keys on aluminum Apple Keyboards to control Aperture slideshows
Improves reliability when mounting external USB hard drives.
As expected Steve took everybody by surprise: the new iPod touch is much an iPhone-minus than a regular enhanced-iPod nano.
The facts about iPod touch:
– 3,5″ wide screen,
– same touch-screen user interface as iPhone,
– slightly smaller than iPhone, but same cool design,
– WiFi-enabled,
– Safari & Widgets,
– 8 GB and 16 GB
Some pretty update for all other iPods:
– smaller iPod nano,
– bigger-capacity iPod Classic (hard disk-based).
Several weeks of rumors about a pending iPod announcement were apparently confirmed late Tuesday afternoon, when Apple sent out an invitation to the media for an event on Wednesday in San Francisco. True to form, the company didn’t explicitly say what was expected, but the white silhouette of a dancing iPod user didn’t leave much to the imagination.
As the invite says, “the beat goes on” for Apple’s iPod division. Almost six years after the debut of the iPod, Apple dominates the handheld music player market with 72.4% of the market in the first half of this year, according to research by The NPD Group.
I’ve just attended Apple’s press briefing for the new iMacs, iLife and iWork ’08.
Will post soon pictures, first hands-on impressions on both hardware and software.
iMacs look really pretty, screen displays are gorgeous.
Still have to try the new keyboard, low-profiled and featuring MacBook-style keys.
iLife ’08 shows some pretty cool new features, iMovie has been completely redesigned while iPhoto now tends to be a Web 2.0 tool aimed at .Mac Web Gallery photo publishing and sharing (videos too).
iWork ’08 updates Keynote and Pages but, most important, introduces Numbers which, of course, is the spreadsheet fellow of the band.
Numbers is really cool and shows off some nifty features most *xcel users really would love…
More on all of these when I’m back to the base, up and testing!
Impressed by the MacBook Air: so thin, so usable!
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As expected Steve took everybody by surprise: the new 