Leopard contd

Dashboard: dashcode system for developing new dashboard widgets
webclip: nice
ichat: new updates, ichat theatre: iphoto slideshow, keynote presentations. Slideshow looks freaking great. Keynote playback looks very good. This would be a fantasic way to do conference presentations abroad.
backdrops are very nice

Leopard contd

Bootcamp, front row, photobooth all integrated
spaces: virtual desktop comes to the mac. Very nice
core animation: mind blowing demo. Watch the keynote presentation!
accessibility: voiceover. You can hear the voice inhale briefly before each sentence…cool.
Mail: think I saw an RSS button…
stationary, notes, todos.
notes looks really good
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Leopard

vicious, vicious ripping on microsoft. Much blood.
Lots of things they aren’t going to tell us about.
Full 64 bit support
time-machine: comprehensive automatic backup: okay, that’s cool. They’ve found a use for the vista 3d layered windows. The z order represents the same folder in the past.
Looks like they’ve really done this […]

Xserve

similiar updates. Looks very good

Mac Pro cont

Apple retail update
$2,499, about $1,000 less than a comparable Dell

Mac Pro

Apple retail update
Xeon dual core based, 64 bit, 2 processors, up to 3 GHz
2.1 * faster for int
1.6 * faster for floating point

Steve has entered the building

Apple retail update
NYC store, 1 of 157 stores.
Best mac quarter ever. 1.33 M macs sold, gaining market share.
Notebook market share up from 6 to 12 percent follow macbook.
Powermac fades into history

Take your seats…

I got my seat, about a third of the way up from the stage. The keynote starts in about half an hour.
Nice crowd,good music.

Movement!

We finally moved forward after about 40 minutes of siting on the floor. Now we’re all pretty much in a press next to a banner that says ‘Mac OS Leopard: Vista 2.0′
As Nate would say: BURN!!!

The Wait

I’m sitting on the floor surrounded by hundreds of mac geeks. Very nice…