symphonix
Scratch & Sniff Committee
Hi there! I am new to the Apple community, having abandoned my PCs after 6 years of Wintel and 2 happy years of Linux. I've ordered an iBook-Combo, but supplies are hard to come by, especially here in Australia, and I am still waiting after six weeks. The Apple guys tell me its still another two weeks away at least. One of the downsides of living down-under, I guess.
So, while working nightshift here I flicked to the Macworld Keynote on my work PC.
After so much whispering and hype, especially regarding a new flat-panel iMac, the show crowd seem to be a little disappointed with the lack of jawdropping new technologies.
The keynote mostly centred around software, in particular Mac Os X.
In the hardware department there was only a couple of new iMacs - now abandoning flowers and spots for more conservative graphite and snow finishes. Also, there are now two firewire ports, and more RAM.
And then, the new PowerMacs - the casing remains much the same but for a metallic frame and some sweet drive doors. They now have three superdrive models, including a dual processor G4-800. And of course, another firewire port.
The advances to Mac Os X with the soon to be released update fill some important gaps. Now you can put the dock to the side, and use your own pictures for the slideshow-screensaver. I was really impressed with the "Burn-CDs-in-the-finder" feature. The debugging code that was slowing down OS X is out and now it screams along ... bliss!
And the demo of iDVD 2 was simply astounding - I can clearly see that in a few years from now EVERYBODY will be putting their home movies on DVD with animated menus. All in all very good.
I mean, I can understand why people might have been disappointed, but from the reports I've been picking off the airwaves, people were close to tears after the keynote. Some were apparently very angry and disruptive.
I really feel for the people who put on this show, since they obviously had obviously poured so much effort into putting some brilliant technologies into the hands of their loyal customers, only to be knocked back with comments like "What a waste of two hours..."
Wintel would happily hype or prematurely release any product that wasn't ready, while Apple has been very careful not to promise anything they can't deliver. I think this shows how much they care about the quality of their product.
So, what did you guys make of it?
So, while working nightshift here I flicked to the Macworld Keynote on my work PC.
After so much whispering and hype, especially regarding a new flat-panel iMac, the show crowd seem to be a little disappointed with the lack of jawdropping new technologies.
The keynote mostly centred around software, in particular Mac Os X.
In the hardware department there was only a couple of new iMacs - now abandoning flowers and spots for more conservative graphite and snow finishes. Also, there are now two firewire ports, and more RAM.
And then, the new PowerMacs - the casing remains much the same but for a metallic frame and some sweet drive doors. They now have three superdrive models, including a dual processor G4-800. And of course, another firewire port.
The advances to Mac Os X with the soon to be released update fill some important gaps. Now you can put the dock to the side, and use your own pictures for the slideshow-screensaver. I was really impressed with the "Burn-CDs-in-the-finder" feature. The debugging code that was slowing down OS X is out and now it screams along ... bliss!
And the demo of iDVD 2 was simply astounding - I can clearly see that in a few years from now EVERYBODY will be putting their home movies on DVD with animated menus. All in all very good.
I mean, I can understand why people might have been disappointed, but from the reports I've been picking off the airwaves, people were close to tears after the keynote. Some were apparently very angry and disruptive.
I really feel for the people who put on this show, since they obviously had obviously poured so much effort into putting some brilliant technologies into the hands of their loyal customers, only to be knocked back with comments like "What a waste of two hours..."
Wintel would happily hype or prematurely release any product that wasn't ready, while Apple has been very careful not to promise anything they can't deliver. I think this shows how much they care about the quality of their product.
So, what did you guys make of it?