The Narrow Path

• 17 million visitors to the Apple stores last quarter
• Last Quarter was the best quarter so far; Shipped 1.3 million Macs, 3/4 of Mac shipped were Mac based
• Marketshare skyrocketd during June
• Mac Pro (replaces the PowerMac) has been released
• Same cheese grater case
• Woodcrest Processors, based on core 2 duo, all dual core
• Up to 3 Ghz processor
• Large 4 MB shared L2 cache
• 128 bit vector engine
• 64 bit
• Deliver tremendous performance per watt
• up to 3x a Xeon
• Big jump in performance compared to the G5 PowerMac, 1.6 to 2.1 times faster than the G5 quad
• Up to 2 TB of internal storage
• Second optical drive
• Increased front I/O as well as back I/O
• 4 PCI express slots
• Graphics slot at bottom – double wide for larger graphics cards
• Inside is entirely new:
• Drive carriers, insert drives without tools, just snap into place
• Processors fit in compact space, leaves lots of room in case for full size RAM, drives, etc.
• 1 Great Configuration
• 2.66 Ghz Dual Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), Superdrive, $2,499 (Previous fastest was $800 more)
• $1,000 more to get even close from Dell
• Build to Order Options
• Wireless Bluetooth and Airport
• Graphics up to Radeon x1900 or FX4500
• 2 TB storage
• 16 GB RAM
• Processor speeds are all quad up to 3 Ghz
• Xserve
• Similar to specs of Mac Pro
• Built on Xeons – quad performance
• 1U footprint still
• Smaller chip footprint, easier to get faster chips in. 5x faster than the Xserve it replaced
• More space and adds redundant power supply
• Up to 5 TB of storage
• Compared to the latest Dells, beats everything in the category, performance/price, etc $3,293 for a comparable Dell and $2,999 for the standard configuration for the Xserve.
• Mac OS X
• 19 million active OS X users
• 86 Million lines of source code ported to run on Intel
• There are now over 3000 Universal Binary apps (runs on both PPC and Intel processors)
• Apple accuses Microsoft of copying OS X and they showed lots of screen shots of Tiger vs Vista and their similarities.
• Spotlight
• RSS
• Mail, Calendaring, Address Book
• Redo Windows logo to have an aqua feel
• If you can’t innovate, impersonate (Shows a picture of an Elvis Impersonator)
• Leopard Overview (10.5)
• Can’t show too much since we do not want people to start copying us too early
• Support for 64 bit applications
• completely compatible with 32 bit applications, 32 bit and 64 bit can run side by side without emulation, no translation, full support top to bottom
• Time Machine (Backups)
• Only 26% of users back up in any way whatsoever
• Most say they are just manually dragging files and folders to another drive to backup
• Only 4% of users use an automated backup system
• Leopard will change all that; Automatically backs up a mac, when you change a file it automatically backs it up, backs up photos, music, documents, files folder, everything, then you can restore everything
• Backup to hard drive or server
• 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.
• There is a visual representation of moving through time
• Finder windows warp forward, grabs the file and then warps back in place in time
• Great for Finder, but can also work with 3rd party applications as well
• You can search for documents in the past
• Works in iPhoto
• You can find entire rolls of deleted photos back in time and then move them back to the backup system or the current time
• Absolutely the best way to back up everything you have, store everything and find what you need that you thought you didn’t
• A lot of new beta software will be included
• Boot camp will ship with Leopard
• 1/2 million downloads
• Front Row (access to all your media from across the room sitting on your couch)
• Spaces (Virtual Desktops)
• Create different spaces for different clusters of Applications to work with
• Can drag info from one desktop to the other
• Spaces lets you create collections of applications for different tasks that are intuitive
• Spotlight
• You can now search other machines if you have permissions
• Advanced search
• Specify file type and other Developer requests will be added in Leopard
• It will make a great application launcher now
• Recent items will be added, prepopulated with recent stuff you’ve been doing.
• More CORE Animations
• Allows you to dramatically increase the production value of your applications.
• Time Machine built on core animation
• Thousands of layers, text, images, video, OpenGL, almost anything
• Start space, goal space and keyframes
• Core animation handles everything in between, color, size, opacity, all kinds of things.
• Other Items
• Rails support (Nice!)
• Closed Captions for Quicktime
• Better ways to navigation the system
• Voiceover demo, text to speach (sounds like a real person reading), you can speed it up and voice is still clean and understandable
• Apple Mail Enhancements
• To-Do’s added
• Select anything and make it a “To Do” item
• Priorities, Alarms, etc
• Can take any incoming mail message and turn it into a “To Do”, Checkbox on emails to create a “To Do”
• Any application can contribute and create “To Do’s”
• iCal is tied into it
• One system wide To Do tracker
• Notes added
• New special mailbox called “Notes” to keep them separated
• Really easy to create Notes
• Stationaries added
• Photos email would be great to apply stationary and have it look incredible in mail – industry standard html email, can send to anyone and will still look the same on the other end
• Very easy to send Rich Mail
• iCal enhancements
• Post group’s calendar to the net
• Share with your friends, family and colleagues can participate in managing the group’s events
• Group Scheduling. View attendees’ availability before scheduling a meeting.
• Auto scheduling will find the best time for everyone in the group
  Share documents, contacts, even video by simply dragging them into an event
• Better API for developers
• Dashboard
• Over 2500 Widgets available
• For developers – Dashcode, helps to design, develop and debug Dashboard Widgets
• Templates, all the hard parts are done, just modify to produce widgets that you’re looking for, RSS, podcasts, etc
• It is a great visual editor for CSS
• Also chips with parts library – search fields, etc, drop into your widget and you’re done
• Full javascript logger (debugger)
• For Users
• Web Clip: Way to turn any part of any web page into a widget
• With 4 clicks you can create a widget for any webpage
• iChat (Seriously Enhanced)
• Multiple logins, Visibility, Animated icons, Video redorcing, and tabbed chats
• iChat Theatre
• Amazing real time effects
• Show slides to family and friends, iPhoto slideshow that you can talk over
• Can use Photobooth effects/filters with iChat
• Can change your background to whatever you want. Step out of the picture, iChat takes a photo, then you can step back in and it will filter out your background, you can do photos or Video if you want.

Link to Keynote Video

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