Another article on Intel’s Core i3, i5, and i7 processors: and when is it implemented in the MBP?
iPad Can’t Play Flash Video, but It May Not Matter, in this NYT article
So, what the hell is HTML5
27-Inch iMac Production Halted Pending Fix For Display Issues? yeez that’s why mine was delayed, got so tired that I canceled out, waiting for new MBP.
and last, Steven Colbert has an iPad… (video)
Rob Galbraith wrote a piece about the new MacBook Pro lineup. The new line of display’s used for this lineup is said to be much better for photographers.
“What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple’s MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the display’s glass front meant it was a battle to keep reflections at bay.
Fast forward to today and the overall MacBook Pro story is quite different: not only does the recently-revamped MacBook Pro 15 inch now ship with a superb colour-accurate display, but the new MacBook Pro 13 inch does too. Plus, the third member of Apple’s MacBook Pro trio - the 17 inch - has both a great laptop display and the option of ordering it in a much-needed antiglare version.
Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we’ve ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo - display glossiness - coming a bit later this year.” more here
Via MacRumors….
AnandTech takes a look at the new MacBook Pros released at WWDC last week and focuses on the new non-removable battery design. Apple first introduced the non-removable battery into the 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro last fall with mixed reactions from the community. Apple’s reasoning behind making the battery custom and non-removable has been the ability to incorporate a larger battery that will provide even longer battery life. They’ve also argued that most laptop owners do not carry spare batteries.
Anandtech found the 15″ MacBook Pro got an additional 46% of battery capacity with no additional weight. Improvements were dramatic in their benchmark testing:
….and updated Airport Express and Time Capsule.
In short what has been introduced today:
and a small surprise:
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said it would begin selling song downloads without the anticopying measures that have been part of its iTunes music store since it opened in 2003. It will also move away from its insistence on pricing songs at 99 cents.
Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, announced the changes at the Macworld Expo here. They are the product of a new deal between Apple and the three largest music companies: Sony BMG, the Universal Music Group and the Warner Music Group.
As the recording industry has sought for years, the price of many older and less popular songs in the store will drop to 69 cents beginning in April, while the biggest new hits will go for $1.29. Others that are in more moderate demand will remain at 99 cents.
In 2007, Apple made a deal with EMI, the smallest of the four major record companies, to sell higher-quality audio files of its songs without digital rights management, or D.R.M., the security software that limits how many copies a customer can make of a download, and also restricts what devices the song can be played on.
Many analysts saw the demise of D.R.M. as an inevitability, since the major labels have been selling music without those restrictions through other large online retailers, like Amazon.com and Rhapsody.
But Apple’s concession over pricing was seen as a victory for the labels, which have been struggling for eight years with steep losses in sales of physical CDs.
“It’s not something that’s necessarily going to be a blockbuster,” said Russ Crupnick, an analyst with the NPD Group. “But if you could increase the value of the average customer by 10, 20, 30 percent, that’s a huge win for the labels, because they’re struggling to find those incremental revenue sources.”
Mr. Schiller said in his speech that Apple would immediately offer 8 million songs without D.R.M. and add the store’s remaining 2 million songs by the end of the quarter.
From NYtimes.com
Other Macworld Keynote News
During some free time from work David (photographer) and Florent (video editor forNihonCar.com and ManualGear.com), put together a STUNNING Canon 5D Mark II video demo. We noticed it was made without technical support, only two little hands to carry the camera, and a MacBook Pro for video editing.
One word, congrats!!!!!!
Our setting were pretty simple, we used a Canon 5D Mark II, with the following Canon lenses:
14mm f2.8L II
17-40mm f4L
50mm f1.4
90mm TS-E f2.8
135mm f2.0L
…along with your average MacBookPro 15″ (old gen). No color FX on the video.
Oh, don’t act so surprised. A refresh of Apple’s long-in-the-tooth MacBook Pro line was pretty much the only sure thing slated for today’s event, and Apple certainly delivered. As for looks, you probably know the score by now: chiclet keyboard, Air-inspired aluminum stylings, and a glossy screen that’s flush with a new iMac-like black bezel. What’s new is confirmation of a multi-touch glass trackpad. Apple’s also put in some effort on slimming down the computer, naturally, but much of the real excitement happens under the hood. There’s a new internal structure, that rumored “brick” of aluminum that helps Apple make the new Pro thin, strong and leaves room for the real goodies: the specs. Apple’s using NVIDIA’s new 9400M GPU + chipset 1-2 punch for integrated graphics, supplemented by 9600M GT switchable discreet graphics chip for heavy lifting, and pumping out those graphics over a Mini DisplayPort connector, if you’d like to supplement the LED backlit screen.
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Apple’s taking all that new MacBook Pro love and shrinking it down to size for the all-new MacBook. The laptop includes those same NVIDIA 9400M graphics and fancy glass trackpad of its big sibling, but does it with a 13.3-inch LED-backlit screen and typically friendly MacBook pricepoints. The base model weighs in at $1299 with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, while $1599 gets you 4GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD.
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Another rumor to tick off the list, Apple just announced the 24-inch Cinema Display. LED-backlit, check;DisplayPort, check; $899 list price, check; MagSafe adapter, check. In fact, it has a tri-pronged cable that also includes USB . Other specs include a native 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, built-in iSight camera / microphone, integrated stereo speakers and a 3-port USB hub. Can you wait ’til November?
Tonight, Apple announces new notebooks and maybe more…….. Let’s wait and see….
Rumored products are:
10:04AM Vista — the 4th reason Macs are doing well. Nasty, nasty burn to Microsoft.
10:04AM Ouch — “The next up is something we didn’t do — Vista.” Big laughs. “I think it’s fair to say Vista hasn’t lived up to everything Microsoft hoped it would — and this has given us a door in.”
10:03AM ”Third reason: compatibility. When people looked at macs in the past, they were concerned about switching — we fixed that with Boot Camp. We also work with third parties on productions like Fusion and Parallels.” Windows on an iMac “Frankly this sends a shiver up my spine.” Big laughs.
10:01AM Tim Cook: “Good morning — our last reported quarter we sold 2.5m Macs. In several quarters in a row we’ve been growing 2/3x the market growth.”