[Macwoburn] Fwd: BMac-Aug 2006-WWDC Wrapup

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Message 35      08/06/2006    22:28
Subject: BMac-Aug 2006-WWDC Wrapup
From:  Jonathan A. Duke <jonathan at bmac.org>,Internet
To:  BMac-Announce List <jonathan at bmac.org>,Internet

We're less than 24 hours away from the SteveNote, Leopard preview and more.

We'll review all the info that we have and dig out the crystal ball to
give you an idea what it all might mean.

And, as always, we'll have some great giveaways!

We'll see you there!


Now for the pertinent info:

Date:    August 9, 2005
Time:    7:00 PM
Place:   MIT campus, building E51, Room 325. Signs the night of the
meeting will direct you to the proper building and room.

Building E51 is on the corner of Memorial Drive and Wadsworth Street.
If you need a map, please check out our website at
<http://www.bmac.org/>.
Directions are below.

It is about a 10 minute walk from the Kendall Red Line stop.
Parking is available off of Hayward Street.  Neon yellow signs will be
posted the night of the meeting.

Thanks,
Jon Duke
BMac Executive Director
jonathan at bmac.org


Please note the agenda for the meeting at the end of this message.


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Directions:

- From Memorial Drive Eastbound (toward Science Museum):

Take the underpass under Mass Ave. Take first left off Memorial Drive
after underpass. This is Wadsworth Street. Go one block and E51 is on
the left hand corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets. For parking,
make a left on the corner and continue down to Hayward Street. Make a
right on Hayward Street and park in the lot on the left hand side.

- From Downtown Boston: Take Longfellow Bridge to Kendall Square.
Continue on Broadway. Take first possible left onto Ames Street, cross
Main Street, turn left on Amherst and continue for two blocks. E51 is
the right corner of Amherst and Wadsworth. For parking, go back down
Amherst Street one block to Hayward Street. Make a right on Hayward
Street and park in the lot on the left hand side.

- T: Take Red Line to Kendall Square stop. From the T head over toward
Au Bon Pain, take right onto Wadsworth St. The E51 building is at the
corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Street.


Agenda for Meeting:

7:00 Welcome & Announcements
7:05 Buy & Sell
7:15 WWDC Discussion
8:15 Q&A
9:00 Giveaways

--
Jonathan A. Duke
jonathan at bmac.org
Executive Director
Boston Macintosh (BMac)
Boston's Premier Macintosh User Group
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August 7, 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple announced at the Worldwide
Developers Conference this morning that the transition of  its systems to
Intel processors is complete following the unveiling of the Mac Pro and
Intel-powered Xserves. The company also  showed off new features of the
next version of Mac OS X, Leopard.


Message 10      08/07/2006    14:08
Subject: Re: Apple News. Sort of.
From:  David M. Walsh
To:  BBBS

G. Perry writes:
ThinkSecret: (12:55 Central)

No more details yet>


August 7, 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple announced at the Worldwide
Developers Conference this morning that the transition of  its systems to
Intel processors is complete following the unveiling of the Mac Pro and
Intel-powered Xserves. The company also  showed off new features of the
next version of Mac OS X, Leopard.

>From live.macnn.com so far:

8) Mail. Apple's bundled email client is getting many new features: To-Do
lists (automatic creation from email), notes, and  HTML-based templates
(stationary). Users can easily create and mange To-Do's via system-wide
service that can be integrated  with other applications and is already
integrated with Apple's iCal. Easy to create a "To-Do" item in Mail.app.
[08/07 
11:07am]

7) Universal Access improved with better VoiceOver technology for
natural-sounding text-to-speech voices, closed captioning  support in
QuickTime, Braille support, and more. Enabling all users to access all
features. [08/07 11:02am]

6) Core Animation allows developers to easily create animations.
Developers can specify start, goal, and any keyframes.  Leopard will take
care of the rest. "Scenes" can be created using layers of video, text,
images, and OpenGL-enabled content.  [08/07 10:58am]

5) Spotlight Improvements. Can search your Mac and others for information,
if you have permission. It also adds new advanced  search functions
(boolean, file type, etc.) and also adds a launcher for applications.
[08/07 10:55am]

4) "Spaces" . New virtual desktops feature to allow users to manage
different environments. Users can group different  applications to easily
switch and work on different projects. [08/07 10:53am]
Jobs talks about the history of Mac OS X and major releases since launch
in 2001. Apple touts 3,000 applications in just 210  days. Apple will show
off Leopard, but not the secret features, so Redmond doesn't start its
photocopiers too early. Apple  lists top Leopard features: 1) 64-bit
computing along with 32-bit legacy support without emulation; 2) Time
Machine helps keep  versions/backup of data. It
automatically/transparently backups data allowing users to restore entire
drive or specific  documents from a specific date/time using visual
navigation based on a timeline It automatically configures any attached 
drives for support and supports music, photos, documents, etc. for
easy/painless backup and restoral (if necessary). [08/07 
10:43am]

Apple debuts the new Intel-based Xserve, which Apple says is 5x faster
than previous generation Xserves. Features a smaller  processor, less
cooling due to power efficient ships, redundant power supplies, and up to
2TB of storage. Pricing starts at $3000 (standard config is 1GB RAM/80GB
drive/dual-dual-core 2.66GHz chips), about $300 cheaper than comparable
Dell server.  Apple will also offer 1 million BTO configurations. It will
ship in October. [08/07 10:28am]

The Intel transition was 210 days to complete--faster than anybody else.
[08/07 10:20am]

Apple will ship single base configuration for $2499 (dual-dual2.6GHz/256MB
VRAM/1GB/SuperDrive)..."Millions" of other  configurations via BTO. Now
shipping. Up to dual dual-core 3GHz, 16GB of RAM, 2TB of storage, and ATI
Graphics graphics x1900  or Nvidia FX4500 [08/07 10:46am]

The inside, however, has been totally redone [08/07 10:15am]

Can store up t 2TB (4x500GB) of information due to larger space for drives
because machines require less cooling. [08/07 10:15am]

As expected, the case design stays relatively the same (cept for second
optical slot) [08/07 10:14am]

A total of 2 TB of storage possible. Second optical drive, 4 PCI Express
slots, double-wide graphics slot. [08/07 10:14am] 

the 128-bit vector engine replaces "AltiVec"/Velocity [08/07 10:13am]

The Mac Pro has space for 4 hard disks because it requires less cooling
than the G5-based PowerMac [08/07 10:13am]

Real-world speed increase for average everyday apps about 200% faster
[08/07 10:13am]

The Mac Pro is 1.6- 2.1 times faster than Power Mac G5 Quad [08/07 10:12am]

The Mac Pro is being compared to the G5 [08/07 10:11am]

The Mac Pro and Woodcrest chips have tremendous performance per watt ratio
[08/07 10:10am]

3GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 128bit vector engine, 64bit chips [08/07 10:10am]

all dual core [08/07 10:10am]

MacPro uses Woodcrest [08/07 10:09am]

Apple says goodbye to the Power Mac line [08/07 10:09am]

Schiller on stage to introduce Mac Pro [08/07 10:09am]

Jobs is talking about last quarter results... strongest Mac shipments in a
13 week quarter, 1.3M macs in total. Mac shares is  growing faster than
the idustry rate [08/07 10:07am]

50 percent of new Apple retail store Mac purchases are to people who are
new to the Mac [08/07 10:06am]

1000 Apple engineers will be on site to coach attendees -- that's 1
employee for every 4 attendees [08/07 10:05am]

WWDC has 100 hands on labs [08/07 10:05am]

4200 registered attendees [08/07 10:04am]

The lights in the keynote hall have dimmed... [08/07 10:02am]

The keynote is about to begin. Attendees are being asked to shift to the
center of the seating rows. [08/07 10:02am]

Welcome to MacNN's coverage of Apple's WWDC 2006 in San Francisco. Our
coverage will begin as soon as the keynote starts. It  is scheduled for 10
a.m. PST. Please stay tuned to MacNN for live coverage. Feel free to visit
to the [  http://macnn.com/applestore ]Apple Store, our [
http://forums.macnn.com/ ]forums, or our irc channel. [08/07 08:43am]
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Message 16      08/07/2006    17:17
Subject: Re(6): Apple News. Sort of.
From:  John Hayes
To:  BBBS

There is a preview of Leopard at:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/

--John 


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