Wow! What a show! Apple and their amazing products and marketing have done it again! Let’s summarize some of the things what we saw!
NEW MACBOOK PROS
15-Inch MacBook Pro
Battery: Built in, non user replaceable
Battery: To last 5 years; 7 hours battery life (2 hours longer than before)
Hardware: Built in SD Slot
Hardware: Up to 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 6MB Level 2 Cache
Memory: Up to 8GB of memory, 1066 MHz DDR3
Storage: 500GB Hard Drive or 256GB Solidstate Drive
Price: $1,999 for the introductory 15-Inch MacBook Pro
Price: $2,299 for 2.66Ghz; $2,599 for 2.8GHz
17-inch MacBook Pro: Drops in price to $2,899
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13-Inch MacBook Pro
Battery: Built in, non user replaceable
Battery: To last 5 years; 7 hours battery life (2 hours longer than before)
Hardware: Built in SD Slot; Firewire 800
Memory: Up to 8GB of memory, 1066 MHz DDR3
Storage: 500GB Hard Drive or 256 SSD
Keyboard: Backlit keyboard
Price: $1,399 for the introductory 13-Inch MacBook Pro
Price: $1,749 for the 2.53GHz 13-Inch MacBook Pro
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MacBook Air
Hardware: 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo
Price: $1,749 for introductory MacBook Air
Price: $2,099 for 2.13GHz MacBook Air
Storage: 120GB Hard Drive or 128GB SSD
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iPhone OS 3.0
Editing: Cut, copy, paste
Editing: Undo support
Keyboard: Landscape keyboard in Mail, Notes, Messages
Messaging: MMS support (All good with Rogers)
Search: You can search Mail, Notes, Calendars, and Music
Spotlight: Allows you to search through the entire iPhone
iTunes: To allow rental and purchase of movies from the iPhone, as well as TV shows, music videos, and audio books over 3G
Tethering: Mac or PC; USB or Bluetooth (All good with Rogers)
Safari: HTTP streaming video and audio
Safari: Auto-fill option
Language support: More than 30 languages all supported in Landscape or Portrait keyboard layouts
Find My iPhone: Available to MobileMe customers. Shows iPhone on any web browser on a map through MobileMe. You can message your phone, alerting it. People can pick up the iPhone and call the number you specify. You can also send a remote wipe command.
In App Purchases: Renew magazine subscriptions or buy additional game packs (only available on paid apps).
Peer to Peer Support: Automatically find another player in close proximity and connect together (play games for example)
Push Notifications: With supported apps
TomTom Application: Turn by turn GPS navigation
Availability: June 17, 2009; Free for iPhone owners; $9.95 for iPod Touch owners
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Feature: 3D rendering and built in Expose for the Dock
Feature: Faster OS installation; recovers 6GB of hard drive space
Feature: Chinese Input Method using the Trackpad
Feature: New magnifier allows you to zoom into your thumbnails within the Finder
Feature: Play movies and scroll through PDF’s from the icon in Finder
Feature: Runs all major OS X apps running in 64-bit
Feature: Exchange support built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal
Price: Available on Intel based Macs for $129
Price: Available to current Leopard owners for upgrade price of $29
Availability: September 2009
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Safari 4.0 (Mac OS X 10.6)
Availability: Shipping for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows
Feature: Crash resistance
Feature: Tabs
Feature: Faster Javascript performance
Feature: CoverFlow for searching History
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QuickTime 10 (For Mac OS X 10.6)
Feature: Hardware acceleration
Feature: Color Sync
Feature: HTTP Streaming
Feature: Video editing from within Quicktime
Feature: Frameless video playback
User interface: Looks like the full video screen mode of iTunes
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iPhone 3GS
Design: Same design as the iPhone 3G; Gloss back, same size
Screen: fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, meaning the screen does not attract finger prints as much
Speed: Launching messaging is 2.1x faster; other apps are faster by almost 3x
Network: Supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
Camera: 3MP camera with Autofocus
Camera: Includes autofocus, autoexposure. Tap to focus; allows focus and white balance changing on the fly.
Camera: Low light sensitivity improved
Camera: Includes video capture. A new switch says “Still” or “Movie”; 30 FPS VGA. Videos are stored along side pictures in the Photo app.
Camera: Trim video with tap of your finger from within the app.
Voice Control: Dial people in your contact list using your voice. Hold down home button and say the name of who you want to call. The various commands you can use float across the screen when the app is open. Also can control iPod playback and playlists by using Voice. For example, you can ask “whats playing now?”
Digital Compass: Shows orientation in Google Maps (so you actually know which way you are moving), longitude, latitude and link to Google Maps
Accessibility: Voiceover accessibility setting reads what you touch on the screen
Nike+: Built in support for Nike+
Hardware encryption: Instant data wipe and encryption in iTunes as well
Battery: 9 hours Wi-Fi (was 6), 10 hours video (was 7), 30 hours audio (was 24), 12 hours on 2G (was 10), 5 hours on 3G talk
Price: $199 for iPhone 3GS 16GB White or Black
Price: $299 for iPhone 3GS 32GB White or Black
Availability: iPhone 3GS available June 19, 2009.
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iPhone 3G
Price: $99 for iPhone 3G 8GB Black
Availability: Only iPhone 3G 8GB Black is available; 16GB discontinued.
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