Today Apple announced a ton of stuff, from a new line of macs, to a new line of iPads (yes, a line). There’s a lot of material that was covered, and as usual I took thorough notes during the keynote, and as usual I will share those with you so that you don’t have to watch the entire hour and a half long keynote.
New ibooks 3.0
- night mode black on white- optimized for the dark. continuous scrolling
- all purchases- even ones not downloaded are on bookshelf
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- first live keynote stream since era of steve ended- last was Beatles event with Steve
- starting video the exact opposite of samsung commercials= the excitement over the launch
- 200 million iOS 6 Devices
- The usual apple boasting
- 70 million shared photos
- $6.5 bil to devs
- new ibooks available today
Mac Stuff
- Mac outgrew PC by 7 times this year- beating PC growth for six years straight
- Apple has both the #1 selling laptop and notebook computer in US currently.
- 13 inch macbook pro with retina
- -Thinner with Retina display
- no more dvd
- all flash architecture
- just 3.5 pounds
- as thin as retina macbook pro
- 13.3 inches
- 2560x 1600- 4X the former pixels of 13 in.- 4 Million + pixels
- second only in pixels on notebook to 15 inch retina- mor
- more contrast
- less reflection
- brighter display
- lots of compatible apps now that supports Retina Display
- stereo speakers- better audio
- quieter fans- asymmetrical
- asymmetric batteries= apple loves that asymmetry- 7 hours- yeah right- probably around five hours in reality
- 8 GB of RAM standard
- ivy bridge processors
- airplay to apple tv streaming
- teeny tiny 128 GB SSD- not much space for that price
- $1699 are you kidding?- $500 less than standard Retina macbook
- starts shipping today
- environmentally friendly
- black background in video- no white- interesting choice- first time in years- Apple white on black instead of black on white
- macbook air, macbook pro standard, and macbook pro retina all still sold
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Mac mini
- usb 3.0, bluetooth 4, ivy bridge, up to 16 GB upgradable of ram- starting at $599 with 500 GB HDD- pretty good deal
- $999 server w/ 1 TB
- most energy efficient desktop in the world
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iMac
- IPS Display- the same screen tech as in many high end tablets
- flagship of line
- going back in history- relaunched apple’s style
- New version is incredibly thin- as thick as a pencil
- WOW- looks incredible
- no disk drive- that could be a problem
- 5 MM- 80% thinner
- laser welding to put it together- friction stir welding- molecules merged together
- thinner display- no air gap between display and glass
- 8 pounds lighter
- stereo audio
- up to 32GB RAM, up to 3TB HDD or a lot (768GB?) of flash. Four USB 3 ports, two Thunderbolts, ahhh he did that so fast.
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21.5-inch iMac, 2.7GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD is the base model: $1,299.
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