NEW 15-inch MacBook Pro
- 7 hours of battery life
- Non-replaceable lithium polymer battery
- SD slot
- You can get up to 3.06 GHz Dual Core 6MB Level 2 Cache
- Up to 8GB of memory
- 500GB hard drive. Or 256GB SSD
- $1699 for the introductory 15-inch MacBook Pro
- Shipping today
13-inch MacBook Pro
- The 13-inch also has the same built-in battery (non-removable). And the new display.
- SD Card slot too
- Up to 8GB
- Also a 500GB hard drive or 256GB SSD
- FireWire 800
- $1199
MacBook Air
- $1499 for base Air.
- $1799 with a 256GB SSD. $700 cheaper than before.
All meetsthe stringent EP Gold standard
OS X Snow Leopard
- 45% faster
- Recover 6GB of HDD Space after install
- 3D Rendering for the dock
- Crash resistance
- 64-bit JavaScript performance up by 50%
- New UI for Quicktime
- Many new features
- Safari is claimed to be the fastest browser out!
- Quicktime has been built from the ground up
- SL can run all major Mac Apps at 64bit
- No threads, it Grand Central Dispatch
- Wants to use this power for everything, OpenCl
- Exchange support is now built into Mail, iCal and Address book
- Free exchange support for Mac users only
- SL available on all Intel Macs, past and present
- Snow Leopard will only cost $29, $49 Family Pack
- Available in September
iPhone OS 3.0
- 100+ new features
- Cut, copy and paste for all apps… finally…
- MMS gets announced… finally… well, sometime this summer…
- Spotlight. You can search calendars, music, notes, etc…
- Rent and Buy movies over 3G
o Supports iTunes U
- Tethering
o This works on Macs or PCs, over USB or Bluetooth
- Safari
- The Old OS ran the bench in 126 seconds. JavaScript is now almost 3 times faster
- Support for HTTP streaming audio and video. Bitrate and data quality adjust to connection speed
- Better language support, 30+
- Find My iPhone feature = service available to Mobile Me customers
- Through mobileme, any web browser will show you, on a map, where your phone is.
o Features a remote wipe, too
- Peer to peer support
Games/Apps
- Asphalt 5 - You race 27 licensed cars and 4 motorcycles “around the world”
o You can play your iTunes music in-game, too
- Airstrip Technologies - They allow healthcare providers to monitor information on mobiles
- ScrollMotion – does stuff with digital books
o There are 50 major magazines, 170 daily newspapers and 1 million books on the app store
- TomTom - This is the first navigational turn-by-turn on the app store. They’re bringing both applications and accessory integration to the iPhone
- ngmoco:) - Star Defense is a tower defense game
o out now @ $5.99
- PASCO – Spark - people can connect PASCO sensors to computers to record/input data
o The Spark app should drop this Fall
- zipcar – is the leading car borrowing service – you can find a list of available cars nearby for rent
o comes with a car horn and unlock function, too
- Line 6 and Planet Waves – Chord Master - the app connects the iPhone to an amp and to a guitar and adds a load of amp effects
o Demonstration was messed up, so not much info
o You can change your string’s tuning through the app and not in the physical world!
June 17th - iPhone OS 3.0 will be free for all iPhone customers. $9.95 for iPod touch.
iPhone 3GS (Speed)
- Launching messaging is 2.1x faster, loading SimCity is 2.4x faster, viewing Excel 3.6x faster, loading NY Times 2.9x faster
- SunSpider JavaScript graph - iPhone 2.0 126 seconds. 3G 43 seconds. 3GS 15 seconds
- The 3GS now supports OpenGL|ES. It also supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA!
- The new 3GS includes a 3MP autofocus camera.
o Everything about the camera has been improved
- We can now capture video!
o 30FPS VGA with auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure
o Can share video, too
- Voice Control – calling people, play album, etc…
o Ask “What’s Playing Now?”
- Built-in digital compass
- Built-in support for Nike+
- Hardware Encryption
- Better battery life
o The 3G got 6hrs on Wi-Fi, 7 on Video, 24 on Audio, 10 on 2G talk and 5 on 3G talk. 3gS gets 9 on Wi-Fi, 10 on video, 30 on audio, 12 on 2g talk and 5 on 3g talk
- No front camera :(
iPhone 3GS: $199 16GB version, $299 32GB version June, 19th (available in 80+ countries by the 26th)
iPhone 3G (8GB) will stay in the market for $99, starting today!
