
This is it: the final keynote, and the last Macworld with Apple as a direct participator. Phill Schiller will be delivering the "One More Thing," keynote, as Steve Jobs, who is NOT dying, wanted to spend time with his family. The keynote starts NOW so check after the jump for all details.. refresh and repeat.
- All the timestamps are in EST form, though its 9am at the Moscone, its 12PM here. Productivity ceases now....
- 12:00 - Coldplay.... again.
- 12:05 - Schiller on stage, stoked to present, blah blah blah, Apple store Metrics, blah blah, Beijing, 9.7 Million macs.
PS - I'm getting the feed facts from Macrumors and Gizmodo. there isn't a covert ustream feed... yet.
- 12:08 - iLife 09... New iPhoto. I say screw that, Google's Picassa just launched for Mac.
- 12:13 - iPhoto adds face recognition and geotagging support. more ways for Apple to hypermanage your stuff.
- 12:16 - iPhoto adds native export support for facebook and flickr... Finally. Note that you can do this now with free plugins.
- 12:30 - iPhoto demo over with... meanwhile macrumors livefeed gets hacked. "STEVE JOBS JUST DIED" flashed on the screen, a few minutes later.. "SEX ME" appears to be an AJAX injection attack. Moving on..
- 12:32 - iMovie 09 gets precision controls, insertion of 2d and 3d maps. Video stabilization, and themes. *Macrumors feed goes down.
- 12:45 - PhilNote carries onto Garageband. New feature, "learn to play." Teaches you to play an instrument, will not make you better at Guitar Hero.
- 12:52 - iLife ships in late January, $79 upgrade, or $99, Family pack that installs on 5 macs.
- 12:54 - iWork - it uh, works. Keynote adds some new effects, transitions. Phil used it for his keynote, but still can't be Jobs.
- 12:55 - Keynote Remote... lets you view and control slides from your iphone or iPod touch.
- 1:06 - sorry, fell asleep. you can get iWork and iLife as a box set with Leopard for $169 when it ships in late January.
- 1:07 - iWork.com lets you view and share documents over the web. beta launching soon.
- 1:13 - One more thing. new 17 macbook pro's with the same Unibody hardware as the 15-inchers.
- 1:17 - integrated 9400M and 9600M graphics cards. 320GB HDD or upgrade to 256GB SSD. Supports up to 24inch cinema display, and 17-inch screen ships with a native resolution of 1920×1200. Also the lightest and thinnest 17 notebook evar. Whooopdeedoo. Battery can not be removed, but claimes 8 hours, with 1000 cycles. $2799
- there is a bit more about itunes but i don't care.. eff this shit.
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