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The keynote address at the annual Apple WorldWide Developers' Conference (WWDC) is going on right now.
Macbook updates
OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
iPhone updates
To be updated as more info comes along (from http://www.macrumorslive.com/).
Macbook updates
- All new 15" MacBook Pro.
- New battery with 7-hour battery life, more eco-friendly, recharges up to 1,000 times.
- New display with 60% color gamut increase.
- SD card slot.
- Up to 3.06GHz dual core CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB 7200RPM HD or 256GB solid-state disk.
- Starts at a lower price ($1699).
- Updated 17" MacBook Pro with up to 2.8GHz dual core CPU and 500GB HD
- 13" Macbook Pro
- 13" unibody Macbook now the 13" Macbook Pro.
- New display with 60% color gamut increase
- SD card slot
- Firewire 800
- Better battery life.
- Backlit keyboard standard.
- Starts at a lower price ($1199).
- Updated Macbook Air with up to 2.13GHz dual core CPU, price now starts at $1499.
OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Will be released in September (developer preview available today)
- Upgrade from OS X 10.5 (Leopard) only $29, or $49 for a family pack
- OpenCL: uses the processing power of graphics card for non-graphics tasks to increase performance
- Grand Central Station: helps make better use of multi-core CPUs (distributes tasks for increased performance)
- Support for Microsoft Exchange in Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Auto-discovery of Exchange servers, all email/folders/to-do lists are automatically populated, Spotlight immediately searches all data. Quicklook lets you preview MS Office documents through Mail, even if Office isn't installed.
- Refined over 90% of core OS pieces
- Rewrote Finder in Cocoa, which results in lots of extra features.
- Built Expose into the Dock. Click and hold on an app icon, and all of its open windows appear in typical Expose style.
- 45% faster installation of the OS. Recover over 6GB of disk space after upgrading from Leopard.
- Preview is now up to 2X faster
- Better text selection in PDF (using a "little bit of AI").
- Better Chinese text input, just like on the iPhone -- uses the trackpad to draw characters.
- Mail is up to 2.3X faster.
- Safari 4 features Top Sites -- been in beta for a couple of months -- final version is released today on all platforms (Leopard, Tiger, Windows). Safari is 7.8X faster at JavaScript than IE8 (Chrome is only 5X faster). Passes Acid3 test; IE8 only gets 21%. Safari 4 is included with Snow Leopard -- with some added features: crash resistance (sandboxes plugins), 50% faster JS thanks to 64-bit, new and faster Quicktime (hardware accelerated, new streaming method that works with any webserver). Full Spotlight search of browser history -- full-text search, not just the URL/page title.
- Quicktime player has a brand new interface -- the content is the focus, not the application. Now demoing Snow Leopard.
- Stacks handle lots of content better -- scrolling, drilling into folders.
- Finder lets you magnify thumbnails on the fly, similar to iPhoto. Can step through multi-page documents and play videos right through Finder.
- Quicktime X -- re-built from the ground up to put content center stage. Elegant controls overlaid on the video until you mouse away -- even the titlebar hides. Lets you trim and share video using a visual timeline that makes it easy to select the part of the video you want. The edited clip can then be directly shared with YouTube, MobileMe, or iTunes.
iPhone updates
- OS 3.0 with 100 new features
To be updated as more info comes along (from http://www.macrumorslive.com/).
