What's New - Jan 21, 2009
By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2009-03-04 topher
Introduction
What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
- General issues, workarounds and fixes
- New Software and hardware
- Software and hardware updates/patches
- Apple Inc. related news
Agenda
- What's New
- Mac Anti-Virus & Security Products
- Mike Romo ~ Symantec Mac Product Manager
Apple News Bites
- iWork '09
- App Store
- 15,000 Apps, 500 Million downloads!
- Avg 33,000 downloads an app!
- Steve Jobs on medical leave till June
- Tim Cook tapped as interim CEO
- iTunes to go 100% DRM free
- Baseline MacBook gets small hardware bump (making it more like the alum models)
- NVIDIA 9400M, 2GHz Processor, 2GB baseline RAM, 1GHz system bus
- iPhone 3G unlocked by "The Dev-Team"
- Unlock is supposedly "very" beta
- QuickTime 7.6
- H.264 encoding, Motion JPEG playback, AAC encoding
17" MacBook Pro
Ref:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features-17inch.html - Suped-up LED-Backlit Screen
- 133 pixels per inch (12% increase over previous version) => more pressure for resolution independence
- 60% greater color gamut (over previous version)
- Up to 8GB RAM
iLife '09
Ref:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/ - iPhoto '09
- Facial recognition software tags photos by person! (not sure how well this works yet)
- iMovie '09
- Video stabilization, new themes, editing tools, titles, transitions and effects.
- GarageBand '09
- Piano/Guitar Basic Lessons
- Artist Lessons (sold via GarageBand Lesson Store)
iWork '09
Ref:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/ - KeyNote Remote iPhone/Touch App
- Control, view notes, etc via Wi-Fi
- Can open .docx files but only saves .doc
- iWork.com
- Works with all current browsers
- Viewers can leave notes/feedback
- Viewers can download iWork, Office or PDF versions for offline use
Mini Display Port
- Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA)
- Says the DisplayPort 1.2 specification should include Apple’s Mini DisplayPort
- DisplayPorts Muscle
- Run two 2560x1600 displays from one connection or Four 1920x1200 displays
- Refresh rates at 120Hz (possible stereoscopic 3D effects)