Sean & Alan’s Keynote Coverage

January 15, 2008 Alan

Sitting here with (from left to right), Jeff, Eric, Rick, Danh, Myself, Sean,  Natalie, Andrew, Charles, Scott, Sade and “Tupac” aka Peter.  

They started playing footage from Moscone, live.  The stage is really well done, large purple X’s adorn the back of the stage, there’s a different logo in the center, sort of like the Leopard OS logo ( with light rays coming from behind) Lots and lots of shots of people with iPhones, Steve Wozniak is in the crowd (Sean made the observation that he looks drunk)  Program starting..new mac vs. pc commercial “new year?”

  1. 2007 Recap 
  •  Leopard – 5,000,000 sold in first 90 days
  • NEW PRODUCT – Time Capsule: Airport Extreme + Hard drive (Wireless backup) 500gb/1tb $299 $499 Coming: February 
  • Office 08 shipping
  • iPhone – 4 million sold: Maps with location, Webclips, Customize home screens, multiple sms, lyric support (basically 1.13, available today)
  • iPod Touch – mails, stocks, maps (20 dollar upgrade for current owners), built into new iPods
  • iTunes: itunes movie rentals, every major studio’s support. 30 days to start watching 24 hours to finish. 2.99/3.99 for movies. 
  • NEW PRODUCT – Apple TV , no computer needed, rent movies in ***HD*** 3.99/4.99 , can stream pictures/movies from .mac web gallery or flickr (that portion of the demo didn’t go as planned) New Apple TV is a free software update for existing owners. New Price: $229 available in 2 weeks

  4th thing. “there’s something in the air…” Macbook Air – World’s thinnest notebook. .76 inches – .016 inches………

  •  fits inside a manilla envelope
  • uh, it’s really thin
  • 13.3 ” LED with isight
  • full size keyboard with ambient light sensor
  • large trackbad with multi touch gestures (most similar to iphone’s)
  • 80gb hdd or 64 SSD
  • 1.6 or 1.8ghz
  • 802.11n and bluetooth 2
  • no optical drive, superdrive external available for 99
  • remote disk in finder – “borrowing another computer’s optical drive”
  • 5 hour battery 
  • 2gb Standard!
  • $1799 (ouch) available in 2 weeks

Battery is dying now, see you guys later. 

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