So what happened at today’s Back to the Mac event? Here are the deets, provided in a convenient list form. Looking for commentary? It’s coming soon.
iLife ’11 Introduced – Free with every new Mac, $49 retail. Available Now.
- iPhoto ’11
- Full screen display for all features
- New Slideshow themes
- Album view very similar to the iPad
- Facebook and Flickr can automatically download into iPhone ’11, even if you didn’t have them in the software to begin with
- Share feature allows you to e-mail directly from iPhoto ’11
- Sharing menu shows where your images go, including Facebook responses
- Book Carousel gives you a preview of making a physical book for each theme
- Project view shows all projects on a wooden bookshelf, similar to iBook
- Printed and pressed cards as a project option
- iMovie ’11
- Better audio editing – color coded waveforms
- Audio levels adjustable
- Audio effects available
- Instant Replay feature – allows for cool effects in sports
- Movie Trailer feature for films you make
- Face detection technology in iMovie ’11
- Trailers can share to Facebook and Vimeo as well as the usual options
- Garageband ’11
- Groove Matching feature allows matching separate tracks to one beat or groove
- Flex Time allows for adjusting waveforms
- Music lessons built in, shown in full screen
- How did I play feature compares the notes you play to the lesson – It’s Guitar Hero for the Mac, essentially
FaceTime – Available for Mac in Beta today
- Full screen
- Uses Address Book for contacts
- Separate app from iChat
- Display turns with iPhone display
OS 10.7 Lion – Coming Summer 2011
- Bringing iOS features “Back to the Mac”
- Multi-Touch Gestures
- App Store
- App home screens
- Full screen apps
- Auto save (Man, do I wish I had that 6 months ago)
- Auto resume on Apps when launched
- App Store
- One click downloads
- Free and paid apps (70/30 split)
- Automatic install and updates
- All apps licensed for all registered Macs
- Launchpad
- App home screen
- Can sort apps based on category
- Can create folders, just like in iOS
- Mission Control
- View everything on your Mac, at one time
- Expose view of all windows, including full-screen apps
Mac App Store
- Open within 90 days
- App submissions for developers start in November
MacBook Air – Available Today
- Wedge design, so no more drop down ports
- Preview images seem to be correct
- .68 inches at thickest. Tapers to .11 inches
- 2.9 lbs
- All unibody construction
- Full-size keyboard and glass trackpad
- 13.3-inch LED backlit display
- 1440X900 pixels – more than on 15-inch MacBook Pro
- Core 2 Duo processor
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
- FaceTime camera
- No optical drive
- No hard drive
- Full flash storage – SSD
- Instant on, up to 2X faster
- More reliable in mobile environment
- 90% smaller and lighter
- Silent operation
- 7 hours wireless web tests
- 30 day standby time
- Inside shown, looks just like leaked images for the most part
- Almost all batteries
- Appears to be the matte finish display
- Two models: 13.3 inch, and 11.6 inch
- 11.6 inch
- 1366X768 display
- 2.3 lbs
- 5 hours wireless web
- 30 days standby
- Pricing
- $999 for 11.6 with 64GB
- $1199 for 11.6 with 128GB
- $1299 for 13.3 with 128GB
- 1599 for 13.3 with 256GB
- All come with 2GB of RAM
