Macworld
Tonight at the ApplePickers meeting we discussed the announcements during the keynote address. iLife ’06 made some updates and even added a new application. Apple is making lots of the features only accessible with a .mac account. iLife ’06 sells for $79. I’m not going to go too much in detail about this.
iWork ’06 is still not the full-featured replacement for AppleWorks, it does add more features to both Keynote and Pages. Pages 2 adds mail merge with Address Book and new templates. Keynote 3 adds new HD themes and new cinematic transitions. Both Keynote and Pages add 3D charts, tables with calculations, and freeform curves, shapes and masks.
The last announcements were the first Intel powered Apple laptop and desktop. The new laptop is the MacBook Pro and the desktop is the iMac. The PowerBook is slowly dying as they are still making them, but all Apple computers will transition to Intel processors by the end of 2006.
This seems to be last nail in the coffin for classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9 and earlier). Only Mac OS X is supported by the Intel Macs. Apple seems to be making a smooth transition. During this transition Mac software will become Universal Binaries, which mean the application will run on Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs (the current processor Apple uses). Many programs are already universal binaries.
That is just a brief overview of what happened at Macworld. I will probably add more information as I learn more. Back to the ApplePickers meeting, we had a great question and answer session and had our monthly raffle which included some software which sold at great prices.
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