#WWDC Keynote Recap
Posted on June 8, 2009 by Jarrod Skeggs Tweet This
Highlights from today’s WWDC Keynote address:
- New MacBook Pro 15″ – improved display, improved battery life, processor speed increases, SD Card reader now included, entry level price dropped to $1,699.
- Enhancements to MacBook Pro 17″ – entry level product now has 2.8 GHz processor and 500GB Hard drive, entry level price dropped to $2,499.
- MacBook 13″ Aluminum is now MacBook Pro 13″ – tops out at 8GB RAM and 500GB Hard drive just like 15″ big brother, entry level price drops to $1,199.
- MacBook Air – entry level price drops to $1,499, processor clock speeds bumped up to 1.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz, and 2.13 GHz.
- Safari 4 is out of beta. (It is super fast BTW).
- Snow Leopard to ship in September – $29 upgrade for existing Leopard users, $49 family pack available too.
- iPhone 3G S – launches on June 19, 2009 in North America and parts of Europe, the S stands for Speed, will ship with iPhone OS 3.0 (which is available on June 17, 2009), includes Video Recording/Edtiting, Voice Control, 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus. Available in 16GB or 32 GB option at $199 and $299 respectively. iPhone 3G 8GB option continues to be available and price is reduced to $99.
- iPhone OS 3.0 – available on June 17, 2009, free to iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod touch owners, over 100 new features including cut, copy, paste, and spotlight search.
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Jun 08, 2009
Jay forgot to mention the Find My iPhone feature for MobileMe users that will allow you to go online to your account and see on a Google map where your iPhone is located. You can then send a signal to it that will cause it to playback an alert tone, in order to help you find it, even if the ringer mode has been set to silent. Pretty cool if it works. Though, I’d like to see the ability to set your tone or select from several, with one of them being for when it’s been stolen. I’d love to be able to have it play a sound that included a voice saying something to the effect of, “You have a stolen phone. GPS has indicated your location. The police are on their way.” Or something along those lines. Several more crass expressions came to mind, but I refrained.
Jun 09, 2009
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