Back to the Mac - Iron Lion Zion

Back to the Mac semi-live blog. Check back for updates.

1:07 EDT Tim Cook talking about the Mac- 18 straight quarters of growth outpacing the industry. 600,000 devs., with 30,000 new devs per month. Return of Autodesk's AutoCAD.

1:08 Talking retail. Expansion overseas: Paris 2nd store. Shanghai and Beijing stores.

1:08 Back to Steve

1:10 iLife '11 - Whip your apps back and forth

1:10 iPhoto - full screen modes. Facebook enhancements. Emailing. New slideshows. New photobooks and now cards. Phil Schiller demoing.

1:12 iPhoto fullscreen goodness. Map + photo location info looks good full screen

1:13 That chick looked like Grace Park

1:14 Photo albums look iPad-esque

1:15 Reflections galore in slideshows...

1:17 Emailing photos looks a bit gimmicky. Like really annoying HTML heavy emails. For what its worth you never actually leave iPhoto.

1:18 Facebook integration. Social networking related info displayed. Pretty cool if you're into that sort of thing.

1:20 Photobook editing looks cool though I don't think I'd ever use it.

1:22 Letterpress cards... How do they work? They show us. Gimmicky but noice.

1:24 Now... iMovie

1:25 New features: improved audio editing, people finder, and movie trailer creation, among others

1:27 iMovie demo. Admittedly I'm not interested though others might be.

1:28 Ken Burns effect. Drink one shot.

1:30 Trailers seems kind of cheesy. I can see the Youtube videos now.

1:31 London Symphony Orchestra provided the scores at Abbey Road Studios. Now we know where those $50 billion reserves go to

1:34 Making tea. Not the keynote. Me. In meatspace.

1:35 Movie trailer. Too. Campy.

1:36 Oh hello. The Grace Park look-alike again. Though less Grace Park-like

1:38 I have never so looked forward to a Garage Band demo.

1:41 Group matching feature.

1:44 Guitar lessons. Piano lessons. Most interesting bits for me so far.

1:45 Uses sessions recorded in Vienna. Fuckin' Vienna.

1:48 Jony Ive is sexy. iLife free with new Macs, $50 to upgrade.

1:49 Facetime for Mac. "More Facetime than the iPhone 4"

1:51 Landscape mode ownage.

1:52 Beta release today!

1:53 Iron Lion Zion!

1:55 Back to the Mac. Mac to iOs back to Mac. Compelling.

1:56 Multitouch.. not the way we think it works. Touch surfaces want to be horizontal.

1:58 Mac App Store. One-click downloads. Free and paid apps. Automatic installation and updates. License for all your personal Macs. Mixed feelings.

1:59 App homescreens.

2:00 Unify Expose, Spaces, Dashboard etc into Mission Control.

2:01 Lion demo time

2:03 "..death of boxed software" - Ryan Block. Whoa. big tings

2:04 LaunchPad is very iPad-esque way to manage your apps.

2:06 Mission control - expose, full screen apps, dashboard, dock. Click gets you ANYWHERE

2:09 Lion set for Summer '11 release.

2:10 App Store to open in 90 days. App submissions starting in November. Get on it devs.

2:12 "One more thing" is being thrown around to easily these days

2:13 "What would happen if a Macbook and an iPad hooked up?" The New Macbook Air.

2:14 Unibody 0.68"-0.11" 2.9lbs Full size keyboard and trackpad. 13.3" Display. 1440x900

2:16 No optical drive nor hard drive. Solid state storage.

2:17 Wireless web = 7 hours. Standby = 30 hours.

2:19 Also an 11.6" model weighing in at 2.3 lbs

2:20 $999 starting price - 11.6" 1.4GHz 64 GB

2:23 Ad for Macbook Air. Now design video.

2:29 It's over. Thanks for those that read this.

Back to Mac Apple Event

In about an hour we here at The Poor Mac will be meta-liveblogging the event.

If speculation and rumors are correct today we'll see the new Mac OS X release, dubbed "Lion" by the bloggosphere, a much needed update to the MacBook Air, and almost definitely the official announcement of the latest iLife software bundle. Beyond that it's a matter of specifics.

What not to expect today?

Well I'm not expecting any news of iPhone on Verizon or any iPad hardware updates. Neither should you.

As the name suggests this will be all about the Mac platform and a major update to the OSX line.

What I'd like to see?

The only obvious choice is to make "Lion" more iOS friendly and blur the line between the operating systems. This means a touch friendly OS that offers the convenience of the iOS platform with the power and stability to run full applications that we enjoy in OSX.

Well in either case we'll see soon enough. What would you like to see in the next iteration of OSX? Drop us a line in the comments.

Keeping Secrets - But Not Really

It's always funny to see how people react to "secret meetings" of the most powerful companies in tech. Whenever a company like Apple keeps a secret, the press is immediately given a "we do not comment on rumors or speculation" and almost out of thin air, boom, an iPad (which was probably the best and worst kept secret in the tech world to date).

But what happens when other companies try to run a play out the Apple playbook? Well apparently that means a nearly 500-word piece in the New York Times' Bits Blog. In all seriousness this is probably a non-story about two CEO's meeting and trying to get some kind of strategy going for future releases or updates. We wish the best to both Adobe and Microsoft; and pretend like we didn't see Ballmer meet with Shantanu Narayen.

via The New York Times

UPDATE: Looks like Ballmer couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Google's Home Page Imagines a World Without War

Sure the headline is a bit servicey but wouldn't you like to imagine a world at peace. Of course you do you denizen of the interwebz. So go over to Google's homepage click on the doodle for today (10/8/2010) and enjoy Imagine by John Lennon.

In case you're too busy to imagine all the people being as one then check the video after the jump.

The Cardboard Box Hackintosh

This is the kind of ingenuity that we not just celebrate here at PMB - it inspires us! Hyperbole aside this is one hackintosh that we definitely approve of.

via TUAW