Four announcements were dropped during this year’s somewhat drab keynote address. Check ’em out:
17″ MacBook Pro
- A 700:1 contrast 1920×1200 LED display with a gloss finish ($50 for matte upgrade) and 60% improved NTSC gamut
- .98? thick
- 6.6 pounds
- Integrated battery with a promised 7-8 hour battery life
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz Dual Core
- 6MB L2 Cache
- 8GB memory at 1066 MHz DDR3
- GeForce 9400M & 9600 GT
- 320GB HDD standard
- 256GB SSD alternative
- Three USB 2.0
- Firewire
- Mini displayport
- MSRP of $2799
iTunes
- iTunes Plus offers 256kbps AAC downloads without DRM
- The entire iTunes library will be DRM free by the end of 2009
- The iTunes comes to the iPhone. All tracks will be available over 3G and WiFi
- Tracks will adopt tiered pricing of $00.69, $00.99 and, $1.29
- Tracks can be upgraded to iTunes Plus for $00.30 a song or 30% of the album price.
iWork
- New version of Keynote with object/text transitions in addition to slides
- New document/presentation templates
- Keynote can be remote controlled via the iPhone with a $00.99 app
- New outlining and template design for improved document design
- The iwork.com beta offers document collaboration and global retrieval. Uses rich web languages to provide the iWork UI to any platform
iLife
- New version of Garage Band has guitar and keyboard lessons
- New lessons are $4.99
- Artists have supplied their talent to teach you their songs in instructional videos
- iMovie now has an incredibly powerful anti-motion feature. The crowd really found it stunning.
- iMovie supports new transitions, new scoring, better pre/post-editing previews, and more.
- Movies can be applied as sort of a 3D map of where you’ve been, thanks to geolocation and geotagging.
- iPhoto has facial recognition to organize friends based on their face after they’ve been tagged with a name.
- Photos taken with GPS-aware imaging equipment will be geotagged, and those files will be tacked under a pin on a world map.
- Geotags are reverse-encoded to apply meaningful names like “Paris, France” or “Arc de Triomphe.”
For all the complete details, be sure to check out our live-blogged coverage here or our Tweeted coverage here.
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