JohnXE
07-12-2004, 01:38 AM
Apple recently held WWDC, their conference in San Francisco were they announce all kinds of things and developers, press, and Apple fans come together to check out what is new for Macs.
Apple announced new 20, 23, and the insanely huge 30in Apple Monitors with a sleek silver frame that is similiar to the look of PowerMac G5s and Powerbooks.
Apple also announced the new MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger" with the slogan "Redmond we have a problem." Poking fun at Microsoft and their Longhorn efforts. The 10.4 holds a few new improvements to OSX that Microsoft's next OS is actually trying to do. The amazing thing is only 1k engineers created OSX 10.4, and at least 5x that is working on Longhorn.
OSX has a file searcher which searches files much more effectively then any other file searcher program in any OS, and can even search the internet, doing what Google, and Microsoft is wanting to do in the future. Besides that it has more apps that works better in 64-bit Macs. It also has something called "Dashboard" with the click of an assigned key the calendar, address book, stockticker, calculator, and mini itunes player comes out of no where. I think that is great because these are a lot of programs I use and they can come up much faster without me looking for them. Apparently you can also asign keys to bring up indivual programs if you wanted.
Besides all that Apple has quit production of the iMac series, reportedly they ran out of 15' monitor imacs, and are trying to get rid of the 17' 20' in order to introduce 17', and 20' iMac G5s that will have monitors that look similiar to that of the new monitors Apple is making. I personally am going to be buying the new iMac G5s 17 or 20 when they are released in September.
Apple announced new 20, 23, and the insanely huge 30in Apple Monitors with a sleek silver frame that is similiar to the look of PowerMac G5s and Powerbooks.
Apple also announced the new MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger" with the slogan "Redmond we have a problem." Poking fun at Microsoft and their Longhorn efforts. The 10.4 holds a few new improvements to OSX that Microsoft's next OS is actually trying to do. The amazing thing is only 1k engineers created OSX 10.4, and at least 5x that is working on Longhorn.
OSX has a file searcher which searches files much more effectively then any other file searcher program in any OS, and can even search the internet, doing what Google, and Microsoft is wanting to do in the future. Besides that it has more apps that works better in 64-bit Macs. It also has something called "Dashboard" with the click of an assigned key the calendar, address book, stockticker, calculator, and mini itunes player comes out of no where. I think that is great because these are a lot of programs I use and they can come up much faster without me looking for them. Apparently you can also asign keys to bring up indivual programs if you wanted.
Besides all that Apple has quit production of the iMac series, reportedly they ran out of 15' monitor imacs, and are trying to get rid of the 17' 20' in order to introduce 17', and 20' iMac G5s that will have monitors that look similiar to that of the new monitors Apple is making. I personally am going to be buying the new iMac G5s 17 or 20 when they are released in September.