http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/07/live-from-apples-summer-mac-product-press-conference/

iMacs dumped the white and went stainless steel, got a lot faster, and the prices dropped.

New Apple Keyboard with a super-slim profile, like the Logitech DiNovo Edge. Not sure how I’ll feel about this. I’m typing on a full size version right now, and I like it much better than my MacBook’s built-in one (which this version is supposedly modeled after).

iLife finally gets an update… iPhoto is getting a companion called Events, a more powerful app that makes managing photos by the thousands a bit easier. I can attest to this being a really good idea. I’ve struggled between the simplicity of iPhoto with the pro workflow of Adobe Lightroom. Aperture’s codebase just sucks.

Looks like .Mac is finally getting an upgrade… we’ll see how much. It’s desperately needed.

Hmm, maybe not so much.

iMovie just got a huge upgrade. One of the Apple engineers finally discovered that between iMovie and Final Cut Pro, it’s impossible to create a video in 30 minutes (big duh), so he created an app that could. Sweet. I might finally start getting excited about video production.

There’s the .Mac upgrade… storage goes from 1GB to 10GB. About damn time. Your own web hosting is still far cheaper though.

Here comes iWork. They’d better expand this with a few more apps or it’ll get crushed by Office 2008.

They did. We get Numbers, a spreadsheet app that looks to be Excel Lite, more geared towards workflow. Lots of templates, and the ability to embed multiple objects and layouts on the same page. Looks like a practical app for the every day person, and not designed to match Excel’s programming ability.

I’ll use it, but this would have been a perfect chance to integrate a real tax return/small business feature into a main spreadsheet app. Missed opportunity, unfortunate for the rest of us.

Looks like that’s it for announcements today. They’re doing a Q&A now. On the whole a very consumer-oriented product announcement: iMac, iLife, iWork and .Mac… nothing from the pro lines. That’s a drag. We’ve been waiting for Logic 8 quite a while now.

Still… can’t wait to get my hands on one of those iMacs. Sexay.

I <3 Apple. 

Those new iMacs are just sexy enough, I may have to push the wedding dollards aside for a month or two and pick one up.

While not the most exciting announcement Apple has ever had, it was a good one.  The .Mac upgrade was a very welcome one as well!

Looks like Apple is bringing Sexyback!

-L

*James bows.

I <3 Apple. With the price cuts for the iMacs I’m seriously looking at getting one to compliment Mitsuki (that’s err.. my powerbook) instead of a new MacBook Pro to replace Mitsuki. All in all, a decent announcement indeed!

30 day trial for iWork ‘08 is now available:

http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/

That’ll tide everyone over till the actual software hits.

It’s all looking very good - I just hate the glossy screen on the iMacs. The glare on those things is horrible!

Really? I’ve been using a MacBook for the last year with a glossy screen, and the only time I’ve ever had serious glare problems were in the car, or outside if the sun was coming from behind me. In homes with tons of windows and no way to control the light, I could imagine it being a problem… the other 95% of the time it shouldn’t be.

I worked with customers on this when selling TVs at Magnolia A/V, because plasmas were glass and a lot more reflective than LCDs. In most cases we sent our installers out to evaluate the house… and it was really a non-issue most of the time.

rageous… go fuck an iMac already. jesus. :-P lol

You just wish you had one to fuck.

Well, it is all-in-one, after all. It’s bound to have that function somewhere.

The RAM slot perhaps?

Rage hasn’t been intimate with an iMac in a long time…