Apple News & Rumors: WWDC 09 - Round-Up

[Atheismrulez]

Also, my Mac mini is beginning to crap out on me. It has had several kernel panics in the last weeks and is freezing on a weekly basis. As I've figured out, it's a problem with the integrated Intel GMA950.

Macintosh computers are still overpriced for what you get, especially when you compare it to other manufacturers. Apple's Mac OS X Operating System is great, though, so I plan to dual-boot.

Windows 7 is much more stable and delivers a lot of new and useful features.

[DRBUK]

hi, well ye not everyone has good experiences with all products. im a 2 year mac user and ive had my imac cause a tonne of prbs. but i still buy and use macs, because im sorry, its better than windows in a lot of ways, again thats my opinion.lol.just my view. and with the new snow leopard, im sorry again, but the mac os is SO ADVANCED in terms of technologies, windows 7 doesnt come close, in terms of TECHNOLOGIES. and i very much doubt on THE WHOLE, windows 7 is more stable than snow leopard.

[Atheismrulez]

Yeah, but when you factor in the fact that you can run OS X86 10.5.7 on a PC if you have the right specs (motherboard and video card), all the argument falls apart. I'm gonna build a gaming PC and all the hardware I'm gonna use is supported, so I'm not going to shell out money for a computer that's 2x less powerful.

The technologies in Snow Leopard will prove useless to most Mac users that have MacBooks and Mac minis, as they don't support OpenCL because the GPU is a crappy Intel GMA.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Yea, but grand central will benefit them.

[Atheismrulez]

Only when doing tasks that are multi-threaded and use multiple cores, but even then, it's only a small improvement because it's only got two processor cores, not four.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Yea but in snow leopard ALL apps are multi-threaded.

[Atheismrulez]

No, only the core apps. Even they said that at the keynote address. Didn't you listen? A normal app is not gonna be multi-threaded. A developer will have to make it take advantage of multiple threads, which consumes a lot more time. And in business, time: money.

[MyRandomReviews]

Cameras built into the iPod touch would just be a huge insult to everyone who buys an iPhone.They really should look after the iPhone users more considering there is a 32GB Touch out now. And a speaker built in, and it's thinner, and it's about £100 cheaper than the iPhone. & When I'm txting or something on my iPhone, all I ever hear is "is that the iPod touch?" NO of course it isn't I'm f'ing texting you moron! LOL Bit too exited, so I hope the new iPhone will look more different to teh touch.

[Krisspychiken]

yeah i seriously dont fucking get it, i didnt buy a 12mp camera just to put songs on the sd card and use it as an mp3

[Atheismrulez]

They better do something convincing or otherwise I'm switching to Windows 7 and making my own PC.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Wow, really? It seems like when I want to move to mac, a lot of people are moving back to windows. lol

[Hypothesard]

who?

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Well Doerrfan or iBashPC is thinking about switching to windows 7. AtheismRulez or Mac OS X rulez. VegasUnderground has been using Windows 7 a lot. And some others who I can't think of right now. Windows 7 is decent, but I think OS X is way better. They can't compare in my eyes, as to what I am looking for in an operating system.

[Hypothesard]

Windows 7 is still in prerelease, yes?

Those users are educated, open minded and curious, I don't see how trying ("using" a Beta OS is not "switching" to It) can be considered as a sign of switching back, especially when at least to of them (iBash and Geryy/Vegas) use both in their respective activities.

[thinkverypositive]

who cares about switching back? We are consumers so we have the freedom to spend our money we want. This freedom creates competition, giving us better products. Stop thinking emotionally about Apple OS and treat it for what it is = a product. If it's competitior is better, u owe it to yourself to get their product instead.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

I agree, I don't care about who switches to what. Just find it rather ironic, that's all.

[Atheismrulez]

I've been using it and I'm switching back. Also, you're also incorrect in stating that Windows 7 is a Beta, when it is a Release Candidate. A Release Candidate only has small bugs, is feature-complete and represents what you'll see in the final released product.

I'm switching because the Mac mini I have is relatively powerless compared to the PC I want to build, and in which I'm going to run apart from Windows 7, Leopard. I'm selling my Mac mini and making a PC.

[wgalvitron]

i disagree big time....benchmark has proven time and time again that with the new improvement of nvidia chipsets the unibody macbook performs better in internal processing versus the unibody macbook pro

[Hypothesard]

O_o

Links, sources?

9400 chipset performing better than a dedicated 9600 GPU?

really? I'd like to see that !

[Siddif88]

Looking forward too it, i usually wat for the vid. I did last year i did for macworld but now i have the iPhone i think ill be following it on twitter and watch the video afterwards

[Skare567]

i will do the same!! I love to watch the keynotes :D 

[epicxbread]

I would happily pay the £80 for just the OpecnCL implementation.

[Dojan5]

Join the club!

[joelwalker71]

I'd love to wait for the video, but i know i'll end up watching live text/pics lol

[iAnton3000]

Snow Leopard show be a very cheap or free upgrade, since Apple is promoting it as a "feature-free" OS X.

[DRBUK]

yes but its not TECHNOLOGY FREE, many new technologies are being introduced which cost money to develop, so its not really a case of feature free.

[tavogp]

well no feature but its going to make ur old computer faster than it is maybe some features but not as much

[Salvakins704]

omg i'm so hype for wwdc

[justyman]

If I dont read the liveblog I go crazy! Ive also heard that the new Macbooks/pros will have OLED displays and get a little processor bump, only 18 hours, 31 minutes until the WWDC Keynote!

[KluttchProductions]

do you think that even though Apple wont be giving it's annual keynote address at the next Macworld that the tablet will still be announced?

[iconicproducts]

i never comment bt after wattching ur vids u made me comment, i agree with u, i cant wait 4 tommoro its such a big day..

[iTalkApple]

great video i agree with pretty much everything you said! when do you think apple will update the mighty mouse?? that's what i'm waiting for :D

[luis61961944]

were can i watch it live?

[Hypothesard]

Apple dropped the Lie broadcating of Apple Cenferences several years ago (Bandwith cost money, so does high avalaibility streaming servers)

But most of Apple related Websites will offer a near live retranscription of the conference, with or without pictures

Cheers

[Hypothesard]

BRBUK still is a partner, but had less videos before his final exams

the "clue" of a partner :

- personalised banner up right on top of the infobox

- Personalized banner on the channel page

- autoplay video on the channel page

[chese0000]

Do you think Snow Leopard will be released before Sept. 8 (before the back to school promotion ends here is the US)?

Thanks!

[PickledSock]

Pha! My mate literally seconds ago ordered a macbook (aluminum one) and I just showed him this video and he is lets just say slightly annoyed to be a major! Understatement!

[masterm1k3]

I think they might mention the iPod touch at the same time as the iPhone.

[WiifreakSS]

so does that mean i'm going to have to take my macbook unibody to the apple store to trade it in?

[iMacwizzo]

i don't think you can do that

[YEE941]

I think the imacs might might be upgraded

[kwats1016]

the imacs were like just refreshed.

[TheG0DF4TH3R]

I always like your posts..

But you didn't mention what will happen to the Macbook Air!

[DRBUK]

yep ur right. i think the macbook air is a tricky one to predict. i have heard they will have built in 3g chips, but i really cant put a date on that happening. perhaps nxt year !

[chinafriends]

quad core

oled macbook pros

3g macbook air

[3markymark319]

Will Intel Core i7 be on any new Apple Computers?

[jackmitchell123]

The Mac Pro had the i7s before they were released to any other OEM or system builder.

[NathanTheOne]

i hope they dont drop the white macbook

[ChampChong]

if they release a 64gb ipod touch i would get it in a heartbeat!

[Epic0fear0]

i bet its gonna be like $500

[ChampChong]

i would pay that, in australia the 32gb is $540. i got the first gen a couple of weeks before its release like 2 years back because apple sent it accidentally lol and it was 550 then oh and it was 16gb.

[lynx2cross]

The one thing I heard is a redesign of the iMac to make it look more like the new apple displays.

[TFDgohan]

also DRBUK the keynote is at 5pm our time uk time. because the keynote starts at 10:00am there time

[TFDgohan]

who thinks that the keynote will me a Steve Note or a Phil note for wwdc or both and just have Jobs do the new iPhone intro ?

[ipodtoucher23]

rockband mic

[flycrusher]

But there's already a apple tablet. Well its not madew by them but it uses leapord. Its called the Modbook. Search on google images!

[pieguy720]

I always go to the live blog. But then watch the keynote, it's just that exciting.

[Chritcha]

I'm kind of hoping apple's not releasing a tablet device tomorrow, because I'm going to buy my first iphone now if/when the new one is released, and if a tablet is released my wallet will be hurting

[OliGreenaway]

you said the tablet out at macworld. apple arnt gping to macworld anymore

[DRBUK]

lol ahh thats how much im used to apple being at macworld. i meant to say possibly CES, not macworld...old habits lol. thanks for that !

[falloutdec]

what time is WWDC 09 ? (prep gmt)

[TFDgohan]

5PM UK time

[TFDgohan]

or 6PM but im sure its 5 :D

[eripro1]

The RockBand mic.

[freshramses]

Yo man You know I enjoy your videos very much but why is this one in bad quali? And why isnt there any great music in your vids anymore? Back in the days you have been one of my sources for new hot music. Anyways thx for this video and keep doin what u do cause ya awesome

[arnolddisco]

Because hes a partner!11

[DRBUK]

quality nothing to do with me, its youtube, if you wait a few hours after i upload the video, the quality gets better, depends on your internet conection, and how you upload. i cant do much, its crap on my end.

[freshramses]

And what about the music ... is this also a partner-problem?

[DRBUK]

yep exactly, i cant just put up music. when i was a partner earlier, i could put music and it just wont play in al countries. but now, it just bans the video in all countries....sorry nothing i can do...if you want a good track, try this

D.O.A. - Jay-Z

[dastrman2]

wait your not a partner?

[freshramses]

haha...thx bro this is dope!

[MacDude96]

looks great! It should be an excellent event. Jon4lakers said he would send out tweets, about wwdc. So between him and various websites I should be set. Looking forward to Snow Leopard. I dont care much about price either, just as long as they dont raise it. I can definitely see paying the price now because of, like you said, all the work that went into it. Great Video!

[PaulusTheMisionary]

Good job!

[shaheerkanji]

quad core coming to macbook pro's?

[linkinpain]

macbook pro's get all the good stuff -_- so messed up..

[theramin987]

Yet another well-made video.