So after talking to Dave Watanabe, an Airport Extreme, plus a USB 2.0 attached hard drive will work with Time Machine! That means Esther and I will have automated backups! Amazing!

Software

A little preview of some of the things coming in Leopard, Time Machine, which I will be looking forward to. Combine Time Machine with the Airport Extreme and some external drives, that kind of creates a network attached storage, with auto backup. There was a question about security. The answer was “It’s still in dev and there might be authentication, or you could wrap file vault around it, nice.

Spaces

Virtual desktop, yadda, yadda, yadda. VitueDesktop does it now.

Mail

Stationary (ARGH!) I hate stationary! Although, this is a better implementation. Notes! that’s what I’m looking for, that can revolutionize my personal productivity, especially with the ToDos, with the tighter iCal integration, wonderful!

iChat

iChat theatre!!! Can’t wait for that. That’s going to be so much fun. Imagine the video podcast possibilities. Screen sharing, now I can show my mom how to do things! iChat presentation. Nice! That will be perfect for helping the mother.

Dashboard

I created a Widget with DashCode Beta this morning, so this creates some new interesting possibilities.

Boot Camp

I asked about the boot camp costing, the answer was a great one. Like with iChat AV, if you are running the previous OS (Panther in iChats case, Tiger in bootcamps case) you will be charged. Whew!

More questions about bootcamp, compatibility and viruses and such.

Crap! Power issues

Apparently the column that I was plugged into didn’t have power running to it. So now I’m sitting away from the rest of the presentation trying to catch up.

Macbook - The machine I’m on. The most interesting part, serviceable harddrive, nice!

The magsafe and the sudden motion sensor, two things that are heavily emphasized. No word of the Smackbook

That’s it for the portables.

Questions about the LED backlight rumor… who knows

Vista via Bootcamp on a Macbook… should work with the bells and whistles.

iPods

Podcasting… very cool. Not much said… jokes about accessories

Airport Extreme

802.11n (just ratified)? All the normal stuff, will link later

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p>Apple TV… er… iTV… no… Apple TV

There is a educational value to this? I guess so for video podcasts and such

Questions about the N upgrade, it will cost, apparently due to accounting practices…. eh.

iMac stuff - The greatness of the all in one. Benchmarks are greater with the Core 2 (Damn you Steve! I’m stuck with a Core Duo).

iSight camera built-in, video conferencing is becoming bigger and bigger, especially on campuses (except here). More goodness, video extendability, some of the other features.

Mac Pro

It’s a monster. Looking at the specs again, holy moley!

Rendering Test, the Mac Pro (intel) wins vs the G5 version. Duh! 3 tB of storage, crazy!! Looking around the machine. Side door access, lights up and we get shown how drives can be added and removed. Cable free bays. Now on to a screen of the specs. 4,967,460 possible configurations. Huh! Upto 16 gigs of ram.

Going through a lot of the configuration, video, music, science, photography, design and print.

Done with a the desktops, onto the portables

Macbook Pro

Standard specs, talking about maxing it out, Why 3 gigs? Something about the processor not using it.

All sorts of stuff about the wonder of the macbook pro, including the glossy and matte finishes. I didn’t know that there was an option. Very interesting

People milling around. I find Michelle and Michael and a place to plug in

Introductions, Jack Burns, Account Exec for DC to Richmond.

Jason Bevins, the technical guy, Dave Wapada (?) Server guy.

Jason is giving an overview, a lot of financials, some stuff about the company, Apple is a debt free company, who knew.

Apple is becoming a recommended at more schools. They are also becoming really big in government and enterprise

Showing off about the Apple Stores (Michelle brags about the New York mothership). Apple is a $3.5 billion company in retail alone!

Showing off the product line.

Prosumer apps, more of the pro stuff coming into the consumer apps. “Is there a digital photo lab on campus?” Not here, apparently in the works.

OS, why the changes, who know, but they are saying Leopard in 2007 Spring.

Intel migration, no more powerPC (yup, my macbook). With the intel architecture, Mac is compatible with Windows natively, but they have always been able to connect and do the windows thing.

Bootcamp - Dual boot solution, who knows it (most of the group raises a hand. Parallels - Virtualization, mmmm. It comes from Apple that it’s fact, if you are doing graphics, Bootcamp. Back up Windows with Parallels very quickly. Crossover - Based on WINE, run windows apps without windows. VMware - Mac is now here, virtualization, just like the others.

Enough about windows

Mac Mini, small footprint, great for a small footprint. Taking a look around it, very nice as usual. (Look into for a home PC).

iLife 06, All the usuals, iphoto, iTunes, Front Row. - Small hiccup - Back up and running

Bonjour sharing, through itunes sharing, solution for pushing media around the house

BYODKM - I know the answer! ha ha