New Apple Displays are out!

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    Welcoming general manager of Alias to talk about new developments with
    Alias. 25% of worldwide sales are now on Mac. Maya Unlimited coming to
    Mac OS X.

    Going over apps by Adobe, Oracle etc...

    Mentioning a few applications. MS Office. It's great. Better than
    Windows version. Ran into Bill Gates a few weeks ago and his company
    feels that their relationship with Apple is better than ever.

    Now, onto Mac OS X. 12 million people on OS X. About 1/2 of our
    installed base. 12 thousand native apps.

    New graphics card costs $599. Additional notes. they all share the
    one cable out which provides DVI, Firewire, USB.

    Also - now - largest display ever. 30" Display. 4.1million pixels.
    same one piece alumn enclosure. firewire/usb. only works with PowerMac
    since needed a new graphics card. existing cards could not drive it.
    needs two dvi connections running in parallel.

    Today: completely new version of the 23" display. Showing it.
    Aluminum enclosure. one piece alumnium stand. Small bevel. One cable from the monitor
    which then splits. Also a 20" display. Same quality/enclosure.
    20" - $1299, 23" - $1999. avail next month.

    Now talking about Displays. We have the best displays. Our competitors buy panels we reject.

    25% increase for IBM. 12% increase for Intel over the same time period.

    Now, would like to talk about PowerMacs. Reviewing recent releases. 1.25GHz front side bus.
    Addressing the 2.5GHz vs 3GHz promise. Explaining that they shifted from 130nm to 90nm,
    but the whole industry hit the wall at 90nm and is a lot harder than people thought.
    So the speed increases have been relatively small compared to previous experience.
    Still says they are doing well in the industry but less then previously
    expected.

    Showing video about the iPod/LivingRoom/Car integration.

    Last week - introduced our first big breakthrough interfacing iPods and Cars.
    Talks about BMW announcement/integration.

    Talking about popularity of iTunes, iPods. A lot of people want to play music in their living room.
    Reviews AirTunes/Airport Express. can stream music from your computer to your stereo,
    integrated with itunes.

    3500 registered developers here. 17% increase over last year.
    People are seating. Music is playing.

    No updates Yet... event starts at 1pm EDT.

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