'Back to the Mac' Event October 20th

Sad Professor

And Apple are doing a live stream again. Hurray!

Oh and it starts at 6pm our time btw.

Sad Professor

Come on, get to the good stuff already.

Kimono-Girl

watching it now

Sad Professor

It was a bad sign when he said we'd be hearing more from the team.

fjon

Noticed an unfamiliar camera icon in the dock. Facetime for Mac perhaps?

Sad Professor

Are you sure it wasn't Aperture?

fjon

Nope, aperture is a circular camera lens, this one looked like the camera in iChat. It's to the right of Safari on the dock in the demo computer.

fjon

Yes.

Sad Professor

Yeah, I just saw it as well. It's the Facetime logo alright. Good catch.

You can see the same logo on the left:

dory

What's happening? Is it still on? I can't see it on that link.

banquo

Stupid VLan in work means I can't watch it live

banquo

Love the new iLife logo.

Hogzy

What the hell, i cant get it live at all. Im at home on a vodafone network, i have been able to see every other event on my Macbook. Im using safari and all i get is: Available Shortly Please check back soon

johnk123

Good spot there guys.... Facetime it is! Hopefully this is good... competing with skype maybe?

Rabble Rabble

19M = 14 iPhones and 5M touches.

Sad Professor

A Mac app store.... *gasp*

Kimono-Girl

facetime for mac wooo...


mac osx meets the ipad sounding good!

no touch screen but the trackpad is cool

app store sounds promising too!

Sad Professor

Never thought I'd say this, but the Mac App Store does look cool.

Launchpad - pointless.

Mission Control - interesting.

johnk123

Sad Professor wrote: »

Never thought I'd say this, but the Mac App Store does look cool.

Launchpad - pointless.

Mission Control - interesting.

It does look impressive. Will definitely make access to apps a lot easier and more efficient with them all in the one place.

90 days wait people...

banquo

One more thing

johnk123

johnk123 wrote: »

It does look impressive. Will definitely make access to apps a lot easier and more efficient with them all in the one place.

90 days wait people...

Here we go!

conor.hogan.2

Did they mention if the appstore will be the only way to get apps on the mac?

Not in this version - but in Lion, would they go down that line ( ) like iOS or an apple selection and a normal selection?

Basicaly will it be the begginning of the locking down of the mac or bodega but released and mantained by apple?

Sad Professor

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Did they mention if the appstore will be the only way to get apps on the mac?

Of course not. That will never happen. He specifically stated it wouldn't be the only place.

Hogzy

Thats EXPENSIVE!!!!!

$999 for the base model 11inch Model

Sad Professor

$999 is pretty much what I expected. It's below the MBP which is the important thing. It has a far better chance of success than it's previous incarnation.

conor.hogan.2

sad professor - you sure?

the isight on the air is called facetime - and everything is iOS centered even when they are discussing macs - they are deffo going more iOS like.

Sad Professor

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

sad professor - you sure?

Yes! The Apple-haters on Gizmodo and the alarmists on the Mac forums will undoubtedly disagree. But they are wrong. Locking down OS X like iOS would kill the Mac stone dead. Apple aren't that stupid.

the isight on the air is called facetime - and everything is iOS centered even when they are discussing macs - they are deffo going more iOS like.

True, but he also was quite clear about the iOS things that wouldn't work. Namely touch-screen. The iOS stuff will just make Macs more user-friendly and make it easier for iPhone/iPad users to switch to them. It's the "halo effect" and the Mac has benefited enormously from it already. Experienced Mac users like myself probably won't care much for the iOS influence but it will appeal to new users.

Hogzy

Was thinking about selling my MBP to get one of these during the keynote but seeing those prices... Not a hope!!!

conor.hogan.2

I disagree - I said back in Janurary or whenever on this board that they are going more iOS like and they are going that way they might not go all the way but we will see.

True - you were watching I'm only glancing so if he said those things that casts a different light on things.


Once they don't go all iOS like without having a way to use the old way I don't care - a bit like using terminal for everything if you want (but still gui and actually practical)

thecommander

Hogzy wrote: »

Was thinking about selling my MBP to get one of these during the keynote but seeing those prices... Not a hope!!!

What did you think they were going to be? I think its a good price for an ultraportable.