The Official WWDC Live News Thread

xserve permits up to an astounding 1 million configurations.

i think you can choose the speed, not the processor type.

$3293 for a comp Dell

$2999 for standard config of xServe

On to the Software news! Leopard here we come!

onto OS X now...

Jobs is boasting about the great job the dev team did porting Tiger to intel platform

"the software team did a magnificent job moving Tiger to Intel"

 

yeah, and the osx86 haxx0rs did a magnificent job moving Tiger to my generic PC

Jobs is boasting about the great job the dev team did porting Tiger to intel platform

 

as spected

dev team ported 86 million lines of source code to run on an entirely different architecture

That *is* quite impressive..

Over 3000 UB apps exist

on vista now

You can choose any processor for a Mac Pro? How the hell is this possible? Ughh.. my brain hurts. So supposedly its flexible and upgradable. So will we get a butload of drivers?

 

This is why I think it gets easier for us to use DRIVERS now, they have to support 3rd party GPU's.

 

It only gets better for OSX86...meaning we can buld systems much cheaper I suppose.

 

Might be 10.4 though...we

ll see.

Jobs takes jab at Vista, since that's all Redmond has been doing for the past 5 years

 

showing screenies of Tiger vs. Vista

"Redmond - start your photocopiers"

 

Talking of similarities between Vista and tiger

Tiger on Intel? Was that a overview of past news? Has to be!

 

 

ATTN" All, how long before keynote is on apple website?

This is why I think it gets easier for us to use DRIVERS now, they have to support 3rd party GPU's.

 

It only gets better for OSX86...meaning we can buld systems much cheaper I suppose.

 

Might be 10.4 though...we

ll see.

 

 

Yeah, very true. Maybe AMD chips? Would be able to move OSX86 to my newer box. I hope graphics drivers from ATI come and more universal binaries like Office.

Jobs shows a mockup of the windows logo in aqua

Hang on what happened to the new mac pro case - its just the G5 one?!?!?!

Hang on what happened to the new mac pro case - its just the G5 one?!?!?!

 

Yeah, same case!

Shows pics of Elvis impoersonator to further taunt Redmond

keynote is usually up a few hours after the keynote.

 

Leopard preview today. What we cant show: some top-secret features which we wont show.

"if you can't innovate, impersonate" pic of an Elvis impersonator LOL

I guess if you consider the addition of another optical drive slot new....