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Ahhh, oooh... Point well taken.

Oooh, ahhh... The new iPod touch

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[Insert iLife ’08 pun here]

Apple’s new iMacs are all shiny aluminum and glass but I was actually more interested in the revamped iLife ’08—and, to a lesser extent, iWork ’08—application suites. If you haven’t seen Real Steve Jobs do his iLife and iWork ’08 demo yet, you can watch the whole spiel in streaming QuickTime—the iLife ’08 part starts at around 13'30".

If you’d rather read about initial impressions of the new iApps (is that what we should call them?), head over to Macworld’s first looks at Numbers, GarageBand, Keynote, iPhoto, Pages, iMovie, and iDVD.

I’ll save the iLife pun for later. Something like “iLike iLife, uLike iLife 2?”

Edit: Added iMovie and iDVD. —calixton

Apple Inc. turns its attention to… the Mac?

Windows-only readers can skip this post.

For those of you wondering if Apple Inc. still makes computers, today’s special Apple Mac Event was a celebration of (almost*) all things Mac.



The first announcement was the new iMac form-factor. Thinner, sleeker, faster, shinier—the new, aluminimum-clad, 20– and 24-inch iMacs run Intel Core 2 Duo processors from 2.0 to 2.8GHz. Still no built-in Blu-ray burner, but I want one of these new iMacs almost as much as I want an iPhone. The keyboard alone is a thing of beauty.

Despite the new hardware offering, the bulk of the Mac Event time was devoted to iLife and iWork. iLife ’08 has significantly updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand (where’s the “i”?). iWork ’08 has revised apps Keynote (presentations) and Pages (word processing), and adds a new spreadsheet application, Numbers. I’ve never been excited about presentations, word processing, or spreadsheets, but I’m beginning to feel some tingling in the extremities.

Finally, .Mac (Apple’s e-mail and online tools service) got a storage and functionality bump (to integrate with iLife ’08), and the Mac mini got a silent processor upgrade.

Now when will TSW get all this new stuff?

*No Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, or Xserve news.

Max out your Mac — Apple announces 8-core Mac Pros

If you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket and you’re in the market for a new Mac Pro then wait no more. You can now order an 8-core Mac Pro workstation. That’s two Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors running at 3.0GHz.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

You can still get measly quad-core Mac Pros, but why bother—you’ll have to suffer the jeers and taunts of those rich 8-core (oct-core?) bullies.

Read more from Apple, Macworld, and MacUser.