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Silicon Valley Sleuth has pictures and comments about the Keynote address, which goes a little quicker than the real thing (QuickTime).

A QuickTime stream of the keynote is available.

MacBook Pro is “Up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. And Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room.”

Apple’s price is $1999 for a 1.67GHz MacBook, shipping in February, with 512MB of RAM, or $2499 for a 1.833GHz model with 1 GB of RAM. Apple is taking orders today, Apple states availability in February.

MacInTouch: “We asked an Apple representative about booting Windows on Apple’s new Intel Macs, and this was the reply: ‘Probably you could boot Windows, but we don’t support that.’”

Favorite feature is, with the magnetic power connector. You can not pull the laptop onto the floor when you trip over the power cord.

I want one.

iWork ‘06
features two powerful applications for creating everything from school newsletters to business presentations. With Pages 2, you can quickly creat a wide variety of stunning documents. With Keynote 3, you can produce cinema-quality presentations, storyboards, and more. iWork ‘06 lets you express yourself with style.”

There are brief tours for various features each application.

“iLife ‘06, to be included on all the new macs, updates iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, and GarageBand, and introduces iWeb, an innovative application that lets you share photos, movies, podcasts, and blogs on the internet in minutes using .Mac” Take the tour.

14 million iPods sold, revenue was 5.7 billion, topping estimates and what Apple expected. Shares of Apple rose $4.25, or 5.6 percent, to $80.30 at 12:53 p.m. New York time, as covered by Bloomberg.

The 10.4.4 Server Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X Server v10.4 and is recommended for all systems.

The included fixes can be found on the web page.

QuickTime 7.0.4 is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife ‘06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

Important Notice to QuickTime Pro Users
Installation of QuickTime 7 will disable the QuickTime Pro functionality in prior versions of QuickTime, such as QuickTime 5 or QuickTime 6. If you proceed with this installation, you must purchase a new QuickTime 7 Pro key to regain QuickTime Pro functionality. After installation, visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime to purchase a QuickTime 7 Pro key.

iTunes 6.0.2 includes stability and performance improvements over iTunes 6.0.1.
Note: After purchasing music from the iTunes Music Store with iTunes 6 or later, you will also need to upgrade your other computers that purchase music from the iTunes Music Store to the latest version of iTunes.

The 10.4.4 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
- SMB/CIFS and NFS network file services
- Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, RAW camera support, including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- AppleScript, iChat, DVD Player, and Safari applications
- Dashboard widgets: Calendar and Stocks
- Software Update and Sync Services
- compatibility with USB and FireWire devices and third party applications
- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website.

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website.