WWDC 2009 and All That Remains
Posted by YILKA in Hardware, TechJun 9th, 2009 | 5 Comments
If you ask me about the latest Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2009), first time Steve Jobs did not lead the show – ever, I should say it’s an awe. The keynote give fulld details on release date of Snow Leopard, the next revision of iPhone, and also the re-branding plus price drop on MacBook laptop family.
1. To begin with, the long-time anticipated Mac OS X 10.6 (codename: Snow Leopard) is finally set to release in September 2009 
For upgrading from Leopard 10.5, users need to pay only $29. Alternatively, a $49 family pack will also be available. Meanwhile, Tiger users with Intel machines will be able to purchase a Mac Box Set containing Snow Leopard, iLife ’09, and iWork ’09 for $169 for a single license or $229 for a family pack.
The next-generation OS featuring a streamlined installation process (45% faster and 6 GB smaller) and speed improvements for applications including Mail, Safari 4, and Spotlight. Snow Leopard also brings support for Microsoft Exchange Server to Mail, iCal, and Address Book. It’s equipped with new Quick Time X which aim to enrich the multimedia for OS X.
Finally, Apple promoted Snow Leopard’s ability to use Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL standards to enhance applications on multi-core processors and to take advantage of graphics processing power. This point sounds alien to me but still good to know that it will be there 
The countdown already began, 3 more months to go ^^ Curious users can check out more details on Snow Leopard here.
2. iPhone 3G S:
iPhone is alreayd 2 years old, and this time we saw another major upgrade for it. The new iPhone 3G S contains many new features that had been rumored including Digital Compass, Video Recording, Voice Control, 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and (much) faster Internet speeds. It also comes with bigger storage and longer battery, or so it’s claimed to be
Now it’s time for iPhone owners think about the pricing for upgrade. It seems like existing customers could have a subsidized reasonable prices; the unsubsidized price is yet unknown. iPhone 3G S is available from 19 June 2009 and will come to several countries after months.
Apple together with iPhone 3G S announced that its latest iPhone OS 3.0 will launch on June 17th. The upgrade will be free for all iPhone users, and will be priced at $9.95 for iPod touch users
New significant features of iPhone OS 3.0 would be: Copy – Paste (basic function in my Blackberry 
), MMS, Landscape Keyboard, Voice Memos, Spotlight Search, and improved existing applications. Since it’s free, I bet everyone will love Apple for that ^^
3. New Macbook Pro family:
Finally Apple did what need to be done long time back to distinguish between it and Sony, Dell, HP, Acer … in terms of branding the products. The Cupertino-based company at last re-branded all its aluminum shinny laptops as ‘MacBook Pro’, leaving only the polycarbonate white plastic-look-alike MacBook as entry level. Clearer comparison can be found here.
The new revision of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are having a bump on clock speeds and hard drives. Even better, we saw a price drop of $300 across all models. Such a nice move right before new school semester begins; the Mac is simply more affordable than ever.
At a glance:
- $1,199. 13″ MacBook Pro. 2.26GHz. 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400. 160GB
- $1,499. 13″ MacBook Pro. 2.53GHz. 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400. 250GB
- $1,699. 15″ MacBook Pro. 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 250GB
- $1,999. 15″ MacBook Pro. 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT. 320GB
- $2,299. 15″ MacBook Pro. 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT . 500GB
- $1,499. MacBook Air. 1.86Ghz
- $1,799. MacBook Air. 2.13Ghz
After today, WWDC 2009 will continue for 4 more days with trainings, demos, and hands-on sessions for developers. Meanwhile the full length of the Keynote with numbers of great announcements is available in QuickTime stream from Apple website.
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AT&T had announced the price for iPhone 3G S: $199/16GB and $299/32GB for new customers; the existing 8GB and 16GB 3G models can also be purchased for $99 or $149 (while supplies last).
That’s for American. For other countries you might have to wait for a while
I’m so in love with iPhone
New 15′ Unibody MacBook Pro now also have non-removable battery and it will last for 8 hours
that’s freaking un-imaginably long 
. Report from AnandTech ^^
iPhone 3G S is reported to be ‘dramatically faster’ and ‘surprisingly better’ than iPhone 3G. And the latest iPhone OS 3.0 super responsive ^^ (read indepth review from The iPhone Blog)
Amazing!