{"id":471,"date":"2009-01-06T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:19:39","slug":"471","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"MacWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So another MacWorld keynote has come and gone. There was plenty of coverage in the Mac community, so I&#8217;m not going to go into a lot of detail, but here&#8217;s a capsule summary of the announcements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New versions of iLife and iWork, both of which have enough features that I&#8217;ll have to buy the upgrades. From my p.o.v., the most interesting enhancements are:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>facial recognition and geotagging support in iPhoto<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(what looks to be) a <em>much<\/em> improved version of iMovie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>in GarageBand the ability to learn to play songs by particular artists <em>as taught by the actual artist<\/em> using video, on screen keyboard\/fretboards and control over playback speed, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support for remote control of Keynote presentations via iPhone\/iPod Touch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MathType and EndNote built into Pages &#8212; Dennis will love that<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Online support for viewing and commenting on iWork documents via a new &#8220;iWork.com&#8221; site, which is currently free in beta, but eventually will be a pay service. (I&#8217;m actually not sure how interesting this is in practice &#8212; Now, if you could <em>edit<\/em> them online&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new 17&#8243; MacBook Pro, with a non-removable, <strong>8 hour<\/strong> battery life. (Of course, they used to claim 5 hours, but I never got more than 3.5, so this effectively means a real-world battery life of 5 hours &#8212; definitely not too shabby.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new pricing model for iTunes: songs can be $0.69, $0.99, or $1.29. That&#8217;s in the U.S., of course, so it remains to be seen what happens in Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All iTunes music moving (by the end of Q1) to be DRM free. This is great for people buying new music, but it should be noted that they did <em>not<\/em> wave the fee for upgrading your existing tunes to the new format. When I checked today, they already wanted >$60 to upgrade my existing purchases, and that can only climb as more tunes get converted. Oh well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some cool stuff there, but I was disappointed that there was still no word on new Mac Minis. My G5 PowerMac is getting pretty long in the tooth now, and since I basically just use it as a server (for this site, among other things) I&#8217;d love to replace it with a new Mini with a current C2D and a Gig of storage. Particularly since it now looks like Apple is phasing out support for the G5 processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So another MacWorld keynote has come and gone. There was plenty of coverage in the Mac community, so I&#8217;m not going to go into a lot of detail, but here&#8217;s a capsule summary of the announcements: Some cool stuff there, but I was disappointed that there was still no word on new Mac Minis. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[70,76,77,89],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-ilife","tag-itunes","tag-iwork","tag-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}