What is the highlight for this time's WWDC for Apple?

What i know is the latest version of OSX, and the released of MB Pro recently.. what else? iPhone again ah? ><

hi kev

try check here

http://mymug.org/forum2/index.php?topic=3420.0

p/s u should have mac ....alot of things u could learn and macbook pro is the best to have , both graphic task and productivity

I'm not a football fan... haha...
it's gonna be 3am in australia, not gonna wait for it...
rather wake up in the next morning, and read everything without any waiting...

but, i doubt if i could sleep on that night... haha

did i hear a one more thing???

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okies... no new hardware this time around... leopard features are definitely interesting!

(just wondering, why was the apple store pulled down? maybe minor unannounced revisions for some hardware?)

It will, no worries. They wont make something that you cant run on Current hardware.
Your question should be asked by ppl using G4. And very questionable G3...

Hmm using safari now, definitely is fast but not very used it.

Guys, when leopard arriving in Malaysia?? Canot wait la... fuyox...

By the way, tiger, leopard came out already.. what's the next animal? Eagle? or Elephant?

actually, the tranparent menu, it remind me of vista... but i think it should be adjustable... hmm... waiting for the report from beta testers...

but.. 300++ new features... and he discussed some of the old one... i think the rest 290 features are not obvious or important then....

Haha, mike, he was just poking fun at Microsoft for providing so many versions of Vista. There will be only 1 version of Leopard and that will be USD129

On a side note, it was pretty darn boring, the keynote. Most of the features we already know. I don't quite like the translucent menu bar. Looks rather weird...

I hope there are more key features to leopard that just those steve's probably not mentioning all of em cuz probably doesn't to give M$ a head start copying some of the features in an upcoming service pack(?) hehe honestly, you must agree that it was pretty sad how he had to demonstrate "look and the window reflecting against the dock" lol even on apple.com haha i mean we're talking bout KEY features here.. the the icon preview thing (something like thumbnail view in windows) was a feature i seriously wish OS X had. They brought it in alright- and made it helluva lot better! Very impressive indeed. Ah and stacks is pretty smart alright..

But i dunno ler.. i feel that there are more significant updates in leopard than what has been revealed today. Seriously hope there is..

edit:  Ah i know one significant thing Steve definitely left out- Sun's ZFS file system. Sun has officially announced last week that leopard is running on the ZFS format.

As a matter of fact, the previous leopard beta already use ZFS format, althought Sun didn't announce .. 

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=199903281

Article claims it's not as told by an Apple official

Leopard beta does support ZFS and has done for months. Just to to the Disk Utility -> Erase. The pulldown gives all the usual options plus ZFS, using the full name and acronym. Of course only developers get to see the beta.

Sun hasn't got Solaris to run with ZFS as the boot drive, or at least reliably, so ZFS is only available on non-boot drives on Sun systems, so this is also the case for Leopard.

More interesting than just ZFS drives is RAID-Z. A new form of RAID which uses ZFS and overcomes one of the major problems with RAID, the write hole.

imo, the keynote addresses a disaster to the Apple community actually. Nothing new, the new desktop looks like Vista especially that glass effect which I thought was Steve's joke and the iPhone with no Flash support and no SDK is really bad news for developers.

1. Opening Safari to Windows is a great move for the development community. Windows developers can now test Web apps for Safari on Windows machines.

2. One of the iPhone's drawing points is that it runs a full browser (albeit one that won't support Java and possibly won't support Flash), and the iPhone hype machine promises an unparalleled browsing experience for a mobile device.

3. Because Safari is the application platform for the iPhone, Safari on Windows creates a much bigger pool of developers for the iPhone than releasing an SDK would. Making any site "iPhone-compatible" will be the hip thing to do, and developing for a touch-screen device could unleash some serious creativity. (Think of the possibilities for porn! Glorious, touch-interactive porn!)

4. Non-native apps also means that iPhone users won't need to download packages or install software. This could be a significant factor for a device that only has 4GB or 8GB of storage (and a lot of songs and videos competing for that space).

5. Web-based apps running on Safari creates no additional security issues for the iPhone. Your iPhone will be as secure as Safari is.

6. Because the apps are Web-based, they are cross-platform by nature. But if you run them on the iPhone, you get a little something extra: a touch-screen interface. During the keynote, VP of iPhone software Scott Forstall mentioned that Web apps will "know" they're running on an iPhone and act accordingly. Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra may be perfected by the iPhone (ironically, a device that purportedly won't run Java).

If anything I would say Vista looks a lot, if not all, like OSX first

3. Because Safari is the application platform for the iPhone, Safari on Windows creates a much bigger pool of developers for the iPhone than releasing an SDK would. Making any site "iPhone-compatible" will be the hip thing to do, and developing for a touch-screen device could unleash some serious creativity. (Think of the possibilities for porn! Glorious, touch-interactive porn!)

Apparently, there's no ZFS+ for Leopard.
link.

And who said Leopard Beta has ZFS?

Not sure that Leopard can run one Core duo Processor or not.. cause from the WWDC, it stated 64-bit.. but Core Duo is 32bit.
For Core 2 Duo should be no problem..

Not sure that Leopard can run one Core duo Processor or not.. cause from the WWDC, it stated 64-bit.. but Core Duo is 32bit.
For Core 2 Duo should be no problem..

Probably you wont get the blasting performance boost of full 64bit. The OS will handle the 64bit to 32bit emulation* (as shown during Leopard 1st preview). Leopard will be a full 64bit OS which backward compatible with 32bit apps in short.

No idea how the performance of non-64bit or not fully 64bit hardware. Maybe the user wont get the full juice of 64bit. Then again, not everything will be magically faster even it is 64bit. For larger sum of calculation string, yes. But how often an end user get to do that are very subjective.

*Not sure if emulation is the right words, but hope you get the idea.

i think he meant that the OS, is 64bit from top to bottom as in if u have a 64bit computer, it will make full use of it...
and its also capable of running on a 32bit computer...
unlike windows where there are so many version, this has everything bundled in one...