Dual 800MHz tops out the line with dual 2MB 元 cache - 12 Gigaflops of sustained throughput. Three models - all “Very Fast.” 733 MHz is now the entry level Power Mac G4. Jobs Introduced “second generation” of the Power Mac G4, called QuickSilver. Jobs joked that the poster answers the question, “What will you be doing on November 2nd?”
Photoshop was also demonstrated - using a movie poster for the forthcoming computer animated film Monsters, Inc. The example shown is the Spider Man motion picture teaser trailer made available from Apple’s Web site beginning last week. As you might expect, the Power Mac G4 smoked the Pentium. Both systems were shown de-interlacing video, cropping, and encoding using the Sorenson 3 codec. The units have the same memory and video card configurations, and were shown using Media Cleaner 5. Apple VP Phil Schiller was brought on stage for the now-familiar showdown. Jobs compared the 867MHz Power Mac G4 against a 1.7GHz Pentium 4. Rubenstein explained some of the architectural tradeoffs in chip design.
Schiller calls the Dual system Apple’s “new bad dog.”Īpple senior VP of hardware Jon Rubinstein preached to the masses about the “Megahertz Myth,” Apple’s phrase to describe the perception that a faster CPU clock speed is all that matters, regardless of how the processor is designed. Video of the Power Mac G4 was shown, with testimonials from Apple customers and more comments from Phil Schiller. Screen Saver can automatically point to a folder containing digital camera pictures and use them. The system will automatically download images from a digital camera.
Jobs went back to Mac OS X to take a third crack at getting a digital camera to work with the operating system (previous attempts had failed). Dual G4s can now encode MPEG2 video on DVDs at 1x, rather than 2x like 733MHz systems. Jobs read testominals and reviews praising iDVD from leading publications. He said that DVDs “are exploding” - market research suggests 25 percent of US homes will have DVD players by the end of this year. iDVD is consumer-oriented DVD mastering software. IDVD - Jobs said that between 100-200,000 SuperDrive-equipped Power Mac G4s. Jobs demonstrated some of the many new themes.
The software runs on Mac OS X in September - a free upgrade for iDVD users. Also supported are new themes, soundtrack in slideshows, background encoding, and support for DVDs with up to 90 minutes of video. Keep an eye out for additional coverage here, too.Jobs introduced iDVD 2, which takes DVDs “even more impressive” than most Hollywood DVDs through the use of motion menus. Or you can always just wait for recap videos and clips summarizing the event, which Apple tends to post to its YouTube channel in the hours after its events.
If you have the fourth generation Apple TV (the latest one), you’re good to go. Just note that if you have the second or third generation Apple TV, it must be running the 6.2 software or later to work properly, according to a report by 9to5mac. If you have an Apple TV, you can also watch the live stream on your big screen by downloading the Apple Event app.
If you’re on a PC running Windows 10, you’ll have to use Microsoft’s Edge browser. That means you’ll have to ditch Chrome for a little while. If you’re watching from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’ll have to open the page in the Safari browser or it won’t work. The main way to watch is by heading to this page on the company’s website, where you’ll find the broadcast in a QuickTime video player. Firing up the stream is super easy if you already own Apple devices. You can watch it happen in real time, thanks to the company’s live broadcast from the brand new Steve Jobs Theater at its recently opened Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Several details about the rumored iPhone X and Apple’s other product updates were revealed in a massive software and firmware leak over the weekend, but none of the info is official until CEO Tim Cook and other execs announce it on stage. The event is scheduled to start at 10am PDT, or 12pm CT and 1pm ET. So, really, you might as well just hit the Kool-Aid and watch the press conference live, right? Here’s how you can. For those two hours, you’ll likely see nothing but updates from the Apple event all over social media. For about two hours on Tuesday, Apple will reveal all of its latest iPhones, including the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, and other new products.