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Announcements:

Video here, but usually busy for a while after the event:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf04/

Note: Apple USA $ prices usually exchange exactly to Apple UK £ prices

- 20th Anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh
- 30M tracks sold on iTMS
- 100 million song giveaway with Pepsi USA, starting Superbowl weekend (Feb 1)
- G5 XServes with single or dual 2GHz PPC970, DDR400 ECC RAM, 3 SATA bays in a 1U space
- XServe RAID now upto 3.5TB, SATA, works with FibreChannel hubs, certified for Windows and Linux
- Final Cut Express 2 lanuched, with real-time effects
- Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, with first-on-the-Mac features
- iPhoto 4 with photo effects, sharing via Rendezvous, online photo and photobook ordering for Europe in March
- iMovie 4 imports direct from iSight and one-click movie sharing via iDisk (home made **** ), "Star Wars" style scrolling
- iDVD 4 now useable without a SuperDrive, move to another Mac to burn, new themes, iDVD authored DVDs can now be 120 mins in length (up from 60 mins)
- Garage Band, a new iLife app, 64 tracks, 50 s/w instruments, loops a la Soundtrack, 200 fx, 1000 pre-rec loops, guitar amps, use with any USB or MIDI keyboard, direct export to iTunes
- iLife (includes iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, Garage Band) priced at £39, included with a new Mac, available Jan 16th
- Garage Band JamPack: 100 extra instruments, 200 loops, 15 amps, 100 fx for £69, also Jan 16th
- M-Audio Keystation 49e USB midi keyboard £69
- 730,000 iPods shipped last qtr, over 1.5m in last 12mths, over 2m total
- 31% of total MP3 player market (inc. flash memory based ones)
- 10Gb iPod bumped to 15Gb, same price £249, new earbuds
- New iPod Mini, 4Gb, 1000 songs, 0.5" thick, $249 (no UK price yet)
- iPod Mini is business card sized with the same iPod interface, USB2 and FireWire out of the box (both cables included), designed to compete with small Flash based devices
- iPod Mini shell constructed from anodised aluminium: available in silver, gold, blue, pink and green, available in USA from Feb, world wide from April

I'll try and edit later with UK pricing

EDIT for UK pricing as promised!

[Edited by class_A - 1/6/2004 7:33:59 PM]

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iPod Mini "real life" photos

http://www.ipodlounge.com/assets/ima...004/index2.php



[Edited by class_A - 1/9/2004 8:23:49 PM]