{"id":8112,"date":"2010-10-20T11:59:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2014-05-25T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T03:31:44","slug":"live-coverage-of-the-back-to-the-mac-event-from-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2010\/10\/20\/live-coverage-of-the-back-to-the-mac-event-from-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Coverage of the “Back to the Mac” Event from Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in the Back to the Mac<\/a> article I just posted, I’ll be covering it here.<\/p>\n

You can view the live stream here<\/a> on a Mac with Mac OS X 10.6 and Snow Leopard and Safari or an iPhone or iPad, and iPod touch. Latest updates at the bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Event has started:<\/strong>
\n– Discussion of developers – AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, etc.
\n– Discussion of Mac sales, Apple Stores.<\/p>\n

iLife ’11 Announced!<\/strong>
\n– iPhoto enhancements. Right now an Apple VP is doing a demonstration of iPhoto ’11. It’s a long demonstration, some interesting new features, especially some of the full-screen views. Books have been enhanced and are easier to create.
\n– Now we have an iMovie ’11 demonstration and discussion. iMovie has been made over. The new trailer feature is slick. Trailer demonstration is wrapping up.
\n– GarageBand ’11 is now being demonstrated.
\n– iLife ’11 is going to cost $49<\/strong><\/p>\n

Facetime being discussed<\/strong>
\n-Facetime for the Mac announced. Will be able to work with iPhone 4 and supported iPod touches.<\/p>\n

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Announced<\/strong>
\n– iPad\/iOS features being ported to Mac OS X 10.7. Discussion things they like about iOS and iPad.
\n– “Touch surfaces want to be horizontal” so no touchscreen displays on Macs for the time being.
\n– App store for Mac OS X
\n– Discussion of Launchpad, Mission Control, and Full-screen views.
\n– Discussion of Lion is being wrapped up.
\n– Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will be released in summer of 2011.<\/p>\n

New MacBook Air?<\/strong>
\nSteve is discussion “One More Thing” is this the MacBook Air? Steve is talking about a MacBook meeting iPad.<\/p>\n

Specifications<\/strong>
\n– 0.68 inches thin at thickest point, tapers to 0.11 inch
\n– 2.9 pounds
\n– Complete Unibody construction.
\n– Full-sized keyboard and glass trackpad.
\n– 13.3-inch LED backlit display – 1440 x 900 pixels (more than 15″ MacBook Pro)
\n– Core 2 Duo
\n– NVIDIA GeForce 320M
\n– FaceTime camera
\n– No optical drive
\n– No hard drive – complete flash\/solid-state storage. It is not in the form factor of a 2.5″ or 1.8″ case either, it’s just the chips.
\n– 7 hours usage with wireless\/web. Steve says the tests are more stringent\/realistic.
\n– 30 days standby time<\/p>\n

11.6-inch MacBook Air<\/strong>
\n– 1366×768 display
\n– 2.3 pounds
\n– Core 2 Duo
\n– NVIDIA GeForce 320M
\n– Full-size keyboard and mult-touch trackpad
\n– FaceTime camera
\n– 5 hours wireless web tests – battery life
\n– 30 days standby time<\/p>\n

Pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
<\/th>CPU<\/th>Storage<\/th>Price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
11.6-inch<\/td>1.4GHz<\/td>64 GB<\/td>$999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.6-inch<\/td>1.4GHz<\/td>128GB<\/td>$1199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.3-inch<\/td>1.86GHz<\/td>128GB<\/td>$1299<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.3-inch<\/td>1.86GHz<\/td>256GB<\/td>$1599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Available now.<\/p>\n

And the event is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in the Back to the Mac article I just posted, I’ll be covering it here. You can view the live stream here on a Mac with Mac OS X 10.6 and Snow Leopard and Safari or an iPhone or iPad, and iPod touch. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,97],"tags":[151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}