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10:49 am MacCentral: Macworld's live coverage of today's Apple event has concluded. Please visit our News Page for the latest headlines.
10:47 am engadget: 10:39am PT - So, what've we talked about today? Some really cool products, a new Mac mini that runs 5x faster... Front Row with Bonjour, update will go out later this week... iPod cases, they're really, really nice. And, of course, the new iPod Hi-Fi.
10:40am PT - Thank you very much for coming today, and we'll see you all real soon...
JOBS IS WALKING OFF-STAGE, THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY!
10:42 am MacCentral: Calling the new iPod accessory "Home stereo. Reinvented," Jobs explained that iPod Hi-Fi "has some of the attributes of iPod products today, but with home stereo quality."
It's a three-driver system in one unit featuring an iPod dock on top. An auxiliary input rests in the back of the iPod Hi-Fi if you have an iPod shuffle. The device also ships with inserts designed to accommodate virtually all of Apple's dockable iPod models.
Built-in handles let you tote the system around -- it's white and rectangular, and features a black grille on the front of the speakers. The power supply itself is integrated, so there's no bulky external brick feeding juice to the unit. And it can run on batteries -- six D cells, in fact.
The speaker system includes two 80 millimeter (mm) mid-range drivers with a sealed acoustic suspension and a 130mm dual voice coil woofer featuring a ported bass reflex design, inside a sealed resin enclosure.
"We get great bass out of this thing and it doesn't distort when you crank it up," said Jobs.
Apple has updated the iPod's software to accommodate the new speaker system -- a new software update will add a "Speaker" menu to the iPod's interface, allowing users to adjust tone control, control the backlight and turn on large album art.
What's more, the iPod Hi-Fi can be controlled with the Apple Remote. It can also accept input through an auxiliary jack and SPDIF optical audio input.
The iPod Hi-Fi goes on sale today for $349.
10:42 am macCentral: New iPod products
Jobs recapped a recent event of import to Apple's iTunes Music Store: The sale and download of its billionth song.
"Let's move on to new products in the music space," said Jobs. "We're going to have iPod leather cases. We've been working on these for a while, but wanted to get them just right."
Apple is introducing $99 leather cases for the fifth-generation "video" iPod and ipod nano. The slide in cases don't appear to leave users with any access to the iPod's controls, unlike various offerings from third parties.
Jobs then turned his attention to the automobile. "Forty percent of all automobiles sold offer iPod connectivity as an option," he told the audience. "So 'on the go' is big for us."
Home stereo products lack that functionality, however. And while some manufacturers are starting to add direct iPod connectivity to new amplifiers and systems, "You're not getting rid of your home stereo," said Jobs.
Jobs talked about the requirements of audio enthusiasts. Audiophiles want a soundstage, he said, precise imaging and separation, and a wide frequency range.
"You want to be able to have great bass but also be able to hear the highest frequencies," said Jobs. "You want room-filling power without distortion
10:40 am valleywag: 10:36 BOOMBOX: $349, on sale today. *goes on sale. they set up the hifi in some rooms for the press to visit. "iPod Hi-Fi. Home stereo. Reinvented." says the screen. "i'm an audiophile" he says "i'm actually getting rid of my stereo." o rly, steve?
10:40 am engadget: 10:31am PT - Your stereo's really ready to move to an iPod based stereo if we can get the quality up. ... Three driver system... we have a dock right on top, you can plug in any iPod we've ever shipped wit a dock connector.
10:34am PT - It even has an auxiliary input in the back so you can plug your shuffle in. Let's look inside... we've integrated the electronics and the power supply in there, there's no power brick. You can power this off D size batteries, you can take it out the cabana or the pool, great sound wherever you are. We have two 80mm mid range drivers in sealed acoustic suspension. We have a 130mm dual voice coil woofer with a ported bass reflex design, we get great bass on this thing that doesn't distort when you crank it up. It has a sealed resin enclosure that doesn't vibrate. ... one of the things's we've done is putt a speaker option in the iPod menu. Update's already out, you can set the tone control, boost the treble or the bass.
10:35am PT - You can have the screen go black and and just display the album art. Great for newer iPods. (GOING OVER FEATURES) We think we can deliver home stereo quality for the first time in the iPod ecosystem. How much does this cost? SHOWING PRODUCTS OVER 1000 We're delivering audio quality absolutely competitively with these products, we're gonna price it at $349. It goes on sale... today.
10:40 am engadget: 10:30am PT - You want a wide frequency range... room filling power without distortion. We're gonna introduce one today that has some of the attributes of some of the speakers out there today. Today we're introducing the iPod Hi-Fi.
10:38 am valleywag: 10:35 sealed resin enclosure that doesn't vibrate "software updates going out?" someone tells steve: "already out." "great! even better." apparently he didn't keep tabs on that. apple remote for the hifi. he's still casual about this
10:38 am iLounge: Price: $349 - Goes on sale today.
Jobs: We have some rooms upstairs - sample a kitchen, dorm room, living room, study.
10:36 am iLounge: It's a sealed resin enclosure, and doesn't vibrate.
IPod integration: there's a software update for iPods that puts a speaker menu item in the main menu.
Tone control, backlight always on or off, large album art on or off.
Screen can go black and just show album art.
Controlled with the Apple Remote.
10:36 am valleywag: 10:31 BOOMBOX: integrated power supply. six d-size batteries. 2 80mm wide-range drivers. in sealed acoustic suspension. bass system: 130mm dual voice coil woofer. ported bass reflex design. "and it doesn't distort when you crank it up". universal dock connector. integrated handles
10:34 am iLounge: Pull black grille off of white box to reveal three speaker drivers.
Integrated power supply - no brick.
Power it off of six D-size batteries if you want. "Several hours outside."
Two 80mm mid-range drivers in sealed acoustic suspension.
In center is 130mm dual voice coil woofer, ported bass reflex design.
Great bass, doesn't distort when cranked up.
Universal Dock connector and integrated handles.
10:33 am ilounge: Comes with inserts for every iPod. Two buttons - volume control.
10:32 am valleywag: 10:29 New products! whoa. it's gonna be a boombox. he's talking up what people want from a home stereo.
10:32 am iLounge: iPod Hi-Fi
Home stereo. Reinvented.
Looks like a center channel speaker with iPod dock on top.
10:31 am iLounge: Jobs: 40% of all autos sold this year in US will have iPod connectivity as an option.
Now's time to add In the Home. People like to use iPods with groups inside. Problem with these products - stereo products - is that they don't offer home stereo quality.
What is home stereo quality. Audiophiles need a large sound stage. you can hear the performers sounding larger than the speakers. Precise imaging and separation. Each instrument can be heard separately. Third thing is wide frequency range. You want great bass, also be able to hear the highest frequencies. You also want room-filling power without distortion.
10:30 am valleywag.com: 10:25 news clip abt "the kid who bought the billionth song." the michigan white boy. xeni jardin in the clip. (like madonna meets aliens)
10:29 am iLounge: No screen or control access.
$99 each - mid-March.
10:28 am iLounge: Leather iPod cases - black for 5G and nano - $99 each - mid-March.
10:26 am iLounge: "It took McDonalds 8 years to sell a billion burgers."
10:25 am MacCentral: Predictably, the new Mac minis also feature iLife 06, Apple's recently refreshed suite of applications that includes iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, GarageBand and iWeb. Also standard is Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger," a remote control, Front Row, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, four USB 2.0 interfaces, FireWire 400, GigaBit Ethernet, DVI video out, and Dolby Digital 5.1 and analog audio in and out.
The entry-level Mac mini system, available starting today, is a 1.5GHz Core Solo system with 667MHz bus, 512MB RAM, 60GB SATA hard drive and "Combo" DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive for $599 -- $100 more than the previous base model.
The 1.67GHz Core Duo-based model features an 80GB SATA internal hard disk and 8x "SuperDrive" that can burn DVDs as well as CD-Rs, for $799.
"Fifty percent of our entire product line is now available with Intel processors, in less than sixty days," said Jobs.
10:25 am iLounge: 'Let's talk about music.'
Jobs discussing iPod and iTunes numbers.
10:24 am iLounge: Second model with Core Duo - 1.67, 80GB drive + SuperDrive - $799
Both available today.
10:23 am Engadget: 10:20am PT - If you've got a Mac mini hooked up to a television in your living room, you'll be able to see the media that you've got on every machine you've got hooked up to your network in your house. And, of course, the Mac mini comes with iLife 06... widely regarded as the best in the industry. (SHOWING OFF iLIFE APPS) Let's look at the standard features in the new Mac mini, Tiger and iLife 06, Remote and Front Row, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth, DVI video out, SPDIF and analog in and out.
10:23 am iLounge: Standard features: Tiger + iLife '06, Apple Remote + Front Row, Airport Extreme + Bluetooth, DVI Video Out, USB, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet.
Price: $599
10:22 am MacCentral:The Mac mini appears physically the same as it did before, but it's 2.5x to 3.2x faster than its predecessor (using the same benchmarks Apple offers for the iMac and MacBook Pro), thanks to the inclusion of the new Intel Core Solo CPU, depending on clock speed. For the Core Duo models, it's 4.8x or 5.5x times faster on those tests.
The updated Front Row application is also being offered to users of other Macs running Front Row -- Jobs is calling it "Front Row with Bonjour," Apple's nomenclature for zero-configuration networking.
10:21 am Engadget: 10:19am PT - Demoing streaming video downloaded from iTunes over Front Row via Bonjour sharing. Releasing this as an update this week for the Mac mini and all other machines with Front Row.
10:21 am iLounge: Media from any other mac or windows computer running iTunes will be piped over to the Mac mini hooked up to your television set.
Mac mini comes with iLife '06.
10:21 am Engadget: 10:19am PT - Demoing streaming video downloaded from iTunes over Front Row via Bonjour sharing. Releasing this as an update this week for the Mac mini and all other machines with Front Row.
10:20 am Engadget: 10:17am PT - I guess they forgot to load the content on this mac mini, I guess I'll have to demo a new feature. "Shared music," uses Bonjour, allows devices to communicate seamlessly, and built that into Front Row. (DEMOS FINDING PHIL'S MACBOOK PRO, BROWSING HIS MUSIC FAST. STOPS ON COCAINE BLUES, BIG LAUGH
10:20 am Engadget: 10:15am PT - IR sensor is added next to the disc slot, the apple remote only uses six buttons, which is less than some of the other remotes out there (SHOWS MEDIA CENTER REMOTES WITH OVER 40 BUTTONS).
10:19 am iLounge: Can stream iTunes TV shows.
10:19 am MacCentral: It works similarly with shared albums using iPhoto, and shared videos.
10:18 am iLounge: Shared Photos - Same idea only for photos.
10:18 am Engadget: 10:13am PT - As you know, the Mac Mini has always been BYODKM, and it continues to be that way, you can use it without products if you want, looks the best of course, or you can use it with anyone's. Of course you can always hook it up to televisions. It doesn't plug into cellphones though. One of the other things we're adding to the Mac mini is Front Row, which means we have to add a remote control.10:09am PT - Introduced the iMac, doing really well out there, MacBook Pro reviews are off the charts, two of the things helping this transition are universal applications. Rosetta turned out to be much stronger than we thought it would be, running most PowerPC apps. Today we're introducing our third machine, the mac mini based on Intel's Core Solo processor.
10:16 am iLounge: -- New Feature --
Share Music - Bonjour technology, allows devices to find themselves automatically over a network.
10:15 am MacCentral: The redesigned Mac mini features gigabit Ethernet, a total of four USB 2.0 ports, analog and SPDIF audio outputs and more.
"And, of course, you can also hook it up to televisions," Jobs told the audience. It's been widely speculated that Apple might use today's event to introduce a Mac model with better home entertainment integration.
The new Mac mini, like its iMac sibling, features Front Row, an application that makes it possible to view movies, listen to audio, watch music videos and more from your Mac, in full-screen, using an infrared remote control from across the room. The Mac mini now sports an infrared sensor in the front of the Mac min, next to the machine's optical disk drive slot.
As demonstrated by Jobs, Front Row now has a new feature -- the ability to support shared music libraries accessible through iTunes. So using Front Row, you can listen to the contents of other machines running iTunes on the same subnetwork.
10:15 am MacCentral: Jobs introduced the new Intel-based Mac mini, Apple's low-cost consumer desktop system. The base model features an Intel Core Solo CPU -- a single-processor, single-core CPU. But the company is also introducing a Mac mini that features Intel's Core Duo processor -- the same kind of CPU that powers the iMac and MacBook Pro.
10:15 am iLounge: IR sensor on right of disc slot
Six button Apple remote
10:13 am iLounge: Front Row software
10:12 am Same exact form factor
10:11 am iLounge: New Mac mini
Based on Intel, single-processor and dual-processor chip versions.
2.5x - 3.2x faster
Steve Jobs on stage
Fun things to introduce today, "medium scale things."
Update on Intel transition. Discussing Apps.
10:09 am Engadget: 10:07am PT - Good morning, thank you for joining us this morning. We've got some fun things and some medium scale things. All of us want all of them, we hope our customers do too. Let's start with the Mac, biggest thing these days, transition to Intel. We're ahead of schedule, we're converting entire product line to intel over this calendar year
10:08 am the previous updates were from iLounge.com
10:08 am Engadget: 10:05am PT - We're seated now, they're playing U2.
10:06 am Everyone is being seated. Apple design guru Jonathan Ives in front row. Music by U2, Green Day, others.
9:57 am iLounge: Spotted...
Jon Rubinstein, Senior Vice President of Apple's iPod Division, Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of hardware marketing, and other execs.
9:54 am iLounge: Attendance is extremely limited - only 150-200 people
9:54 am No visible posters or banners of products
9:53 am Apple store is down
9:52 am Media is gathering in the Town Hall
