WWDC '06

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 » general thought

So Steve Jobs gave his WWDC '06 keynote on Monday, the servers (or my connection) calmed down enough for me to watch it yesterday, and now I'm finally getting around to posting a few thoughts/reactions to it today.

Mac Pro - Hooh. I told myself I'd hold off on buying a new Mac tower until the Intel models arrived, and here they are it is. As usual, really expensive, but that quad 2.66GHz isn't looking too bad, especially considering I'm typing this on my dual 450MHz G4 I got in 2001. Plus, with all the buzz about Cider and now Parallels Desktop with 3D acceleration, I wonder if buying a loaded Mac Pro could save me the headache (both financial and physical) of upgrading my PC.

Leopard stuff:

Time Machine - HAHAHA LOOK AT THAT INTERFACE

Spaces looks really slick and is probably the new feature I've been most excited about since Jaguar's new glass interface widgets (and that was a stupid thing to be excited about).

iChat - HAHAHA MORE GOOFINESS AND I DON'T OWN AN ISIGHT

Dashboard - The new Website widgets are pretty unexpected and cool. Looking forward to experimenting around with them.

Mail - Stationery looks like something I'll never use, but it would be great to have notes and to-do items1 integrated with my mail client. No really, it would.

Lastly, the new black chrome logo is super hot. SUPER HOT!!!!

Addendum: I was just browsing through Apple's Leopard sneak peak area again and JUST LOOK AT THIS COLOSSAL TRANSPARENT PNG I AM HOTLINKING. Once IE7 Final is released and PNG becomes widespread the Web is going to become a crazy, crazy place.

1 One of the to-do items in the demo is "check out the latest Tom Petty single." Anyone who takes the time to type stuff like that into their to-do list program probably requires more of an industrial-grade productivity manager.