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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i want to give you a full recap of all the great things that came on the Apple back to mac event so without further ado let's go ahead and get started so if you see me look down so I got some notes in front of me the conference just ended I will start at the beginning when Steve Jobs came on stage and talked about the state of the mac thirty-three percent of revenue was the actual Mac hardware the computers which accounted for 22 billion dollars quite a lot so the first product they announced was I life 2011 it's gonna have all the same apps so iphoto imovie iWeb GarageBand and the like it's also going to have a brand new iphoto certainly all the apps are going to be revamped they showed a ton of new iphoto features that's gonna have a new full screen mode it's gonna facebook enhancements actually going to pull down your facebook picture just kind of cool it's gonna be able to email photos out its gonna have better book creation and printing so when you want to make albums it's gonna have this new letterpress cards this new way to send greeting cards to friends and family especially with the holidays coming up kind of neat they showed imovie 11 you're going to get better audio editing you're now going to get audio effects which are kind of neat all with the same sort of one click easy editing that we've seen with previous generations of imovie you're also going to have a one-stop effect which is kind of neat so some new effects you're going to be built in there it's also going to have new sports teams you're also gonna be able to easily create trailers for your movies so family goes on vacation and you want to show your grandma quick few minutes what you're going to do you can create sort of almost cinematical looking movie trailers kind of neat little gimmicky i'm sure it'll get over used on youtube sure all over is it on you to make sure garage band it's got a new flex time feature it's got some new groove maintaining stuff it's God's from the guitar am since the new tutorials great the next new thing they show they didn't go through the rest of the ilife out but they're all presumably updated it's also going to be available on today by the way it's going to be forty nine dollars to upgrade is gonna come on all new macs for free next thing they showed was FaceTime finally face times coming as a desktop application for Mac so you can use your mac in your webcam to talk to anyone who's got a iphone 4 or a new ipod touch to get your face time on which is really cool and I wish I had when I was in high school um but it's just a really nice feature it probably should've been there from day one it certainly augments and adds to the ability to have facetime actually now you're not tied to just being a device advice you can now talk to someone desktop to device which is really cool for international folks you a friend overseas or you're overseas traveling you want to talk to your parents your girlfriend your wife whatever it might be this is now a really cool way to do it without haven't have a computer in front you're at least both of you having to have a computer in front of you kinda neat the next thing they showed it was the reason there was a lion on the back to mac invite it gave a sneak preview of the next version of OS 10 OS 10.7 which is going to be called lion kicking up the same theme of the cat naming so we've had Puma Jaguar Panther tiger leopard snow leopard and now lion who so they showed some of the new features that are going to coming out and lion not all of them but some of them so we're gonna have sort of iOS like features the whole reason behind the back to the mac was that OS 10 gave birth I suppose to web are to uh I OS iOS sort of went on over to the ipad which came or desktop like and it comes full back around our iOS is going to be influencing the desktop application so how is good influence desktop application perhaps you're asking I can hear you asking well you are now I'm going to have full multi-touch gestures for built into the trackpad more than we have in the past so multi-touch gestures that worked on the iphone or ipad will work on the mac but they're not going to work in the way you'd expected the multi-touch screen which Apple said they tried and really didn't work they said just didn't function quite properly in a vertical orientation having to stretch your arm el time said you got arm fatigue who knows i think we also would affect hinges on a laptop which we will talk about a bit later so all the multi-touch niss is going to be done on the magic mouse on the magic trackpad and on the multi-touch trackpad on your laptop's they're also announcing and this thing is going to just print money is a new desktop app store so you're not going to get just sort of the game type things and the light applications that maybe you get on the iPhone or iPod touch if you're going to get full application so you can download pages or full desktop yuta apps right on this app store which is kind of neat they're going to be in full screen the apps will sort of auto auto update like they you on the iphone and ipod touch I'll just kind of neat you're going to have a one-click payment you're going to have free and paid apps they're going to give the bell for seventy percent something within you are exactly they do now at the current app store model all apps you buy the license to all mac so if you buy a nap in one spot and you have a laptop as well on by on your desktop you'll be able to use it there as well and all these new apps and stuff we're going to go into something new called a launchpad not the silly pilot from ducktales I just probably dated myself so let's talk about launchpad and what sort of goes into that there's a new feature sort of built into that called Mission Control bishop controls glad you view everything on your Mac it sort of integrates expose spaces and sort of all those content viewing applications on the map you're going to get a full screen grid you can create folders much like you can't on your iPad I think of it as a way that you look at your icons on your iPad or iPhone sort of in rows gonna have that same option to view your apps they can set them up by category River you like on your desktop you go ahead and create folders as well I'll just kind of neat you can view things by clusters like like windows so you have a ton of Safari have to open all the Safari have to be clustered together to feel whole bunch your Word documents open those will be cluster together and such which is kind of neat and it's going to be coming summer 2011 so odds are gonna be the very end of summer 2011 a kind of neat but the App Store idea it's going to be built into lion sounds so cool that Apple said they're going to be bringing it to snow upper and we will have it within 90 days this thing is you Joe going to make apple probably a bajillion or at least a quarter of a bajillion dollars all right and there was one more thing to the surprise of no one but still very high on the cool factor the macbook air got a tremendous refresh and this thing is now really kind of cool so let me go ahead and run through the specs and there was no manila envelope that was pulled out of unfortunately all right so let's go ahead and talk about the macbook air at its thickest point it's point six eight inches thick which is super tiny at its thinnest point it's point 11 inches thick weighs two point nine pounds got a full-size keyboard it's got a 13.3 inch screen backlit LED with a display of 1440 x 900 so super high resolution it's got a core two duo chip in it so reasonably well powered nvidia geforce 320m multi-touch trackpad but similar to let's say the ipad for example it's going to have instant on it's also going to have no optical drive and no hard drive it's going to use flash storage sort of the first time that we've really seen this use in the mainstream so no more SSD sort of container you have pure flash storage built into a computer which should make for increased speeds which is kind of neat it's going to get seven hours of battery life on web user just 27 hours of actual usage it you're going to get and you're going to get a whopping 30 days of standby time but the 13.3 inch macbook air isn't the only macbook air that was announced the rumors of a 11.6 macbook air the little brother to the bigger guy are true and we've got an 11.6 macbook air it's gonna wait 2 points 3 pounds it's gonna have the same core to do a family a bit lower powered than what we have in the 13.3 macbook air it's got the same nvidia graphics that we saw in the bigger macbook air so that's a geforce 320m up it's gonna have pretty nice size storage too it's going to start at let's talk about price is actually the 11.6 is going to have a 64 gigabytes flash storage you can up that to 128 and add two hundred dollars going to have a one-point 4 gigahertz processor is going to start at nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars the 13.3 is gonna start 1299 1.86 gigahertz core 2 duo processor of 128 gig standard you can up at 256 for 1599 you're going to be available today so what do you guys think are you excited are you going to go out there and get one or you're not going to go out there and get one on the 999 sort of entry price point puts it a few hundred dollars above the highest SPECT iPad and a few hundred dollars more than a higher level netbook you're going to get a lot more features I'm pretty excited to get my hands on these and see what they look like obviously gives you guys hands on opinions I'm really curious to know what you guys think about all of these new products that were announced excited not excited to care not curious take an apple I want to know what you guys have to say I'll be sure to stay tuned to technobuffalo for all of the apple coverage i'm jon rettinger and i'll see you in the next video bye bye