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And here's the other stuff from Apple

Kai Howells
Tue Jan 09 13:48:14 -0800 2007
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Forget the iPhone - that was practically guaranteed to be announced at the recent Macworld 2007 Keynote.
You come to technocrat for all the other news - the things that slip between the cracks - so here they are, Apple's other goodies.

Previewed at WWDC last year, the iTV tv is an 802.11n wireless access point with video streaming capabilities. Like an iPod for video, you can sync media to the tv, or stream it live. It's got a 40GB hard drive as a cache that can store up to 50 hours of video content using H.264 at 1.5Mbs with 128kbs Audio. It's got HDMI and Component video outputs along with analogue and digital optical outputs.
It's got a USB port reserved for service and diagnostics, so no externally attachable storage options, and it's got 802.11n and 10/100 Base-T networking. Unlike the Mac mini that it superficially resembles, the tv has a built-in power supply, not an external power brick.

Next up is the new AirPort Extreme Base Station. Having had a design makeover, it's no longer a sleek white dome, now it's the same form factor as the mini and the tv, a flat white box with rounded corners. This time round the Base Station has 802.11n (starting to see a pattern here?) and three dedicated LAN ethernet ports (up from one in the Extreme and none in the Express) and one WAN ethernet port. The USB port has been retained, however with increased capabilities - the previous generation unit could only use the USB port for connecting a printer and sharing it over the network, this one can also use the USB port to hook up an external hard drive. Using a USB hub, you can connect multiple printers and hard drives to the base station and share them to network clients via wired or wireless ethernet. As before, wireless security levels up to WPA2 are supported, as is RADIUS authentication.

Now, with these two new devices featuring 802.11n, there will shortly be an AirPort driver update released for all the Core 2 Duo hardware, as well as the Mac Pros unlock the full functionality of their wireless cards that, currently under Mac OS X, are restricted to 802.11g.

On the software/content side of things, the iTunes Music Store now has a whole lot more content - Paramount has been signed to deliver movies.
Conspicuous by their absence are new displays, with the built-in iSight webcams - Apple have EOL'd the iSight standalone webcams, so everyone expected there to be new displays, including one using the 24" panel in the top-end iMac. Also missing was an update to the iLife suite to bring it up to iLife '07

Oh, last, but not least, Apple have changed their name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc...

802.11a

peacefinder
Tue Jan 09 16:00:09 -0800 2007
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"Now, with these two new devices featuring 802.11n, there will shortly be an AirPort driver update released for all the Core 2 Duo hardware, as well as the Mac Pros unlock the full functionality of their wireless cards that, currently under Mac OS X, are restricted to 802.11g."

Every MacBook Pro I have seen also natively supports 802.11a networks. That includes both Core Duo and Core 2 Duo machines. I would not be surprised if all intel macs with built-in wireless support 802.11a.

Apple has been strangely quiet about this feature.

I guess it doesn't matter much now, since they're rolling out 802.11n, but the undocumented feature has been pretty darn handy for my workplace.

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Mathinker
Wed Jan 10 03:33:18 -0800 2007
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Uh, kai, the 0xF8FF character (Apple logo) isn't standard, I would guess that only people using Apple platforms saw your post as you intended. Or with the name change, perhaps Apple also changed its logo to a small square box which looks like:
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WeblionX
Wed Jan 10 07:02:40 -0800 2007
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I see a three pointed thing on a circle. Maybe they're switching to a mace logo with an apple at the center instead of a metal ball?

iPhone practically gauranteed??

proletariat
Wed Jan 10 05:23:12 -0800 2007
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All the way up to the day before the announcement there were news reports that the iPhone would NOT be presented.  I am impressed with Apple's  ability to  maintain the secret considering the large numbers of people who must have been involved. 

The iPhone's display looks truly impressive - very bright and it's a touch screen.  I'm hoping that can be scaled up to much larger displays.
 

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