Quickie notes from the MacWorld keynote floor…

The Update
iPod’s first 60 days: 125K units

27 retail stores (the goal was 25); 800K visitors in the month of December

The other 95%: 40% of those buying CPUs in the Apple stores do not already own a Mac

MacWorldExpo: 80K expected visitors

State of Maine: equipping every 7th and 8th grade teacher and student with an iBook; the largest education order in history; 1 down, 49 to go

OS X
“It’s time: All new Macs will boot-up in OS X”

from Adobe: Illustrator, inDesign, GoLive, and, of course, Photoshop for X (with spell-checking); AppleScript glue between these applications brings it all together

from Palm: Palm Desktop for X (did we really need to see a hotsync demo?)

Mike Evangelist (yes, that’s his name) for Final Cut Pro: takes advantage of the G4 in desktops and the Velocity engine; real-time special effects, titling, colour correction (set the black point, set the white point, bring up the colour a little, and rejoice); and it works on (T)iBooks too

from Mathematica: the world’s only integrals joke: log(cabin); “This would have been incredibly useful to people designing vacuum tubes”; georgeously rendered integrals — yummy!

from Aspyr: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, including Quidditch — lovely rendering, looks like the Q2 engine; Star Wars: Galactic Battle Grounds

from LucasFilm: over 4K shots for Episode 2 using OS X, Maya, After Effects

iPhoto
6Mil cameras sold in the U.S. in 2001; Solves the Import>Edit>Print problem, “The chain of pain”; with one button, import, catalogue, store; editing (seems to be limited to cropping and the like); ColorSync every step of the way.

It’s actually about “Save (’the digital shoebox’), organize, and share.”

Organize: real-time scaling from the tiniest thumbnail (a few hundred photos on the screen at once) to full-size; switch to “by film roll” view; photo albums by drag and drop — think of it as playlists for pictures

Edit: cropping with standard constraints (e.g. 4×6, 5×7 portrait, 4×3 television ratio for iDVD); colour>b/w; a preferences panel allows you to choose an alternate editor

Share: Slideshow using OpenGL transitions and background music; HomePage button builds a page with configurable frames and titles, publishing this on your iTools page; Printing is a simple dialogue with multiples per page, contact sheets, and so forth; Kodak Print Service is built-in with shipping options and 1-Click shopping. 20×30 runs $19.99; build and order a hard-bound book of your photos with built-in design tools; 6 book designs initially; 1-Click order without ever leaving iPhoto; takes about a week; “Total Granny porn” — Cory

And, of course, it’s free and downloadable today.

iBook
600 MHz with a Combo drive for $1499; 14″ LCD under 6lbs w/ 6hr battery life and combo drive for $1799

The new iMac
6Mil iMacs sold.

15″ LCD across the line, 1024×768 — “This is the official death of the CRT today”; G4 @ 700 at 800 MHz; SuperDrive: CD R/W, DVD R/W ($5 apiece); 32MB DDR video memory nVidia Gforce; optical mouse

It’s a round cube. The top-mounted screen is fully articulated to 180 degree swivel, 0 to 90 degree vertical, screen remaining level, but tiltable to your liking. The 10 1/2″ diameter half bowling-ball base houses everything, from CPU to drive to power supply — no dangly bits! connectors are around the back. Expandable (memory up to 1Gig) via an unscrewable base.

• 15″ LCD, 700 MHz, 128MB, 40GB, CD-RW: $1299
• 246MB, Combo: $1499
• 800 MHz, 60 GB, SuperDrive: $1799

High-end model shipping this month with the others following in February and March. Genentech has already ordered 1K of the new iBooks.

Hip-hop meets Luxo Jr. ad coming to a television set near you.

Time magazine — handed out to attendees on the way out the door — features the new iMac on the cover.

Strategy
Innovate.