iLIFE '11:
Upgrades to all components including iMovie, iPhoto and GarageBand.
iMovie - a bunch of new tricks to help regular people do advanced video editing. The audio editing gets closer to Final Cut Pro in terms of precision of editing clips. With built-in adjustment controls you can adjust audio volume very easily for the whole range or a user specified clip, just by dragging a bar up or down. The ability to add voice-overs has been added as well. Special effects have been greatly enhanced. Apple calls them one-step effects and it allows the user the ability to add things like instant replay and flash and hold easily. iMovie now includes the ability to create trailers. By defining the "actors" in the story and using a storyboard feature to layout the trailer, iMovie is able take that information and create a trailer using a dozen or so templates.
iPhoto - a new full screen mode has been added to allow more detailed views of photos. Users can create enhanced slideshows as well as emailing directly from the app using a very iPad like interface.
GarageBand - two new features will definitely make your band sound more professional and help fix those pesky mistakes. The first is Groove Matching. This allows the user to make the music more in-sync. By picking one track to sync with, all the other are automatically synced to that one track, kind of like Autotune for your tracks. The second feature is Flex-Time which lets the user fix timings in songs. If your guitar player plays a bit too long at the end of a song, you can use Flex-Time and shorten his track to end with everyone else. Some new guitar and piano lessons have been added as well.
New Macbook Air:
Apple debuted not one but two new Macbook Airs an updated 13.3 inch and a new 11.6 incher. Both have unibody construction. They each have Core2Duo processors and Nvidia GeForce 320M graphic chips. FaceTime cameras will be included as well. Both are priced at just under $1000.
13.3 inch - Will have a full size keyboard and multi-touch trackpad. The screen has a 1440 x 900 resolution and it weighs just 3 pounds. Battery life is being touted as 7 hours of active use and a month on standby. Only one flavor with this bigger Air, a 1.86Mhz processor with 128GB of storage.
11.6 inch - The new Air is smaller and weighs just 2.9 pounds. It will also have a full size keyboard and multi-touch trackpad. Battery life is a bit less than its bigger brother coming in at 5 hours of active use and 30 days of standby time. The smaller Air is running a 1.4Ghz Core2Duo processor and has 64GB of storage, though you can upgrade to 128GB for approximately $200 more. The storage is interesting on this smaller Air in that it is neither SSD or and HDD, but an SSD card, much like RAM, that is flash. This makes for near zero boot times.
OS X Lion:
The update to the current OS X will launch in Summer 2011. It will include some elements of the iOS like an app store and springboard, renamed Launchpad. Apple is going full-screen mode with most applications, especially iLife '11. Windows aren't going away though. Apple is hoping that this approach will simplify the way people use computers and does away with the clutter of multiple windows. This is very similar to the way consumers are use to using the iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.
Mission Control will be introduced in Lion. It is basically and updated Expose integrating the Dock, Dashboard and views from open apps, both windowed and full screen. Launchpad works just like Springboard on the iPad. It shows all the applications you have installed and uses pages to to display them and swipe gestures to navigate.
The Mac App Store is another big introduction to Lion. It works just like the iOS App Store. When a user purchases an app, the Mac will automatically install it in Launchpad.
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