WWDC 2009 keynote releases « Newton’s Lore

WWDC 2009 keynote releases

New 15″ MacBook Pro has built in battery lasts up to 7 hours, 1000 charges, approx. 5 years. 60% better colour gamut, 3.06 Dual Core CPU, 8Gb RAM max, 500Gbx7200RPM drive, or 256Gb SSD. Starts at US$1699 through US$2229
SD card slots added to models except 17″
13″ Macbook is now a MacBook Pro
MacBook Air updated to up to 2.13GHz CPU

Snow Leopard 10.6:

Mail, iCal and Address book now support Exchange, with auto-discovery of Exchange Servers
QuickLook can preview Microsoft Office documents in Mail without MS Office being installed
Preview 2x faster, better PDF text selection
Exposé integration with Dock (“Dock Exposé”) for displaying an App’s windows
Chinese character input on trackpad
Mail up to 2.3x faster
Final version of Safari 4 released for Leopard, Tiger and Windows
Safari now sandboxes plugins to prevent them crashing the browser (IMHO this means you, Google
Stacks now have scrolling
Page through, magnify PDF thumbnails and movies
QuickTime X focuses on the content, overlays controls, lets you select from a visual timeline more easily and share it on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.
All Snow Leopard applications are 64-bit
Grand Central Dispatch supports multicore across all of Snow Leopard
Open CL (Computing Language) has been open sourced and allows for hardware abstraction of the video hardware for use in processing or display
Upgrade cost US$29 or US$49 for upgrading the Leopard family pack

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