Macworld 2009 Keynote - Live Discussion (starts 5pm)

Sad Professor

Okay I thought we might as well start the build up now. Maybe we could try and keep all the live discussion limited to this thread.

Live updates (text and pics) can be found here:

http://www.macrumorslive.com/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-keynote/
http://www.macworld.com/article/137730/2009/01/expo_live.html

There's no official video stream for the event but bootleg streams sometimes pop-up. Quality is poor and there tends to be a lot of interruptions but if anyone finds any please post them.

Elessar started a chat room on Stinto for anyone who would like to discuss the keynote via chat:
http://www.stinto.net/0aa95 (new link)

If you just wandered in here and don't know what we're talking about, click here for a roundup of rumoured product announcements. Or read the Macworld predictions thread.

Elessar

You beat me to it by seconds!

It will be interesting to see if the 17" MBP really did get a new battery...

Chat room is up and running anyway.

J-blk

I know a Mini update is pretty much guaranteed at this stage but I'm hoping it will deliver the goods: waaaay better GFX hopefully, max RAM to 4GB, 802.11n and HDMI... I'll be happy then. Anything else will be simply gravy .

Basq

Hope it's not as much of a dud as the last Keynote.

This iPhone Nano rumour is hilarious.

Dman001

I'd love to see an iTablet at this. Sigh!, I can dream.

Sad Professor

This will also be the last Apple Macworld keynote. Too bad Steve won't be doing it.

Basq

Sad Professor wrote: »

This will also be the last Apple Macworld keynote. Too bad Steve won't be doing it.

Whatcha mean by "the last Apple Macworld keynote" SP? How will they be announcing new products / innovations in the future?

Shame Steve isn't doing it alright.. but with his failing health, you can't blame the guy.

J-blk

Apple is dropping out of Macworld - from now on, they will do special presentations/product launches via "town hall" events mostly in Cupertino (or other locations) kinda like the recent (September) iPod event. At least that was the official line...

Sad Professor

Yeah lately they've been moving away from expensive trade shows and towards smaller media events that they can call whenever they want. A lot of tech companies are doing the same. The recession probably has a lot to do with it. But it's also been suggested that a rift has developed between Apple and IDG who host the show. Last I heard they said they were still planning to go ahead with Macworld next year with or without Apple.

bluemachaveli

New Mac Mini shipping immediately will be enough for me!

Elessar

Stinto crashed so a new room is up:

http://www.stinto.net/0aa95

SP can you update the OP?

johnk123

Elessar wrote: »

Stinto crashed so a new room is up:

http://www.stinto.net/0aa95

SP can you update the OP?

Thanks Elessar! Nice one.

See you guys in about an hour and a half!

bluemachaveli

Apple store is gone bye bye!

babypink

indeed - keep all Keynote and related discussion here.

Kid Nothing

Elessar wrote: »

Stinto crashed so a new room is up:

http://www.stinto.net/0aa95

SP can you update the OP?

Crashed again?

Elessar

Yup, its back up though.

We need to find an alternative solution

E: I can only find one website which is like stinto - but its not working.

The stinto chat is still up but it seems the server will crap out every so often but it comes back on eventually, just stay in the channel.

Maybe boards IRC?

aidan_walsh

Scheduled maintenance? Tonight? Whose idea of a joke is that!?!

Basq

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Scheduled maintenance? Tonight? Whose idea of a joke is that!?!

EXCLUSIVE TIDBIT:

Boards.ie to start selling new Mac Mini's and iPhone Nano's after the scheduled maintenance.

Sad Professor

3 hours? Bloody hell.

Keynote won't finish until around 6.30pm, so I guess we'll have to pick up discussion tonight.

Oh and it looks like iWork '09 is on the way.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/06/macworld-san-francisco-keynote-coverage-iwork-09-coming/

Dman001

Mr.S wrote: »

Will there be more Apple presentations untill the 9th? or is today their only one? (where stuff is annoucned)

There's only the one.

johnk123

I just turned on my computer to be met by boards maintenance announcements!

That is terrible..... I mean, they should have consulted the Mods of every forum to make sure nothing was going on anywhere. Ah well...... life goes on anyway.

So where will we discuss all that needs to be discussed??

@Elessar- Will the chat hold up for a while so we can chat while boards is down???

J-blk

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Scheduled maintenance? Tonight? Whose idea of a joke is that!?!

Damn it.... now there's a greater chance of going to the Apple store and spending more money before I can be talked out of it by others here not quite blinded by the new shiny toys . Though I'm really going to try to go the Belfast route this time (if anything promising does get released that is)...

bluemachaveli

J-blk wrote: »

Though I'm really going to try to go the Belfast route this time (if anything promising does get released that is)...

Same here, my sister is heading to Belfast this weekend so fingers crossed ill have my Mac Mini on Sunday!

Sad Professor

10 minutes to go...

babypink

ok.....

i'm working to get chat setup on my own private server.....

if i get it going before shutdown ill post the url

Elessar

johnk123 wrote: »

@Elessar- Will the chat hold up for a while so we can chat while boards is down???

Let us pray that it does, but if it goes down no biggie it'll be back up

dubmick

the Apple Store is down

johnk123

That would be great.

Or if everyone is happy to, join in on Elessars linked one. Best we all pick one and join it.

Gerard_Smith

I'm keeping an eye on both the live blogs and Macheist in case the romour of bundle 3 being launched today are true. My soundtrack to this years event will be Daft Punk Homework - Human After all.

Sad Professor

Phil is out. Here we go...

Sad Professor

Mr.S wrote: »

" Today I'm going to talk all about the Mac."

That's what I want to hear.

Beijing, Sydney, Munich... bah. How about a Dublin store, Phil, huh?

J-blk

And no big a** iPod Touch either - as expected .

Basq

Roll on Apple Wheel

Basq

Mr.S wrote: »

Faces sounds kind of cool...

and..Places? sounds even cooler! don't see how it would work though without major landmarks..

Nice.. but like Genius... hardly re-inventing the wheel.

johnk123

The chat is going well lads. Come on and join in. The more people the better!

Faces sounds cool! Free update for 09 i wonder??? hardly....

Sad Professor

Sounds like more bloat to me.

aidan_walsh

Sad Professor wrote: »

Sounds like more bloat to me.

Any new feature to any software is going to be bloat to someone.

condra

It's more of the old "trust us, even though you never thought about it, you need this".

To me it reeks of more facebook/googlemaps etc stuff. I've just recently deleted my bebo account and it feels great to be free.

Personally, if I take a photograph, I dont want it geotagged, and likewise, if someone has a photo of me on facebook, I dont want a computer to automatically "recognise" me.

J-blk

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Any new feature to any software is going to be bloat to someone.

If it gets in your way when you don't want to use it, then it's bloat... Otherwise, it's a feature...

carlmango11

Faces seems pretty handy but places seems a bit pointless seeing as most events are all in one location anyway :S

Dman001

New Product Number 2 is iMovie.

New Product Number 3 is probably iLife? What about the iMac and Mac Mini?

Flashraziel

iLife includes iphoto and imovie. Only counts as one thing I'd say.

Dont be at yourself

iMovie and iPhoto are part of iLife. We're still on part one!

Flashraziel

macrumours stream seems to be getting hacked

bluemachaveli

First : iLife 09

Second : iWork 09

Third : New Mac Mini?

Fairly weak so far!

condra

lol

.."and last but not least, we've fixed a bug in iDVD, thanks for coming, happy New Year"

Dman001

Maybe but when I read this on Engadget:

"I hope you're as excited about this as I am." Well... "That's just the first of all the new products... we have a new version of iMovie."

bluemachaveli

Dman001 wrote: »

Maybe but when I read this on Engadget:

"I hope you're as excited about this as I am." Well... "That's just the first of all the new products... we have a new version of iMovie."

Typo or Phil is confusing himself. iMovie has to be part of iLife's first thing!

heggie

macrumorslive has been badly hacked!

Gerard_Smith

What have the hackers done?

J-blk

Macrumorslive is turning out to be a lot more entertaining than the damn keynote though...