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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

$99 Apple TV, New ITunes Social Network and other Apple News

Today, for the first time, I attended an Apple Press Conference, and I did it at school. Even though I'm a huge fan of Apple and their different products, I don't own one of them. For the sake of curiosity and to report the results to the readers of this article, I went to my college Mac Lab and streamed the conference as it was only available to watch on Safari with certain specs that I didn't have. I tweeted basically the whole event, you should follow me, @leeroyholmes, as I do this sort of thing every chance I get.   Here are the highlights of the conference:



New Apple TV - $99 Pre-Order Available Now
  • No Storage (Rentals Only)
  • First-Run HD Movies $4.99  (Avilable same day as DVD/Blu-Ray. Older titles will cost less)
  • Rent HD TV Shows .99 (ABC, FOX only on board right now, more will follow)
  • Streaming Netflix, Youtube HD, Photos from Flickr, Video/Photo MobileME
  • Wi-Fi N Protocol
  • HD Content (Most likely 720P, but I'll research and update this)
  • Airplay - Stream any photo/video/music content from PC, IPOD Touch, IPhone, or IPAD
  • Fits in the palm of the your hand (1/4 the size of the old model)

New IPOD Touch (It's the IPhone 4 without the Phone)
Will be released next week.  Pre-Order Available Now
          8GB - $229                      32GB -  $299                          64GB - $399
  • Retina Display (960 X 640 ala IPhone4
  • Apple A4 Chip
  • 3 axis gyro
  • Frontcamera
  • Facetime via Wi-Fi
  • HD Video on Backcamera (720P at 30FPS)
  • IMovie Editing capabilities ($4.99 Download) 

New IPod Nano - Pre-Order Available Now
8GB - $149.99    16GB - $179.99
  • Touchscreen with Multitouch
  • 46% Smaller with clip
  • Ability to change the screen orientation and customize the menus
  • Six Colors
  • 24 hours of audioplay

New IPod Shuffle - Pre-Order Available Now
2GB $49 (Available Next Week)
  • Buttons from 2nd generation Shuffle
  • VoiceOver from 3rd generation Shuffle
  • Genuis Mixes
  • Five Colors 
ITunes 10 - Coming Soon
  • Logo has been replaced
  • A More Streamlined Interface for your library, saving a lot of viewing space
  • Ping (Social Network streamlined into ITunes.  I will write an article all about the features and a review after it's released.  From first view it looked a lot like facebook with a focus on music.

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