The latest Adobe Creative Suite 4 for Mac OS X and Windows is now shipping in all its flavors: Design Premium ($1799), Web Premium ($1699), Production Premium ($1699), and $2499 for the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. I can’t wait to try the new GPU-based acceleration.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Shipping
Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow efficiency – and packed with hundreds of innovative, time saving features – the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile.
The new MacBook has something for everyone. Less than an inch thin and 4.5 pounds, it fits your backpack (and your mobile lifestyle). It offers great integrated graphics performance for playing 3D games or creating photo books in iPhoto and making movies in iMovie. And it has all the MacBook features you want at a price you’ll adore. Starting at $1299. Learn more
At-a-glance specs:
13.3-inch LED-backlit display
2.0GHz or 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
4.5 pounds; 0.95 inch thin
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics
The new 15-inch MacBook Pro
It’s all about performance. If you want desktop-class graphics and a bigger display, you want the all-new MacBook Pro. With a double graphics punch — both integrated and discrete NVIDIA graphics processors — the 15-inch MacBook Pro is fast enough to run the most graphics-intensive games and professional applications, but portable enough to come along for the ride. Starting at $1999. Learn more
At-a-glance specs:
15.4-inch LED-backlit display
2.4GHz, 2.53GHz, or 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
The box took 14 hours to build. It includes a Mac Mini with a 250GB hard drive hack, with the system drive being an ESATA drive. The Hackintosh running Mac OS X, the second computer inside the box, uses:
2.4GHz Intel Q6600 Quad Core
Gigabyte ep35-ds3l motheboard
BFG NVIDIA 8800gt with 512 Mbytes
2GB of 800MHz RAM
750 and 400GB harddrives
In case you missed my personal favorite moment of the Apple Let’s Rock Event, here’s how Steve Jobs responded to early leaks of his own death. [Gizmodo]
That was evident this week when the company unveiled its new faster, cheaper iPhone, which Apple hopes will quickly boost its market share against more established rivals such as Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry. At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company announced a new 3G version of the iPhone in a push to target mainstream consumers.
But a strong undercurrent at the event focused on the emaciated appearance of co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. While Jobs, 53, looked especially gaunt in his trademark black turtleneck and faded jeans, other Apple executives spent more time on the stage during his keynote address — a notable move for an executive who typically spends much of his speech rallying the Mac faithful and introducing many products himself.
Originally made in December 2007 and corrected in February 2008 to include the latest Apple products like MacBook Air, iPod nano pink etc.
Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.
Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based.
(Best viewed large or printed).
Original photo copyrighted by Corbis.
All Apple Inc product imaged used courtesy by Apple Inc.
MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
The blogosphere is buzzing with excitement over rumors of WiMAX support being announced at MacWorld 2008. While no one really knows what will be announced, WiMAX is an exciting prospect. The technology could be used with a new version of the iPhone as well as Apple laptops to offer internet access from almost any location. Wikipedia and Valleywag provide definitions below:
WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways, from point-to-point links to full mobile cellular type access. It is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, which is also called WirelessMAN. The name WiMAX was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformance and interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX as “a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL.”
WiMax is an unproven technology with questionable support beyond Sprint and Intel. Network World reports that Sprint has soft-launched WiMax networks in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., so it’s possible that Apple will build in the hardware in preparation for Sprint’s nationwide rollout in April. This would be a huge win for WiMax, which suffered a blow when Sprint and Clearwire abandoned plans for a WiMax joint venture. But Apple has proven it can popularize technologies — think USB in the original iMac, and Wi-Fi in the iBook — even with a scant market share. If anything, its position is stronger now than ever before.
Well, the day has come. Rumors swirled once again that October 26 would officially be Leopard Day, and Apple came out this morning with the official announcement. The big cat will go on sale at 6pm (presumably local time) at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers that Friday, and the online store is now accepting preorders.
Leopard will cost the expected price of $129 or $199 for a single-household, five-user license.
That was evident this week when the company unveiled its new faster, cheaper iPhone, which Apple hopes will quickly boost its market share against more established rivals such as Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry. At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company announced a new 3G version of the iPhone in a push to target mainstream consumers.
