Quick commands from Apple News at Macworld 2009
• DRM-free iTunes: In the first reported last night to CNET News’ Greg Sandoval, Apple announced plans to remove the DRM technology from its catalog of 10 million iTunes songs to the end of April. Eight million songs DRM-free, as it is today, and labels will be allowed to set different prices for their songs, at the exit of the previous iTunes Store policies.
We are not sure at this point, as the details will work with this statement, but it sounds like the great victory of iTunes customers. Downer One is that you have to pay 30 cents to replace the existing DRM-Laden tracks from the new DRM-free versions, mainly the modernization of these songs in the iTunes Plus tracks. Check the story of Greg details. ITunes Store was slammed by the end of the core, and the service has been spotted.
• New 17-inch MacBook Pro: Apple has completed its notebook to update this new model, which has unibody design, trackpad button, and new displays for the company’s largest notebook. It will cost $ 2799, the same price as the current 17-inch MacBook Pro.
The most interesting part of this statement, however, is in the notebook battery. Apple uses a new type of battery, which he said would allow a laptop to get seven to eight hours of battery life depending on the graphics chip is working.
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To get this technology on the laptop, however, Apple had to make the battery is fully enclosed within the chassis: how IPod and iPhone, you can not replace it yourself. Apple representatives did not have information about how to change the battery will work, although it did not ship until later this month. Apple expects the battery in the past five years.
Update 2:08 PM: Gizmodo said the battery would cost $ 179 to replace, but it can be done in Apple stores or resellers Apple.
• iLife’09: There have been some useful improvements to the iLife suite of components, such as support for geotagging iPhoto’09, improving the capabilities of editing in iMovie’09, as well as the rock star trainers in GarageBand’09.
Are they sufficiently compelling for the upgrade? That probably depends on the individual. Travelers will be as geotagging, budding musicians will, as lesson plans. One sour note: he does not appear that anyone who bought the new MacBooks were released from late October, will be able to switch to new software without paying the full $ 79 fee.
• iWork’09: Is anyone actually use iWork? A simple majority of underwhelming main section, the latest version of Apple office software seems to be not sufficient cause massive upgrade, with the possible exception of the main remote, which lets you use your iPhone or IPod Touch control Keynote presentations.
But iWork.com will be interesting to see develop. This is a beta version in the form now, but if Apple is developing Kinks, it could increase the use iWork especially if Apple finds a way to hook it to MobileMe.
• In Philnote: Phil Schiller has acquitted himself well as the role is usually used to play the role of Steve Dzhobs’ sidekick on these events. It was not work, although to be fair I technologies, covering events in the last eight years and do not work in the executive branch is still approaching Jobs’ presentation skills. But it was the crowd, made the appropriate sacrifices demo gods the night before, and assured that the show will go on.
• Everything else: No Steve Dzhobs sight. No new Mac Mini. No new iMacs or Power Macs. The line outside the main seemed less than in previous years, although it also appears that IDG is better to move along the line.
And Tony Bennett is a true nestareyuschego miracle.
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