2-Minute MacWorld SF
Filed in: Apple, tech, Tue, Jan 7 2003 19:59 PT

A quick look at MacWorld San Francisco:
- New Browser
- Safari, free, open source, available now as public beta. Based on KHTML browser engine. (Remember this is not the first time Apple made a browser…)
- Airport Extreme
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- Based on 802.11g
- 54Mb/s wireless
- Backwards compatible with 802.11b
- Base stations auto-bridge for seamless connections
- USB print server
- $199 Base station
- 17-inch PowerBooks
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- 1GHz G4 w/1MB L3 cache
- 512MB DDR memory
- 60GB hard drive
- 1440×900, GeForce 4 440 Go video chipset w/64MB
- FireWire 800 (new) + FireWire 400 and 2 USB inputs, DVI/VGA and S-Video outputs
- Bluetooth built in
- Airport Extreme 54Mb wireless
- 6.8lbs, 1″ thick
- Fiber-optic keyboard backlighting and ambient-light-sensitive brightness control
- $3299 w/free QuickBooks Pro, ships February
- 12-inch PowerBooks
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- 867MHz G4 w/1MB L3 cache
- 512MB DDR memory
- 60GB hard drive
- 1024×768, GeForce 4 420 Go video chipset w/32MB
- FireWire 800 (new) + FireWire 400 and 2 USB inputs, DVI/VGA and S-Video outputs
- Bluetooth built in
- 4.6lbs, 1.2″ thick (smallest PB ever)
- Airport Extreme ready ($99 card)
- $1799 w/free QuickBooks, $1999 with SuperDrive, ships late January
- Keynote
- $99 presentation software used by Steve since his 2002 MacWorld keynotes
- Uses all of OS X’s component tools (Quartz Extreme, Aqua, OpenGL, QuickTime)
- Exports PowerPoint, PDF, QuickTime (and imports PowerPoint for editing)
- Imports various formats, including QuickTime, Flash, PDF, and MP3
- Antialiasing, transitions, theme-based design
- iLife
- iTunes 3, iPhoto 2, iMovie3, iDVD 3 integrated together, including DVD chaptering, music import, archiving photos to CD/DVD. Sold in a box for $49, all but iDVD will be free to download soon.
- Final Cut Express
- $299 for a slightly-reduced version of the $999 Final Cut Pro
- 3rd Party Software
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- Pro Tools OS X in January
- QuickBooks OS X now
- Burton jacket
- $499 Snowboarding jacket with iPod controls on the sleeve