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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Pro Tools OS X in January
• QuickBooks OS X now

Burton jacket

$499 Snowboarding jacket with iPod controls on the sleeve