Well, the 'big' announcement finally came, and although there weren't any huge surprises, there were some interesting little tidbits that slipped by. I'm going to gloss over (har) the normal stuff you'll see everywhere else, and cover the little-mentioned items...
The first announcement, unsurprisingly, was a new iMac. I've been waiting to get the 24" as a 'Christmas present' that was promised to me, so now it's time to cash that in! The first 'nice thing' is that the new systems now have ONE 1G RAM chip, as opposed to the 'some have 2, some have 1' method from before. No more tossing a 512 chip, thank goodness. The new designs are slimmer, there's no more 17" model, the prices have dropped... and there's no more white. The new systems are aluminum and glass, with a black border around the (high-gloss) screen. Another welcome addition - high-speed USB on the keyboard. Just because you're not plugging in a powered device doesn't mean you don't want the speed :) The keyboard itself is a slimmer, chicklet-key styled aluminum model. There's now a power button on them (yay!) but they've finally bid farewell to the Open Apple logo. Details are on the Apple site (there should be banners on these pages for it :))
Software updates were also part of the announcement, with updates to .Mac's storage capacity to make room for new features in iLife '08. A full review of that will be here soon! They also discussed some highlights from iWork '08, which I'll be trying out tonight and reviewing this week.
On the whooshing-by front, Apple also came out with (but didn't really announce) new Mac Mini systems and new Airport Extreme models (now touting gigabit ethernet, a previous dealbreaker for some). The new Minis finally sport a 64-bit-ready Core 2 Duo processor, and since they have the new iLife suite on them they're a really tempting buy for a lot of users.
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