VentureBeat's Macworld 2009 Keynote Live Coverage

still here, played with iPhoto '09. very cool.

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Maya Baratz

Learn guitar lessons from Sting! (and more)

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woah sting - Keyboardcowgirl

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Does it have Learn to play the Ocarina? (iPhone app: http://www.smule.com/) - RAD Moose

Sting will be all, "What? You call that a barre chord? Go back to Windows, you wanker." - Karim

A celebrity is making more money than the guitar teacher in town. I'll take the celeb. - Michael Gaines

I agree, master does not equal teacher - Ryan

Hate to break it to everyone, but sting is a Bass player. - Brian O'Neil

@Brian I knew that, if no one else did ;) - Susan

actually Sting is a -very- accomplished guitarist... he's a phenom - Jay Cuthrell

MG Siegler

one configuration : $2799, 2.66 ghz core 2 duo

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ships late january - MG Siegler

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wonder how much that 256GB solid state drive is - MG Siegler

jesus $2799! - andy brudtkuhl

They will sell exactly 4 of these beasts - Stephen Pierzchala

$2799 = 9.3 netbooks running OS X ;-) - Karim

Looks great, but that is just too much to spend. - Spencer

Same price as it always was, no? - Mark Trapp

first mac was 2495. - Oldengrey (Jay)

I can buy two awesome PC laptops for that much... - Susan

people that need big portable screens will continue to shell out too much money for their 17" MBP. - Ross Rader

I'd rather have one macbook than 2 pcs any day. - sean808080

I'd rather have 4 mac minis than one overpriced macbook - andy brudtkuhl

MG Siegler

thanks everyone for watching it with us. will be working on some posts now and doing some hands on time, but keep questions coming and i'll answer what i can

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Huge props for the coverage. Thx. - West O'Todd

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Thanks for the room! I mainly watched coverage here. FF Real-time was great for this. As for whether I'm disappointed with the keynote, I guess I am. I was looking forward to a refreshed Mac mini. But I am pretty enthused about the iTunes Store being available over cellular networks now, and that the tracks are all DRM-free. And I guess I'm interested to see the auto video stabilization in iMovie '09. - Cheryl Jones

Big Props to you MG and VB - was the best coverage/stream by far! - Christian Messer

Awesome coverage! Thanks all. - Paul Wade

Great coverage, thanks for the room on FF, amazing idea - Paul Papadimitriou

Maya Baratz

new pricing structure for iTunes -- .69 cents, .99 cents, $1.29

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@maya wait... is the price change just an April Fools joke then? April 1st? - Susan

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Are all purchases DRM free now?! - Shivanand Velmurugan

Agreed the 4chan hack was horrible for those guys - Justin Fowler

haha not an April fools joke :) - Maya Baratz

@shivanand iTunes Store still not DRM-free yet - Vinko

and can you get previous purchases drm free? - Shawn McCollum

@Vinko I thought Daring Fireball just said that he noticed Apple store going DRM free! http://bit.ly/13JSN - Shivanand Velmurugan

iTunes Plus is now telling my I can upgrade (at the usual $0.30 cost) a huge chunk of my previously-purchased music to DRM-free, but not the majority of it. Still it looks like they did flip a switch somewhere since the number of tracks I can upgrade is several times the number I could upgrade yesterday. - Karim

So what they mean by 'all tracks' DRM free, is that you need to upgrade to iTunes Plus to get rid of the DRM? - RAD Moose

at least for *previously purchased*, DRM-protected music, it looks like you still need to "upgrade" at cost. Though at 30 cents per track, it's really not the ♫ end of the world as we know it. ♫ - Karim

I will stick with my DRM'd music then, it really hasn't affected me. - Spencer

Almost $64 for me... - Lee Hinde

Depends on how much you have bought so far.. as well as if it will be 60 cents per 69 cent track in the future. =) guess I should have asked for iTunes Gift Cards for Christmas =D - RAD Moose

Look out for a profits boost as people upgrade tracks. If 5% of the six billion songs sold get upgraded, that's around $90 million in additional revenue, at minimal cost to Apple. - Ian Betteridge

whoa, look another "Susan" on Friendfeed! hai! - Susan Beebe

Ian, I'd be surprised if the additional 30 cents per track didn't go mostly to the record labels. - Karim

MG Siegler

40% larger battery with 8 hours of charge

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but yes, not removable - MG Siegler

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is the trade off worth it? if it's really 8 hours i think so - MG Siegler

It's 8 hours if you're only using web-based chat and nothing else ;) - Susan

8h for a 1920x1200 17" with nividia chips seems cool for web usage - TiTi

yeah... what happened to Pirillo's feed? - Vinko

Leo knocked over his lappy - bravestface

lol - Colin

Gah, lost Chris's audio... focusing here more now - Bwana ☠

new feed http://www.ustream.tv/channel... - Colin

"Oh, we meant it TAKES 8 hours to CHARGE it." j/k - RAD Moose

Cali Lewis feed is dead also - Vinko

Here's another audio feed http://www.ustream.tv/channel... - Nick Humphries

thx for the new feed - TiTi

Venture Beat's - Luke

new feed just went down!!!! - Colin

Uh oh... new feed seems to have lost audio - Dan York

I believe UStream's battery died - Brian Roy

Still waiting for a Mac Mini update - Spencer

And Chris Pirillo's *website* seems to be down now - Dan York

Refresh the page on MacTips, it's working now - Nate True

http://www.ustream.tv/channel... - @LarsenTweet

New feed audio is back - http://www.ustream.tv/channel... - Dan York

yea i'd buy a new mac mini or updated apple tv today - andy brudtkuhl

Unibody, non-removable battery, Multi-touch : onto the Mac "Tablet"... - marc duchesne

MG Siegler

so what does everyone think? disappointed or not?

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highlights definitely drm-free itunes and new iPhoto - MG Siegler

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I'd be a LOT more excited if I had $2799 - Greg

I was disappointed no Mac Mini updates, just a $2800 laptop. - Spencer

All I really wanted was a new Mini.... so yeah. But having said that iLife looks outstanding. - Brian Roy

yeah greg is this battery was in all the macbooks i would sell mine and buy the new one - MG Siegler

@mark I want an iphone with more storage. - Susan

Some of the iMovie enhancements are *definitely* interesting now that I'm doing a little bit more with video. - Dan York

great coverage thanks -- disappointed at the announcements or lack thereof - Jeff Fedor

new iPhoto is a plain rip off of Picasa and Windows Live Photo Gallery.. wont call THAT a highlight - Imran Hussain

no new imacs -- at least no announced here - MG Siegler

If it wasn't for this room, this would be a major disappointment. - RAD Moose

BOOOOOOOO - andy brudtkuhl

apple store is down - MG Siegler

Disappointed, I wanted a mention, a whisper about Apple TV - Guess Roku is getting my business - Christian Messer

Agree with @MG about the highlight of the keynote being DRM-fee iTunes tracks and iPhoto '09 - Vinko

Thanks for the coverage you provided here - Dan York

Good thing Jobs DIDN'T Keynote... *yawn* - Anthony K. Valley ©

@christian what do you want the apple TV to do? - Susan

Welcome to the real time web!!! - Brian Roy

Sad there was no Mini update. iWork and iLife updates look good. - Will King

Apple Store is down? hope they aren't hosted the same place as MacRumors ;-) - Karim

MG (& everybody else) - whadda ya think? Another special event in March? - Christian Messer

Aside from the 17" MBP which we knew was coming, and the extended battery life, it was all software. Disappointing 'cause everyone's always eager to buy the latest new shiny Apple hardware. :) - Dan Hsiao

Yeah... hope so. - Vinko

boring - Shannon Burns

disappointed, who cares about iLife. Picasa does it in their beta. - Ryan

great news in the form iphoto updates, imovie updates and itunes drm-free but disappointed with no new macmini - Kiran Patchigolla

boring, disappointing - tony bennett - really? - Colin

Actually pleased with the lack of hardware updates. Less $, less waste. - Dave Ferrick

better processor to handle 1080p video, ability to add internet video sources like Hulu, Fox, Veemeoh, Qik etc....if you see video available for purchase on iTunes, be able to click to buy ad free, Dashboard overlay to be able to use widgets OR the ability to use iPhone/iPod Touch apps on the big screen and control with the iPhone/iPod Touch. And sell the older model at an entry point of $99. - Paul Schreiber

I left my heart in SF. Blah! - Than R

seriously disappointed. Very little new for *macs*. - adin

Basically some software upgrades and DRM free (the 17" macbook was a given) - Mark Philpot

Nice software upgrades, and, erm, that's about it. - Ian Betteridge

MG Siegler

no imacs, no mac minis...

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but could they be quiet launches? - MG Siegler

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or maybe another event (smaller) is coming shortly - MG Siegler

That is what I'm thinking... particularly the mini... they've done that before. - Brian Roy

Store back up... no new MINI listed - Brian Roy