![]() Here’s a bit from Apple PR at the time:Īpple today announced iTunes 1.1, an update to its popular iTunes music software, which includes support for more than 25 third-party CD burners from popular vendors such as Iomega, La Cie, QPS and Sony. Version 1.1 of the product was announced, with support for third-party CD burners, in addition to the CD burners found in Apple’s own products. The Digital HubĪfter the Nvidia but, Jobs revisited Apple’s Digital Hub strategy, talking about the overall vision, as well as iMovie 2 and iTunes, which was still brand new and had already clocked 750,000 downloads. The GeForce 3 would be an Apple exclusive GPU at launch, and was made available as a $600 build-to-order option in the Power Mac G4, starting in April. It was followed by John Carmack showing off a game engine running atop Mac OS X. When comparing almost anything to its counterpart from 15 years ago, it’s a fun demo. ![]() When it was first rendered in 1986, Jobs said it took a Cray supercomputer 75 hours to computer a single second of the film. As Nvidia’s David Kirk stood on stage, the GPU rendered Pixar’s famous Luxo Jr. Jobs then announced a new Nvidia video card, the GeForce 3. ![]() The larger of the two saw its price cut to $2,999. ![]() 2 And, of course, Phil Schiller came out to race a 733 MHz G4 against a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4.Īpple’s spherical Pro Speakers were shown off, as were Apple’s 22-inch and 15-inch displays. Next, Jobs spoke about the new Power Mac G4s that were announced in the previous keynote, harping once again on the SuperDrive that shipped in the 733 MHz model. ![]()
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