Covering Apple's Special Event

Engadget has a spy at today's Special Event (note: this link won't work until they start updating the post at 1ish) leaking the information as soon as it trickles out. We'll try our best to replicate here in quick order.

UPDATE: The chat is over; check out the whole thing.

Scott and I and whoever else is available are going to chatcast the announcements live for you, so stay tuned... Scott McNulty: let's get ready to chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
C.K. Sample, III: where's everyone else
Scott McNulty: you're here twice
C.K. Sample, III: wha?
Jay Savage has joined this chat.
Jay Savage: hola
C.K. Sample, III: yes
C.K. Sample, III: three so far
C.K. Sample, III: w00t
Scott McNulty: there's Jay!
Jay Savage: where?!?
C.K. Sample, III: I invited Laurie and Barb
C.K. Sample, III: but no response yet
Laurie has joined this chat.

 more after the jump...Laurie: hey
12:55 PM
C.K. Sample, III: yeah!
C.K. Sample, III: woo
C.K. Sample, III: a little slow
C.K. Sample, III: but working
Scott McNulty: there's laurie!
Scott McNulty: it is gettin' crowded in here, y'all
Laurie: 12:50 PM – No Live Coverage of Apple Media Event Permitted [UPDATED]
Laurie: UPDATE 12:50pm EDT: As it turns out, no live updating will be permitted during the event. We will have a wrap-up to post as soon as the event is over. Stay tuned, and we'll keep you posted here as to when that will be.
C.K. Sample, III: hmmm
C.K. Sample, III: that sucks
C.K. Sample, III: iLounge is still up tho
Laurie: i can't get into ilounge yet
Scott McNulty: what? no live updating?
C.K. Sample, III: I'm in it now
Scott McNulty: so people who might buy an iPod during that hour still will?
Barb has joined this chat.
Barb: hellooo?
Barb: helloo!!
Laurie: lol
Barb: can you see me now?
C.K. Sample, III: yay!!!
Laurie: sort of
Barb: in a manner of speaking
Laurie: you're online in my buddy list, but no green dot in the chat
Laurie: weird
Scott McNulty: I, for one, am expecting an all new Newton
Barb: hmm
Barb: NEWTON!!
Laurie: and generic icon in the chat
Barb: i want
Jay Savage: jeez. turn my head away for a second, and everybody starts talking
Barb: me? generic? i won't hear of it
C.K. Sample, III: i've started updating the chatcast
C.K. Sample, III: post
C.K. Sample, III: WE ARE GO
Scott McNulty: http://flickr.com/photos/pedromoreno/sets/1125837/
Scott McNulty: via Engadget
Barb: that looks like the ad
Laurie: english por favor!!
Laurie:
Scott McNulty: it does, but I still wouldn't want to watch video on it
1:00 PM
Barb: it beats my cellphone
C.K. Sample, III: i would
Laurie: video is highly overrated on anything smaller than a 50" plasma
Jay Savage: too small
Jay Savage: heh.
Jay Savage: PSP screen size is Ok
Barb: i'll trade size for convenience
C.K. Sample, III: not too small to follow the story
Scott McNulty: ooh, I want a 50inch plasma iPod
C.K. Sample, III: eggsactly
Barb: LOL
C.K. Sample, III: lol
Jay Savage: Wait, I've got it: flixible screen
Jay Savage: flex, even
Jay Savage: 50" screen in your pocket
Barb: it's only a matter of time
Barb: and i wish that time her now, but alas
Barb: *were
Scott McNulty: I want to jack directly into my iPod
Scott McNulty: the iPod neural
Jay Savage: sign me up, too
Laurie: i want video burned into my retina
Laurie: so i can watch seinfeld while i sleep
Jay Savage: and whn I open my mouth I want it to act like the horn on a phonograph
Scott McNulty: Who are these people?
Barb: lol
Laurie: mine already does that
Barb: i would definitely implant an iPod
Scott McNulty: (my seinfeld impersonation)
Scott McNulty: I would implant an iPod as well
C.K. Sample, III: lol
Barb: "careful, that's my scroll wheel"
C.K. Sample, III: hmm iLounge looks to have timed out
C.K. Sample, III: no wait
Jan has joined this chat.
Scott McNulty: I'm still on ilounge
Scott McNulty: no timing out
C.K. Sample, III: there are people joining but no new info
Jay Savage: no engadget, either
Jan: works for me. someone please release my post on the advance pictures
C.K. Sample, III: hah sorry Jan
C.K. Sample, III: it's live now
Scott McNulty: hey C.K. there are no line breaks in the chatcast post
C.K. Sample, III: i just noticed that
C.K. Sample, III: fixing now
C.K. Sample, III: w00ps
Scott McNulty:
Laurie: what saps we all are
Jay Savage: speak for yourself
Laurie: not that there's anything wrong with that
Scott McNulty: why, oh, why aren't they streaming this event?
Laurie: because we'd have nothing to bitch about if they did
Scott McNulty: oh, we would
Laurie: and steve loves giving us something to bitch about
Scott McNulty: so what do we think Steve is wearing?
Laurie: http://www.tuaw.com/2005/10/12/apple-store-online-goes-offline-anticipation-builds/
Laurie: Comment: They goofed in the telesales listing – put Osterreich (Austria) instead of Australia with the Australian flag and number! Just called customer service
Laurie: BREAKING NEWS!!!
Jay Savage: maybe he doesn't want to give us too much to bitch about too soon
Laurie: STOP EVERYTHING ELSE!
C.K. Sample, III: lol
Laurie: i think steve is wearing an iPod sock
C.K. Sample, III: nice
1:10 PM
Scott McNulty: I think steve only drink soy milk
Scott McNulty: and stuff like that
Jay Savage: new chatcast title: Laurie reveals her most secret fantasies
C.K. Sample, III: lol
C.K. Sample, III: zing!
Laurie: you haven't even scratched the surface
C.K. Sample, III: I love these blind chatcasts where we have no idea what is going on!
C.K. Sample, III: what do you guys think?
Jay Savage: many things
Laurie: i think...
C.K. Sample, III: video capable iPod
C.K. Sample, III: new powerbooks?
Jay Savage: ...I can. I think I can...*whoo* *whoo*
Laurie: i need an Apple-branded umbrella today for the torrential downpour we're getting in NYC
Jay Savage: video iPod
C.K. Sample, III: single album iPod the size of a penny?
Jay Savage: beyond that, who knows
Jay Savage: dime
Scott McNulty: I hope it is more than a video iPOd
Laurie: i think steve is announcing his new solo singing career
Scott McNulty: or at least a video iPod that does more than just play videos
Laurie: with ringo backing him up on drums
C.K. Sample, III: amen to the umbrella, Laurie
Scott McNulty: 'Steve Sings!'
Laurie: and the ghost of linda mccartney singing backup
Jan: can anyone get on the ilounge IRC or update page? I'm stuck on their home page
Laurie: i got in, but it won't refresh
1:15 PM
Laurie: AOL needs to helicopter us in next time
Jay Savage: I second that
Laurie: with spycams and supersensitive mics
Jay Savage: leer from NY
C.K. Sample, III: motion passed!
Laurie: is barb still here?
Jay Savage: Sikorski from La to Cupertino
Scott McNulty: isn't the event in San Jose?
Laurie: the good news is that TUAW is loading fast
Laurie: must be because everyone is reading somewhere else
C.K. Sample, III: we hired extra internet gnomes
Barb: barb is here
Barb: speaking about herself in the third person
Jan: now into iLounge update page, but it won't refresh
Barb: and putting out some fires
Barb: she'll be in and out
Laurie: tell her we wish her well
Barb: i like the singing career idea, i think that's it
Laurie: great minds think alike
Barb: "tired of fighting tooth and nail with greedy record labels, Steve Jobs decides to provide all the content for the iTMS himself with his new band"
Jay Savage: still no news
Jay Savage: is good news?
Scott McNulty: perhaps they have sold out to Dell
Laurie: lol
Scott McNulty: 'Announcing the new Dell iPod'
Laurie: because HP iPods were such a hit
C.K. Sample, III: did you guys see the one comment from the reader who was 200% sure that they were announcing switching to AMD because Intel wasn't able to provide?
C.K. Sample, III: soooo funny
Scott McNulty: I did notice that
Laurie: that one made me spit milk through my nose i laughed so hard
Scott McNulty: people love AMD for some reason
Scott McNulty: I 400% sure that won't be happening
Laurie: i 2nd that
1:20 PM
Laurie: what are the odds and that betting site anyway?
Jay Savage: Nice if it was true, though
Scott McNulty: I like my chips like I like my women, manufactured by the industry leader
Scott McNulty: I may have said too much
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C.K. Sample, III: Update: Live coverage will not be possible due to bad cellular coverage at the California Theater in San Jose.
Scott McNulty: UPDATE: Bad news — Apple conveniently picked a venue in a cellular dead zone, which means no real-time reports from the keynote (there's no WiFi, either). We'll have reports as quickly as we can get them to you.
Scott McNulty: from the Eng, as I will be called Engadget from now on
Laurie: didn't i say that earlier?
Scott McNulty: did you?
Laurie: i did
Laurie: i did.
Scott McNulty: you said no live updates would be permitted
Laurie: fortunately my words are preserved forever at tuaw.com
Laurie: ah, ok. you got me on that one
Scott McNulty: this makes it seem like they may be permitted, just not possible
Laurie: you win
Jay Savage: I like my chips like I like my women: fast, and don't turn me in to the feds
Scott McNulty: Tricky Apple
C.K. Sample, III: not from iLounge
Fabienne has joined this chat.
Fabienne: yo.
Laurie: who is that?
C.K. Sample, III: Fabienne, did I spell your name right?
Fabienne: fabienne
Laurie: oh!
Laurie: hey
Barb: who's on Plan B?
Barb: walkie talkies?
Barb: smoke signals?
Scott McNulty: land line?!
Barb: that's sooooo 2004
Scott McNulty: ahh but it works
Fabienne: why is everyone a little yellow man with no chat icon.
C.K. Sample, III: yeah, I have a monkey that is supposed to be running info to a man on an elephant, but he got distracted by a banana
Barb: california doesn't have landlines anymore, do they?
Fabienne: i really miss irc.
Laurie: i have to say – i really think Steve does this (and the so-called "leaks") on purpose
Fabienne: i own a landline in california but i don't live there.
C.K. Sample, III: youhave to add us as buddies for our icons to show properly
Fabienne: voip.
Fabienne: convenient.
Laurie: you are the only little yellow man in my chat, fab
1:25 PM
Barb: we're like pale oompa loompas
Laurie: California banned landlines when they banned smoking
Barb: well hell, if there's no live coverage, we have to be the entertainment
Jay Savage: ilounge is down for the moment
C.K. Sample, III: yeah!
Barb: C.K. — commence dancing, please
Scott McNulty: Go C.K., go C.K.!
C.K. Sample, III: *dances*
Laurie: you mean i am not already being entertaining enough?
C.K. Sample, III: *starts unbuttoning shirt*
Barb: this is the time where we whip out that backstreet boys number we've been putting together
Barb: ack
Barb: this is a family chatcast!
Barb: no one wants to see naked little yellow men
C.K. Sample, III: *pulls an odd pirouette combination into a split*
C.K. Sample, III: MY GROIN!!!
Laurie: ck – if you touch one more button...
Jay Savage: well, how else do get a family?
Barb: ba dum dum
Barb: we're here all week, folks!
Laurie: ugh
Laurie: try the salmon
Jay Savage: Don't for get to tip your waitress
Laurie: it's fresh!
Scott McNulty: And people think we're snarky?
C.K. Sample, III: lol
C.K. Sample, III: you're the one that asked for the dance
C.K. Sample, III: sheesh
Jay Savage: yeah, don't know where they get that idea
Fabienne: much better.
Scott McNulty: engadget has the scoop
Scott McNulty: there's a Salling Clicker replacement for the Mac—a Mac remote, as it were. It's called FrontRow.
Scott McNulty: We also have word of a new, flatter iMac with built-in iSight.
Laurie: nifty
Scott McNulty: a mac remote...
Scott McNulty: hmm, for video playback?
Scott McNulty: that you got on your Mac from your... new iPod?
Scott McNulty: or iTunes Music Store perhaps?
Jay Savage: put it in a board room
Victor has joined this chat.
C.K. Sample, III: I know Jonas
Laurie: and victor just arrived!
Scott McNulty: he won't be happy
Victor: crashing the party
C.K. Sample, III: Jonas if you are reading this, you should have given me a little leakage
Scott McNulty: (Jonas not Victor)
1:30 PM
Victor: I have leakage, but nothing to do with Apple
Laurie: jonas does windows now tho
Laurie: he'll be fine
Scott McNulty: oh that's right I forgot about that
Scott McNulty: I never used Sailing Clicker, but it seems very cool
C.K. Sample, III: I wouldn't have told anyone until the appropriate time in the announcement
Jay Savage: anything else about the iMac upgraded? It certainly needed to slim down
Laurie: i'm never far enough away from my computer or my desk that i need a remote for anything
C.K. Sample, III: FYI for future reference etc blah blah
Fabienne: it needs to cool down. put a plant behind it and you have steamed greens.
Barb: lol
Scott McNulty: thinner always means cooler, right?
Barb: apple should explore that angle
Barb: the eco-friendly iMac
Scott McNulty: in our sizist society at least
Victor: I fry eggs on my iBook in the morning
Scott McNulty: damn you Main Stream Media!
C.K. Sample, III: i think this is the most chaotic chatcast ever
C.K. Sample, III: HOORAY!!!
Jay Savage: ???
Laurie: and the longest
Laurie: with the least amount of information
Fabienne: i used to fry my legs with my powerbook. now i only have a souped up g4 tower.
Laurie: WE ROCK!!!
C.K. Sample, III: no
C.K. Sample, III: that chatroom one we did was longer and with less info
Scott McNulty: I miss the chatroom
Scott McNulty:
C.K. Sample, III: me too
Laurie: the chatroom was cool
Fabienne: /me prefers irc
C.K. Sample, III: but now I have World of Warcraft to fill that void
Jay Savage: I want a G5 tower for my kitchen: combo recipe book and range top
Laurie: ask AOL for a chatroom for chrstmas
Scott McNulty: We also have word of a new, flatter iMac with built-in iSight. This guy will have a larger drive, FrontRow, and will cost the same as the current 17-inch model—ships today.
Scott McNulty: irc is too l33t for me
Scott McNulty: I'm so glad I didn't buy an iMac last week
Laurie: funny – a client called me this morning and said she wanted to replace her iBook with a new iMac today
Scott McNulty: The new iMac lineup prices are as follows: $1299 US for the 1.5GHZ 17-incher, $1799 US for the 2.1GHz 20-incher.
Fabienne: how are they relaying this?
Laurie: i told her to put her credit card away for a few hours
Laurie: carrier pigeon
Laurie: tin can + string
Scott McNulty: sheer force of will
Laurie: out of work drug runners
Victor: You can get a carrier wave on top of the RDF from Steve
C.K. Sample, III: i told you
1:35 PM
C.K. Sample, III: they are using a monkey and a man on an elephant
Victor: semaphore?
C.K. Sample, III: the monkey finished the banana sooo....
Fabienne: well i don't think your client will get anything for the moment, they are updating the store.
Laurie: is the monkey wearing a little hat?
Jay Savage: And I thout it was smoke signals
Scott McNulty: New iPod announced! The new iPod, as speculated, features video capabilities and the wider display, but it's still a music-first device.
Scott McNulty: from the Eng
Scott McNulty: (will that catch on?)
Jay Savage: scott: get a decent connection
Victor: Ha! take that, Caolo
Jay Savage has left this chat.
Scott McNulty: Jay insults my connection and leaves the chat?
C.K. Sample, III: jay sickened by the news leaves
Barb: 320 x 240 pixels, supports MPEG 4, H.264
Barb: there's a German site managing to cover
C.K. Sample, III: nice
C.K. Sample, III: what's the link
Barb: here's the babelfish
Barb: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.macnews.de%2f
C.K. Sample, III: Ich spreche Deutsch
Fabienne: ya ich verstehe ein bissien deutsch
Laurie: yo hablo englas
Laurie: where's caolo?
Scott McNulty: the new iMac has a faster diagram map
Laurie: who's the pumpkin icon?
Scott McNulty: I don't know what that means, but I want it!
Laurie: i don't know what that means!
Laurie: perhaps they mean clock speed?
Barb: finally, a faster diagram map
C.K. Sample, III: crap
Scott McNulty: that's babelfish's translation from german
Barb: lol
Laurie: faster diaphragm? what????
Barb: this is even better in german
C.K. Sample, III: H.264 is a video format
Scott McNulty: the new iPods are available in black
Scott McNulty: I wonder if they will be scratch magnets as well
Fabienne: ok my friends already want it as an ssh-terminal running linux.
Laurie: your friends need to get out more
Fabienne: yum h.264 on an ipod.
Fabienne: way yum.
Laurie: i want rubberized iPods – not a case
Fabienne: i can make one.
Victor has left this chat.
Scott McNulty: h.264 is breathetaking
1:40 PM
Laurie: i like my breath, thanks
Scott McNulty: well don't look at any h.264 video
C.K. Sample, III: trying to reinvite jay but it isn't working
Fabienne: yeah and not real time enough for me, i need sub 20 ms latency multichannel audio.
Laurie: HA HA!
Laurie: i tagged him
Fabienne: i got him.
Jay Savage has joined this chat.
Jay Savage: aha
Jay Savage: thanks
Laurie: welcome
Scott McNulty: Jay, I must challenge you to a duel for insulting my connection
Jay Savage: and here I was picking on Scoot
Jay Savage: Scott, even
C.K. Sample, III: huzzah!
Laurie: Scoot?
Scott McNulty: AND for calling me Scoot!
Scott McNulty: (which now everyone will call me)
Laurie: oh man... i totally love that. i will call Scott "Scoot" from now on
Scott McNulty: and so it begins
Jay Savage: so what did I miss?
Scott McNulty: video iPods
Scott McNulty: h.264 support
Laurie: the new iPod Scoot Special Edition
Scott McNulty: new imacs
Barb: pre-loaded with Steve Jobs' first album
Laurie: flatter imacs with builtin spycam, i mean isight
Jay Savage: I got the iMac
C.K. Sample, III: man, I cannot believe I have to buy another ipod
Jay Savage: you don't havee to
Scott McNulty: I'll buy one of the new iMacs
Scott McNulty: and review it
C.K. Sample, III: yes I do
Jay Savage: yeah, flatter iMac==good
Scott McNulty: since I was buying one anyway
Fabienne: ich liebe h.264
Laurie: it will be #9 for me
C.K. Sample, III: ja, h.264 ist ausgezeichnet!
Laurie: did anyone bring snacks?
Jay Savage: I'm diggin on the built-in isight, too
Scott McNulty: http://www.stuffmag.co.uk/hotstuffarticle.asp?de_id=594
C.K. Sample, III: I have to pee
C.K. Sample, III: when is this over
Laurie: that freaks me out
Laurie: i need to see a picture
Scott McNulty: they have a live feed in english
Laurie: i am imagining a one-eyed imac
Scott McNulty: oh a new app called photobooth
Scott McNulty: you can have your friends sit in front of you imac and take their pics
Laurie: Photobooth uses the iMac's screen as a flash and it's got cool little animation where the photo pops out. It's got wacky photoshop-style effects built in. Fun, but hardly groundbreaking. 'The funnest app we've ever written.'
Fabienne: *yawn*
1:45 PM
Scott McNulty: iTunes 6?!
Jay Savage: I just saw that
C.K. Sample, III: this is a HUGE one more thing?
Jay Savage: I like the photobooth idea
C.K. Sample, III: It's like a regular macworld
Scott McNulty: I just got used to iTunes 5 lack of new features
Jay Savage: not terribly useful, but fun
C.K. Sample, III: that was supposed to be !!!
Scott McNulty: nice, you can
C.K. Sample, III: they jumped all the way to SIX!!!
Scott McNulty: you can 'gift' stuff in the Itunes music store
Fabienne: well turn the knob up to 11.
Jay Savage: It's like my grandmother's idea of "just one more thing" when we were trying to leave at the holidays
Laurie: screw 11. this baby is going to 12
Fabienne: tv-out on the ipod
C.K. Sample, III: lol jay
C.K. Sample, III: nicew
Scott McNulty: and I am sure apple's stock will plummet
Jan: Here's what stuffmag says about iTunes 6: here are the big changes: firstly, 'gifting' – you can buy music for other people, who get an email telling them to download.
C.K. Sample, III: nice even
Jan: Next: customer reviews – Amazon-style peer reviews of music. Third: Just For You (beta) – a recommendation service, again similar to what Amazon offers.
Fabienne: i want to hear about hardware yo.
Scott McNulty: ok, who here will buy a music vidoe for 2 bucks?
Jay Savage: Yeah, the stock will plummet
C.K. Sample, III: I think this is going to be the longest post ever on TUAW
Jay Savage: not me
Jan: and music videos. 2000 currently avalilable to buy. cost=$1.99
Laurie: where are the powerbooks????
C.K. Sample, III: once the stock plummets, it'll be time to BUY
Jan: and pixar is offering some short films, also for $1.99
Barb: "iTunes 6 video, one cannot controlled only buy thereby also videos."
Scott McNulty: I don't think there will be new powerbooks
Fabienne: the pb are waiting for the macintel
Barb: i love this German translation
Laurie: buck 99 for a music video?
Scott McNulty: ohh.. pixar short films I'll buy
C.K. Sample, III: yes
C.K. Sample, III: short films are buyable
C.K. Sample, III: videos?
C.K. Sample, III: nah
Jay Savage: yeah shorts I'll buy
Fabienne: babelfish is poop.
Scott McNulty: I second that poop
Laurie: completely lost on someone who remembers the day MTV was born and hasn't tuned into it ever since
Jay Savage: As long as they're not steve's shorts
Fabienne: i have a collection of over 300 music videos.
Laurie: you're wearing shorts?
Fabienne: vj's use them.
Jan: The pixar videos take the space of six songs — about 20 MB and have same management rights as music tracks, according to stuffmag.co.uk
Laurie: DRM – YAY!
Laurie:
C.K. Sample, III: BOOOOOOOOO
Scott McNulty: C.K. loves it!
Fabienne: ew. drm. yuck.
Jay Savage: woo-hoo!
Barb: ugh
C.K. Sample, III: drm is teh devil
Fabienne: i will break it.
Laurie: i LOVE DRM!
Laurie: lol
Jay Savage: it's crunchy and good with katsup
Fabienne: (i miss american food jokes)
C.K. Sample, III: how big is the drive on this vPod?
1:50 PM
Fabienne: so what about hardware?
Fabienne: 60gig for the big one
Scott McNulty: slightly faster iMacs don't do it for you?
C.K. Sample, III: too small for video
Scott McNulty: not h.264
C.K. Sample, III: should be 100GB
Fabienne: Das 60 GB-Modell gibt es für 399 US-Dollar
C.K. Sample, III: i'm talking quantity
Fabienne: too expensive to be worth hacking.
C.K. Sample, III: of videos
Scott McNulty: I still don't get the video thing
Jay Savage: not if you've got one anyway
C.K. Sample, III: all my DVDs ripped to h.264 in my pocket
Scott McNulty: I'm with Steve, Apple will never make a video iPod! End of stroy
Barb: it's the portability factor, Scoot
Scott McNulty: oh, wait...
Fabienne: it has a tv out
Barb: esp. with tv out
Scott McNulty: tv out is good
Fabienne: you can plug it into a video projector.
Fabienne: or a tv.
Jan: small video iPod is 30 GB
Barb: or your neural interface
Jay Savage: but what's the resolution on the video out?
Fabienne: mmm neural interfaces.
Scott McNulty: that's a good question
Jan: nice that the video iPod comes with a case.
Jan: less worries about scratches than we had with iPod nano
C.K. Sample, III: blogsmith has started slowing down
C.K. Sample, III: I think we have some people reading this post
Laurie: other than me?
Scott McNulty: I'm skimming
Laurie: we need a way to break posts into more than 2 pages
Laurie: get brian on that – and tell him we need it in the next 10 minutes
C.K. Sample, III: hah
Jan: waving at all the warm bodies reading this post
Scott McNulty: I love Stevemas
Jay Savage: ***jay refrains from comment
C.K. Sample, III: lol
Laurie: i demand that each of us in the chatcast post have our lines in different colors
Laurie: my witty comments are getting buried
Scott McNulty: I didn't notice any witty comments, Laurie
Scott McNulty:
Jan: There is still another announcement
C.K. Sample, III: that's the way it'll be formatted when I redo it as the first video chatcast animated for the new video iPod
Laurie: DOH!
1:55 PM
C.K. Sample, III: NICE
C.K. Sample, III: zing
Laurie: POWERBOOKS
Fabienne: shit.
C.K. Sample, III: w00t
C.K. Sample, III: I mean crap
Laurie: Hey... Scooter
Laurie: bite me
C.K. Sample, III: I just got a new one
Laurie: i just made that up
Jan: You'll be able to buy tv shows from itunes music store. Whoopee.
Scott McNulty: cool
C.K. Sample, III: cool
Laurie: ok, now THAT is friggin cool
Scott McNulty: with or without commericials?
Laurie: i like that
Jay Savage: dammit Laurie, you had me going
Jay Savage: with.
Jan: It's Jan, not Laurie.
Laurie: lol. sorry.
Jay Savage: almost certainly with
Scott McNulty: speaking of which, I wonder if Apple will make their ad library available on iTunes
Scott McNulty: that would be cool
Laurie: jan – i think he meant my powerbooks shout
Jan: whoops
Scott McNulty: 1984, Lemmings, Jeff 'There is no step 3' Goldblum
Laurie: that WOULD be cool
Laurie: but i have almost all of them in quicktime
Fabienne: tv shows through itunes
Fabienne: damn i have some major lag.
Fabienne: *pauses her bittorrents*
Laurie: lol
Jan: iTunes 6 will be available today for free download.
C.K. Sample, III: if they were to start charging I would flip
Jay Savage: i can't believe thay only have 200 videos
Laurie: i'm downloading it now
Laurie: kidding
Jay Savage: not that I'm going to buy any
Scott McNulty: I think it would have been very funny if they started charging
Scott McNulty: iTunes 6 only $40
C.K. Sample, III: i think they should only charge for it on Windoze
Jay Savage: 2000, sorry
Jay Savage: lol
Scott McNulty: as long as they have the Saftey Dance video I'll be fine
Scott McNulty: "Everybody look at your hands!'
Jay Savage: I'm holding out for Devo
2:00 PM
Jay Savage: 11 minute lull?
Jan: tv shows from iTunes Music Store include Desperate Housewives, Lost and more shows from ABC and Disney.
Laurie: you call this a lull?
Jay Savage: Ok, now I'm excited
Laurie: i just netflix'd the first season of rescue me because i didn't start watching until the end of the season
Scott McNulty: Apple is becoming Kick Assier every minute
Jay Savage: nice to see them get HBO and showtime in there, though
Laurie: i guess that won't be there
Jan: Also Nightstalker, and The Suite Life
Fabienne: um am i the only person that bittorrents?
Barb: no
Scott McNulty: bit what now?
Jay Savage: no
C.K. Sample, III: no
Fabienne: daily show, numb3rs
C.K. Sample, III: I bittorrent all the time
Fabienne: ok.
Jan: Macnews.de says the videos have a resolution of 320x240 pixels
Fabienne: just checking.
Laurie: i have been known to torrent on occasion, but i rarely have the need
Scott McNulty: is that like betamax?
C.K. Sample, III: only legal shows of course *cough*
Laurie: legal shows? like law & order?
C.K. Sample, III: *winks at the MPAA and RIAA*
Jay Savage: yeah, Apple really needs to start supporting bittorrent in iTunes
Jay Savage: Andy Griffith, It hink
Scott McNulty: Babelfish is like poetry: One knows the shows one day after it was radiated over that iTunes Music net curtain to buy. A consequence costs 1.99 US dollar.
Fabienne: my friend markie supposed it would be 320x240 interpolated to 640x480
Jan: I think "radiated" means broadcast.
Barb: i like radiated better
Barb: i might watch radiated tv
Laurie: radiated ist good
C.K. Sample, III: is the event still going on?
Barb: i've no interest in the broadcast version tho
Scott McNulty: Apple.;com hasn't been updated
Fabienne: i'm guessing it's over.
Laurie: event? what event?
Jay Savage: I used to love radiated TV...used to sit down and watch it with a bag of paint chips
Laurie: there's an event?
Jan: German site says: Steve offers Robert Iger, CEO von Disney on the stage, which co-operation praises.
Jan: Huh?
Scott McNulty: Disney owns ABC
Laurie: and plays ball with pixar
Laurie: now that eisner is gone
Scott McNulty: so that Dude will get up and say 'Disney is excited to be working with BOTH of Steve's companies'
Scott McNulty: 'We loves us some Jobs!'
2:05 PM
Jay Savage: yeah, It's the sock that really closes the deal
Scott McNulty: and then he'll sit down
C.K. Sample, III: I wonder if they will have the video iPod in stores as quickly as they did the nano
Laurie: i can”t refresh eng
Scott McNulty: they said next week
Laurie: pay attention ck
Jay Savage: Maybe we'll see Disney-branded Nanos this Christmas to go along with that awufl pretty princess digicam they've got
Laurie: LOL
Fabienne: desperate housewives + cinderella.
Jay Savage: there's a difference?
Laurie: my niece turns 4 on friday. she LOVES pretty princess
Laurie: when did we lose victor?
Fabienne: when i was 4 i loved legos.
Fabienne: this pink stuff for girls is crap.
Dave Caolo has joined this chat.
Scott McNulty: I still love Legos
Laurie: i still love legos
Laurie: i invited Caolo
Barb: legos rule
Fabienne: i still do too.
C.K. Sample, III: NICE
C.K. Sample, III: yeah, blogsmith is slowing too
C.K. Sample, III: what?
C.K. Sample, III: caolo comes in at the end
Jay Savage: yeah, I don't know where Victor went
Dave Caolo: tv in ituens yaayyyyyyyY!!!!!!!!one11!!!1
Barb: lol
Laurie: now now.. keep it down
Scott McNulty: there's Dave with his late breaking news
Laurie: we're trying to nap
Scott McNulty: and journalistic reserve
Jay Savage: I was just going to ask about him
Fabienne: sorry but my myth tv kicks any part of this announcement's ass.
Jan: German site: Steve job summarizes: We iSight a new iMac with, FrontRow. IPod,
Jay Savage: anyway: legos rule
Jan: the videos to play and iTunes 6 can do a completely new also over 2.000 music videos, Pixar pixar-Kurzfilmen and five TV-show with the NR. 1 and the NR. 2 show... that is amazing.
Jay Savage: they should make a lego iPod
Dave Caolo: yay!!
Fabienne: people have made lego ipod cases.
Scott McNulty: I'd buy a lego ipod
C.K. Sample, III: i need to build one of those
Jan: What's NR?
C.K. Sample, III: not rated?
Fabienne: no rating?
Dave Caolo: no reserve?
Barb: i',m going to name my first child Pixar pixar-Kurzfilmen
Jay Savage: New release/
Barb: it's got a ring to it
2:10 PM
Fabienne: *laugh*
C.K. Sample, III: nipple ring?
Barb: ouch, i hope not
Laurie: OUCH
Scott McNulty: Wait a second!
Laurie: no reserve
Jay Savage: Nipple Ring Pixar Pixar-
Scott McNulty: I was promised a bluetooth Mighty Mouse!!
Laurie: Apple will buy eBay
Dave Caolo: ok, im late. what's this PhotoBooth business?
Jay Savage: Kurzfilmen...there's a name for you
Laurie: screw the mouse
Laurie: give me new powerbooks
C.K. Sample, III: i want a bluetooth one too
Scott McNulty: I will only screw it if it is bluetooth!
C.K. Sample, III: although I'm not too pleased with my mighty mouse
Jay Savage: right bluetooth mighty mouse
Laurie: 15" weighing 3 lbs, with 10 hour battery life
C.K. Sample, III: it is sort of fragile feeling
Jay Savage: Although I want a real three button mouse first
Jay Savage: lol
Scott McNulty: I don't use mine to be honest
C.K. Sample, III: I switched back to my BT apple pro
Laurie: i do not like the mighty mouse
Scott McNulty: I use the trackpad
C.K. Sample, III: but I miss that little scroll bobble on the mighty mouse
Fabienne: i have synergy. with a happy hacker keyboard lite 2 usb black super compact and a generic logitech laser mouse.
Fabienne: very happy.
Scott McNulty: do you ssh tunnel with synergy?
C.K. Sample, III: so is the event over?
Fabienne: no i'm behind a huge set of firewalls and honeypots.
C.K. Sample, III: should we wrap this chatcast up?
Laurie: fabienne you are too cool for us
Scott McNulty: ah
Fabienne: *smile* at home.
Jay Savage: different synergy
Dave Caolo: sure. the store is still down
Laurie: it's not over
Laurie: is it?
C.K. Sample, III: k
Barb: i want to see a pic other than the bedraggled mug shot on flickr
C.K. Sample, III: I still have to pee
Jay Savage: Steve Singin?
Jay Savage: I'm sorry, strike that from the record
Jan: Apple site is still showing iTunes 5
Laurie: btw – i'll be out for about an hour when we wrap this up so don't wait for me to weigh in
C.K. Sample, III: k
Dave Caolo: yeah i just got the kids in bed and havent eaten yet
Scott McNulty: should we start divvying up the news?
Dave Caolo: did i mention....TV IN ITUNES!!!1
Fabienne: yeah.
Jay Savage: I think you might have
Fabienne: did i mention bittorrent and mythtv?
C.K. Sample, III: i'm still posting all this chat goodness
Fabienne: yeah i did.
Scott McNulty: linux
Scott McNulty: whatever
Fabienne: um bsd thank you very much.
Jay Savage: BSD
2:15 PM
Scott McNulty: oh sorry
Scott McNulty: BSD
Scott McNulty: whatever
Fabienne: i use both though.
Jay Savage: lol
C.K. Sample, III: Conrad Quilty Harper is going to join us
Fabienne: and os x.
C.K. Sample, III: bc he saw we were having fun
Fabienne: *is multiplatform partisan*
C.K. Sample, III: I think...
Scott McNulty: I'm on a thinkpad right now
C.K. Sample, III: I invited him...
C.K. Sample, III: HERETIC
Fabienne: i'm on 3 computers right now.
Scott McNulty: running... WINDOWS XP!!!!
Jan: For divvying up, we've got new iMac with built-in iSight camera, Photo Booth, and Front Row; video iPod, iTunes 6, movies from iTunes music store
Jay Savage: and here I thought you were a multi-platform Parisian
Jan: Did I miss anything?
Fabienne: ew i run winblows nowhere though.
Conrad has joined this chat.
Scott McNulty: Windows pays my bills
Conrad: hey guys, conrad from joystiq here
Fabienne: lol j
Scott McNulty: Conrad!
C.K. Sample, III: Conrad! What's your favorite Mac game?
Scott McNulty: Wynton Marsalis!
Scott McNulty: At least it isn't John Meyer again
Conrad: Starcraft, obviously...
Conrad: that or myth II
Jay Savage: I think XP may be affecting Scoot's brain
C.K. Sample, III: no WoW love?
Conrad: nope, University proxy servers won't allow it
Jay Savage: what U?
Conrad: Hull University, I'm a brit
Fabienne: you could tunnel.
Jan: The event is over according to live.ilounge.com
Laurie: they have live in their name
Scott McNulty: apple.com has been updated
Laurie: so they would know
Laurie: just one more thing
Scott McNulty: the new iMac is a media pc
Conrad: Yeah, I was about to say I need to find out how to tunnel it
Scott McNulty: sweet
Laurie: ok, powerbooks in january
C.K. Sample, III: yeah?
Jay Savage: "Media Pc" meaning?
Conrad: I love how Apple's just blown apart Windows Media Centre
Dave Caolo: ok, im going to eat. audi,.
Dave Caolo has left this chat.
Fabienne: and macintel in june? what gives?
Scott McNulty: Media Center like
C.K. Sample, III: so....
Jay Savage: yeah
C.K. Sample, III: any final thoughts before I stop posting this live?
Conrad: Apple roxxorz Microsoft's boxxorz
Jay Savage: maybe no powerboos in Jan
Jay Savage: that about summs it up
2:20 PM
Jay Savage: three snaps for the iMac
Jay Savage: in a "Z"
Scott McNulty: snap, snap, snap
Fabienne: apple.com gives me a big fat 504 gateway timeout.
Scott McNulty: one shall be mine!
C.K. Sample, III: Indeed, Apple does roxxorz Microsoft's boxxors
Fabienne: final thought: tv out rox
Laurie: in closing, i'd just like to say...
Jay Savage: and a great big "eh" for the Video iPod
Fabienne: best part of the whole announcement.
Laurie: it's all applicious
an: I'm trying to post but am getting an error. Brian?
Scott McNulty: they are bundling the mighty mouse with the imac
Jay Savage: oh, hey, what's the official name of the iPod
Scott McNulty: sweet
Conrad: Final thought: we need pics
Laurie: brian is the one person NOT in this chat
Jay Savage: iPod Video?
Laurie: yes, pics
Scott McNulty: just iPod
Conrad: Just iPod
Scott McNulty: so who is covering what?
C.K. Sample, III: Alright, I'm buying a new iPod
Jay Savage: Just Ipod(tm)?
Scott McNulty: I would like to do the iMac
Jay Savage:
Laurie: i don't play favorites
Conrad: The funny thing is I just bought a BT phone and salling clicker...
Laurie: i'll complain about everything equally tonight
C.K. Sample, III: anyone want to buy a 60GB iPod
Jay Savage: I'm booked up today, so work it out amongst yourselves
Scott McNulty: well I'll do the big picture iMac post
C.K. Sample, III: alright I'm not updating anymore
Laurie: apple.com back up
Conrad: cool
Fabienne: "The New iPod"
2:25 PM
Conrad: apple.com is slooow
Jay Savage: alright, I need lunch
Fabienne: oh excuse me "The new iPod"
Jay Savage: see y'all later
Laurie: lol
Conrad: latah
Laurie: bye guys
Laurie: see you all again in January