Apple Special Event Photoplus Expo

Third event for Apple this month, focused on the pro market.
David Moody, president of worldwide product market, is on stage.
I. The Powerbook are upgraded.
The 15" offers now a screen display with a reolution of 1440x900 (such as the current 17") and the 17" is now offering a resolution of 1680x1050.
They are available today:
US$1,499 for the 12"
US$1,999 for the 15"
US$2,499 for the 17"
Both 15" and 17" can drive an external 30" monitor.
II. The PowerMacs are upgraded with dual core processors. The architecture supports 16 Gb of DDR2 at 533MHz RAM memory. It supports also up to 1 Tb of internal SATA storage. PCI-express is also available.
They are named PowerMac G5 Quad.
The NVidia Quadro FX4500 is ready for these new G5 and of course can drive the dual 30".
The new PowerMac uses 8 floating point units, 4 velocity engines, 4 1Mb level2 caches and can reach up to 76.6 Gigaflops.
Mono-proc (bi-core) 2.0 GHz: US$1,999
Mono-proc (bi-core) 2.3 GHz: US$2,499
Dual-proc (bi-core) "Quad" 2.5 GHz: US$3,299
III. New prices for the Cinema Displays
The 23" is now at US$1,299 (previously 1,499) and the 30" is aet US$2,499 (previously 2,999).
IV. Rob Shoeben, application marketing manager, is now on stage. He talks about the new challenges of the professional photographers : retouching, managing memory cards while keeping their delivery time as short as possible.
Apple presents Aperture, a software for managing RAW images. You can now manage and retouch your RAW images as easily and quickly as a JPG.
Aperture offers a feature called Stacks which automatically groups the images accordingly to the apertures. The workspace takes the entire surface of the screen and offers many work layers to put several images on screen. A multi-images viewer allows to visualise the images by 10 or 12 and zoom up to 800%. Aperture offers also classic features, such as red-eye removal, page layout, contact sheet, online printing and publishing on .Mac
The AppleStore is now reopen.
The Keynote is finished.