(from the MacWorld ongoing blog)
GarageBand has added eight-track recording, Vocal Transformer, real-time musical notation and pitch and timing fixing. You can now make your own instrument loops.
Popular musician John Mayer took the stage to demonstrate some of the new capabilities -- Jobs played with the musical notation capability by dragging notes and chords up and down the scale as GarageBand played them back. Mayer and another musician also did a live song to demonstrate multi-track recording, laying down four tracks that Jobs later fiddled with.
The news from MacWorld
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
Mac mini
Encased in brushed metal, the new Mac mini features a square shape with rounded edges and is somewhat similar in appearance to an Apple AC power adapter. It features a slot-loading CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo drive, USB 2.0, FireWire 400, DVI and VGA connectivity.
The Mac mini comes in two models -- a 1.25GHz, 40GB G4 system for $499 and an 80GB 1.42GHz G4 system for $599.
Encased in brushed metal, the new Mac mini features a square shape with rounded edges and is somewhat similar in appearance to an Apple AC power adapter. It features a slot-loading CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo drive, USB 2.0, FireWire 400, DVI and VGA connectivity.
The Mac mini comes in two models -- a 1.25GHz, 40GB G4 system for $499 and an 80GB 1.42GHz G4 system for $599.
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- KVRAF
- 2874 posts since 22 Oct, 2002 from "somewhere between digital and analog"
Sounds like a good node for L7...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
Apple's latest digital music device, the iPod shuffle, is shaped like a long, thin rectangle with beveled edges. It has a headphone jack on the top. Clad in white with a grey button interface laid out similarly to the iPod and iPod mini's clickwheel. It measures smaller than a pack of gum and weighs less than four quarters. Available in 512MB for US$99, or 1GB for $149.
"We are shipping them out of the factory starting today," said Jobs.
A cap on the bottom hides a USB 2.0 connector. You pop it off and plug it in to a PC or Mac's available port. An optional lanyard lets you wear it around your neck. Apple says the iPod shuffle's battery lasts about 12 hours per charge.
"Autofill" is a new feature in iTunes that will automatically build a playlist that will fit on your iPod shuffle.
"We are shipping them out of the factory starting today," said Jobs.
A cap on the bottom hides a USB 2.0 connector. You pop it off and plug it in to a PC or Mac's available port. An optional lanyard lets you wear it around your neck. Apple says the iPod shuffle's battery lasts about 12 hours per charge.
"Autofill" is a new feature in iTunes that will automatically build a playlist that will fit on your iPod shuffle.
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- KVRist
- 114 posts since 26 Oct, 2004
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Stupid American Pig Stupid American Pig https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4753 - KVRAF
- 7065 posts since 25 Nov, 2002 from not sure
I just built one on their site, and for the 1.42 ghz with 512 mb ram and wired keyboard and mouse- it was 832 bucks 
all that with no monitor and a G4 processor? Though I admit it is pretty cool....
all that with no monitor and a G4 processor? Though I admit it is pretty cool....-
- KVRAF
- 4644 posts since 28 Nov, 2002 from Chicago
this is one those things I almost want to buy, just to own it. Which is stupid, but I guess it shows that on some level Apple could do a good trade with this.
Someone shot the food. Remember: don't shoot food!
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machinesworking machinesworking https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8505 - KVRAF
- 8062 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from seattle
NEVER use their RAM, always get third party.S_A_P wrote:I just built one on their site, and for the 1.42 ghz with 512 mb ram and wired keyboard and mouse- it was 832 bucks
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 6 Jan, 2005
It doesn't sound so good since nodes require a Giga Lan connection, and the mini only has a 10/100 one.DHR53 wrote:Sounds like a good node for L7...
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- KVRer
- 8 posts since 28 Dec, 2000 from Rörtången, Sweden
NP, just use Firewire-networking - it's a LOT faster too.pedrotrotz wrote:It doesn't sound so good since nodes require a Giga Lan connection, and the mini only has a 10/100 one.DHR53 wrote:Sounds like a good node for L7...
/knod
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- KVRist
- 381 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from purple
firewire is sadly not faster then gigaE.
but its tons cheeper
but its tons cheeper
worst signature evar
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- KVRAF
- 8077 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
That Shuffle MP3 player doesn't compare favorably to the Creative Nomad MuVo and its clones. But people will pay for the Apple logo and the iPod name. 
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
What on earth!?foosnark wrote:That Shuffle MP3 player doesn't compare favorably to the Creative Nomad MuVo and its clones.
Since when does 512M for $99 not compare favourably to 128M for $75 (Amazon price)?
And why does Amazon list so many reviews that say the Nomad is great while it lasts?
V.
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- KVRist
- 92 posts since 28 Feb, 2004
Isn't it? Firewire has a bandwidth of 400 or 800 Megabytes per second. Gigabit is 1000 Megabits per second. 1 Mbyte = 8 Mbits gives that 1000 Mbits/s = 125 Mbytes/s. Theoreticly that is.jdg wrote:firewire is sadly not faster then gigaE.
but its tons cheeper