Jay Savage is our man on the inside at today's Apple event.  He, Laurie, C.K. and myself are all doing a live chatcast, so excuse the formatting as I post this as it happens:

C.K.: k Jay do it here now
Jay: color sync
Laurie: hey Jay - our man on site?
Jay: it's just going to be a rundown
Scott McNulty: now I have to figure out how to get rid of these bubbles
Jay: automator
Jay: New PB
Laurie: seriously?
C.K.: Scott are you posting this?
Jay: 2: 15" & 17"
Laurie: don't tease me, Jay
Scott McNulty: I am working on it right now
Jay: 1449 x 960 display on 15"
C.K.: view show names view show as text
Jay: 26% higher res
Jay: 1680 x 1050 on 17"
Jay: same res as 20" cinema display
Laurie: i want a 15" that's a pound lighter. put in a good word for me, jay
Jay: 36% higher res and 40% brigher
Laurie: nice!
Jay: 22% more batter life
Jay: superdrive standard
Jay: built-in support for 30" display
C.K.: WOW
C.K.: nice
Jay: 12" for 4199
Laurie: lol
Jay: 15" for $1999
C.K.: 1499 i think
Laurie: $4199?
Jay: 17" for $2499
Jay: available now
Jay: $1499
Jay: sorry

More after the jump!
Jay: on to the g5
C.K.: scott are you posting? nothings up yet
Laurie: i just asked him to put up a placeholder
Jay: Dual Core!
Laurie: w00t!!
Jay: dual 1M L2 cache
C.K.: we should start live updating it
C.K.: w00t
C.K.: there it is
Jay: up to 16MB RAM 533Mhz DDR2
Jay: up to 1TB SATA storage
C.K.: Uh, Laurie's IM is showing
Laurie: lol
Jay: PCI Express bus
macactivist: where?
Jay: 4 graphics options
Jay: includin quadro FX 4500
C.K.: on the post
Scott McNulty: I'm fixing it
Laurie: thanks, pal
Laurie: like I need MORE people IM'ing me every day?
C.K.: lol
Jay: Dual 30" display support with the Quadro
Laurie: sweet
C.K.: add a more after the jump... and post all the rest after that. this is GREAT
Jay: can populate all 4 PCI express slots with cards for 4 30"
C.K.: hoily crap
Jay: yeah
C.K.: that's awesome
Scott McNulty: holy CRAP!!
Jay: designed with photographers in mind
Laurie: really rich ones i bet
Jay: PowerMac G5 Quad
Laurie: QUAD!!!!!
Jay: 2 x Dual Core
C.K.: holy CRAP
Jay: 76.6 Gigaflops
Jay: 88% faster than 2.7Ghz dual G5
Jay: let me repeat: 76.6 gigaflops
Laurie: and a gazillion times faster than i can type
C.K.: *whimpers in terror at the sheer magnitude of it*
Jay: impressive graphics for real world apps
Laurie: i'm speechless
Jay: dual core $1999
Jay: Quad $3299
Laurie: that's all?
Jay: Cinema dispalys:
Jay: i think that's without video cards
Laurie: heh. as long as the cpus are included
12:20 PM
Jay: new pricing 30" for $2499
C.K.: hey my IM is showing too scott
Jay: Rob Schoben onstage
Scott McNulty: fixed it
C.K.: thanks!
Laurie: heh.. not all of mine. i'm going to have to change my name
Laurie: lol
Jay: new software to deal with big files, and help you find good shots out of 1,000s
Jay: not sure what yet, though
Laurie: superphotolicious!
Laurie: (tm)
C.K.: hey Scott
C.K.: don't update for a second
Jay: "Solution like final Cut for digital Photography"
C.K.: I'm fixing Laurie's IM
Scott McNulty: I fixed them
Laurie: yes! thanks, scotty
Jay: first all-in-one post production tool for photographers"
C.K.: nevermind
C.K.:
Jay: Aperature(tm)
Laurie: not bad!
C.K.: NICE
Laurie: i was afraid it would be some stupid french name
C.K.: ha
Jay: Raw suppot, of course
Jay: "Make RAW as easy as JPEG"
C.K.: nice
C.K.: yeah, like iPhoto does?! pfff
Laurie: hah
Laurie: works WITH iPhoto?
Jay: "Compare and select"
Jay: "Stacks": automatically group sets of shots together based on interval between shutter clicks
Laurie: nice feature
Jay: Full screen workspace
Jay: fully configurable interface
Jay: Spans multiple dispalys
Jay: view multiple images side-by-side
Jay: 12 images per-screen
Laurie: My next post will be: Photoshop killer or Apple filler?
Scott McNulty: on your 4 frickin' 30 inch cinema displays!
Laurie: lol
Laurie: LOL @ Scott
Jay: Loupe: view sections of images @ 100% or greater
Jay: up to 800%
Jay: Light Table: Free form workspace for building projects drag and drop style
C.K.: these chatcasts go much better with someone being THERE
Laurie: ya think?
C.K.: ooooh
Scott McNulty: yes, yes they do
C.K.: that's nice
C.K.: I wonder if it can be used to do makeshift photo animation
C.K.: onion-skinning etc
Laurie: makes me wonder what macworld has in store
Jay: built-in adjustment tools
Jay: Non-destructive workflow. did I say that?
Jay: they're going to use up that 1TB pretty quickly
Laurie: those applexnet people are ticking me off. ya hear that, applexnet? stop spamming the comments on my last post
Laurie: non-destructive? so even my crappy pictures are safe?
Jay: photoshop integration
Jay: native PSD support
Jay: Colorsync managed pipleines
Jay: On-Screen proofing
Jay: output:
Jay: contact sheets
Jay: On-line print ordering
Jay: Custom web and book publishing
Scott McNulty: Hmm, I wonder how much it'll cost
Jay: no idea
Laurie: but wait.. there's more!
Scott McNulty: I would pay upwards of 3 dollars for it
Laurie: order now and receive a picture of me kissing steve jobs' ass!
Jay: now we get the demo
C.K.: lol laurie
Laurie: you're taking pics, jay?
Jay: no
Jay: no camera
Scott McNulty: you're not chatting and taking pics at the same time?!
Scott McNulty:
Laurie: great comment on the "store down" post "next week they'll have a press conference describing Job's trip to the bathroom."
Laurie: our engadget pals are taking pics i hope
Jay: stacks is nifty
Jay: you can choose the interval to group by
Jay: Are they here?
Laurie: ryan tells me they are
Jay: then I'm sure they're taking pics
C.K.: but she's too swamped with other things right now to compose it herself
Laurie: you mean the world doesn't stop when apple speaks?
Laurie: so no bumps on the 12"? they are killing me
Jay: no it doesn't If they don't speed this up, I'm going to have to leave eventually
Jay: no bumps
Jay: price drop, though
Laurie: you mean "resale value drop"
Jay: heh
Laurie: on the one i own
C.K.: lol
C.K.: there's always a dark cloud to that silver lining, eh, Laurie
Jay: looks remarkably like iPhoto for pros
Laurie: in my world, yes, C.K.
Jay: with keyboard shorcuts
Laurie: but does it integrate with iphoto at all?
Jay: no idea
Scott McNulty: this live updating chatcast thing is tough
Scott McNulty: I'm tuckered out, and I want a new powerbook
C.K.: that's why I didn't want to do it this time
Laurie: pfft.. lightweight
Laurie: i'll do the next one
Scott McNulty: Laurie, you've met me, I'm no lightweight anything
Jay: crazy: loupe is realtime...if your processor is large enough
C.K.: lol scott
Laurie: lol. scott - you svelte pixie, you
Laurie: when i magically become a tall, thin, leggy supermodel i will let you know
C.K.: jay, I have temp pub rights to DPGuru, want me to do a post linking to the chatcast?
Jay: yes
Laurie: do it
C.K.: k
Laurie: Hey jay - are they serving snacks?
Laurie: just curious
Jay: coffee
Laurie: nice
Laurie: no biscotti?
Laurie: cheap bastards
C.K.: I hope Apple starts making the video from these events available as free downloadable content via iTunes, so that I can watch on my new iPod
Laurie: convert it yourself
Jay: good call
C.K.: yeah, Laurie, but it is usually streamed
C.K.: they need to make it more take-it-with-you friendly
Laurie: agreed. i am sure you'll find a way, tho
Laurie: and then you'll post one of your nifty tutorials
Jay: I like that Aperature is keyboard driven
Laurie: and your fans will adore you even more
Jay: or at least keyboard optional
Scott McNulty: I heart keyboard shortcuts
Laurie: me 2
Laurie: are they winding down yet?
Jay: buzzword watch: apparently floating windows aren't as evil if you call them "Heads Up Displays"
Laurie: is there One More Thing?
C.K.: lol
Laurie: LOL
C.K.: Jay, what's the name of the function again
C.K.: I keep thinking special event
C.K.: but it's photo something...
Jay: apparently we've wandered from a press confernce into an aperature seminar.
Jay: I thought those weren't supposed to start until the conference opens tomorrow
Jay: PhotoPlus Expo
Laurie: stay the course. i'll hire you if you get fired for not getting back
Jay: hah
Jay: You can't afford me
Jay:
Laurie: heh
Jay: Never let the techs or creative people demo. never. leave it to the marketing folks.
Laurie: oh boy do i agree there
Jay: Built on Core Image
Scott McNulty: still no pricing?
Jay: no
Laurie: don't they know the union goes into overtime in 8 minutes?
Scott McNulty: maybe it is free!
Laurie: free with purchase of a quad g5 and 2 30-inch cinema displays
Jay: heck with the union. Tell Judith I go into overtime in 8 minutes
C.K.: lol
Scott McNulty: wow, what a bargain!
Laurie: LOL
Jay: lol laurie
Scott McNulty: we get overtime? sweeeet
C.K.: got a post up at DPGuru Jay
Jay: thnaks
C.K.: not beautiful but it'll do
Laurie: since you're local, jay, i'll buy you a beer. not a bad bonus, i think.
C.K.: until you can flesh out all the details
Scott McNulty: we should have a TUAW get together at some point in NYC
C.K.: yes!
Laurie: and the little yellow man will sign off on your car service voucher
Jay: sounds good
Laurie: scott - what are you going to chicago for?
Jay: He's telling a room full of photographers and photography journalists how cool white balance is
Scott McNulty: the drunkblog event
C.K.: LOL
Laurie: schmuck
Laurie: ooooh
Laurie: cool
C.K.: white balance is GREAT
C.K.: and we here at Apple invented it!!!
Laurie: New Balance is great!
Scott McNulty: yeah, I am hoping to get a bunch of interviews
Laurie: oops
Jay: batch applying it to the entire stack is nifty, though
Jay: almost glossed over it
Jay: built-in WYSIWYG web editing
Laurie: nice touch
Jay: going after Dreamweaver, too
Scott McNulty: using webkit I imagine
Jay: feature for "what we call web journals"
Laurie: and golive (which i hate)
Jay: what rock has he been hiding under?
Laurie: web journals?
Scott McNulty: hopefully the HTML will be better than Page's horrid HTML generation
Laurie: it's called a BLOG
Jay: Photoblog, thank you
Laurie: ah yes
C.K.: picjournal
Laurie: It's Life magazine for the common folk
Jay: ok: iPhoto books for pros
Jay: among other things: freeform custom layouts
Laurie: hurry up dammit. i needed to leave 10 minutes ago!
Jay: increased DPI on Apple photo publishing
Scott McNulty: looks like Aperture will cost $449
Scott McNulty: $499 that is
C.K.: dang
Scott McNulty: audifax tommy says the apple store is back online
C.K.: wonder what the educational cost will be
Scott McNulty: and he got that price for us! Thanks, tommy!
Jay: ok, Rob's back
Jay: maybe pricing
C.K.: niji says my comments are childish and stupid
C.K.: I say:
Jay: but wait! first we get to recap the features, again
Laurie: lol
Laurie: thanks, Tommy!
Jay: $499!
Scott McNulty: tommy was right!
Jay: I'll take 2
Laurie: my pal Mike says "the guys at iview better watch their assets"
Jay: video of pros telling us how much they like the product
C.K.: *snore*
Jay: for heaven's sake people! I need to be back in the office
C.K.: lol
C.K.: Apple Store looks like it is swamped
C.K.: loading a bit sluggishly
Scott McNulty: good lord, they are shipping these monster G5 quads with 512 megs of RAM
C.K.: dumb
Scott McNulty: Apple, when will you learn!
C.K.: yeah and then they'll charge 5 times the industry price to include the 1GB chips in there
Laurie: smart people buy RAM aftermarket for a whole lot less
C.K.: bad apple
Laurie: new powerbooks already in the store. they are shipping right away, right?
C.K.: checking now
Laurie: yes, i see where Jay said that. nevermind
C.K.: 1-2 business days
Laurie: nice
Laurie: uh oh
Laurie: we lost Jay
C.K.: boooh
Laurie: come back Jay!
C.K.: must've had to run
C.K.: 6-8 weeks on aperture
C.K.: bah
Laurie: without saying goodbye? how rude
Laurie: just in time for the holiday season... barely
C.K.: maybe steve jobs' private police force asked him to leave
Laurie: or that guy from IDG who tried to muscle me in Boston
C.K.: yeah ha ha
Laurie: i'm sending the little yellow man with no face after him
Scott McNulty: Apple has been very busy lately
Scott McNulty: what is up with that?
C.K.: academic price for Aperture is $249
Laurie: hope they saved some for San Fran
Laurie: nice
Scott McNulty: Intel Macs at SF
Scott McNulty: that's what I am guessing
Scott McNulty: at least to show off
Laurie: i still think june for that. what the hell do i know
C.K.: jay's on the cell
C.K.: he said he lost the connection
C.K.: nothing missed
C.K.: just the outro thanks for coming etc
Laurie: and that's a wrap
Laurie: good job, amigos
Scott McNulty: be sure to be nice to all the strangers that IM you
C.K.: screw that
Laurie: yeah, thanks for that
C.K.: i have a block list for a reason
Laurie: me too... how is it YOU keep busting through it?
Scott McNulty: I declare this chat cast DONE!