My &quot;head-slap&quot; moment from Steve&#039;s Keynote

The January keynote is usually a doozy, and today's was no exception...not by a long shot. For me, there's always that one moment that causes me to smack my hand against my forehead and just say, "Wow." This year, it wasn't the flash of iLife '06, the shiny new Mactels or even the .Mac enhancements. No, this year I was blow away to see that iDVD now supports third party DVD burners! Holy cow! *smack*

How long have we Mac users clamored for this, and how long has Apple used their non-compliance as a means to sell Macs? Finally, Apple. Thank you.

So, what was your "head-slap" moment? I know you all had one.

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The January keynote is usually a doozy, and today's was no exception...not by a long shot. For me, there's always that one moment...

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ThePete

lol--sorry about that Joe--I could have sworn I reloaded the page before I posted my comment!

I'm so embrarassed!!

;)

January 11 2006 at 2:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

The "what have we changed" sequence caused me to grin.

MagSafe, I actually clapped.

January 10 2006 at 10:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yonzie

Tie. Either MagSafe or iWeb. Not iWeb in itself though, but the incredible ease it apparently is to use. No menu-button-clicking to use the crop or rotate tool, no worrying about resizing pictures, etc. Just Drag and Drop. Simple. Mac.

January 10 2006 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex Rainert

Mine was when I realized that they updated the line that was most recently updated and purchased by me a month ago. Damn you , Apple! At least the only iMac improvement eems to be speed and I haven't really maxxxed this one out yet.

Where's the damn media center!

January 10 2006 at 4:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ted

I agree, but my moment was the FM tuner for the iPod. I wonder if the fact that a third party DVD burner is supported means we may see future macs with no built in optical drive?

January 10 2006 at 3:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joe

Great minds, ThePete. Great minds.

January 10 2006 at 3:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim Schlight

The fact that 10.4.4 is completely native on Intel. This is huge.

When Apple made the transition from 68K to PPC, significant portions of the OS were still emulated (including the Finder if IIRC.) This might _finally_ make the OS X experience as snappy as Mac OS 9.

January 10 2006 at 3:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter Bates

Actually it was able to do this in 05

January 10 2006 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

monitor-spanning to 2nd display on new iMacs!

January 10 2006 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Franger

My head slap is the Mew Intel iMac... The best PC on the planet!

January 10 2006 at 3:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply