Steve Jobs started the long awaited World Wide Developer Conference with a Keynote. He showed:

- Panther, the next OSX (10.3). Panther will cost $129 and will be available before year's end.

- iSight, a new firewire webCam at $149

- a few iApps update (iChat brings Video, Mail is enhanced, etc...).

- the G5: The rumors was true! The new macs feature 64 bit processors up to 2GHz, 1GHz front-side bus, 400 MHz 128-bit DDR memory, AGP 8X Pro Graphics, 133 MHz PCI-X slots, Serial ATA, connects to HyperTransport interconnect. memory up to 8GB (!!!), an all aluminum enclosure (twice quieter than previous G4), GeFore FX5200 Ultra in the low-end, SuperDrive in all.

Three Models: 1.6GHz, 80GB HD, 256GB RAM, $1999: 1.8GHZ, 160GB HD, 512GB RAM, $2399; dual 2GHz, 160GB HD, 512MB RAM, $ ...

According to our friends at Macplus.net, G5 specifications have been inadvertently published on the AppleStore, for a short period...

Here is the screenshot:



Is this true? We will discover it Monday during the Steve Jobs' conference at WWDC2003.

MOTU is now shipping two new bus-powered USB MIDI interfaces for Mac OS 9 and X :

- MIDI EXPRESS 128 : 8 MIDI IN, 9 MIDI OUT, 128 MIDI channels and compatibility with all Macintosh. Price $249
- MICRO LITE MIDI : 5 MIDI IN, 5 MIDI OUT and delivers 80 MIDI channels to a Mac via high-speed USB connection. Price $149

Both the MIDI Express 128 and Micro lite are now shipping and join the 4x6 micro express interface/SMPTE synchronizer ($295), the 8x9 MIDI Express XT interface/SMPTE synchronizer ($395), and the MIDI Timepiece AV interface and universal AV synchronizer ($595).

Clavia is pleased to announce the release of the rack mountable table top version of the Nord Lead 2X- the Nord Rack 2X! The original Nord Lead/Rack and Nord Lead 2/Rack 2 are among the most popular synthesizers ever built. The Nord Lead 2X and Rack 2X has the same characteristic sound and functions as the Nord Lead 2/Rack 2, except for some very nice improvements:

X-tra polyphony: The Nord Rack 2X comes with 20 voices polyphony.
X-tra memory: The Nord Rack 2X comes with a large internal memory holding 4 x 99 user Programs, 100 user Performances and 4 x 10 user Percussion Kits plus 6 x 99 factory Programs and 3 x 100 factory Performances! The Nord Rack 2X is 100% patch compatible with the Nord Lead 2 and Nord Rack 2 which means that you can transfer sounds directly between the models ...

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