Your favorite Keynote moment !
So . . . . we meet again . . . . . .
A new keynote. A bunch of new rumors.
And then the keynote commences. Updating frantically on Engagdet or others. Minute to minute.
Afterwards. Some joy. Some disappointment.
So, to pass the time;
What is your favorite keynote moment in the Steve Jobs era ?
Me, personally:
2003 - Introduction of PowerMac G5
Make it a short list !
Zon
A new keynote. A bunch of new rumors.
And then the keynote commences. Updating frantically on Engagdet or others. Minute to minute.
Afterwards. Some joy. Some disappointment.
So, to pass the time;
What is your favorite keynote moment in the Steve Jobs era ?
Me, personally:
2003 - Introduction of PowerMac G5
Make it a short list !
Zon
Comments
Steve throwing the digital camera when in wasn't working.
What year was this? I vaguely remember it.
The iTunes Music Store and the story of how he got the record companies to sign on.
When Phil Schiller jumped off a platform holding an iBook to show how rugged it was.
Another good moment - after doing the whole keynote with demos and such, he announced that he had been using a PC running OS X the whole time. This was the intro of OS X Intel.
Worst moment: Revealing that the price of the Mac G4 Cube was $1799. Everyone gasped and knew it would be a flop.
Next worst: Sony's president.
Next worst: the failed demo of Netbooting 50 iMacs on a huge rack. The exact same demo had worked before.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AnVUvW42CUA
I love when he says things like:
"Massive Branch Prediction Logic, which I dunno what it does... it predicts branches"
"Adaptive Latent Semantic Analysis. What is this? I dunno, but it works"
My personal favorite moments were the return of Steve Jobs ( http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qJs6MB077Bw ), the introduction of the Mac Mini and OS X. The Mini was the only Mac I bought the first revision of and within a month of release.
I also liked with Phil jumped off a ledge with his ibook, classic.
The G4 Cube in 2000 !!!
I bought one of theme beauties in 2002 on eBay.
Was the Cube the most beautiful computer they have ever made ?
Zon
It was nice, small, affordable, and my first mac...
Ahhh- 500MHz G3 with 512RAM a super drive, wifi, and 60GB Hard Drive...
I remember seeing it, them handing it out to all the people at the keynote to "sample" it, and waiting for FedEx. I can remember getting it too- the day of my high school graduation party...thanks mom and dad.
I gladly would've paid $1.99 for video of that keynote.
Worst moment: WWDC a year later when there was no 3GHz G5. NIce job IBM. You blew it!
Favorite moment:
G4 Quicksilver's: Geforce 3 TI came to the Mac first, and I think Maya came to the Mac the same time. I bought all of them. Maya, Quicksilver w/Geforce 3 TI. Great year.
G4 Quicksilver's: Geforce 3 TI came to the Mac first, and I think Maya came to the Mac the same time. I bought all of them. Maya, Quicksilver w/Geforce 3 TI. Great year.
I went to MacWorld NY that year- good times. Still have the Quicksilver poster they were giving away...
And when Leopard prices were introduced...
Home Basic... $129
Home Prem... $129
Professional... $129
ULTIMATE...... $129
...holy crap, it's been over 6 years since I've been to a Macworld Expo :-(
Was that the one where there was only an iLife update or something, and everybody expected a PowerMac update, but Motorola couldn't get the processors to go any faster for like 3 years?
I think he's referring to that particular dark moment, when Jobs introduced
the G4 500MHz PowerMac on stage, and a week or so later he had to announce the
downgrade from 500 to 450 because of some yield issues of Motos processor labs.
Darkest moment in his entire (stage) life, i suppose.
oh, and when the throws the camera into the audience.
I'm sorry but he definitely tossed it. I suspect Steve has no idea how fast he threw that.
I'm right there with Tonton. That was the only time I ever purchased something immediately following a keynote.
Agreed = Titanium PowerBook, although I never had one. It was an amazing surprise. Didn't it "roll out" on a remote control cart? So cool.