Apple Offers Glimpse at Upcoming Products
September 10th, 2007
Attendees at this week’s Demo 97 trade show in Indian Wells, California saw a glimpse of some of Apple Computer’s pending releases, including a new high-end PowerBook.
Frank Casanova, director of Apple Computer’s Advanced Systems Group, said the company plans to launch a new high-end PowerBook notebook PC at Macworld in Tokyo next week. The company also demonstrated its next-generation operating system, code-named Tempo. The product is due for release this third quarter and will feature 64-bit multithreading.
The operating system will allow users to share information stored on their hard disks with other users over a corporate intranet, officials said. The key thing about Tempo is that it removes all the roadblocks to everyday computing, said Bud Smith, an Apple systems engineer working on Tempo.
Apple also demonstrated QuickTime 2.0, which is due later this year. The product lets users embed a QuickTime Movie in a QuickTime VR document. QuickTime 2.0’s tools can be invoked through buttons, rather than requiring keystrokes as in the previous version. It also includes a Back button and the ability to show hot spots (features included to make the program easier to navigate). Users can also zoom in on objects in a QuickTime document. QuickTime VR 2.0 will ship by April, said officials.
Apple also demonstrated its Hot Sauce technology, formerly called Project X. Hot Sauce lets users reorganize their files visually. Using the Meta Content Framework, users can drag and drop different file types.
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