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The Macworld Keynote is in the books. Steve Jobs announced some pretty good stuff, some of which will cause my credit card to get some action in the coming weeks. Want to know what went down at the Keynote but don’t care to read a liveblog post or 10 different posts? I’ve created a cheat sheet of sorts for the 2008 Macworld Keynote. Here’s the lowdown:

OS X
-5 million copies of Leopard have been delivered. This is likely a combination of new Mac sales and Leopard boxed copies (no definitive word given).

Time Capsule
-Time Capsule is a companion product for Leopard’s Time Machine. Time Capsule is a combination Airport Extreme Base Station with a server grade hard drive. It’s a “backup appliance”.
-500GB and 1TB storage for $299 and $499 respectively.
-Backup multiple Macs to the same Time Capsule.
-No word on if this feature will be available for USB drives connected to the current Airport Extreme Base Stations.

iPhone
-4 million iPhone sold to date.
-It’s first quarter shipping it garnered 19% of the smart phone market share.
-1.1.3 iPhone software upgrade released: SMS to multiple people, current position locator in maps, customizable home screen, and more.

iPod Touch
-Mail, maps, stocks, notes, and weather coming to the Touch.
-The cost of those applications is $20 for current Touch owners and will be built in to new ones.

iTunes
-4 billion songs sold
-125 million TV shows sold
-7 million movies sold
-iTunes movie rentals coming by the end of February
-Studios renting movies on iTunes includes Fox, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Sony.
-24 hours to finishing watching rented movie once started; you have 30 days to watch movie from the time of download.
-You can transfer the movie to a PC, Mac, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, nearly anywhere.
-Library titles are $2.99 and new releases are $3.99

AppleTV
-Computer no longer required for AppleTv
-Rent movies directly from AppleTV
-Rent movies in DVD quality or HD (with 5.1 sound)
-Flickr and .Mac photo support
-50 million Youtube videos now available for AppleTV
-Buy TV shows and music directly from AppleTV and have them sync back to your computer
-HD movie rentals are $1 more than the standard rentals.
-New UI
-Free software upgrade for existing AppleTV owners to support new features
-Price reduced to $229

Movie Media
-Working with Fox to include a digital copy of a purchased movie on current optical media (DVD, Blu-Ray) to allow instant transfer to iTunes.

Macbook Air
-Super thin notebook
-.76 – .16 inches thick; 3lbs
-Full size keyboard
-13.3″ widescreen LED backlit display
-Built in multi-touch gesture support ala iPhone
-80GB or 64GB SSD (upgrade option) hard drive
-2GB RAM standard
-Runs on a Intel Core 2 Duo chip that is 60% smaller than current chips
-Magsafe power adapter, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, USB 2.0 port, iSight, Micro-DVI, and headphone jack. No optical drive.
-$99 USB external optical drive
-Remote Disc feature allows you to connect to a local Mac/PC and share its optical drive
-5 hour battery life
-$1799
-Ships in two weeks; pre-order today.

So those are the highlights of the Macworld Keynote. I included nearly every remotely interesting detail about the Keynote, but not everything. Engadget liveblogged the event and you can see their post here. I kept waiting for the “one more thing” but there wasn’t one this year. My money is out for an AppleTV in a few weeks. Are you going to buy anything mentioned in the Keynote?

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