After many great announcements at conferences this year, today is the day of Apple’s 2010 “Back to the Mac” event. After watching the conference, it’s time to find out what Apple have actually announced about their Mac OS X operating system and what they plan to do with it in the near future. Some of the main announcements made at the conference were:

iLife 2011

Free with new Mac – $49 upgrade. Available today!

iPhoto

  • Full screen modes
  • Facebook enhancements
  • Emailing photos
  • New slideshows
  • Letterpress cards
  • Book improvements

iMovie

  • Better audio editing & audio effects
  • One step effects
  • People finder
  • News and sports themes
  • Movie trailers

Garageband

  • Flex Time
  • Groove matching
  • Guitar amp effects
  • Piano & guitar lessons
  • “How did I play?” feature

Facetime for the Mac!

Beta release available today!

  • Contact list
  • Facetime with any facetime device
  • Full screen!

Mac OS X – Lion

Release: Summer 2011

  • Mac App Store – One click downloads, free & paid apps, automatic installation, automatic updates (Open within 90 days from now on Snow Leopard!)
  • LaunchPad – App Home Screens
  • Full screen apps
  • Auto saving
  • Mission control – See everything running on your Mac

New Macbook Air

$999 – 11.6 inch – 1.4GHz processor – 64GB hard drive

$1199 – 11.6 inch – 1.4GHz processor – 128GB hard drive

$1299 – 13.3 inch – 1.86GHz processor – 128GB hard drive

$1599 – 13.3 inch – 1.86GHz processor – 256GB hard drive

Available today!

  • Complete unibody design
  • Full size keyboard
  • 11.6 inch or 13.3 inch LED display
  • 1440 x 900 pixel resolution
  • Core 2 Duo Processor
  • NVIDIA GeForce 320m
  • Multi-Touch trackpad
  • Facetime camera
  • No optical drive & no hard drive – Flash storage!
  • Battery life 5 or 7 hours on the internet & 30 days standby time!

What do you think of the announcements they’ve made in this conference? Feel free to voice your opinion in the comments box below.

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