Steve Jobs previews OS X Leopard & Mac Pro WWDC 2006
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Hello, I'm PC, and I have a personal message from Steve Jobs to all of you developers that I'd like to deliver now. Take the rest of the year off. That's right, take a long vacation. Just relax those big brains for a while.
Steve and I agree that we can go ahead and stop making seamless software that just works.
Let's let the Mac users experience compatibility problems and viruses and error message that builds character.
Instead, you should work on your tans, maybe tend to your compost pile, discover what makes you you.
You know, your poetry, your art.
If you want, you can help out on Vista.
We could use some help there.
And Steve says that's fine.
He doesn't like to see Microsoft so far behind.
Oh, and speaking of Vista, widgets, gadgets, completely different.
They are their own thing.
It's just like Aqua.
I mean, Era.
So, stop.
No more announcements, nothing.
Whatever else you've been working on, you can just stop now.
Steve and I are eye to eye on this one.
We go way back.
Went to the Big Island together last spring, actually.
Long walks on the beach.
A lot of karaoke.
It's quite a hoot.
I remember one night.
What are you doing, PC? What are you talking to?
Just getting ready for our next commercial.
Meow, meow, meow.
Good morning.
Good morning. And welcome to WWDC-06. Thank you so much for coming.
We've got a great week planned for you. You know, this year we've got 4,200 registered attendees.
This is the largest WWDC ever. So thank you very much for making this a record event for us.
for us. And there are folks here from 48 different countries. 48 different countries. And all of you are part of over three quarters of a million registered developers for the Mac now. This number has shot up dramatically in the last few years and we have three quarters of a million registered developers. So this week, what have we got in store for you? Well, we've got 140 sessions on just about
everything having to do with OS X. And due to popular requests, we've got a hundred hands-on labs
for you to get your hands on the latest and greatest stuff, including some stuff we're going to talk about this morning.
And we've got over a thousand Apple engineers on site this week.
That's a ratio of one Apple engineer for every four attendees.
So you should be able to get your questions answered this week.
So today for the presentation, I have asked three of my colleagues to help me out.
First up will be Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing.
And I've also asked Bertrand Sirle, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering.
and Scott Forrestal, Vice President of Platform Experience.
So these three guys are going to give me a hand today.
So let's get started.
The first thing I want to do is give you an update on Apple Retail.
Now, this is the latest flagship store that we opened.
It's in New York on Fifth Avenue.
It's gorgeous.
It's a 32-foot glass cube without any metal infrastructure to hold the thing up.
And it's sitting right on Fifth Avenue.
You go down these beautiful glass staircase into the store,
and it's just a phenomenal experience.
It's been super successful.
And if you have a chance to get to New York,
I really encourage you to go visit this store.
This is one of 157 stores we now have.
157 Apple retail stores.
Last quarter alone, we hosted 17 million visitors throughout our stores.
17 million people.
last quarter alone. And for those buying a Mac, 50% are new to the Mac. We are picking up lots of new customers.
And even closer to your hearts, in the last 12 months we have sold half a billion dollars of third-party products, of your products, in our retail stores.
So that's it.
That's a brief retail update and now I'd like to get on to the subject of today, which of course is the Mac.
Last quarter we had our best Mac quarter ever.
We shipped 1.33 million Macs last quarter.
We're really, really happy about this.
But even better was the growth rate, because the growth rate was dramatically faster than the rest of the industry,
which means we're gaining market share.
Now, the other great thing about last quarter
was three quarters of the Macs we shipped were Intel-based.
In our second quarter, after shipping our first Intel product,
three quarters of our products were Intel-based.
And I want to highlight that market share point by saying, you know, two of the great products we introduced last quarter, one of the great products we introduced last quarter was our MacBook.
Right? MacBook has been an incredible success and joins the MacBook Pro for our notebook lineup.
Let's take a look at our notebook market share and how it's changed over the last six months.
We started off at 6%, but look at what happened in April when we started to ship those MacBooks along with the MacBook Pros.
12% in June.
The market share for U.S. retail notebook sales doubled between January and June.
So this is the kind of growth we're seeing.
So again, three-quarters of the products, Intel-based.
We announced our first Intel products in January, jumped on board some great new technology from Intel.
This is Intel CEO Paul Ottolini handing us our first wafer in January at Macworld.
And in the first two quarters, we transitioned almost all of our products over to Intel.
Except for one.
And that is the Power Mac.
Well today, the Power Mac is going to fade into history.
And here to tell us what's going to take its place is Phil Schiller.
Phil?
Thank you.
Oh, good morning everybody.
I am so excited. I get to be the very first one to introduce all of you to the brand new Mac Pro.
This is the Mac that so many of our highest-end customers have dreamed of.
The brand new Mac Pro is going to be based on Intel's Xeon chipset.
The latest Xeon chips, also known in the industry as Woodcrest.
These are amazing microprocessors.
These incredible new processors are based on the latest core design,
the core 2s that you've heard about lately, the new microarchitecture.
They are all dual core.
They run at speeds up to 3 gigahertz.
They have really large 4 megabyte shared L2 caches.
They have a 128-bit vector engine that's even faster now than the velocity engine that replaces in our product lines.
And for our highest-end customers of features they've really wanted, they're 64-bit.
Yes, these are great, great microprocessors.
And like the other brand-new Intel parts we've been putting into our products, they deliver tremendous performance per watt.
And this is going to be really important, not only in notebooks and thin desktops, but even here in the pro space.
If you compare this performance per watt to the G5 and even the current Opterons,
what you see is tremendous performance for each watt of power.
Up to three times the performance in a Xeon that we got in the G5.
This is an incredible jump in performance.
So this new Intel Xeon chip is an amazing processor to put into our products.
But in every Mac Pro, we're going to put two of them.
Yes.
All Mac Pros, quad Xeon performance.
Now the product we're replacing is no slouch.
This is the fastest Mac we had ever made, the Power Mac G5.
So let's compare that performance.
the fastest Mac ever, the G5 quad product that we are replacing, and the new quad Xeon.
So we're going to use specint as a performance metric of what...
you can get out of these systems and you see it goes from 54 now up to 115. That's a 2.1
times faster integer performance. It's a big jump in performance for our highest end systems.
And in floating point from 48 to now 76, that's 1.6 times faster in floating point performance
as well. These are screaming fast machines and the new king of the hill for the Mac is