Apple's website outs iLife '11, new Macbook Air, mystery product

By on Oct 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM
General October 20, 2010

Ahead of its “Back to the Mac” media event scheduled for this afternoon, Apple’s own discussion forums have outed several of the company’s new products set to be introduced later today. Categories for iPhoto ’11, Garageband ’11, and iMovie ’11 all but confirm the existence of the company’s next iLife suite. A category with the heading “MBA” would — presumably — confirm the Macbook Air refresh that has been oft-rumored this week. Lastly, a category heading “Reserved 10 20″ is being displayed on the site; perhaps that one more thing… thing? Hit the jump to check out the other images.

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  • mike

    wow i cant wait !!!!

  • Norm

    Hopefully the one more thing is announcing bankruptcy and then liquidation of the company. DROID!

    • Troll patrol

      Move along. No Smoosh Smoosh here Normi.

    • Bob Dole

      wow what is with you fanboys

  • http://mt-hacks.com Mark Carey

    iPhone ’11 ?!!? Are skipping from 4 all the way to 11? Wow….

    (typo first paragraph) ;)

    • Andrew Munchbach

      Thank you. I can’t event describe in words how much I hate Apple’s naming convention.

    • johnnstl

      I see iPHOTO 11 as in 2011, but no mention of iPhone – Wow.

  • funky

    I’d guess that “Reserved 10 20″ is for OSX 10.7.

    • Andrew Munchbach

      Could be, but I don’t think Apple usually creates discussion forums for non-released/beta products… only released ones.

      • funky

        Well, yeah, this is true.

  • FriarNurgle

    Woohoo, more cool stuff from Apple… that I can’t afford.

  • David

    Here’s to hoping they make an announcement on the white iPhone 4 availability. PLEASE Apple!!

  • HunterA3

    Since my trusty Macbook works just fine still, I have no real interest in new hardware from Apple. I am interested, however, in iLife. My hope is that it will have some really compelling new features that will be useful. My fear is that, in true Apple fashion, my Intel Core2Duo Macbook will no longer be able to run it.

    • Tyler

      Why would Core 2 Duo not run it? They would be eliminating all computers before the last installment…

      • HunterA3

        I’m not saying that it won’t but, why would a Core2Duo, which is capable of running 64-bit OS, not be allowed to run OSX in 64-bit mode and only the pro models be allowed that function? All I’m saying is that Apple has a tendency to create artificial barriers to move people to upgrade. I just hope I’m wrong however. I’m really looking forward to iLife 11.

      • Shaun

        The mode the kernel runs in on Mac OS X is not relevant when it comes to applications. Your 64-bit applications will work just fine with all the benefits even if the kernel is 32-bit, and you might be able to boot your system into the 64-bit kernel if you want (there’s plenty of information on the web about how to do this). The kernel is in 32-bit mode here because of 3rd party drivers most likely. I would not really classify this as an artificial barrier.

      • Shaun

        One last bit, just to be clear – this is true if your CPU supports x86_64 of course, otherwise this is not the case.

      • HunterA3

        Yes, I am aware that a processor has to support 64 bit architecture, though Intel refers to this as EM64T (or extended memory 64 Technology). x86_64 is the terminology that AMD refers to the same functionality.

        Perhaps the reason is due to drivers, though I’m confused as to what distinguishes the hardware in a 13 inch macbook from a 13 inch macbook pro when it comes to hardware specs. And yes, while Apple has figured out a way to run 64-bit programs on a 32-bit system, you are still limited to the 32-bit data bus for CPU instructions.

        The fact that there is plenty of information out there that will allow a normally 32-bit confined 13 macbook to run a 64-bit version of OSX leads me to believe that it is not a limitation of the hardware as much as it is a limitation in software, software designed and implemented by Apple.

      • Shaun

        Given what you know about the situation, I don’t see why you are citing this as an example of an artificial barrier. The driver issue can be a big problem for consumers, which is why the kernel defaulting to 64-bit happens only on the type of machines it does. This running 64-bit applications on a 32-bit kernel is not emulation or a trick, but you’d probably be pretty upset if some driver did not work out of the box and you had no idea why. The Mac OS X architecture is different than say, Linux in this case (just as an example). This isn’t running 64-bit applications on a 32-bit system, it is executing 64-bit applications and a 32-bit kernel through XNU’s hybrid monolithic and microkernel design. This does not inherently mean you are limited to a 32-bit data bus, unless there is a hardware reason for that (which I believe is the case, but I don’t know exactly what your hardware is).

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