WWDC 2006 Keynote summarized live coverage (UPDATE)

Here is a summarized live coverage of WWDC 2006 Keynote. For a more detailed live coverage, we suggest you these links:

- www.macrumorslive.com

- www.macworld.com

- www.macgeneration.com (in french)

Keynote announcements :

- Mac Pro:
All dual Woodcrest based, same enclosure, 2 optical bays, 4 PCI-E, room for 4 hard drives, 1.6 to 2.1 faster than the quad G5, until 16GB of memory and 2TB of storage, 1.33Ghz FSB.

Standard Mac Pro conf: 2.66GHz dual-core Xeon, 1GB of 667MHz RAM, 250GB HD, Nvidia GeForce 7300GT with 256MB VRAM, 16x SuperDrive optical drive, $2,499.
- XServe: Woodcrest too, similar specs to Mac Pros

- Leopard :
1) Full 64bit support
2) Time machine (pic) : manages versions of documents, backup system

3) iCal : tighter integration, to-do lists, can add tasks from any app
4) Spaces (pic): virtual desktops, more space to organize windows

5) Spotlight: now built in Leopard's dock, network search, more intelligent
6) CoreAnimation: animation API

7) new voice over: speaks like a real person

8) Mail.app : improved, to do lists, create stationary, notes, alarm, can transform incoming mail into a to-do item, HTML...

9) Dashboard: dashcode for developers, can create widget from any page

10) iChat : multiple logins, visibility, animated icons, video recording, tabbed chats, photobooth effects, new iChat Theater feature so as to make presentations through video conf

- XCode 3.0

- Leopard shipping in spring
Keynote ends
Great keynote. Thank you for being so many to follow the keynote here. We'll provide a detailed report of this keynote very soon.

 UPDATE: More on the announced products on www.apple.com. Webcast of the keynote available here.