PAGE 2 OF 13 The Mac Guild – December 2003
E) Improvements to Mail
F) IPSec based VPN in Panther and Panther Server
G) Built in Fax
H) Pixlet
I) Preview
J) Fast User Switching
K) FontBook
L) IChatAV (Videoconferencing for the rest of us)
Following the highlights of Panther, there were several major announcements:
iSight
As a companion product to iChat AV, Apple shipped iSight on the same day of the WWDC keynote. It is a
high quality firewire video camera (640 by 480, 30 fps, f2.8 aperture, dual element microphone). iSight is
auto focus and exposure, and features 3 different mounts of the top of monitors on laptops, flat screens,
eMacs. To a roaring crowd, Steve announced that each WWDC 2003 attendee would receive a free
iSight.
As an aside, Larry Peng (author of this report) and his LLNL colleague Steve Kiar tried doing an iChatAV
session between their homes, and it worked well. We were both on Airport wireless 802.11b running
through Linksys switches to our broadband ISP's (cable modem for Larry, DSL modem for Steve). Larry
was using a 1 GHz Titanium PowerBook, and Steve was on a 733 MHz G4 tower. Our wives finally got the
chance to meet each other!
XCode
Steve introduced the new Apple supplied development environment for Mac developers named XCode for
Jaguar and Panther. The focus of XCode is to minimize development and debugging time. It features a
cleaner user interface, gcc 3.3 compiler, much improved compile time, a zero link feature (only link what
needs to be linked), fast code searching, predictive compilation (compile based on what you type), fix and
continue (developers can make code changes to an application while the application is running), auto use
of idle resources, and distribute compilation to distributed hosts, etc.
As a result, compile times between CodeWarrior is now around 2x faster than XCode (The Finder UI as
the example) versus around a factor of 10 previously under the same setup. If multiple hosts are
involved, then XCode can compile faster than CodeWarrior. Steve only half-jokingly suggested using a
rack of Xserves for distributed compiles.
Power Mac G5
In a major departure from recent WWDC keynotes, Steve Jobs spent a major portion of his talk
introducing the new Power Mac G5 (billed as the world's fastest personal computer). These are totally
redesigned from the ground up, and based on the IBM PPC 970 (marketed as the G5).
The IBM PPC 970 is derived from IBM's high performance POWER 4 processor. The new 970 is a 64 bit
PowerPC CPU with a front side bus of half of the CPU clock speed. Symmetric multiprocessing is
natively supported by the 970. The 970 is manufactured at IBM's new $3 billion fab in East Fishkill, New
York. The POWER processor family is also the basis for LLNL's ASCI Purple supercomputer (via the
upcoming POWER 5).
NOTE: The above is only an excerpt from the trip report. For the full-length detailed report of the WWDC 2003
by Guild member Larry Peng, go to http://mac.excaliburworld.com/wwdc/wwdc03.html.
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