WWDC 2009

Check out the WWDC stream.

Here are some highlights + my immediate thoughts.

• Snow Leopard and its major new tech features: 64-bit-ness (speed), Grand Central (speed), OpenCL (speed), and Exchange support. Why is Exchange cool? Google’s services speak Exchange; so, it’ll be possible to have a fully integrated Exchange solution without any Microsoft products! Bad news for MS unless they’re licensing out the Exchange protocols, which I suspect they are.
• Macbook Pro 13″ (Uni 13) – the Alu 12″ lives on! I’ve just purchased the 2.26 ghz base configuration to replace my first gen Alu 15. I opted to use the student discount instead of the developer discount, providing me with a free iPod touch, which is worth ~$230, way more than the additional discount from the ADC program. I have my upgrades planned as well. A ~$60 2×2GB pair is already the mail from Crucial, and later this summer, I’ll consider getting either the Corsair 256GB SSD or 128, depending on how much prices fall on the superior Samsung-controlled parts and how much I can tease out of eBay for the free iPod.
• iPhone 3GS – the camera is finally decent!