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Enter Steve Jobs about 9 mins after 9am PST and straight into the techno-goodness he is known for. The Expo keynote gets underway with changes to the iLife suite (iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, iMovie, and the new iWeb). Lots of tweaks to the existing apps including the addition of Podcast suite to GarageBand (this is a nice addition to GarageBand and great as proof of Apple's acknowledging the Podcaster's need). iPhoto gets a nice interface upgrade (very Apreture-esque) and full screen editing. A very exciting addition to the great iPhoto functionality is Photocasting - this is the ability to edit and publish your photos to your .Mac account and create a RSS feed so you can share your photos with friends and family (and no .Mac account necessary for you RSS subscribers). iDVD will support 3rd party DVD players finally no need to get a Superdrive (or trick the OS into thinking your drive is authentic LOL). iMovie allows for multiple stream editing and real-time effects in the menus (that can be widescreen now). iWeb appears to be a blog editor, and a one spot web content suite. Seems that .Mac is now becoming more and more necessary for your day-to-day online life, and some sidenews for .Mac subsribers, recently disk space has been increased 1 terabyte with no increase in cost.Ok, the most exiting news in the last 2 weeks the Intel moonman comes out on stage. MacIntel has happened. For those that haven't been following this story; a full 6 months before Apple promised, the first desktop PC created by Apple using an Intel (core duo) processor was announced. There are now 2 iMacs (17" & 20") all-in-one desktops with iSight, FrontRow, and all native Mac OS 10.4.4 installed applications. Lots of macfan boys and the rest of us should be very excited about this, Steve confirmed speed and power boosts of 2-3 times the power of the high-end G5 currently available. Microsoft had a representative there to discuss Office for Mac running well on this new MacIntel platform via Rosetta (kernel-level emulation) and support for Office for Mac for the next 5 years.One more thing,...A little diagram of a powerbook is shown trying to shoehorn a G5 processor into a current PowerBook. And Steve gets into the fact that Apple couldn't get a G5 PowerPC processor into the high-end laptops. Then dropped his last announcement: a rebranded PowerBook called MacBook Pro running a dualcore Intel cpu. Lots of goodies crammed into this ultraslick case. Steve's claim is 4-5 times the power of the current G5s and I think that may be a conservative estimate. Nice new AC power adapter interface on the MacBook Pro that uses a magnetic solution in case you trip over the power cord it just pops off/out no yanking the laptop off the desk.Anyone that knows me knows I have never even owned a Mac, so I am far from a fanboy, but I was very excited today reading all these tech tidbits. And I would like to thank MacRumorsLive and Engadget for your fantastic coverage of the live keynote today.Everyone should take a look at Apple's site for more detailed information.Ok ok enough kool-aid for me... Later folks thanks for readingtechnorati tags: Macintosh, Mac,