Garage Band- The music recordig app got a completely new mode known as "Magic Garage Band" in which you use a stage interface to arrange instruments in a pre-fabricated "template" type of song. Want to add a trumpet solo? Click on the horn section. Want to take out the drums? Click on the picture to remove them from the stage. Pretty cool way to bring in kids and people who get intimidate by huge pallets of waveforms. Advanced users also got a couple new features, including support for 24 bit recording.

"Skimming" in iPhoto and web galleries- Think "cover flow" within a much smaller space.  The new feature lets you browse the contents of a photo album just by mousing over it. In iPhoto, you can also use this to pull up photos rather than having to open up the album.

Mac Mini upgrade- At first glance, it appeared as if the iMac was the only Apple computer that got an upgrade yesterday. But as COO Tim Cook noted in a Q&A after the event, the Mini got a new Core 2 Duo processor.

Keynote- The presentation program got tons of new templates and effects, as well as a couple of new features. "Instant Alpha" makes it easier to pull a single piece of an image out from a background and place it on a slide. There's also a "smart builds" feature that the comapny claims will simplify the creation of custom animations in Keynote.

iDVD- Coding and overall application performance have been improved, the company claims.

Growth rate- Jobs claims that in each of the last four quarters, the Mac has grown by roughly thirty per cent over the previous year. That's about three times faster than the rest of the PC industry.

On the "Intel inside" program- One reporter asked why Apple hasn't shown Intel any love by placing the famous "Intel Inside" sticker on its computers. Jobs simply replied "because we like our own stickers better." Phil Schiller, VP of product marketing, later explained that the company wanted to avoid covering the machines with various stickers in logos, as some PC vendors do.

No "true" HD in iLife- While the resolutions in iMovie and iDVD are higher than regular DVDs, they are not quite at the resolution of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The company said that this was mainly because current consumer DV cameras are not yet capable of recording at those revolutions. Jobs claims, however, that the resolutions are "close but not quite" HD DVD quality.

The iMac's RAM door- In many previous iMac models, installing RAM upgrades was a daunting task beyond many users' comfort level. On the new iMac, you take out one screw, pop the memory in, and you're done.