Welcome to MacMinute's live coverage of the Macworld Expo New York 2001 keynote! We will be bringing our readers constant updates from the keynote as soon as it begins. Items will be listed in reverse-chronological order (most recent first). Sit back and enjoy the show!

• Keynote ends. [11:10 ET]


• Winding down keynote, shows "Elope," a new DVD-making TV ad. [10:55-11:10 ET]


• "Last thing I want to talk about: iDVD." 1,000-2,000 SuperDrives are expected to be shipped this quarter with iDVD. Recaps iDVD. Announces iDVD 2. [10:45-10:55 ET]


• "So that completes our product line-up... one more thing to show you, but first I want to show you OS X 10.1 and digital photography." Shows off new image capture application. [10:43-10:45 ET]


• Jobs recaps Apple display offerings. No new products, no price cuts. Video of Power Mac G4 shown to crowd. [10:37-10:42 ET]


• 733/877 MHz Power Mac G4s shipping now, dual-800 wil ship next month. [10:36 ET]


• Jon Rubenstein, Apple VP, takes the stage to discuss the megahertz myth. [10:29-10:36 ET]


• Media Cleaner 5 show down between 877 MHz Power Mac G4 and 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 system. G4 is more than twice as fast. Photoshop comparison ensues... Mac is done in 45 seconds, Pentium 4 takes 82 seconds. [10:20-10:28 ET]


• Moves to Power Mac G4, recaps SuperDrive. New Power Mac G4, silver enclosure. 733, 867, dual-800 MHz configurations; 2 MB of cache. 128/128/256 RAM, 40/60/80GB hard drive, GeForce2/GeForce2/Dual Display, CD-RW/SuperDrive/SuperDrive, $1699, $2499, $3499. [10:13-10:20 ET]


• "Let's go to desktops." Three new models of the iMac -- 500, 600, 700 MHz. 128/256/256 RAM, 20/40/60GB, CD-RW, $999/$1299/$1499, 500/600 shipping now, 700 shipping in August. [10:12-10:13 ET]


• "Let's get into hardware." Jobs recaps Apple's notebook offerings, trumpets iBook. Shipped 182,000 iBooks in May/June since its introduction on May 10. "Still not able to meet retail demand, working overtime to ship more this quarter." Moves on to PowerBook G4. [10:09-10:11 ET]


• Jobs recaps Apple's four OS X updates that Apple has posted since X's release. First major upgrade, 10.1, announced. Focus of upgrade: performance (much faster menus, window resizing, faster graphics, "you name it, it's faster"), Aqua enhancements (movable dock, system menus, improved Finder), multimedia (iTunes, CD burning of audio and data, DVD playback, enhanced digital camera support, 200+ PostScript printers supported), networking (AFP servers over AppleTalk, SMB client so Windows can see Macs on networks, manage AirPort base stations under OS X). 10.1 demonstrated. Due in September. [09:55-10:07 ET]


• Richard Kerris, formerly of Alias|wavefront, takes the stage to discuss and demo Alias|wavefront's Maya for OS X. [09:50-09:55 ET]


• Aspyr Media president takes the stage to demonstrate its games under Mac OS X. Aspyr recently shipped Tony Hawk 2 and American McGee's Alice with OS X support. Demo of Tony Hawk 2 ensues. [09:47-09:50 ET]


• Blizzard Entertainment co-founder/VP takes the stage to discuss its OS X games. WarCraft III will ship later this year simultaneously for Mac and PC with out-of-the-box OS X support. [09:44-09:46 ET]


• WorldBook 2002 Encyclopedia for Mac OS X demonstrated. Available now for OS X only for US$59.95. [09:41-09:44 ET]


• IBM manager of voice and pen systems takes stage to preview ViaVoice for Mac OS X; will ship later this year. [09:37-09:40 ET]


• Connectix product manager takes the stage to show off VirtualPC running under OS X. Technology preview of VirtualPC for OS X will be available later today as a free download. [09:33-09:37 ET]


• FileMaker president takes the stage to show off FileMaker 5.5 running under OS X. The company has shipped 50,000 copies of FileMaker 5.5 in North America since its introduction two months ago. [09:30-09:33 ET]


• Quark senior manager takes the stage to demonstrate XPress for OS X. [09:25-09:29 ET]


• Adobe vice president takes the stage to discuss Adobe products and initiative. Adobe is working hard to bring its applications to Mac OS X. Illustrator for OS X demonstrated, which performs faster under OS X and includes new features such as image slicing. GoLive and InDesign for OS X demonstrated, showing off integration between other Adobe applications. [09:18-09:24 ET]


• Mac OS X: 1,000 applications shipping today... recapping WWDC OS X stats... Kevin Browne of Microsoft takes the stage to show off Office for X. [09:13-09:17 ET]


• Video of Apple Retail Stores shown, Apple retail recap over. [09:03-09:10 ET]


• First thing to talk about: new Apple retail stores... recaps store openings in Tyson's Corner and Glendale... "results have been terrific"... four new stores in August: Willow Bend (Plano, TX), Mall of America (Minneapolis, MN), Woodfield Mall (Chicago, IL), and Northshore Mall (Boston, MA). [09:02 ET]


• Steve Jobs has taken the stage. [09:00 ET]