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Jobs dazzles at developers show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| July 01, 2004 | Gillmor, Dan | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Dan Gillmor

It's always useful to turn on the deflector screens when entering a Steve Jobs keynote speech.

Because Apple Computer's chief executive almost always has something dazzling to show, and because he does it better than just about anyone else in the technology business, he creates a legendary "Reality Distortion Field" that makes even hardened skeptics nod their heads in awe.

Such was the case Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Jobs gave a preview of an upcoming Macintosh operating system and showed off several new video displays. None of these products is on sale yet, but there was a lot to like.

Jobs said the next version of Mac OS X will go on sale in the first half of 2005 _ which means it could still be a year away. The system, numbered 10.4 (up from today's 10.3), is code-named ...

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