Apple Stuff 2008
Posted by Rey
Steve unveils the new airbook (absurdly sexy, ridiculously thin and absurdly stupid without an optical drive and without the ability to change your battery); iPhone gets some features it should’ve had anyway; Apple decides to make us pay for stuff that should’ve been on the iPod Touch anyway (and which was put on it for free by the wonderful web jailbreakers); Time Machine gets a Capsule($499 is the one that everyone needs and when you consider that a wireless N router is $149 and a 1TB storage unit is $269 this isn’t a bad option); Axiotron’s modbook Apple tablet PC finally ships (pretty steep price but what do you expect: it’s a modified mac!); rent movies on iTunes ($3.99 new releases, everything else $2.99, 1 dollar more for HD); Apple TV Take 2 (no computer required so you can rent movies without a computer–basically making your TV a WebTV); this was last week but the 8-Core Mac Pro.
(This has nothing to do with Apple but it looks fun to participate in and this project is what my brother is currently building.)
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January 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The MBA strikes me as a glorified iPod. An EXPENSIVE glorified iPod mind you.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
exactly. i think its even being targeted as a media computer–not so much a work horse.
(btw: thanks for being patient and reposting this.)
January 20th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Am I the only person who’d be actually scared to own a laptop as thin as the airbook? It’s like my son’s iPod Nano: so small I’m sure I’d have lost it by now if it were mine.
It’d probably be under the driver seat in the van.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’d be afraid of sitting down on a couch and hearing the inevitable crunch of a two thousand dollar folder thin electronic.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yeah that wouldn’t be pretty. I’m surprised my daughter hasn’t lost her Shuffle yet. It’s the only “toy” we’ve told her that she’s under no obligation ot share.