I recently moved a Mac Tower running 10.4 to another room to make room for an upgrade machine with a monster sized screen. Unfortunately I smacked right into a problem: my Ethernet cables aren’t located anywhere in that room. I wound up having to look at Wireless Adapters but I had a case of Apple Fear—when you know that you’re going to have to shell out some serious dollars to make a Mac functional with non-Apple equipment.
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.)