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.)
5 responses to “Apple Stuff 2008”
The MBA strikes me as a glorified iPod. An EXPENSIVE glorified iPod mind you.
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.)
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.
I’d be afraid of sitting down on a couch and hearing the inevitable crunch of a two thousand dollar folder thin electronic.
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.