June 10th, 2009 |
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For those that don’t know, Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2009 was this past Monday morning at Moscone West, San Francisco. It’s primarily for those developing for Apple’s products (OS X, iPhone apps, etc.) but it’s also for the Apple fans out there as the Keynote usually addresses new product releases, etc.
I was tuned in, listening to Ustream’s live stream of the Keynote. Pretty cool as you can multitask versus having to read every new updates on a blog. Though you have to give it up though as the photos on the blog updates are more eye candy.
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October 14th, 2008 |
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If you don’t know already, Apple has just announced its new line of MacBooks earlier at 10 this morning in Cupertino. Today’s line is a completely new build from the ground-up, starting with its “unibody” approach.
Other than the unibody being totally new to the line as well as the industry, I am liking the following on the MacBooks:
- 13.3-inch LED-backlit display. The 12-inch ones is just to small. Having that extra 1.1-inch is truly a big step.
- Upgraded video adapter, NVDIA GeForce 9400M. Nice upgrade for those wanting to do more gaming on these. But I think this is also nice for those doing photo editing like me.
- All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad. No buttons—it itself is the button!
Though these are nice upgrades, the price went up to $1299 for the MacBooks. If I was in need of a new laptop/notebook computer, this would be the best pick. It’s just too bad it doesn’t have an ExpressCard/34 slot like how the MacBook Pros have them. It would be great to have for those people who take their MacBooks on vacation or on trips and wanting to edit/backup/upload their photos from their SD-based media cards (like the one I have for my Canon PowerShot) along with a card read for the slot.
You may get more information and/or watch the video via apple.com/macbook/. If you don’t know which MacBook is for you, click here to compare them at a quick glance.
Update
If you are leaning towards buying a MacBook Pro and need the quick rundown of the new bells and whistles, click here to read up The Apple Blog’s review about it.
January 15th, 2008 |
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Photo from Gizmodo
From Cupertino, CA. Weighing at 3.0 lbs, 0.16-0.76 inches... 13.3" display w/ a full-size and backlit keyboard; being powered by 1.6GHz Core2Duo, 2GB of memory and 80GB HDD; not to mention 802.11n Wi-Fi...
Macbook Air
Selling for $1,799 w/o a CD/DVD-drive though?!?! Don’t know about that part. Size is great if you travel a lot and don’t care about the CD/DVD-drive not being there. That or you have money to burn.
I rather spend an extra 3-bills for another Macbook Pro personally if I’m going to pay that much.
