If you don’t know already, Apple has just announced its new line of MacBooks1 earlier at 10 this morning in Cupertino. Today’s line is a completely new build from the ground-up, starting with its “unibody” approach.
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 80GBHDD; 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.
Hey, hey, hey. May 1st has come and gone and those who have promised themselves to Reboot were either successful, or behind. One of the sites I’m curiously awaiting to check out is Bryan Veloso’s new rendition of AvalonStar.
Today was the first day of the Apple Expo in Europe, Paris to be exact. I was hoping that Steve Jobs would be announcing the new “Core 2 Duo”-based Macbooks. But alas, that speculation wasn’t even close.
His announcement weighed more heavily in the release of products from the iPod family, then the release of iTunes 7. Here’s the breakdown of the new features per iPod family member:
iPod:
60% brighter display
75% longer video battery life
Gapless playback
Exciting new games
Search and Quick Scrolling
New headphones
$249 for 30GB
$349 for 80GB
iPod Nano, 2nd Generation:
Made of thinner aluminum
Colors of blue, pink, green, silver and black
40% brighter display
24 hour battery life
Gapless playback
Search and Quick Scrolling
New headphones
$149 for 2GB (silver), $199 for 4GB (blue, pink, green and silver) and $249 for 8GB (black)
iPod Shuffle, 2nd Generation:
World’s smallest MP3 player
Aluminum case with clip
1GB — up to 240 songs
12 hour battery life
USB 2.0
Dock & earbuds included
$79
I’m eyeing that Shuffle for $79. Seems reasonable and functional if you play sports; especially when you run a lot.
Anyways, besides Mr. Jobs announcement, a couple of the MA folks and I will be attending Carson Workshop’s Summit: The Future of Web Apps tomorrow and Thursday. Should be some interesting and exciting time. It’s just too bad I don’t have a Macbook (yet) so I can look as cool as those techfreaks attending. Oh well, I hope this Dell Latitude loaner can do the job of writing notes and checking email.