Cyberguru Steve Jobs made an announcement at Macworld Expo Tuesday morning for what Apple states is the “world’s thinnest notebook.” The MacBook Air. Weighing in at three pounds with a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches, a width of 12.8 inches, and a depth of 8.95 inches.
With the standard silver finish of the MacBook Pro, now recyclable aluminum, the Air has a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen mercury-free display with arsenic-free glass supporting a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. A new feature of the backlit display is an “instant on” response that activates the moment you power on the computer. It also comes with the standard webcam, backlit keyboard (black), and ambient light sensor. The trackpad this time around has multi-touch capabilities, with gesture recognition similar to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The hardware: 1.8 inch 80GB hard disk drive, option of 64GB solid-state disk; Parallel ATA at 4200 RPM. 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM standard. 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo upgradable to 1.8GHz, which was custom manufactured by Intel to be 60% smaller according to Apple’s specs. The chip also has 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache at full processor speed with an 800MHz frontside bus. The MacBook Air also features a trimmed MagSafe power connector and 45 watt power adapter. USB 2.0, Micro-DVI, headphone jack, 802.11n wireless, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. Apple estimates a full five hours of battery life with wireless networking on. The Air lacks an included internal optical drive, but will offer new software called Remote Disk, which allows borrowing of remote optical drives of other computers on the same network. Otherwise an additional USB SuperDrive will be available for $99.
The MacBook Air will retail for $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.
Well, it looks like the once jealously-inducing internet phenomenon of Google Mail has finally become a thing of the past. Announced today, Google’s popular Gmail service is opening its, er, e-doors to the public, allowing you to freely and easily sign up for the service without needing an invite. Currently capped at 2.8g of memory, noone’ll have to delete anything for a long time to come.
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All the speculation, waiting and wondering is OVER. The Apple iPhone is here!!!!!!! Well, you have to wait a few months to own it, but it’s here!
Today at MacWorld 07 good ole’ Stevie gave us the full dog and pony show. Initially he said they are introducing 3 devices, but he was really hinting at the full capabilities of the new iPhone. This thing is jam packed with features… bye bye treo and crackberry. Slighty taller and wider then the current gen ipods, thinner then a Moto Q and has a bevy of amazing technology built right in. The iPhone’s interface is all touchscreen using Apples patented multi-touch technology, allowing you to use multiple fingers on the touch screen. The iPhone will not only sync with iTunes but with iPhoto, iCal, Your Address Book, Safari and much more.
The phone will be exclusive to Cingular, here are just some of it’s feature:
- 3.5′ Screen
- 320×480 Resolution
- Multi-touch Screen
- 4gb or 8gb
- 5 Hours Talk-time
- 16 hour MP3 Playback Time
- EDGE
- WiFi
- 2mp Camera
- Bluetooth 2.0
- MP3
- Video
- OS X
- Safari
- Widgets
- Customized Google Maps
- Yahoo Push Mail
- Ambient Light Sensor
- Tilt Sensor
The price point you say? It’s $499 for 4gb and $599 for 8gb. Which considering the price of a Blackberry or Treo and how much MORE this phone does, it’s quite a steal. You can get more in depth info @ Apple.com. I dunno about you.. but June can’t come fast enough.
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