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OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.)
It seems that the new MacBook Air, just unveiled a few hours ago, features multi-touch ability on its oversized trackpad, similar to that of the iPhone; some sort of crazy wirelessness; recyclable aluminum case; a mercury and lead free display; and you can buy the thing in two weeks, starting at around $1799. Read more about it here.
Dede, will you buy us one? Oh, come on!
One more thing, in cahoots with Touchstone, Miramax, LionsGate, Fox, Warners Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony, Jobs also introduced iTunes Movie Rentals. You can keep movies for 30 days, "movies will be start playing less than 30 seconds after the download starts," and we'll still hold onto our Netflix subscriptions. So...there you have it, folks.
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Overpriced for a recession
"movies will be start playing less than 30 seconds after the download starts,"
And stop playing 32 seconds after download starts unless you have a megabit or faster internet connection (which anyone who aspires to be as cool as Steve Jobs certainly must have), like to watch movies in 640x480 resolution, or can get away with watching movies at work.
Netflix somehow manages to make the Post Office look awesome. I drop my returns in the mailbox at the BART station, and they are checked in by 7 AM the next morning. The new movies are shipped later that day, and at the house when I get home the day after that. Always. And they have every single ever released on DVD, always.
Sorry, Steve... I need right-click capabilites. Now go back and finish your undergraduate.
$1799 for the 80GB version. *only* $3100 for the 64GB SSD version! Practically giving them away!
Nicole Ritchie? Eeeeewwwww! How about a different analogy? How about Kate Moss? Or Jenna Jameson? Or Posh Spice?
@ mpantone
Personally, I try to limit my Posh analogies to discussions of extraterrestrials.
Today's Keynote was awesome, the product enhancements looked great.
@wsanders: The Apple materials make it clear that a "modern broadband" connection is required for the service.
@DJTennessee: http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/design.html
@DJTennessee:
Macs have supported right-click for years. I use the same Logitech trackball at home (wireless version for my Macbook) and at work (wired version for the Dell). My travel mouse is a Kensington USB model that I bought when I got my first iBook back in 2002.
Nicole Ritchie's skinny again -- baby Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born last Friday in LA.
At least Kate Moss looks good. I'm not sure if I feel the same way about Nicole. :)
I bet Grandpa Lionel is jumping for joy!
Sleek, sexy, unaffordable. I'm glad my 3 year old Powerbook still works!
@ DJ Tennessee
You're probably tired of hearing from the fanboys & girls, but two fingers tapping my trackpad = right click. It took me a week to get used to my Mac (having been raised on PC's, back in the days of direct DOS interface).
I really haven't looked back. It was kinda scary, but I don't miss all the .DAT, .BAT, and other weird files that you need to operate but sometimes get deleted when uninstalling programs.
Oh, and yay for no viruses! (Yeah, yeah, cause it's such a pitiful market share, I know.)
One more thing? Still lame, though serious hardcore movie fans who don't want to go buy Blu-Ray discs might try out Apple TV.
I am waiting for them to get way cheap on craigslist so I can use one as a stationary iPod for the living room.
High wind alert!