This is the picture seen around the world, the laptop that Steve Jobs pulled from a manilla (manila) folder, introducing Mac Book Air. It supposedly the world’s thinest laptop. 3 pounds, 13.3-inch full size display, full keyboard, multi-touch gestures, 0.16-inch thickness, iSight… 1.6GHz C2D, 2GB RAM standard, 80GB drive, 64GB SSD option, 802.11n standard Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR…5 hour battery life.
What kind of person would really use this? There is no optical drive, but you can buy a special external for $99. I guess if you wanted ultra portability at the cost of $1799, which even Steve Jobs said was a tad pricey. Then I say go for it, I still think people should wait.
Another things announnced were updates to the iPod Touch with new applications such as mail, stocks, weather, maps and chapter/ lyric support. Which will come built into each new iPod Touch, or $20 upgrade for existing users.
Free software update for iTunes, iPods, iPhones to support rentals. Rolling it out in the US today with the launch of iTunes Movie Rentals. To rent a library title will cost $2.99 — new release? $3.99. Along with the iTunes upgrade, the Apple TV gets a second chance…haven’t heard of it? Don’t worry, chances are you won’t for a while.
Steve Jobs explains, “I’m really pleased to report that last week we sold our 4 billionth song. 4 billion songs. On Christmas day we set a new record — 20m songs in one day. Isn’t that amazing? That’s our new one day record. We’ve also sold 125m TV shows — that’s WAY more than everyone else put together.”
Steve Jobs again, “I’ve got some great news. Today happens to be exactly the 200th day since the iPhone went on sale. It’s been shipping exactly 200 days. I’m extraordinarily pleased to report that we’ve sold 4m to date.”
This Macworld was surely not as splashy as last years, but at least it wowed a few people. Sure, Apple stock has dropped. It happens every year around Macworld, and every blogger and news agency will worry. Silly people. Just buy some more stock, when a great company’s stock bombs, its called a discount.
Update: Mac Book Air is now on Apple.com. Be careful though, they make the Mac Book Air sound so good. The wireless on it is crazy!
Update 2: You can watch the Keynote from start to finish here.
Pictures from Techcrunch.com
Disclosure: Boring Market owns Apple Stock.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Sam // Jan 15, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Wow that nice mac laptop is expensive! but i suppose since its new they will figure out that its too much for not even coming with a cd drive. or could have made it not as thin and squeeze a cd-drive in there
2 Rachel // Jan 15, 2008 at 6:27 pm
oooh my gosh!!! other than not having a disk drive (which is ridiculous i gotta say) i want that new laptop!!! it’s sooo thin!!! not that i don’t love my mac any less, that one just seems pretty awesome. kind of pointless without having a drive though. how do you load software and watch movies and all that? are they just trying to force people to download from itunes and such? i’m scared! apple was the first to get rid of the floppy disk drive, and now no laptops come with it. hopefully this whole no drive feature isn’t the new thing!
3 Ross // Jan 16, 2008 at 8:50 am
Just wait for summer for the new mac laptop to go down in price. Competition will come from HP and Sony and Apple will be forced to reduce the price or add more things onto the Mac that you would normally have to buy separate.
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