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Generous cooling, a hard drive and not much more…
Disappointed?
Uh… your valueable data too inside!

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Just announced today!

Apple Introduces New MacBook and MacBook Pro Models
Multi-Touch Trackpad Comes to MacBook Pro

Apple today updated its popular MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s innovative Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air.

Not that much to say, always better as usual… and some price slashing as well!

Just attended Apple’s presentation for MacBook Air and all other products coming from MacWorld Expo 2008.

Impressed by the MacBook Air: so thin, so usable!
Manage to get your hands on one of these and see for yourself.
It’s so easy to forget this is an ultra-portable computer: full size keyboard, 13,3″ screen (LED-driven, immediately bright and soooo much shiny).
2 Gigs of RAM and a 5-hours+ battery get you running & working for a long time!

Quite impressed by Time Capsule: a must for every serious Mac (and Windows) user.

Will put update all info pretty soon; for some picture, have a look at my Flickr page.

The thinnest Mac ever.
A slimmer Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD or (optional) 64 GB SSD, 13,3″ eLed display.

Battery life: 5 hours…

Full wireless (over the Air) connectivity… of course!

Stop rumors!
This time is for real.
Stop backup with Time Machine over wires: it’s over!

Apple introduces Time Capsules (an homage to Andy Warhol?): basically an Airport base with an embedded hard disk (in 300 GB and 500 GB flavors).

So, from today on, Time Machine backup will run wireless (and hopefully) effortless.

Just like other Apple products: set it and forget it.

Maybe not like last year’s MacWorld iPhone announcement, but this year is bringing so much speculations about what Steve will announce today!

Maybe the only true reliable source is CrazyAppleRumors.

So, what’s new in the Air? Really a MacBook Air?

Ok, most of us won’t be amazed by the new XServe: only guys hiding in server farm will actually, but the value-for-money ratio is quite impressive.
Under US$ 3,000 will get you a screaming Leopard server!

The real news is about the (not only) improved Mac Pro:

The fastest Mac ever, the new Mac Pro has eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor.* It combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage […]

What about graphics?

All-new high-performance graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA make Mac Pro graphics technology even more cutting edge. The standard graphics card — an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0, and two dual-link DVI ports — provides great performance for typical creative applications. And you get dual 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display support out of the box.

All of these cards feature the latest-generation unified shader model support. Compared to dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, shaders are no longer special-purpose and can now be utilized based on the needs of the graphics application.

You may not know about Asus Eee PC: it’s an ultraportable PC (or UMPC), with tiny screen, no hard disk (it’s flash-disk based), a webcam and runs natively a Linux version under a Celeron-class processor or Win XP with some hacks.

Since when it has beeb first annouced, the Eee PC has raised mixed blessings.
From my point of view it’s an interesting approach to the portability issue: slimmer, lighter and power-savy.

Now Tuaw comes with this pretty suggestion: why not try to run Mac OS X (intel version) on the Asus Eee PC?

Quoting from Tuaw:

Naturally, this hack falls into a legally gray area, so you’ll want to proceed with extreme caution. You also have to bear in mind that the build of Mac OS X floating around on BitTorrent isn’t exactly legal either, although the PC-patched copy makes for a “moderately easy install.” Based on the specs on the Asus Eee PC, you’ll probably want to stick with Tiger rather than Leopard.

With all this hacking and modding, you’ve got to wonder why Apple hasn’t created a more compact version of the MacBook to compete against this beautiful UMPC. Call it the MacBook Nano and it’d sell like hotcakes.

Full story on Tuaw.

A huge update actually, some 130 MB including:

And much more…

Check the full list on Apple web site here.

Just attended Apple’s presentation of Mac OS X Leopard: impressive.

Time Machine, Quicklook, new Finder, Shared computer access, improved iChat and some 300+ new features.

Will try all (at least the more important of them) and report to you all! Now, let’s install it!

By now, just one suggestion: for the first time ever, more RAM available is not enough.

Time Machine alone, requires an external drive to hourly backup all your valuable data.

Partner site tiphones.com reports that:

Apple has released a list of apps, or web-based applications available for the iPhone, which include social networking website Facebook.

The list of more than 200 iPhone “apps” includes games, news aggregators and utilities.
The most popular programs have been Facebook, Bejeweled, Sudoku, and a Twitter (mini-blog) app called Hahlo.

The apps run within the phone’s web Safari web browser, not its operating system, which has annoyed many software developers who are wanting to develop more complex applications.

Several websites are reporting on rumours that a software development kit (SDK) may be made available soon, however others doubt Apple will be willing to loosen its tight grip on the iPhone’s operating system.

Despite this, the iPhone hacking community has been busy creating applications for the iPhone, including hacks to free it from the AT&T network.

A recent iPhone firmware update from Apple disabled previous hacks for third-party application support, turning many hacked iPhones into “iBricks”. But in what is becoming a game of “catch me if you can”, hackers have recently announced new work-arounds.

Don’t really feel like I needed one…

Mac users tend to smile when they hear about Windows’ security issues. Whatever the reasons might be, OS X has proved to be a very secure computing platform, with a lack of viruses, and critical exploits usually getting shut down by Apple before any damage is done. Physical access, however, is another thing. If your computer isn’t locked down tight, anyone sitting at your Mac can do exactly what they like, from stealing your data to a scary rm -r in the command line.

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