Keynote Recap: MacBook Air, Apple TV Take 2
Today is a great day for the Mac world. As usual, Steve Jobs has served as master of ceremonies once again and has presented us with new hardware and software products. In order of appearance, this is what we saw:
Time Capsule
A drive embedded in an Airport Extreme, a further twist to the concept of Time Machine in a drive wirelessly. It will have two configurations, one with 500 GB of disk. For $ 299 dollars and another 1 TB. For $ 499 dollars.
IPhone
There comes a new firmware version, 1.1.3 offers improvements such as Maps with location, Webclips, the reorganization of the desktop, sending SMS to more than one person at a time, displaying the lyrics for the songs and receives a new interface to be able to select video chapters in the way iPod. We can see the leaked photos of the 1.1.3 firmware version here
IPod Touch
The sixth generation player also receives a new firmware through which adopts five new applications that come directly from the iPhone: Maps, Mail, Stocks, Notes and Weather. The software update will cost $ 20 for users who want to install.
ITunes
Movie Rental on iTunes! All major film studios: Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, Fox, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony… There are more than 1000 films available. The only rule to follow is that there are 30 days to begin to see it in 24 hours to finish. The price ranges from $ 2.99 dollars for the normal and $ 3.99 dollars for the new. This new service is available today in the USA and will be launched later to the rest of the world.
Apple TV Take 2
You no longer need a computer to rent movies, you can do so from the very Apple TV while enjoying podcast, photographs and Flickr and .Mac, as well as rent high-definition content for $ 4.99 US dollars to exist at this time to 100 titles available . This is not a new device but a free software update, which also has a new improved interface and now the Apple TV costs $ 229 dollars.
“There’s something in the air”: MacBook Air
We knew that there is something in the air: the finest laptop in the world! Somehow Apple engineers have succeeded in creating a computer that can be, literally, in an mail. The screen 13.3 “widescreen is backlit with LED technology, the hard disk is 1.8″ and comes directly with the iPod 80GB Hard Disk. With an option to change it to a SSD disk (memory) of 64GB., Expensive but fast.
This new computer has a trackpad with multitouch technology like the one on the iPhone and iPod touch and the same thickness ranges between 0.16 “and 0.76″. As ports of entry and exit incorporates a USB 2.0 port, a video output Micro-DVI, an audio output and wireless Wi-Fi 802.11ny Bluetooth 2.1/EDR (Ethernet goodbye!), Serial has 2GB RAM and its battery has a range of up to 5 hours.
The processor used is an Intel Core 2 Duo, which was modified to make it even thinner by 60% and has no optical drive, can be purchased separately at a price $ 99 US dollars, but just in case, thanks to a special software can borrow a unit of another computer.
$ 1799 dollars. Expensive or not?
Apple has ensured to comply with the more stringent environmental standards so that the screen does not contain mercury, the circuitry has no fire retardants and the casing is completely aluminum. Similarly, the packaging of the same has been reduced by 56% compared to what we can find in MacBooks.
This was all, which, as he said himself Jobs, has not been little for only 2 weeks of the year 2008.
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