'Back to the Mac' Official Apple Livestream
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The 11.6" is interesting, note it's 720p exactly (1366x768). Note also he said he sees it as the "future of the macbook", and the future of the macbook has no obviously removable/upgradable HDD (it's like RAM on the motherboard, so maybe it will somehow be upgradable).
People who didn't like Apple products yesterday aren't going to like them today either, but it's interesting stuff...
edit:
Flash storage ranges from 64 gigs to 256 gigs (depending on size/choices).
On another note, the 2 GB of RAM on the Air worries me--that's not a large amount anymore, and I'm dubious on swapping a lot to the flash memory--it'll be faster than swapping to HD, but swapping--especially if it happens a lot, as it would with only 2 GB of RAM--is a use case that puts a lot of wear on flash memory.
So, Apple is pretty much saying, "Yeah, price, we're really not gonna compete on that" ... if that ends up working out well for them, that could be an interesting signal to other companies.
Apple doesn't compete on the low end of the market. The people who think Apple is expensive are the people who compare an ATOM internet pad to a Macbook Pro and think they are both the same value because they are both "laptops".
Thanks for the valuable insight!
Bah, commenting on HN is a complete waste of time anymore.
The SSD may be removable from the look of things.
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As long as the App Store isn't the only way to put software on my Mac, sounds like a great idea to me.
I heard Steve specifically say something along the lines of "it's not the only way" when introducing the Mac App Store.
Now consider frequent updates consisting of a full download of the whole suite for every little update, rather than a little patch or bundle.
That will be in Lion + 1. Gotta warm the users up to it, first.
Which sounds like a pretty good selling point for future Macs, no?
Since steve jobs explicitly said this is not going to be the only way to install software, all this speculation is dishonest.
The funny thing is, he shouldn't have had to say that. You should know apple well enough (Rather than listen to the nonsense from the nondevelopers who are bosting page views by bashing apple) to know that apple would never force people to only buy mac software via the appstore.
EDIT: Looks more or less like iTunes. No word on the submission or approval process. Steve said something (can't remember what exactly) that indicated that this wasn't going to be the only way to get apps.
Also, check the open/close buttons, they're inline with the toolbar..
This includes submission and approval processes, documentation, etc.
But 1.4G? Really? I love how they keep saying "fast processor" in the presentation, where "fast processor" is apparently two steps backwards in CPU technology. :-) The GPU is decent, however.
Is it me, or does anyone else see the point? I hope this isn't the "future of notebooks", because that future would seem to be anemic performance.
sigh.
flash stream.
Ooh, that's harsh, but I feel your pain. If you like tiling, though, you may want to check this out (although I don't use it): http://www.mizage.com/divvy/
Some of us are in public places w/o headphones, I'd prefer to read it than to watch it.
Apple says "Safari on Snow Leopard or IOS 3 or above only." There's a link there on how to get it on other computers.
Would a Flash fallback kill them ;)
Factory upgradable processors, SSD, and memory (to 4GB).
edit: To be clear, "huge" is relative, it's a big deal for the potential legitimacy of Facetime since the potential user base just grew quite a bit.
Now, if they announced that Facetime would work over the cell network, at least that would be something new.
That's exactly why I think it's a big deal.
There are already techs/apps/whatever that let people video chat and video chat with phones, but Apple has a pretty good track record at exposing this kind of thing in a way such that non-techies actually use it.
What was with the multiple references to a "FaceTime Camera" anyway? I'm assuming it's not FaceTime only. I wouldn't call my Macbooks cam a "Skype Camera" either...
And what you're seeing is branding. It used to be an iSight camera, now it's a FaceTime Camera.
If you read what I wrote again, you'll notice how I never suggested anything of the sort.
FWIW, whatever he said sounded attractive to me, but I think they have painted themselves into a corner having saturated their own high-end market with gadgets, and are now getting into the sub $1k notebook \w keyboard market. As attractive as their offerings are, I have no doubt that it's no match to the stampede of Androids that's gonna run over them; equally speced at half the price.
As an aside, the Mac App store is actually one of the ideas I applied to YC with. Guess that has no hope now.
mplayer http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1010qwoeiuryfg/sl.m3u8
I see this, I click it, and I get a half-broken page telling me I can't view this. I then have the option of fishing for a URL, googling how to use it on my system, follow the advice (installing any codecs or applications if necessary) and finally maybe viewing it.
Now, what does Apple say about user experience again?
That you'd have a better one if you were using their products.
That's the whole sales pitch, after all.