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How about the iPod touch? They�re adding Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather. For existing iPod touch users, it will cost $20. If you buy a new iPod touch, it�ll be free and built-in.

The third thing Steve�s talking about today: iTunes. They�ve sold 4 billion songs, 125 million TV shows and 7 million movies. TV shows and movies have sold more than �everyone else put together�, but �did not meet our expectations�. �There�s a better way to deliver movies over the internet.� What is it? iTunes Movie Rentals.

Here are the studios involved: Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, New Line, Lion�s gate, Fox, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony. What�s missing?







1000 films by February, and movies will be available 30 days after the DVD release. You can watch them anywhere: Macs, PCs, iPods and iPhone. You can watch instantly, meaning streaming. You�ll have 30 days to �start� watching it, and then 24 hours to �finish� watching it once you�ve started to watch it. You can watch the first half on your computer, transfer the movie to your iPod, then watch the rest of the movie on the airplane. Here�s the cost.



Old releases: $2.99. New releases: $3.99.

HD Rentals pricing: $3.99 for old titles and $4.99 for new titles. $1 more than SD.

iTunes movie rentals launches today, and it�s a free software update for iTunes. Free update for iPods and iPhones in order to support this. Support for the US comes today, but international support comes later this year.

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Originally posted by tubularbills

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Originally posted by leph555 thats was funny and its what makes them better than engadget engadget is way too fucking geeky

ahahahhaha

that was great. i saw that yeserday and LMFAO! they might have gotten banned but atleast it was funny!

But how about the AppleTV? It was designed to be an accessory for iTunes, but people wanted it to be �movies, movies, movies�. Here�s AppleTV, take 2. It still syncs with your computer, but no computer is required for AppleTV. You can rent movies directly onto your AppleTV and watch them on your HDTV. You can rent in either SD quality or HD Quality with 5.1 surround sound.







You can also view audio and video podcasts on the AppleTV, photos from Flickr or .Mac, YouTube videos (>50 Million), Buy TV shows and music (which will be streamed back to your computer), or play iTunes content & photos streamed from your computer.

dammit i cant do this all day long

gots to pee

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There�s a new interface for AppleTV (picture coming in a sec). The UI is centered around the movie rental experience.











Steve�s demo-ing a sample movie, Blades of Glory. Once you�ve queued up enough of the movie, AppleTV will pop up a message saying that it�s ready to play. He says it usually takes about 30 seconds before something�s ready to play.

Today they�re introducing a third kind of notebook, MacBook Air. �It�s the world�s thinnest notebook.�

�How did we fit a Mac in here?�







What does this mean? The Sony TZ series are thin. �We looked at all of them out there. They generally weigh about 3 pounds.� In Sony�s case, it weighs 3 pounds, 0.8-1.2 inches thick, and a 11-12 inch display. They also have miniature keyboards, and they don�t �run them as fast as they could.�



MacBook air goes from 0.76 inches down to 0.16 inches at the thin end. The thickest part is thinner than the Sony TZ Series. 0.76 vs. 0.8. It�s so thin, it even fits inside a vanilla envelope. Steve whips out a vanilla envelope.





Out comes the MacBook Air. It�s silver (aluminum?), has black keys, is super super thin, and Steve can hold it easily with his fingertips. �It�s the world�s thinnest notebook,� he reiterates. It has a 13.3-inch widescreen display. �And the display is gorgeous.� It�s an LED backlit display that�s instant-on. It also has a built-in iSight camera, and a full-sized keyboard. Backlit too, with a trackpad and multi-touch gesture support on the trackpad.














You can turn on different types of gestures in the settings, like moving around a window with your finger, panning around a photo with two fingers, rotate a photo by twisting a finger, swipe between photos with three figners, and zoom in and out with pinching.



Here�s what�s inside. 1.8-inch hard drives, like in the iPods. There�s also an optional 64GB solid state disk. What else is in there? A complete Mac board, which is a little wider than the length of a pencil.







Here�s the CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Inside, 1.6 GHz standard, with a 1.8GHz upgrade available. Apple asked Intel to shrink their Core 2 Duo processors down to a package 60% smaller in order to fit it inside the MacBook Air. And here�s Intel�s CEO Paul Otellini to talk about it.



The other features: flip-down door that has USB 2, microDVI port, and a headphone jack. The other side is a MagSafe connector. As for wireless, it�s got 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It doesn�t have an optical drive internal, but you can buy a separate USB-powered SuperDrive that�s especially made for the MacBook Air. $99.







What do you do with an optical drive? Play movies, install software, make backups, burn CDs. What�s Apple�s alternative? iTunes movie rentals, Time Capsule for backups, iPods for listening to stuff in your car, and a new feature called �Remote Disc� for installing stuff via CDs and DVDs.



Remote Disc: Special software loaded on other machines with optical drives that allows MacBook Air to borrow their drives to install things from CDs/DVDs. You can even borrow drives from PCs.
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Battery life: With Wi-Fi on, browsing the web, you get 5 hours of battery life.





at the price

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Originally posted by leph555 vanilla envelope.

lulz.

where thefuck is the ram

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Originally posted by Ivand where thefuck is the ram

who needs ram these days

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Originally posted by leph555 who needs ram these days

im sure there are 640k somewhere in there :P

at the price



Steve just threw up a new ad showing off the MacBook Air, using the same MANILLA (lmao not vanilla) envelope technique he used earlier.

So to recap, here are the features. 3.0 pounds, 0.16 -0.76 inches, 13.inch display, full-sized keyboard, multi-touch gestures, iSight, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo standard, 2GB memory standard, 80GB hard drive standard (64GB SSD optional), 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard, and MagSafe.

And here are the details on the MacBook Air that eco-fanatics care about. It�s got an Aluminum case, and a mercury-free and arsenic-free glass display. The circuit boards are BFR free and PVC free. The packaging has 56% less volume than the regular MacBook. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!

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To recap on what he�s talked about today.
1) Time Capsule, the wireless backup utility.
2) iPhone update and iPod Touch update.
3) AppleTV + iTunes movie rentals.
4) MacBook Air.

�All this stuff in the first two weeks, and we�ve got 50 more weeks in the year to go.�

nice! thanks for all these updates..

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Originally posted by Blake nice! thanks for all these updates..

WoW is down today, no work, no school, so i had nothing better to do

and once again its not my work, im just spreading Gizmodo's work

inb4samandilovemymac<3

Apple Store is back up!



http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...ily/macbook_air

I could have put it here but I updated the other thread instead.

no firewire no ethernet ( ethernet I can live without )


that's a deal breaker to me right there.


Would have been willing to spend the dough for the machine with these extra tid bits but there ... wtf were they thinking?
Damn little connectors!

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Originally posted by jdat no firewire no ethernet ( ethernet I can live without ) that's a deal breaker to me right there. Would have been willing to spend the dough for the machine with these extra tid bits but there ... wtf were they thinking? Damn little connectors!

This was never meant as a replacement for the MacBook Pro, it's a great laptop to have while traveling. It's light, it's thin, it's fast... It's everything you really need on a business trip.

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Originally posted by jdat no firewire no ethernet ( ethernet I can live without ) that's a deal breaker to me right there. Would have been willing to spend the dough for the machine with these extra tid bits but there ... wtf were they thinking? Damn little connectors!

dont forget, no optical drive either

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Originally posted by getfoul This was never meant as a replacement for the MacBook Pro, it's a great laptop to have while traveling. It's light, it's thin, it's fast... It's everything you really need on a business trip.

I can live without an optical drive but having no firewire port is a no no for me.

I realize most business people don't care about firewire ... or most regular computer users for that matter

I guess I'll go the road of a macbook pro ( still feeling unsure between the macbook black or the macbook pro )

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Originally posted by jdat ... wtf were they thinking?

It's apple. Remove features, give it a fancy new name and boost the price, you've got yourself a successful seller. At this point, they have such a huge army of fanboys willing to drool over whatever they produce that they could come up with a shiny white plastic box containing elephant poo, call it the iPoo, and it would still sell.

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Originally posted by Project-K It's apple. Remove features, give it a fancy new name and boost the price, you've got yourself a successful seller. At this point, they have such a huge army of fanboys willing to drool over whatever they produce that they could come up with a shiny white plastic box containing elephant poo, call it the iPoo, and it would still sell.

The sad part for me at least is that this was the first time I was truly hyped up about a product.

When I started looking into mac lappy options in december I saw the whole rumour mill and figured it would be worth the wait.

I figure they kept out these little features to push the customers needing them to get the higher model, yet I realize form factor and battery issues are all part of the compromise.

Oh well

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Originally posted by getfoul This was never meant as a replacement for the MacBook Pro, it's a great laptop to have while traveling. It's light, it's thin, it's fast... It's everything you really need on a business trip.

It's nothing more than an overpriced thin laptop for the jetsetters.

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Originally posted by getfoul This was never meant as a replacement for the MacBook Pro, it's a great laptop to have while traveling. It's light, it's thin, it's fast... It's everything you really need on a business trip.

Not really. This laptop has more use at your local coffee shop than any any practical business use. 2GB memory won't meet my needs. My current laptop has 3.5. I also question the durability of this laptop.

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