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Entertainment from Randy Newman, live on stage.
That’s the four things that he said he’d be talking about, but will there be a trademark ‘one more thing…’?
MacBook Air: Ships in two weeks, and also has no arsenic, no PVC, no Mercury, and no BFC – so it’s greener than a hippy, too.
MacBook Air: With the battery taking up the majority of the internal workings of the machine, you get 5 hours of battery life out of the MacBook Air with Wi-Fi turned on.
MacBook Air: No optical drive, but uses ‘Remote Disk’, software that allows a MacBook Air to use a remote optical drive.
MacBook Air: Has Intel Core 2 Duo Inside, 1.6 GHz standard, with a 1.8GHz upgrade available. Intel Core 2 Duo 60% smaller to fit inside.
MacBook Air: Has 1.8 inch hard drives like iPod, but with an optional upgrade to a 64GB solid-state disk.
New MacBook also has black keys, and multi-touch built into the trackpad, pinching, multi-touch gestures are supported.
The MacBook Air is seriously thin, at just 0.76 inches at it’s thickest to 0.16 inches
It’s true, the MacBook Air has landed
Jim seems to think that Blu-Ray will be the victor over HD DVD – no surprises there.
“The first studio that signed up with us for iTunes movie rentals was 20th Century Fox” Jim Gianopulos, the Chairman & CEO of Fox is taking to the stage
Apple TV is getting support for flickr, and .Mac support, as well as a price drop to $229
Movie rental, 30 days to start watching, and 24 hours to finish. $3.99 for old releases, and $4.99 for new releases.
You can now get Mail, stocks, notes, and weather, maps + wi-fi location, webclips, custom homescreens, chapters, subtitles, languages, and lyrics suppirt, for an additional $20 for early adopters, that’s pretty shabby, Apple.
iPhone SDK, coming Febuary
Airport now with 500GB and 1TB of storage, $299, and $499
