Apple: There's Something In The Air

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.apple.com/

I wonder what this is all about.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[paulw]

Or http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/0...ng-macboo.html

[MultimediaMan]

Whatever it is, I'm sure it comes from a controlled substance....

[Jerry Jones]

Apple revealed the secret.

Introducing the all-new Apple MacBook Air...

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

...the world's thinnest notebook computer.

Gorgeous.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Nowhere]

Oh well, I should've known better that they'll go into "ultraexpensive ultraportables direction". There's always Eee PC for the rest of us... (especially 2nd gen, supposedly cooled completelly passivelly). Or some future OLPC commercial offshots...

PS. BTW Jerry, what does this has to do with Desktop Video? There are other subforums here...

[paulw]

Also the new Apple TV.. http://www.apple.com/appletv/

[Hulk]

Okay I'm not an Apple guy but this thing is COOL! Way to go Apple for once again pushing the envelope. Products like this, even if they are out of the price range of most people, are important because they drive the industry to move forward and develop affordable small form factor notebooks.

Definitely a bad-ass product.

[Jerry Jones]

The MacBook Air with the 64GB flash drive is expensive, but imagine how cool it would be to open your notebook computer and -- pow -- no waiting for bootup... it's INSTANTLY ON.

I'd be willing to pay more for that.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[paulw]

The MacBook Air with the 64GB flash drive is expensive, but imagine how cool it would be to open your notebook computer and -- pow -- no waiting for bootup... it's INSTANTLY ON.

I'd be willing to pay more for that.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Only from suspend mode I suspect. I work with gear that usings flash hard disks and these thing take 30 seconds with DOS to boot up and 5 minutes for linux. Admitedly they are running processors that are equivalent to a 486 .. But it is a cool looking laptop..

[Brian Ellis]

Have a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog...s_deliver.html

The BBC commentator seems quite underwhelmed at the Jobs show. The blog comments are 99% on the Air (and many of them are negative, even from Macheads). The bloggers hardly mention downloading video. Maybe it's as dead as disco before it even gets off the ground, because $5 for the latest blockbuster for viewing over 24 hours seems expensive when I can buy DVDs for watching multiple times for about the same price, from play.com. I haven't rented a DVD for over 2 years but I have a large collection of bought DVDs, including reasonably up-to-date ones, such as the Bourne trilogy at €7 each average, delivered,, and the Ultimatum was released in PAL only last month (and was very disappointing, but that is not material!).

[Jerry Jones]

That seems a bit misleading, Brian.

"Rent a movie directly from Apple TV and you have 30 days to start watching."

http://www.apple.com/appletv/rentals.html

Granted, once you start watching the movie, you then have 24 hours to finish watching it.

But your comment might cause some to think that the movie expires 24 hours after download, which isn't true.

I'm also somewhat disappointed in some aspects of the Apple TV announcement.

For example, I believe we should be able to buy -- and not just rent the HD films.

On balance, however, I think the really big reason to buy an APPLE TV is that this device can't be beat when it comes to the ease of use and the ability to organize vast collections of home-produced content.

In that respect, it's a high definition DVD killer.

That, of course, means that "HD DVD" and "Blu-ray Disc" are as dead as DISC-o.



Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

because $5 for the latest blockbuster for viewing over 24 hours seems expensive when I can buy DVDs for watching multiple times for about the same price, from play.com.

[Hulk]

Trusted Reviews checked out the Air and wasn't so impressed.

They didn't like the lack of ethernet port, lack of firewire port, only 1 usb port, and it has a sealed battery.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/editorial/2008/01/17/Style-over-well-everything/p1