MacWorld Highlights
By David Fisher. Filed in technology |Tags: apple, mac, Uncategorized
Today the betahouse had our own MacWorld party. About 20 people came over, including 2 former Apple employees and one current one. Twitter was up and down (come on, it goes down on random days, of course it was going to go down today). The “leaked” keynote was totally fake.
So what happened today at MacWorld? What am I placing an order (or hoping someone places me an order) for?
- New iPhone software. Mainly just the features that were leaked prior. Quasi-GPS support, Lyrics, better SMS, blah. I’ll upgrade. Nothing exciting. I know where I am normally
- The iPod Touch got Maps, Mail, Weather, etc… but it’s a $20 paid upgrade. Boo. That’s non-standard and kinda lame
- Time Capsul- An Airport Extreme base station + 500GB/1TB drive for wireless Time Machine backup. Not bad. I’ll bite and get one. I’ve been looking for a good network backup and storage solution that will work well with Macs
- Apple of course touted their sales and Steve gave lots of numbers
- iTunes Movie Rentals, and it supports HD! Goodbye Netflix!
- Details, 30 days to start watching, 24 hours to finish
- 2.99/3.99/4.99 for HD rentals
- Near instant streaming
- Available to watch on iPhone/Mac/PC
- All major studios
- Starting today
- Apple TV update that seems to rock pretty well. Might have to get one. Does it do 1080p?
- They lowered the price, AND the updates are free. I’m getting one…
- New Software out in 2 weeks. Price on eBay to adjust soon?
- Macbook Air confirmed
- 3rd series of notebooks, in addition to MBP and MB
- I love my MBP, so I don’t really need something smaller. It is stupidly thin however. I like the Multitouch trackpad
- I hope they upgrade the MBP software to allow multitouch motion on the trackpad
- The rumors of a huge multitouch surface seem wrong
- 64GB SSD drive. “Pricey but fast”. Now that could ROCK for video editing.
- Just wondering… why do I want this again? If I wanted a small notebook, sure.. but the standard MB is fine imho
- No Firewire. Looks like Apple really has gone to USB. Too bad. Death of Firewire.
- Optional Superdrive (No BluRay),$99
- $1799. I paid that much for my Macbook Pro (after student discount and selling the “free” iPod)
- People seem to wish thatthe screen was smaller and that it was more of a ’sub-notebook’
- Better for environment. Nice, but not huge news.
- Site updated… no more “just one more thing”?
MORE UPDATES COMING AS I WATCH
In the Spring, Jack Hodgson is organizing MacCampBoston. It’s going to be an “unconference” based on Mac stuff.