Apple's latest

"With the introduction of the MacBook Air, Mac users now have a three-pound laptop to call their own."

I've been feeling rather deprived recently, seeing as though I've been forcing good reviews of various CD's down the throats of my few but steadfast readers. So, I thought a bit of change is in order, and I have been brooding over the complete lack of thought (or the presence of LSD) that went into the designing of the new Macbook Air, announced at a press release by Steve Jobs himeslf (interesting to note, after this speech, Apple's stock suffered its largest keynote loss since 1998). Apple's only claim to fame with their new "thin-as-your-pencil" design is that the Air is thin: .76 inches at its largest, to be exact. However, this still doesn't beat any records: it was bested by a 1997 laptop (whoa, apple) called the Mitsubishi Pedion. In addition to this, Apple apparently threw out almost everything seen in a common laptop with, by their standards, questionable usefulness. So, it appears as though they've thrown out the optical drive as well as everything but one USB port. AND the laptop has no docking features, making it another one of Apple's famous one-trick ponies. The only good thing I've seen in this, if you could call it good, is that it has a decent, 35 watt-hour battery. However, the (quite clearly high) designers thought it would be easier to prevent users from replacing their laptop's batteries. So, like with their iPods and their iPhones, they made it impossible to get to the laptop's battery. Its not even for those Apple media junkies that have popped up over the last decade or so: the computer has 1 speaker to speak of (pardon the pun). So, with a full-featured laptop, containing 80 gigs of hard-drive space, 2 gigs of ram, one speaker, and a dual core processor, comes to $3,000. WHAT? Apple's pricetag, as always, leaves something to be desired. I'm not trying to rant again'st Apple, I'm just ranting against their new laptop thing (I mean, it can't call itself a laptop withouth a cd drive... *sigh*). At least it doesn't look as bad as the Powerbook Duo, which committed bloody suicide after struggling to push the same frontier as the Air.

In the same press release that brought the announcement of the Macbook Air came the announcements that several programs, originally iPhone only, would be released for the iPod Touch at an inconvenience of only $20. Although I hate to say it, many people already jailbroke their iPod Touches and have been running most these programs rather happily anyways, so releasing these addons serves no real purpose but to let people feel happy for paying Apple for legit Apple stuff.

(ranting is now over.)

Just a quick blog update, over to the right of the screen (this direction ===>>) I added a box that shows my twitter feed... read it if you get bored, because its where I post stuff when I get bored.

Oh, and my appologies for the huge picture at the top of this post... it was the best one I could find, so cut me some slack, ok?