“NEW” MacBooks RELEASED
I’m a huge sucker for new technology and I think there are thousands of products that need an update. In fact, the very old (two years) Bluetooth keyboard I use every day could be donated so that I can buy the snazzy aluminum/titanium/polished metal version sitting in my abandoned Apple shopping cart.
The “new” mobile offerings from Apple today left me feeling less than impressed, but there’s very good reason for the minimal changes being sold this week. For starters, the MacBook Air is very new and the form factor can simply not be duplicated until at least a 120-day retail cycle happens.
In terms of the specs, there is a feature that makes me look forward to the next MacBook Pro that I purchase: the multi-touch pad. However, by the time they get to what I want, it’ll be eight machines from now. I would love a programmable multi-touch pad. I’m pretty sure that this can be done by using current hardware.
Next up: The iPhone SDK. Today’s 1.1.4 iPhone firmware update weighed in at a healthy 162 Mb.