Apple unveils “the thinnest notebook in the world” - the MacBook Air. Apple went and looked at most of the thinnest notebooks - Sony TZ series, for example and tried to distill the best of all of them –
- ~3 lbs
- 0.16 to 0.76 inches thin, 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep
- 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 × 800 pixel resolution
- full sized MacBook-style black keyboard with Ambient light sensor
- built-in iSight
- multi-touch trackpad (Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb)
- 80GB drive as standard, 64GB SSD as an option
- 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo as standard chip which operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus (1.8 GHz as an upgrade)
- 45w MagSafe
- 1 USB 2.0 port
- Micro-DVI
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
- 5 hour battery life
- 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM
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In a rather rare and surprising pre-Macworld Expo move (Macworld Expo 2008 will be from January 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco), Apple unveiled a retooled Mac Pro Desktop machine and a new Xserve server - calling them the fastest Macs ever. The ultra-end Mac Pro features Advanced Micro Devices ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB standard memory. The new 45-nanometer quad-core Xeon processor from Intel, can be equipped with up to 32GB of RAM and as much as 4TB of Disc Drive Storage.
More power with less power
Inside the new Mac Pro is the latest technology from Intel - Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors. These processors run at blazingly fast speeds up to 3.2GHz.
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You still don’t have Leopard!
And, you purchased a qualifying Macintosh Computer on or after October 1, 2007, then you can get a Free upgrade to Apple’s latest OS X 10.5 - Leopard. The offer is valid till 26th January, 2008.
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Most Leopard users were frustrated with the issue that MacBook and MacBook Pro systems occasionally experience a temporary suspension of keyboard input which can last a minute or longer.
Apple have released a MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1 which fixes the responsiveness issue on MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers.
The Mac OS X 10.5.1 update is required before installing the MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1.
Apple has a Quick tip of the week videos as part of its business section. This should be a pretty good place to start with if you’re new to a Mac. Apple’s business section helps you get your business get things done quickly and in a smart manner.
A Mac empowers you with advanced capabilities and a new level of confidence. You can unleash your creativity. Differentiate your business and build your brand. And work from almost anywhere. Without worrying about your technology.
If not for this article - What is Interference Robustness? - I would have never known what is it.
When should I use it?
It really depends on the situation. Some users will experience WLAN issues based on the specific products they have in their home in this case use Interference Robustness. Others will face WLAN issues because they either live or work in a highly populated area such as an apartment building or office building. This would be an ideal time to use Interference Robustness. Basically, whenever you face WLAN interference that is caused by outside variables, Interference Robustness will help.
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Personally, I would not term myself an advanced Mac user, far none an experienced one. However, I’ve been very enthusiastic about the Mac lately and have been minutely observing many of the cool aspects of the Apple Mac. I still use a PowerBook G4 PPC and I would credit it for all the Mac stuffs that I’ve learnt so far.
Today, let me try to compile a list of applications that you’ll need on the Mac after conversion from a Windows world. This should apply to anyone who is new to the Mac. Nonetheless, you may need few more additional applications depending on your profession. For instance, a Developer who do Design with (Photoshop, XHTML, CSS) will have a slightly different set of applications than a Rich Internet Application Developer (Flash, ActionScript, Flex, Ajax). Whereas, a user who does more of a Community Liaison will have a bit of more slightly different software sets. I may be slightly biased but my observation will be more tuned towards a power Internet User, Web Developer, Multimedia Developer and of course Bloggers.
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Was it just me or did I read that correctly on GigaOm. The site shows a 404 for the article right now but I am pretty sure those on RSS would have read that. Om Malik seem to be speculating that Mac Users won’t be able to buy advertising on Microsoft AdCenter. AdCenter doesn’t work with Macs. A small e-tailer who recently switched to a Mac learned this the hard way, and in the end decided that he would rather spend his ad dollars with Google.
The AdCenter is also rumored to be not compatible with Microsoft Vista as well.
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