Just one more day to the iphone. I don’t know about you but I’m both tired of hearing about it and kind of excited about it at the same time. I don’t have any intention of buying one, well at least not anytime soon. It seems that you cant go anywhere, watch tv listen to the radio or surf the net without running into the iphone in one way or another. We already have websites and podcast dedicated to iphone worship, iphone accessories, iphone apps. There are even people waiting in line at apple and AT&T stores in hopes of buying one when they go on sale friday at 6pm.
Now if apple would only introduce a 12″ Macbook Pro.
I just got back from the local Target store with my apple tv in hand. I have been wanting one ever sense Steve Jobs showed it at Macworld. Setup could not be easier just plug it in it finds available networks pick yours and enter your wireless encryption password and sync to one of you computers itunes library. Now just sit back watch or listen to any media in itunes or view your photo library.
I notice that there was a update available for apple tv so I just clicked update it downloaded the update and installed. Now I’m watching youtube videos this thing is so cool.
Well this weekend I came real close to buying a shiny new Apple Macbook. I took a trip to CompUSA to get a feel of the little beauty and it’s was love at first isight. I never noticed how thin and elegant the Macbook is. When thinking about the Macbook I had a preconceived notion that the keyboard was substandard for a Apple product and that the glossy screen would have way to much glare. Well I was wrong about both, the keyboard doesn’t look quite as nice as my G4 Powerbook keyboard but it works better. There is more room between the keys so I don’t keep hitting more then one key at once, even with my reckless typing skills.
Now the display. At first look the 13.3″ glossy screen was not that different from my 12″ Powerbook display. It did look brighter and looking close I could see some reflection from the store lights, nothing to bad. Then I played a movie trailer and discovered the pros of the glossy screen. The picture was beautiful. It was bright crisp and well defined, just like a movie should be.
So I went home planning on ordering a Macbook from Apple’s online store and three gigs of RAM from OWC. But just before I make the purchase I couldn’t help thinking why not wait till the Macbook ships with the new os, it’s just a few months away. And what about the 12″ Powerbook it’s still plenty capable… and only three and a half years old… and it looks almost perfect… and has a new un-exploding battery… and a new hard drive. What would I do with it. I know they routinely get $700+ on ebay but I would take less if I could sell it to someone I know. Or maybe just keep it as a backup, yea right that won’t happen.
So here I write still undecided, I think I will start asking friends and family if they would like my Powerbook. Maybe over the summer I can sell it and then the Macbook will be mine. Who knows maybe this summer will bring my dream 12″ Macbook Pro.
The iphone is not even out yet a apps are already starting to show up. The first one is Digg reader from DavidCann you can see it here. I’m guessing we will be seeing iphone apps, iphone chargers, iphone car docks, iphone tv’s and anything thing else you can imagine in the next few weeks. It’s the summer of the iphone.
WWDC started Monday and Steve Jobs gave a great keynote speech, like always. He gave a sneak peek at os x 10.5 Leopard. This is going to be a real cool os adding many improvements and some new features that fix problems I didn’t know I had. Check it out here.
Steve also announced the Safari web browser is now available for Windows as a beta. And the big announcement the iphone has no a SDK (Software development Kit) so third party developers can write apps to work on the iphone. They can can write apps using web 2.0 standards with things like ajax. This is suppose to keep the iphone from crashing because of poorly written apps.
You can watch Steve’s Keynote here
I joined a flickr group call Tech Guy. It’s part of Leo Laportes radio show where the digital photo guy gives out assigments each week. Last week was take pictures of the alphabet, be creative. So I did what I know music stuff.
Big changes are coming to the Macs new os Leopard this fall called core animation. Some people say it’s the biggest UI change to computing in the last 30 years. It will allow new ways for applications to interface with users. We should get a preview of whats is coming next week at WWDC.
Read about it here.
Well Apple introduced updated Macbook Pros this past tuesday. They both use the newest Intel Core 2 Dual santa rosa processors “very fast”. The 15″ model has a LED back light instead of florescent, as of now it’s the only laptop with LED backlight.
Now I have been holding out for a 12″ Macbook Pro to replace my aging 12″ G4 Powerbook. And as usual I’m denied again. I know the 13″ Macbooks have just been updated a few weeks ago and that maybe my best bet for small size and big power. But again the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is next week and there is a chance Apple will announce my dream laptop there. Ok maybe not, but I can dream, although dreaming doesn’t make my old laptop run any faster. The crystal ball tells me that a white 13″ Macbook in my near future but common sense tell me to wait till october and the new os.
What would do?
There has been a lot of talk about the iphone, people who are sure it’s going to be the greatest gadget ever to people who think it’s going to be a big flop.
Hit or not it’s coming june 29. You can see the new adds here
This past week something historic happened. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got together on stage to answer questions. Like them or not these two guys have change every human on the planet in some way, good or bad. The interview is on video and it is available in chapter form or just highlights. See history or just see what 100 billion plus dollars looks like.
