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Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes
Phil Schiller delivered the keynote at MacWorld, the first after the Steve Jobs era of keynotes. Here is Engadget's live blog. The big news, predicted by many rumor sites, was the introduction of the unibody 17" MacBook Pro. As rumored, the battery is not removable, but it's claimed to provide 8 hours of battery life (7 hours with the discrete graphics): "3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard." $2,799, 2.66 GHz and 4 GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, shipping at the end of January. There is a battery exchange program, and there is an option for a matte display. The other big news is that iTunes is going DRM-free: 8M songs today, all 10+M by the end of March. Song pricing will be flexible, as the studios have been demanding; the lowest song price is $0.69. Apple also introduced the beta of a Google Docs-like service, iWork.com.
If Dell said they were going to non-removable batteries, there would be s hit storm.
Being non-removable does not increase the capacity of a battery, nor should it give you an increased volume in any competent design.
Apple is selling bullshit pie and the fans are eating it up yet again.
One battery with a 5 hour charge might not be enough but 8 hours should be enough for everyone.
If you ran out of juice after 8 hours unplugged, maybe you should take it as a sign that you are working too hard and that you should take a break.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Also, to a lesser extent (but more important to me...), the iMac.
They don't even have to* upgrade the specs. They could just update the price.
*yes, I know they don't "have to." That doesn't change the fact that when they do finally update to hardware that more closely mateches their asking price, I won't be in the market any more, having already purchased a PC and laptop with better specs and combined $100 less than the entry iMac.
Oh Apple. If only your smooth integration didn't cost $800 (more than $400 hardware that is equivalent, except for 30% faster and 300% more RAM, 300% more video RAM, 25% more last-level-cache, and 30% more hard disk space).
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Weak... If you cant hear the difference between an mp3 and a cd ( or 1/2 track for that matter ) you have no right posting this type of crap in the first place....
Case in point -- they dropped Firewire from the MacBook. That means you can't use your family's DV or HDV camcorder anymore with a MacBook to use the new iMovie to edit your videos...
No, it means you use almost any newer camcorder which all use USB to attach to the computer. That's why Apple dropped it from the lineup, because it was not needed for even that remaining consumer reason.
They left it in the upper end models because it works better for storage, and also more advanced camcorders may continue to make use of Firewire.
God that was a fucking stupid decision. Rather than make the MacBook a few millimeters longer they dropped one of the most useful ports on the system. Ever used FireWire target disk mode? It's absolutely incredible. Oh, and anyone who thinks that USB2 is equal in performance to FireWire 400 anywhere other than a spec sheet is a fucking retard.
Unfortunately Steve Jobs is not an engineer and his whole "make things shiny, then make them functional" mindset has permeated through the Apple ranks. I like Macs, I own two and am considering a third, but I really wish that Steve, the man who gave us the one button mouse, the incredibly fucking unusable mouse that came with the original iMac, the original Mac keyboard without cursor keys and who spent $100k having the logo for NeXT designed before he had any hardware or software for the company, would pull his head out of his ass about the whole "form following function" thing.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.