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- Macbook Air: The downside
Filed under: Macworld, Podcasts, MacBook Air
The Macbook Air is only a couple of hours old (to you and me, at least), and only a handful of people have even seen one, so let's pick apart its flaws! Just kidding. This post is meant to point out certain aspects of the little machine that may not be immediately obvious.
- No user-replacable battery. Not the end of the world, for sure, but a nuisance, especially as your battery's life drops to four hours, then three, then ... (but that's a few years away, right?). Shades of the user-inaccessible iPhone battery commotion here.
- Recessed USB slot will hinder certain peripherals. Prepare for a cottage industry of adapters to appear (much like those for the iPhone's headphone jack). Plus, there's only one -- expect small, streamlined & white USB hubs to appear soon.
- No Firewire port. Forget uploading digital video from a camera, or using those spiffy Firewire external hard drives.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-the-downside/#comments - No user-replacable battery. Not the end of the world, for sure, but a nuisance, especially as your battery's life drops to four hours, then three, then ... (but that's a few years away, right?). Shades of the user-inaccessible iPhone battery commotion here.
- 1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
It's time to kiss my beautiful jailbreaked iPhone goodbye and to surrender to the inevitability of the 1.1.3 update. Goodbye delightful shell access. Goodbye beautiful 3rd party applications. I'm upgrading for the sake of my readers--and hopefully downgrading soon after! Read on for the liveblog...
Continue reading 1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/1-1-3-iphone-update-liveblog/#comments - Accessories for MacBook Air: USB Ethernet
Filed under: MacBook Air
Get used to hearing the word 'dongle' in casual conversation, because Apple is shipping one for the MacBook Air -- an Ethernet to USB adapter for those who absolutely must use a wired network. For $29 you get a 10/100Base-T Ethernet connection and the opportunity to use up your one USB port for connectivity (hint: either get used to typing on the full-size keyboard on the laptop, or pick up a small USB hub). It's not the fastest gun in the West but it will certainly get the job done.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/accessories-for-macbook-air-usb-ethernet/#comments - Apple TV Take 2
Filed under: Macworld, Apple TV
The Apple TV has hardly been the most successful Apple product. In fact, you could say it has been kind of a flop. Even Steve Jobs admitted in his keynote address that the Apple TV has failed to meet expectations and truly link online content with the television. So what is Apple's plan to try to change that? Welcome to Apple TV Redux!
While the Apple TV's form factor remains the same, the software interface has changed significantly. The most notable feature is the ability to buy music, movies and iTunes rentals directly from the device, no computer required. Frankly, this is something I think should have been included from the very beginning. The Apple TV will be able to playback HD and standard definition movies and support Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
Additionally, Apple TV will now support interactive slideshows via Flickr and .Mac accounts.
There's one more change - one I also think is a big improvement to the overall product - the price has dropped. The 40 GB entry model is now just $229 USD (down from $299) and the 160 GB model is $329. Now that users actually have the ability to buy content directly from the device, and that HD content will be readily available, it has suddenly become much more attractive.
Current Apple TV owners can get the additional benefits via a software updatenowin the two weeks (when the new units ship).Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/apple-tv-take-2/#comments - MWSF '08 keynote video is online
Filed under: Macworld, Steve Jobs
Well, that didn't take long! Roughly one our after Randy Newman sang at the end of Steve's Keynote presentation, the video has been posted on Apple's website.
Reading about the keynote is fun, but watching the video is so much better. See the demos, marvel at the shiny hardware, revel in the crowd's "oohs" and "aahs." Finally, whip out your credit card!
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Filed under: Macworld, iTS, iTunes, Apple
iTunes Digital Copy sort of snuck into the Keynote, but it is a pretty big deal (that we already knew about). Starting today if you buy any 20th Century Fox DVD that is labeled 'iTunes Digital Copy' you'll not only get the physical DVD, but a digital copy. Simply insert the disk into your Mac or PC, enter a unique code into iTunes, and iTunes will import a digital version of the movie onto your Mac/PC. You can view the movie on your Mac, iPod, or iPhone as many times as you like (since you own the movie) but the digital copy can only be imported into one iTunes library.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/itunes-digital-copy/#comments - Time Capsule backs up your Macs
Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, Analysis / Opinion, Airport, Internet, Apple, Leopard
Apple has released Time Capsule, a NAS (network-attached storage, I'll admit I'm so far from an IT guy that I had to look it up) unit that will wirelessly sync with multiple instances of Time Machine, all the while also working as an 802.11n base station (there are three included ethernet ports as well). Time Capsule has wireless backup, wireless networking, and even a USB port for networked printing, a networked hard drive, or both with a USB hub.
And perhaps most amazing is the sheer size available-- it's $399 for a 500gb hard drive, and $499 for a 1 TB hard drive. Sure, that's a little pricey if you've got only one or two computers at home, but $500 for a complete (and completely wireless) backup solution for a house full of computers is a pretty nice setup. This definitely won't cause as much of a stir as the iPhone updates or the MacBook Air today, but for someone who's been seeking a backup solution for a whole house of computers, Time Capsule has to be pretty good news.
It's available for preorder right now, and will release in February.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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Filed under: Macworld, MacBook Air
The MacBook Air doesn't have an optical drive, but it does have a new software feature called Remote Disk. This comes with every MacBook Air and works with both Macs and PCs. Simply install the Remote Disk software on the Mac or PC that has an optical drive and that drive will now be available to the MacBook Air. Slide a disk into the optical drive and Remote Disk shows up in the MacBook Air's Finder. Install software to your heart's content, but sadly you won't be burning CDs using Remote Disk.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/remote-disk/#comments - MacBook Air Guided Tour
Filed under: Macworld, MacBook
Following in the grand tradition of the iPhone guided tours Apple has posted a guided tour of the new MacBook Air. Available in QuickTime, of course, for download (iPod or large versions) and in a variety of streaming sizes.
This guide will answer any questions you might have about just how thin this thing is (it is very thin) and just might get you to open that wallet of yours and increase your consumer debt.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-guide-tour/#comments - iPod Touch gets five new apps
Filed under: Macworld, iPod Family
Though there was plenty of other news at the Keynote today, iPod Touch users got a little love thrown their way today -- for a price. Master Steve announced that effective immediately, there are five new apps available for the Touch: Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather, and Maps. Oh, and it will set current Touch owners back $20.
- Preview mail before you open it, display grapics and photos inline, and view HTML, PDF, Word, and Exel attachments.
- Stocks, Weather, and Notes all appear as widgets on your home screen.
- Google Maps determines your approximate location if Wi-Fi is on and gives you directions, marks specific locations (Starbucks?), and has both hybrid and satellite maps to show you the way.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/ipod-touch-gets-five-new-apps/#comments - iTunes now supports movie rentals
Filed under: Macworld, Analysis / Opinion, Video, iTunes, Apple
iTunes 7.6 is out, and it finally has something we've been hearing about for a long time: movie rentals. As announced at the Macworld Keynote earlier today, Apple has made deals with all of the major studios to provide streaming, downloadable flicks for you to watch on your computer, iPod or iPhone. Library titles are $2.99, and new releases will be available 30 days after DVD release and will cost $3.99. Each movie will be available to download within 30 days, and once you start watching it, you'll have 24 hours to finish.
There is good news for HD viewers-- HD rentals will be available, but they'll cost an extra buck (so $3.99 and $4.99 for library titles and new releases. There'll be 100 HD titles starting today, and more all the time. And of course, movie rentals will be sync-able with the iPhone and iPod, or have the ability to be downloaded straight on to the revamped Apple TV. Unfortunately, we haven't heard an official resolution on the HD (720p is one of the numbers being tossed around, and that's not great for serious HD viewers), but if we get to see one of these flicks, we'll let you know.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/itunes-now-supports-movie-rentals/#comments - MacBook Air
Filed under: Macworld, MacBook
Apple stunned a nation, or at least those who haven't been paying attention to the rumors, today with the unveiling of a very thin new MacBook called the MacBook Air. 'The world's thinnest notebooks' starts at $1799 and comes with a 13.3 inch display (LED), a full keyboard, built-in 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, built-in iSight, and a multitouch trackpad that lets you use gestures to control a number of actions on the MacBook Air. Some other stats include:
- 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache
- 2GB of RAM
- 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive (with optional 64 gig solid state drive
- 1 USB 2.0 port
What it doesn't come with are built-in ethernet ports, FireWire, and optical drive, or enough graphics power to power a 30 inch Display (but you can hook up a 20 or 23 inch display via a built in mini-DVI port).Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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- Prediction Report Card
Filed under: Macworld
We came. We predicted. Steve keynoted. (Veni, vidi, keynoti.) So how did we do? Speaking as someone whose predictions were almost uniformly wrong, I'd just like to say thank goodness for Scott McNulty who did worse. He was our worst predictor with his expectations for iTunes 8.0, a revamped Airport Express, and new displays. I was right down there with my iPhone game sales, ubiquitous computing and Bill-Gates-alike retirement scenario.
So who rocked the keynote? Who was right on the mark? Mike Schramm was "Teh Man"(TM). He called iTunes 7.6, subnotebook with delayed sales, movie rentals, and the Apple TV update.
In second place, Nik called a lot of the same stuff that Mike did but unwisely added Cinema Display updates and Office 2008. Other than that, he practically tied with Mike.
So how did you do? Did you guess the keynote? Let us know in the comments.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/prediction-report-card/#comments - iPhone January update, coming soon to an iTunes near you
Filed under: Macworld, Internet Tools, Software Update, Apple
I don't know about you all, but considering I'm not in the market for a pricey, tiny notebook, and I don't need yet another thing hooked up to my TV, the best news I heard at the Keynote today was about this iPhone "January update" (does that mean there'll be one every month?) coming soon to your iTunes. Included in the free update to iPhone users:
- An updated Maps that will actually find your location automatically by triangulating cell towers (we saw this a while ago), and give you the option to add a pin to the map
- Web Clips, cutouts of web pages that you can attach to an icon sitting right there on the homescreen.
- A customizable homescreen and dock (just hold an icon to get them wiggling, and then move them around as you please), and up to nine homescreen pages total
- The update will also add chapter navigation for iPhone video, and subtitle/audio options as well.
- And though the readers in our IRC channel weren't very impressed with this one, the iPhone will now feature multiple SMS sending.
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The first part of the video was the scene around midnight.Only a dozen or so lost souls braved the moderately chilly temperatures to guarantee a potential spot somewhere within earshot of Steve.
The second part is around 6AM, when the line for the regular passholders went completely around the building. We loves us some keynote, don't we?
UPDATE: Apparently the first part of the video went missing. Probably off to rent movies on iTunes. But you saw the pics.Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/macworld-2008-keynote-line-video/#comments - The Macworld 2008 Keynote Liveblog
Filed under: Macworld, One More Thing
Steve thanks everybody, and we're out! Thanks for joining us. We'll be live at 7pm ET / 4 pm PT with today's talkcast covering all the announcements.
Playing "You've Got A Friend In Me."
"I'll always root against corporations, but not this one." "I actually wrote a big love theme [for Toy Story] but they cut Buzz and Woody's big love scene."
MacBook Air product page is up, as Randy is talking about CNBC and Steve's inherent humanity.
"That was about the toughest act to follow," says Randy. "I once did the David Frost show after the Flying Wallendas, and that was hard."
Wow, Randy is really going edgy with the ethnic comments about the Supreme Court. Scott says "Interesting choice."
Wow, let's have a more downbeat song for this gig, OK Randy? This is not dragging the crowd into a funk or anything, so try to darken it a bit if you could. Sing more about dictators and malaria, thanks big guy.
We're singing about America. Talking, mostly, kinda singing.
Randy is honored to be here. Might have brushed his hair, it's a pretty big room.
Randy Newman! Bingo. "You've got a friend in Apple..."
Hollywood and music... hmm.
We're reviewing now. Time Capsule, iPhone/touch updates, Movie rentals, AppleTV 2, and the skinny laptop. All in 2 weeks, and there are 50 more weeks to go. No one more thing -- but a special treat!
Laptop line includes three machines -- MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air. Very impressive indeed.
Greenpeace lady is squealing, as Steve is now giving an environmental update. Alumnum case, bromide free motherboard.
TV ad takes laptop out of an envelope. That's some interoffice mail for you right there.
$1799. 2 weeks out. Poor Nik! He was ready to buy one.
Three pounds is magnificent. 2 GB RAM standard, 80 GB HD standard.
Battery life 5 hours! Whoof.
Want to install software? New feature: all Macs or PCs in the network that have a CD mounted. Very sneaky, "Scott's MacBook" in screen shot, Scott is excited.
USB powered optical drive. But Steve thinks most people won't need it.
10:20 Smaller 75 watt power adaptor. Has a USB 2 port a micro-DV port, a headphone jack, and it comes with WiFi (n) and Bluetooth.
10:19 Paul Otellini takes the stage, thanks Steve and gives him one of the new tiny chips as a memento.
10 17 Entire motherboard is as long as a pencil, and uses the Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 Ghz standard with 1.8 as an option, if you want. Apple has a great relationship with Intel and they turned to Intel for some help with getting the chip in the MacBook Air. They wanted the Core 2 Duo in the MacBook Air, but they needed the chip to be smaller, and Intel made it 60% smaller, which is crazy.
10:16: How did we fit a Mac in here? Steve is puzzled. They put a 1.8 inch harddrive. 80 gig is standard with an option of 64 gig solid state disk (pricey but fast).
Multitouch trackpad!! Rotate and scale pics, panning. Pinch for zoom.
10:13 Magnetic inch, 13.3" wide screen. Built-in iSight. Black keyboard, full size. Backlit!
The reveal -- it's incredibly thin.
Chris Ullrich said yesterday it fit inside an interoffice envelope -- and that's what's on the screen.
.76" to 0.16 inches thin? Ouch -- that could cut your hands!!!
Apple aiming for 3 pound machine, with better performance, full size keyboard, larger display, higher performance than Sony.
Thinner than Sony TZ, which is 0.8 to 1.2 inches.
A third notebook -- MacBook Air. World's Thinnest notebook.
10:08: Something in the air -- it's a notebook.
10:05 I'll say this for Jim; he's more compelling than Stan Sigman.
10:03 "People want easy access to movies." Homer Simpson slide. iDonut. "This is the coolest idea we've ever heard [movie rentals]."
10:02 First studio for movie rentals was 20th Century Fox. Introducing Jim Gianopulos, Chairman of Fox.
9:59 Clearly this is what AppleTV was meant to be all along. Awesome. And a free upgrade!!! Plus the new price of AppleTV is $229. Shipping in 2 weeks. By the way, credit to Nik for the pictures. Well done!
9:58 The HD skiing podcast was off the hook. Boom! Teton Gravity Research, a guy parachuting off a mountain. Yeesh.
9:58 Oops, no Flickr photo for the user slideshow! Heh.
HD podcasts, HD .Mac videos, all no computer involved.
Renting music videos now.
9:50 We're watching Blades of Glory. That's nice. Now Live Free or Die Hard in HD. So much for that helicopter.
9:46 New interface for AppleTV. "Top Movies." Star Trek has its own header.
9:43 That sound you heard was the HD-DVD coalition lead falling over and hitting his head. Christina says "Where's the DTS sound?" 5.1 Dolby will have to be enough for the rest of us. Buy TV shows, Flickr + .Mac photos all on your AppleTV.
9:42 What if I want to watch on TV? "All of us have tried." AppleTV Take 2! Now with movies. No computer is required, you can rent movies directly. Rent in DVD quality or HD!!!! Big cheers.
9:41 $2.99 to rent library titles, $3.99 for new. Demo time! Can sync movies one at a time to the iPod. Handy. Launches today! International later this year.
9:40 "So what's the deal?" 1000 films at launch in February, 30 day countdown after DVD release. Movies will be watchable immediately on streaming. 30 days to start watching, 24 hours to finish. Transfer to iPod while watching.
9:39 There's crying in the keynote -- not from us, from a nearby baby. Poor kid doesn't like movie rentals, apparently.
9:37 Studios!!! Adding Fox, WB, Paramount, Universal and Sony. Dang. "We have every major studio." All first run films.
9:36 iTunes Movie Rentals! "A better way to provide movies to our customers."
9:36 20 million songs sold on 12/25 on iTunes, 4 B songs total, 125 M TV shows, 7 M movies -- but movies, despite being ahead of everyone else, did not meet expectations.
9:35 Daring Fireball was right about iPod Touch upgrades and the accounting practices.
9:34 What about the iPod touch? Adding Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather. Maps will include WiFi location. Webclips too. $20 upgrade! Whoof.
9:32 Chapter navigation for iPhone videos, and subtitle/audio language options. Available today as a free update for all iPhones. [cheering]
9:31 Skyhook Wireless is providing the location data, via WiFi triangulation, and Google handling the cell tower triangulation. Veddy nice.
9:31 Up to nine home screens. Very cool. Jiggly icons are a little disconcerting though.
9:30 Now Steve has a NYT button on the home screen. Sweet! Now it's time to do the wiggle. All the icons are wobbling! Creepy.
9:28 Webclips demo. Go to Safari on iPhone, going to Google to demo new iGoogle UI. Little "+" button on the browser, lets you add to home screen. Now demoing NYT.
9:27 Demo of multi-recipient SMS. Steve says "Hi."
9:26 Directions to Apple Store on iPhone. No indication of where there are ATMs along the route. Pins for maps available.
9:25 Steve is demoing location in Google Maps. "Zhuuup. There we are." Getting directions back to Apple. No, don't leave yet Steve!!
9:25 Scott admits GearLive was right about 1.1.3, offers to buy Andru Edwards a smoothie.
9:23 SDK coming in 'late February.' New features rolling out! Maps with location for iPhone. Webclips. Customize home screens. SMS multiple recipients. Chapters for video. Karaoke mode! (Lyrics displayable)
9:22: in iPhone's first quarter, RIM had 39% share, iPhone had 19.5% share. Sheesh. If you add the share of the next 3 vendors, just about 20%. That's astonishing. "When Dec. quarter numbers come out, we think we'll have done even better."
9:21 2nd product time... iPhone. Wooo. 200 days since iPhone shipped. 4 million iPhones sold. 20,000 a day. That's a lot of bling. Maybe too much. No, not too much.
9:20 Time Machine ad running. That's a lot of Justin Long, maybe too much.
9:19 Steve mistakenly says 500 MB drive, much giggling. $299/$499 for 500GB/1TB Time Capsules, shipping in Feb.
9:18 If you had "Apple ships a NAS" on bingo, you win. Backup wirelessly to one Time Capsule for all the Macs in your house.
9:18 Companion product to Time Machine! Time Capsule -- a backup appliance, an Airport Extreme with an HD.
9:17 Giggles at PC magazine rave for Leopard. Applause for MS Office 2008. "Last big app to go native on Intel."
9:16 We're quoting Walt Mossberg and David Pogue on Leopard. Woo!
9:15 Four things to talk about today. Leopard: 5M copies shipped. Most successful Mac OS X release ever. Almost 20% of installed base has upgraded -- unprecedented.
9:15 "Thank You."
9:14 Steve is here! Something in the air. We're looking back at 2007. "An awesome year for Apple."
9:14 PC & Mac video! 2007 in review. Terrible year for PC. "PC will copy everything Mac did in 2007."
9:13 lights dimming! Or Scott is having some sort of stroke.9:10 -- VIP and press seating continues. Music is "1234." Boom!
9:08 -- Music is cover of The Smiths "Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before." A theme is emerging.
9:04 -- Nik reports that the general admission crowd is still working its way into the room. Music: Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Hopefully not an omen.
8:56 -- Seen in line: Dan Lyons, Steven Levy. Follow us on Twitter or join the IRC chat to send questions back to the show!
8:54 PT -- We're inside. Media scrum heading for seats. Coldplay on the PA, crowd shots on the monitors. Here with Scott McNulty, John Gruber, John Moltz and a whole lot of press.
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The action starts here shortly before 9 am PT on Tuesday (12 noon ET) -- don't miss it! You'll want the chance to see how on- or off-base our keynote predictions were.
For instant updates on all our Macworld Expo 2008 coverage, you can follow TUAW on Twitter (fastest way: text "FOLLOW TUAW" to 40404 on your mobile phone), or add our Macworld feed to a Pingie subscription. We'll be talkcasting, vlogging and liveblogging all week long.
We've got a gallery of San Francisco scenes and preshow shots, courtesy Mr. Nik Fletcher & Mr. Chris Ullrich, up for your perusal.
If your reload finger gets sprained on Tuesday, you can use the Firefox Reload Every extension to get the page refreshed periodically.Join us over at #tuaw on irc.freenode.net to chat in real time. At 4 pm PT/7 pm ET, we'll have a talkcast.
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Filed under: Macworld
I have a live feed to Mike Rose and Nik Fletcher this morning and they report that the weather is very cold out there this morning. They've been waiting on line with many other patient well-behaved Apple enthusiasts this morning. The Platinum Pass holders are already being let in, cheering as they're given the go-ahead.
10:12 - Nik reports that a few guys came by a while back with free coffee on a rolling cart--not Starbucks and on the sketchy side.
Mike reports that he's spotted Ryan Fass from Computer World, Galen Wood from MacNN, and Sergio from Brazil.
Nik has spotted Isaiah, one of the 3rd party RW plugin devs and an EVDO engineer (who is reassuring him that everyone will have enough bandwidth to liveblog.
10:20: So what are people looking forward to from the Keynote? Galen Wood (MacNN) says that the underdog vote has "everyone back home thinking new MacBook Pros at Macstation... MacBook Air would be cool to see." Other votes from people in line: "My personal wish is a Canadian iPhone", "Subnotebook, iPhone 1.1.3, apple tv merge with Mac mini", "Wimax maybe".
10:25: Positioning update. Nik is inside Moscone while Mike shivers with the general media queue outside.
10:30: Join us over at #tuaw on
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/lineblog-news-from-moscone/#comments - Macworld 2008 Line Report
Filed under: Macworld, Cult of Mac
If you're like me and you love all things Apple, you might be in San Francisco waiting in line for the Steve Jobs keynote. I know I am. At the moment the line to get in is long and getting longer by the minute.
However, people are in good spirits and, according to Mark, my new friend and fellow Apple enthusiast from New Zealand in line with me: "really looking forward to a great show."
Sadly, there is no free wifi to be had and in anticipation of needing my precious Macbook Pro battery for inside, I'm writing this on my iPhone using AT&T's EDGE network. Even though progress is a bit slow, being able to bring you these thoughts like this is one of the major reasons people will line up early in the morning with a big smile on their face ready to experience the next great innovation from Jobs and company.
What will they think of next? Stay tuned for more from us live at the Macworld 2008 keynote.
Update: I've now moved inside and am waiting in the "second line". At least the floor has carpet this year and isn't quite so uncomfortable. Sitting here I've been chatting moe with some of the folks in line. My friend from New Zealand is not only a devoted Apple fan but is one of the few users of the iPhone in his native country.
How, you may ask? He hacked it, of course. From what I can see it works just fine -- just no visual voicemail. In fact, untilo I showed him he didn't even know what he was missing.Permalink | Email this | CommentsGallery: Macworld 2008 Line photos
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/macworld-2008-line-report/#comments - The Keynote Line
Filed under: Macworld
After just over 2 hours in line, we're pleased to bring you the latest photos from the keynote queue line. Already around the block of the Moscone Centre's West Hall, there's a huge number of Apple fans waiting patiently both for Steve Jobs' keynote, and their Starbucks.
Stay tuned as we progress further towards the keynote.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsGallery: 2008 Keynote Line
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/15/the-keynote-line/#comments - Apple Store down
File this under 'news that won't shock anyone,' the Apple Store is currently down. No doubt Apple's web gnomes are quickly putting things in place for the big switch over after Steve's Keynote today. Don't forget that we'll be liveblogging all the fun here as soon as team TUAW settle into our seats at the Keynote.
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