Apple News

Being the eternal mac nerd I am I was pretty excited about the new announcements on Tuesday at Macworld (Time Capsule, Macbook Air, Apple TV, iPod Touch update). Although I’m still holding out on an iPhone, once the 3rd party apps start appearing that’ll probably tip me over the edge. Most of the iPhone owners I know rave about them as laptop replacements. I get that but I do alot of typing and presentations so not for that but anything’s gotta be better than my N95 (tries to do everything, does nothing particularly well). This leaves me thinking about a new lighter laptop which I can take on the bike without breaking my back. The Macbook Air looks good but for £1199? Brilliantly designed but massively underspecc’d machine? No thanks. Below is what I consider exciting…. £189 on ebuyer. Yes that’s right. £189. I had a go the other day, seriously cute. Performance isn’t great and you’d probably have to run linux or XP but for that price at that size? People have hacked OS X onto it but it’s slow. What would be better is if someone could hack the iPhone OS to stick on it. Yeah I know there’d be interface problems but some form of Mac OS X lite? That would very very cool…… My favourite feature of Leopard is Back to my Mac. With this I can use my laptop to control my desktop at home remotely via wireless. This is where Apple is heading and it’s an amazing idea. Why should I worry about the speed and hard drive size when all it is is a remote for my Mac at home? Anyway, as per normal I’ll probably sit like a transfixed rabbit staring into car headlights for a few months and then realise that actually I don’t need any of the above…… Hopefully. One last point. Apple TV 2. I like it. I want one. $219 or £199 in the UK and no movie downloads in the UK. Hmmmm.