New Apple products today...

[ukaskew]

So far:


New iPod Touch software, includes mail, maps, notes $20 to upgrade.
Wonder when we will see this in the UK?

iTunes movie rentals (USA only at present $3/$4 for 24hrs.)
Any sort of movies would be nice in the UK

20th Century Fox DVD's Rip to ipods using itunes.
That will be a US only agreement they've signed then

Seriously, iTunes is soooooo poor here compared to what they get in the US. An iPod Touch actually makes a certain amount of sense over there, but here all I can officially get is a few TV shows costing far more than the DVD equivalent and video Podcasts.

 

[Mattieuk]

No good for me. I'd lose the little fucker

 

[McBunny]

great a laptop that fits in an envelope just what i always wanted woop (note extreme sarcasm)

 

[Tom]

So far:


New iPod Touch software, includes mail, maps, notes $20 to upgrade.
Wonder when we will see this in the UK?

iTunes movie rentals (USA only at present $3/$4 for 24hrs.)
Any sort of movies would be nice in the UK

20th Century Fox DVD's Rip to ipods using itunes.
That will be a US only agreement they've signed then

Seriously, iTunes is soooooo poor here compared to what they get in the US. An iPod Touch actually makes a certain amount of sense over there, but here all I can officially get is a few TV shows costing far more than the DVD equivalent and video Podcasts.

I have a US account, so im not bothered.
Its easy enough to do.

 

[Tom]

Please Please make that trackpad work on my macbook.

 

[Cookie]

So it was a sub notebook then?

*strokes eee pc*

 

[McBunny]

no way is that worth $1800

 

[Tom]

Nah you are right, cool though.
1 usb port is sucky.

I want that trackpad!!

 

[McBunny]

its cool but a it will get lost and b why didnt they intigrate a phone in it would only be slightly larger than an iphone

 

[Cookie]

Macbook Air is such a stupid name..

 

[Mattieuk]

Its going to be a pricey envelope when Apple convert $ to £. I'm guessing with optical drive you'll be looking at £1250 - £1400

 

[Cookie]

In Middlesborough, that'd buy you a house!

 

[FiDoDiDo]

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

 

[McBunny]

Its going to be a pricey envelope when Apple convert $ to £. I'm guessing with optical drive you'll be looking at £1250 - £1400

id say £1199 for the 1.6 and £2028 for the 1.8

 

[Tom]

LOL.

 

[ukaskew]

I have a US account, so im not bothered.
Its easy enough to do.

Do you not need a US billing address that matches the billing address on your card? A quick web search shows that plenty of people would like to do it but haven't been able to, so whilst you're not bothered it would be nice for the other 99.9% of UK iTunes users if we got some good video content.

 

[Tom]

I agree.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Its going to be a pricey envelope when Apple convert $ to £. I'm guessing with optical drive you'll be looking at £1250 - £1400

id say £1199 for the 1.6 and £2028 for the 1.8

Starts at £1.199, just seen on the Apple site. The UK store is down for me currently.

 

[mark_s]

Ridiculous. For that price, I'd buy two Dells of better spec, and throw one at an apple snob.

 

[Rasclart]

Apple haters

Apple FTW

 

[timmmah]

Hang on, Macbook Air doesnt have an optical drive!! That's s**t!

 

[Daz]

Hang on, Macbook Air doesnt have an optical drive!! That's s**t!

That's how an ultraportable should be.

It does have a superdrive USB option, and remote optical media support

I don't have a built in optical drive on this laptop, but then, the only time I've used it is to install the OS.. I just don't use one on a laptop!

 

[Dansta]

WTF is a hard state drive?

 

[2thumbs]

WTF is a hard state drive?

It doesn't move.

A typical hard drive has a spindle and a motor which means longer seek times and is less "bomb-proof"

 

[FiDoDiDo]

WTF is a hard state drive?

You mean solid state...it's a hard drive the doesn't have any moving parts, making it quicker.

 

[timmmah]

So what mac products do you own Daz? You always seem to bigging up Apple!

 

[J273]

I was going to get one of these since returning my macbook back last month.

Not sure now though especially at that price

Anyone else gonna get one?

 

[timmmah]

I was going to get one of these since returning my macbook back last month.

Not sure now though especially at that price

Anyone else gonna get one?

I personally cant justify the price difference between the 2 Macbook Air's. £800 increase just for a bit extra processing power and a bit extra disk space. You could buy an iMac as well for that price difference

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Well I'm happy iTunes has just updated to version 7.6 and Windows 64 bit lets you use your iPhone and iPod Touch on it now

 

[Fagan]

And they release this 2 weeks after I buy my macbook.

Brilliant

 

[Dansta]

I was going to get one of these since returning my macbook back last month.

Not sure now though especially at that price

Anyone else gonna get one?

I personally cant justify the price difference between the 2 Macbook Air's. £800 increase just for a bit extra processing power and a bit extra disk space. You could buy an iMac as well for that price difference

lol, its actually LESS disk space for the more expensive one.

 

[The Hoff]

WTF is a hard state drive?

You mean solid state...it's a hard drive the doesn't have any moving parts, making it quicker.

The biggest point is:

1 - Improved battery life.
2 - Less heat

Solid state drives aren't currently (last time I looked) any quicker performing real world tasks than SATA based devices, and indeed last time I looked were considerably slower.

 

[timmmah]

I personally cant justify the price difference between the 2 Macbook Air's. £800 increase just for a bit extra processing power and a bit extra disk space. You could buy an iMac as well for that price difference

lol, its actually LESS disk space for the more expensive one.

OMG.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

You mean solid state...it's a hard drive the doesn't have any moving parts, making it quicker.

The biggest point is:

1 - Improved battery life.
2 - Less heat

Solid state drives aren't currently (last time I looked) any quicker performing real world tasks than SATA based devices, and indeed last time I looked were considerably slower.

I thought they were meant to be quite a bit quicker but not seen stats on it. Read a document on the seek times being quick though, particularly the start up due to it not needing to spin a disk.

 

[The Hoff]

I thought they were meant to be quite a bit quicker but not seen stats on it. Read a document on the seek times being quick though, particularly the start up due to it not needing to spin a disk.

The seek times are indeed very quick, but that isn't the problem with them it's the read/write speeds which are poor.

 

[Mike_182]

I thought they were meant to be quite a bit quicker but not seen stats on it. Read a document on the seek times being quick though, particularly the start up due to it not needing to spin a disk.

The seek times are indeed very quick, but that isn't the problem with them it's the read/write speeds which are poor.

Recently moved to a new technology which blows the spindle-based drives away.

 

[The Hoff]

Ah right, are these on the affordable models or the £500 drives?

 

[Clellandmc]

You mean solid state...it's a hard drive the doesn't have any moving parts, making it quicker.

The biggest point is:

1 - Improved battery life.
2 - Less heat

Solid state drives aren't currently (last time I looked) any quicker performing real world tasks than SATA based devices, and indeed last time I looked were considerably slower.

Boot time may be quicker but as stated, that's about all.

Updated iTunes, so iPod Touch now works, at last some music on my touch!
Not going near the firmware for my ipt :nono:

Mackbook Air (stupid name) looks cool, but too expensive for me I think....

 

[ukaskew]

iPod Touch news is kick in the teeth for current owners, £12.99 for Mail, Stocks, Weather, Maps and Notes, however all new iPod Touch will be shipped with the functionality built in at no extra cost.

Also got a lovely 1.1.3 update which appears to add 165MB of largely useless functionality for UK users (movie rentals)

 

[Rich]

Updated to the new itunes and updated the firmware on the touch earlier. Won't be buying the £12.99 apps as I will wait till I can jailbreak my phone to 1.1.3 and get them on there.