Apple's assorted basket of announcements

It would be tough to beat last year's announcement of the iPhone, yes, but hey. Jobs did his best, though most announcements were already anticipated.

The biggest (or slimmest) would be "the world's thinnest notebook", the MacBook Air.

It's a cool notebook, yeah. No room for a cd drive of course, but who needs it? They sell an external. That didn't lessen the price any, unfortunately. Why should it? It's the world's thinnest notebook, they don't have to cut the consumer a break. It does have a trackpad that acts just like the iPhone and iPod touch, which is one of my favorite features. It also comes with 2gb of RAM, and has an available 64mb solid state drive. Otherwise you get a regular 80mb drive that spins at a measly 4800rpm.

This regular model puts you at $1799.
Go up to the solid state drive and to 1.8GHz (from 1.6) and swallow a $3098 price point.


Lame. Next biggest (bigger), would be the new iTunes movie rentals. Netflix took some defensive action prior to the announcement, but their real competitor is Blockbuster at this time.


Joining these "major" announcements were the following:

iTunes Digital Copy
New software for Apple TV
Software upgrade for iPod touch
iPhone software update
Time Capsule - wireless backup

Late.

sgh