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MacBook Air Appreciation

Sometime back, I wrote why Apple’s newest portable machine MacBook Air won’t quite take flight yet. A lot of people told me that, especially for someone who is usually ridiculously enthusiastic about anything remotely related to Macs, I was being too harsh on Apple. They said that all my criticisms weren’t merited. Nate even commented on that article telling me that I might have …

Why the MacBook Air won’t Take Flight. Yet.

Steve Jobs drew this year’s MacWorld keynote address to a close by pulling Apple’s latest portable offering out of a standard letter envelope: the MacBook Air. But whispers around the Mac community seem to cast doubt on whether the ultra-portable will be ably to fly at all.

Mac pundits had predicted an ultra-portable would be introduced to fill the gap between the highly popular consumer-level MacBook and the pro-level MacBook Pro. …

MacWorld 2008 Roundup (Posted Live)

Macworld San Francisco, the Christmas of all Mac and Apple fans, will begin in one minute! Steve Jobs (aka Santa) is due to kick it off with his Stevenote, starting the year (it’s just only beginning) with details, upgrades and, most of all, new products!

Here are live updates (all times PST, according to timeanddate.com):

8:59am: Abhishek and I have gotten cozy at MacRumorsLive and at MacObserver’s Live Coverage. Rumor has a new 3G iPhone and …

Jive (verb): Design and Conquer

In yesterday’s article about the upcoming organic web revolution, I mentioned that Apple “jived” the iPod:
Apple didn’t invent digital audio players; they ‘jived’ it (as in gave it the Jonathan Ive treatment). The concept of widgets didn’t come from Apple, but it wasn’t until the release of Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ that it really took off. Microsoft followed, then Yahoo! and now even Google lets you create little self-contained apps …

Organic Web Revolution: iPod touch and $399 iPhones

 
Apple, in yesterday’s event, announced two very interesting things: one, new and updated iPods and two, a $200 price cut on the 8GB iPhone. The 4GB iPhone is no more, but will be available till stocks last for just $299. Some are very bitter at Apple for pulling an iMacG5EOL on them, some are insanely happy that they can now afford the ‘coolest’ phone ever created and Apple itself, I suppose, is happiest …

iPhone: End of Humanity

It’s now pretty much common knowledge that — just like in the Terminator movies — the human race will (mostly) die in an epic, grande battle between man and machine. Defeated by our own creations. E M Forster warned us. So did Isaac Asimov. But while they got the machines-obliterating-all-of-humanity bit right, I don’t think they quite figured how exactly it would happen. So I’ll tell you. And yes, it involves the …

iPhone, 3 days to revolution

We’re three days away from the launch of Apple’s great iPhone, and the excitement’s peaking. Apple and AT&T (previously Cingular) are now disclosing more details about the mysterious phone (that also happens to be a widescreen iPod and an Internet communicator), including three service plans, starting $59.99 (all of which include unlimited data and Visual Voicemail) and the ability to activate the phone through iTunes (from your home if you …

Pre-WWDC ‘07, ZFS, Leopard

Steve Jobs will, in less than thirty minutes, officially kick-off this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. We already know that this year’s conference will focus primarily on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a working beta of which Apple has promised developer attendees will get to take home. Jobs has already revealed major features — Time Machine, Spaces, Core Animation — that will make it into October’s release, but judging by the …