Official MacWorld 2008 Thread of MACBOOK AIR

[Howard Alan Treesong]

omg omg omg omg omg omg

what is it what is it what is it

tell me tell me tell me

[BlueTsunami]

I want to know too. I have over $1000 in ones in my butt waiting to be spent. I also need a laptop. I hope Apple takes dirty monies.

[Tauntaun]

It's a case that air flows through, buy a PC.  /end troll   

[Rman]

omg omg omg omg omg omg

what is it what is it what is it

tell me tell me tell me

Ultra slim notebook is the rumor.  I may or may not have a disc drive.

[abrader]

Where is the iphone re-design?

[Tauntaun]

Are they announcing today?  When's the unveiling?

[Rman]

Where is the iphone re-design?

I doubt it will get re-designed anytime soon.  The form factor is already pretty striking.  The rumors for an upgraded model with 3g support point to spring 2008.

[Rman]

Are they announcing today?  When's the unveiling?

Tomorrow is the official Macworld Keynote. 

Here's the leak.  I don't know if it is legit.

Lots of Macworld Keynote Rumors floating around but this one just about sums them all up and if it’s even remotely true then Steve is going to be pissed and someone is going down hard… The source for this find… Wikipedia! Can also be found here.

MacWorld January 2008 Keynote
Rough Outline; draft 5

Greetings! Welcome to Moscone Center

Quick Overview: iPod/iTunes
- iPod has been extremely profitable for us this holiday season
- Sales figures, market share
- Our new models are doing better than ever
- 3 iPod games released last month accidentally (supposed to be for today)
- Another new game today: Chess
- iTunes doing extremely well (sales figures/market share)
- Today: 30 indie labels releasing their entire catalogs in iTunes Plus
- Many more to follow in the next few months

iPhone
- Best iPod ever
- Sales figures, market share
- Sales beyond our wildest dreams
- Much more than the 1% market share we asked for in January
- Starting today: 8GB $399, 16GB $499
- Four times the memory as original iPhone for the same price
- iPhone is coming to Japan in March with NTT DoCoMo
- SDK is unveiled!

iPhone/iPod Touch SDK
- Apps and Widgets
- Using Cocoa with Objective-C
- Developers submit programs as source code, not executable
- Specify iPhone or both iPhone/Touch (certain features iPhone only)
- Set your own price: Apps $0-$6.99, Widgets $0-$2.99
- Users buy/download in iTunes Wi-Fi Store / iTunes Store (Mac/PC)
- Automatic updating wirelessly or docked

- Demonstration of exporting from XCode 3 to iTunes Store
- Submits source code to Apple for validation (make sure that people aren’t abusing the system, prevent malware and viruses)
- If using microphone or GSM, iPhone only; otherwise, available for both iPhone and iPod Touch
- Apps can be free or up to $6.99; Widgets free or up to $2.99
- Developers recieve 70% of revenue for their products
- Licensed under Apple Mobile Software License
- Can download wirelessly from iTunes Wi-Fi Store or docked to computer from iTunes Store
- Demonstration of wirelessly downloading (and running) the app submitted earlier
- Apps and widgets can be rearranged on front screen; front screen scrolls to show all apps/widgets
- Resubmit updated versions of apps; when added to store, iPhone/Touch will ask you to update it next time you use it (or next time you dock the iPhone/Touch)
- Developers can get their hands on a beta version of the SDK tomorrow on ADC and start developing; final version due early February
- iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch Software update 1.3 allowing for Apps mid-February

Example apps/widgets
Apps:
- iChat (coming with 1.3 update) (AIM, Jabber/Google Talk)
– Quick demonstration
- RSS Feed Reader (coming with 1.3 update) (read feeds online or off)
- One of our partners made something cool: Last.fm (scrobble tracks played on iPhone/touch wirelessly without syncing w/ computer)
Widgets:
- Dictionary (coming with 1.3 update) (quickly look up words, translate, use wikipedia)
– Quick demonstration
- Yellow/White Book (coming with 1.3 update) (search for contacts, add them to your address book directly from the app, will sync back with address book on your Mac/PC)
- Sports Ticker (coming with 1.3 update) (choose your sports and teams, get updates on their progress)
- Another partner: Twitter (update your Twitter on the fly, see your friends tweets)

- Try these out on the show floor today

Mac
- Sales are getting better and better every day
- Hardware sales figures/market share
- Leopard released October; doing spectacularly
- Sales figures/market share
- Selling extremely well; estimated to overtake Tiger in terms of marketshare by June if you only count the new Macs that come with it preinstalled; even quicker if you include boxed copies
- 10.5.2 out today - many bug fixes, also addressing a lot of issues and complaints users had such as list view with stacks and certain HIG non-compliance issues

New MacBooks!
- What would MacWorld be without a new Mac? (sorry about last year)
- Completely redesigned MacBook
- Completely aluminum body like MacBook Pro
- 13″ screen at 1440×900
- Two colors: Black and Silver
- Looks gorgeous at 0.8″ thin
- A major feat of engineering - patents abound
- DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed
- New on all notebooks and iMac: iSight HD (720p)
- New backlit keyboard based on recent Apple Keyboard revisions (keys slightly lighter than that of laptop casing, colorwise)
- New matching MagSafe cable (Aluminum ends, cord color matches that of keyboard)
- New matching Apple Remote (slightly smaller with larger overall buttons)
- Intel GMA X3100 graphics
- 3 models

- Completely phasing out the combo drive on all product lines today
- BTO models can upgrade all the way to 2.6GHz/4GB Memory/320GB hard drive
- 4.5 hours of battery life
- Starting at $1199

Product Refreshes
- Refreshing Mac Pro and Mac mini today
- Mac Pro now with Penryn!
- Base model 2×2.8GHz dual-core/1GB/NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB/250GB(1×250GB)/1×16x double-layer SuperDrive
- Upgradeable to 2×3.2GHz quad-core/16GB/NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB/4TB(4×1TB)/2×16x double-layer SuperDrives
- Starting at $2,499
- Mac mini gets slight speed bumps and double-layer SuperDrive in all models
- Base model 2.0GHz IC2D/1GB/100GB
- BTO Upgradeable to 2.4GHz IC2D/4GB/320GB
- Starting at $599

One More Thing
- Been brewing for a while
- YouTube’s been in Apple TV and iPhone/iPod touch: now it’s in iTunes
- Download YouTube videos straight to iTunes or from iPhone/iPod Touch for later offline viewing (sync back to computer)
- Coming in iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch 1.3 updates

[Howard Alan Treesong]

interesting leak. I hope at least the part about indie labels and iTunes plus are true. I mostly get my shit from amazon these days for DRM-free, tho. fuck AAC

[FlameOfCallandor]

Digg is saying that leak is fake.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Also, the macbook air is supposed to be competitively priced. Costing more than the current macbook and being less powerful does not make it very competitive.

[TVC15]

Digg is saying that leak is fake.

Yeah, if that were real, that would be too much good stuff to be true.  I can believe two or three megatons, but there's like an OMG in every category there.

[CurseoftheGods]

iSight HD (720p)? Not going to happen. That list is fake.

[TVC15]

iSight HD (720p)? Not going to happen. That list is fake.

That set off some flags here, but I don't really follow webcam tech so I didn't mention it. 

[TVC15]

PHIL COLLINS AT MACWORLD!  AND HE'S GONNA BE MURDERING PEOPLE AND THROWING THEM OFF BOATS

[Howard Alan Treesong]

spoiler: it's my boner

[bud]

does it float

[Howard Alan Treesong]

no, but it blends

[T234]

LOL Macs.

[TVC15]

They need to bring back the mofuckin wallstreet.  Sexiest laptop EVER

[y2kev]

Digg is saying that leak is fake.

Yeah, if that were real, that would be too much good stuff to be true.  I can believe two or three megatons, but there's like an OMG in every category there.

Really? I was kinda disappointed. I really want a subcompact. New MacBooks is neat, but it looks like a lot of sales and then assorted iPhone stuff...and no iTunes movie rentals. :\

[CurseoftheGods]

LOL Macs.

Winners Use Macs™

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[TakingBackSunday]

I'm getting a MacBook sometime in June, hope they got some cool shit coming up

[T234]

LOL Macs.

Winners Use Macs™

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Gamers Use PCs™

[bork]

LOL Macs.

Winners Use Macs™

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Gamers Use PCs™

REAL Gamers Use Consoles™. 

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I don't know how good it is, but isn't the whole Mac gaming = lolz thing a thing of the past now, what with Boot Camp and all?  Plus major games like WoW and UTIII are on Mac anyway.

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[T234]

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It still involves Windows. Any computer without a working version of Warsow fails.

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[FlameOfCallandor]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/breaking-macboo.html

[ferrarimanf355]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/breaking-macboo.html

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My sister is so going to be pissed...

[FlameOfCallandor]

Why? It's probably gonna be pretty expensive even for a mac.

[Tauntaun]

Gamers Use PCs™

BFT! 

[ferrarimanf355]

Why? It's probably gonna be pretty expensive even for a mac.

She bought a MacBook a few months ago... 

[ferrarimanf355]

Did the Internet go down all of a sudden? 

[bud]

http://live.gizmodo.com/

omg ±30 mins left

[Tauntaun]

PHIL COLLINS AT MACWORLD!  AND HE'S GONNA BE MURDERING PEOPLE AND THROWING THEM OFF BOATS

"Well, I mean, what else would you expect?"

[ferrarimanf355]

http://live.gizmodo.com/

omg ±30 mins left

Does that auto-refresh?

[Rman]

They need to bring back the mofuckin wallstreet.  Sexiest laptop EVER

Wall Street Powerbook 

[Rman]

The Apple TV Take 2 looks very promising. 

[abrader]

[abrader]

UPDATE  THE STORE NOW

I AM BUYING MACBOOK AIR TODAY.

[abrader]

[bud]

jesus

[abrader]

ok - bring the store back up so i can order@

[bud]

omg

[demi]

i bet that does some killer word processing

[abrader]

[bud]

$1799

[abrader]

perfect price - i buy as soon as store.apple.com is back.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Holy shit thats fucking expensive.

[abrader]

Really?

[The Fake Shemp]

Why would you need that?

[Van Cruncheon]

to fill his dark soul with LIIIIIIIIIGHT

[demi]

Did he turn it on at all? It probably overheats after prolonged use

[FlameOfCallandor]

I hear it doubles as aluminum foil.

[abrader]

Why would you need that?

I have been using the same G4 powerbook for like 3-4 years.

Time for a new book!

[Rman]

The solid state drive is $999

[abrader]

Now when I show up for a meeting I can slide my computer out of a manilla envelope

much thinner notebook bag - here I come!

[abrader]

I preordered the 1.5 HDD model.....

Now the anxiety of waiting begins.

I will give my G4 Powerbook to my girlfriend for school.

[cloudwalking]

if i had the money, i'd buy the $3,098 model without hesitation.

[hyp]

the iphone updates sound kinda shitty.  was hoping for something better.    they really need to get the third party development tools out STAT.

[BlueTsunami]

I want it but its too eeeeexxpeennnsssiiiiveeeeee