MW08: The UltraConservative SteveNote
Keynote over and I think I was pretty spot on with the MBNano - äh Air. 1,6 Ghz, No Tablet, 5 hours battery life, no FunkStrom - sadly - otherwise "thinnest" notebook on the market - great - pricey - not great. Its geared toward executives, those that actually show off with their macs, those who need a mac to work on will choose one of the other two options.
Only "surprise" was that the trackpad is now "multitouch" which it of course already is - its just a software hack as the trackpad on all MacBooks already recognize a second finger. So I see this coming - at least via a hack - also to the other Books in the line - and I think its sweet but ultraconservative of Apple to go down that route - but this is how they are nowadays. I still hope that the developers catch on and put multitouch gestures in their apps.
AppleTV I was right - no mouse, no new iApp.
What I found great about todays keynote:
A company admitting they made a mistake (Apple TV 1.0) and saying exactly how they combat that mistake - it was very well presented and made sense.
Movie Rentals - ja we want to rent movies and ja you are in the ballpark pricewise - in the upper ballpark but you know you wouldnīt be apple if you wouldnīt. Signing all Major Hollywood studios must have cost some sweat. I say its a success on their hand - finally no forgetting of bringing back a DVD (poor DVD rental places). Of course there needs to be IndyMovies somewhere for a bit cheaper as SOON as possible because your early adopters are more the people renting Indy Movies then the Hollycrap.
what i didnīt like:
A overpriced basestation with a harddrive inside - not even a freaking raid 1.
Conservative Apple goes the save route - donīt want another cube do we?
I am not sure if the MacBookNano will sell its one of those products in between that noone really cares for - only Higherups with lots of dough would love this - but seriously 1.6Ghz in 2008? I donīt like it and I also donīt like the form somehow...
Generally -> Yawn.. but lots of dough coming towards Apple in 2008 anyways.