Jan 15


Oh, my! It happened! Just like last year, Steve Jobs had a very interesting presentation in the opening day of the MacWorld Expo, and... no, "interesting" is not right. For me, last year's keynote was interesting, because this year's is much more. While the iPhone wasn't quite the best mobile in the world at that time, it managed to set a trend, and now, we got something that really takes your breath away: the MacBook Air, the thinnest laptop in the world!

MacBook Air

<-250x250 Square - right->Before getting to the Air, I have to tell you some of the more important things Steve revealed to the public, such as iPhone sales. According to Apple's CEO, they have sold 4 million iPhones so far, which means about 20,000 daily. Not bad at all, I must say, not bad at all! In the US, the iPhone "garnered almost 20 percent marketshare of smartphone market", according to Jobs(nice one, saying "20 percent of the smartphone market", and not "x percent of the mobile phone market"-that would have been more interesting to know, but I am sure it's no secret, but we'll leave it aside for now).


I'll leave "Apple TV take 2"(another big thing announced by Steve Jobs in his keynote) aside now, and get straight to what gave me a big headache today - the MacBook Air. Why? Because I love it already and I couldn't stop staring at it, without any brilliant thought on what to write about it, that's why! I don't have plans on buying one anytime soon, but the MacBook Air looks great, and I will only say a few things about it...

Pricing starts at $1799, it doesn't have an optical drive, comes with the advanced WiFi 802.11n and BlueTooth 2.1, a custom-made tiny Intel Core 2 Duo CPU at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, and its battery life is estimated to 5 hours. As you can see above, the keyboard is a full-size one, as well as the trackpad. The 13.3" widescreen display and the iSight should also sound great, but best of all - it's only 0.4-1.94 cm thin, with a weight of less than 1.5kg!

The world’s most thin laptop from Apple, the MacBook Air

Since I could write about this new laptop until next morning, I will stop here. After all, the official page is already up, as you probably expected already, so feel free to visit it and share your opinion with us. What do you think - there's already a winner in the "best laptop of 2008" category, or we have to wait and see?
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Jan 08


I know it may sound a bit too much, but when looking back at the previous Mac Pro, there is only one word to describe the performance of the brand new Mac Pro, introduced earlier today:"insane". Why would I use such a radical word? Here you have the reasons...
Mac Pro

The picture above doesn't look that impressive, isn't it? Well, don't expect an Alienware-like design for the Mac Pro, because it looks pretty good the way it is too, but let's leave the aesthetics aside and get down to business: 8 CPU cores, up to 4TB of internal storage, and a price for the standard configuration starting at "only" $2,799.

To get things lined up properly, I have to tell you that the new Mac Pro uses Penryn-based Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors running at speeds up to 3.2GHz, with 12MB of L2 cache per CPU, so you will get two quad-core processors and a total of 24MB of L2 cache, while the dual-independent 1600MHz front side buses will carry data to and from up to 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM memory. According to Apple, the above should lead to an impressive 61 percent increase in memory throughput, compared to the "old" Mac Pro.

The standard graphics card included is an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of video memory, but you can install up to four graphics cards and use no less than 8 30 inch displays, in this case...

Did you have enough? Well, my head hurts. I feel like my 3-months old dual core system is completely outdated already, but that's life... so if you want to get your hands on "the most powerful Mac ever", as Apple says, go to this page. Oh! One more thing - don't forget to prepare those 2,799 bucks...
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