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  1. MacWorld 2009 updates:

    Software

    iLife '09 will be released for $US129 or pre-installed on all new Macs sold in 2009. iWork.com has been announced as an online service to share documents.







    Hardware:

    New 17'' MacBook Pro unibody:

    - 1920x1200, 700:1 contrast ratio, with matte option
    - 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo and upgrades to 2.93GHz
    - 320GB 5400RPM HDD or 7200RPM, 128GB and 256GB SSD drives available
    - NVIDIA 9600M GT GDDR3 dedicated (512MB) or 9400M (256MB) DDR3 shared
    - 4GB RAM (2x1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable to 8GB)
    - 8-hour battery life on 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo-based MacBook
    - three USB2.0 ports, Firewire 800 and usual other connectivity





    iTunes Store / App Store

    All record labels (Warner, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI as well as thousands of other independents) will offer all tracks on the iTunes Store as 256Kbps DRM-free AAC files by the end of Q1 2009. Those with iPhone 3G can now download songs over-the-air.

    It was also announced the App Store has over 10 000 apps available for varying prices for iPhone and iPod touch.
  2. ^^^




  4. Was hoping for that budget laptop. Still not payin 700 for the standard MacBook (even though it would probably be worth it). Ill keep waiting. . . .
  5. I know, I know. No need to say.

    Was hoping for that budget laptop. Still not payin 700 for the standard MacBook (even though it would probably be worth it). Ill keep waiting. . . .


    ...and waiting, waiting...you're wasting your time.

    There should be some new Mac Mini models coming in soon, which one is supposed to have 1TB drive space. Chuck in a TV tuner and DAB radio and you'll have a real nice media centre.


  6. Likely. Apple don't do cheap prices really.


  8. Sure they do! They announced that they're lowering some of the prices of their songs to .69 cents!


  11. Its usually the headine figures that sell laptops though. . . RAM, hard drive capacity, screen size and price. Apples basic laptops don't have an advantage in any of theese, even though they are likely to be the better machine as a whole.
  12. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    Its usually the headine figures that sell laptops though. . . RAM, hard drive capacity, screen size and price. Apples basic laptops don't have an advantage in any of theese, even though they are likely to be the better machine as a whole.


    Apple's machines are generally nice-build, but if you want to expand it or tweak it, what is there to expand or add, internally? RAM, hard drive, video card? You can't upgrade your motherboard, swap out the CPU or upgrade your power supply to accomodate the higher requirements of a video card, if I wanted to.

    CPU speed no longer sells a laptop by itself, as it did when 98 and XP were first on the market - and the most-adopted operating systems in the world. It has to be complimented by at least one or all of those figures. I'd personally be looking for power supply rating in that features list as well as graphics performance.

    Look at these little netbooks coming through. A decent configuration (1.6GHz AMD / Intel, 1GB RAM, 160GB SSD, 10'' screen), but nobody will touch them, and you're told the reason is because Linux is there, and Linux is useless to most, as is the thing at the moment. Most of those people jump on the media bandwagon and listen to hopeless salespeople about it. I would bet your bottom dollar that 80% of those have never been exposed to Ubuntu or Linux or any of the other various distros around, in any way they'd recognise. We're all exposed to it every day through various means - Unix is on bank teller machines, your fax machine, your modem...you name it.

    Now if Foobar was available natively for Linux, I would jump straight to it. It has everything I want: Amarok, Firefox, OpenOffice, MythTV - that's all that's keeping me from changing from Windows. But because it's not open-source, it would have a harder time getting prominence.

    I am thinking of a netbook, as I'm liking how they've come about in the last year, but I haven't seen one I've been overly impressed with.
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