Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Thoughts on MacWorld 2008's keynote

The Apple TV upgrade is good. I like that I can rent movies from iTunes. Although I would like a longer 'watch-time', 24 hours isn't long enough. Come up give us at least 48 hours or, preferably, 5 days. I would like to be able to rent a movie, put it on an iPod and take it on a weekend trip and let my kids watch it multiple times anytime during the trip. Blockbuster is better because no matter what the allowed rental time is (1 day or 5), I could choose to keep it longer and pay a small late fee... its my choice.

The iPhone software upgrade it good. Nothing to write home about.

The Macbook Air.. being an Apple fan, I want to like it... but I don't. When I heard rumors about a thin Macbook, I pictured it being a replacement (ie. next version) of the Macbook. I have a Macbook, I looked at mine and imagined it about as thin as an iPhone with the 3/4" bezel around the 13" LCD shrunk down to maybe 1/4". Now that would be a nice upgrade.

But instead Apple kept the Macbook unchanged deciding instead to add a new model to the lineup, the Macbook Air. And they decided to price it between the Macbook and the Pro. Not good. If they wanted to make a new (third) model, they should have named it Macbook Nano and priced it below the Macbook. Something around $600 would sell great, i think. No one cares about the lame multitouch pad and the 'full sized' keyboard. People like small things, like the Asus Eeee PC. The tiny Asus linux-based laptops are selling like hot cakes. I was hoping for an Applefied version of it.... take a look at this picture (the Asus Eee PC compared to the Macbook) and try to imagine how cool it would have been if Apple had announced something like it today!

By the way... The Asus Eeee PC sells for only $399. Apple could have added $200 more worth of hardware coolness to it and sold it for $599 ... that would have made for an awesome keynote.

 




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