MacWorld 2008
Well, the Jobs Keynote of the 2008 MacWorld has been and gone, a few things have been announced. Various iPhone odds and sods, not terribly interesting unless you’ve got an iPhone.
iTunes is to be getting movie rentals, I could get excited about that but I imagine it’ll go roughly the same way as iTunes TV series with a paltry joke of a selection available to anyone not in the US. I’d almost go so far as to say Apple haven’t launched TV on iTunes outside the US, though they’d argue differently.
The MacBook Air is obviously quite an achievement what with Intel managing to shrink their Core2 processors down by incredible amounts. It would be nice to see and play with one, but I doubt I’ll be running anywhere to go and get one. I suspect, though I can’t verify it at the moment, that the MBA has a similarly pathetic graphics card so its possibly no more useful than a PDA.
With all those non events we were at least given a good product to drool over, the Time Capsule. Time Capsule is a 802.11n capable wireless networked hard drive which is designed to seamlessly integrate with Time Machine.
I can wholeheartedly say, I want one. I anticipate getting one direct from the Apple Store on Regent Street as soon as they become available.