Apple claims to have produced the world's thinnest notebook, but this is apparently not true as the Mitsubishi Pedion maintained a uniform thickness of just 0.72 inches when closed with is slightly smaller than the Macbook Air's 0.76 inches at it's thickest point. This system did how ever only have a 12 inch screen and a 233MHz Pentium MMX CPU, but even still the system did require some custom designed components.
Other notebooks have come close such as a Sony Vaio sub-notebook claim challengers to Apple's Macbook Air claim.
New York Times Columnist and author of "The Missing Manual" series David Progue was able to interview Steve Jobs at the Macworld Expo, after his keynote presentation.
Jobs revealed that the design team at apple went through about 100 prototype designs when creating the Macbook Air, and himself and Ives weren't sure if they could even fit a computer into the form factor they decided on.
Jobs then goes on to discuss, the Amazon Kindle and how its a flawed idea as, no body reads any more, which I personally think is wrong, he states 40% of Americans don't read more than one book a year, so there is still 60% who do, and then theres the rest of the world, okay yes I know the kindle isn't available outside the USA, but if Amazon was to release the Kindle outside the USA I would personally buy one, as it seems like a good idea.
He spoke about Googles Android platform, which Jobs believes will not catch on as it take alot of work to produce a Mobile Phone platform, sort reminiscent of the Palm CEO's claims when Apple unveiled the iPhone.
Now you no longer need a PC or Mac in order to download content for your AppleTV it now supports it via a software upgrade, you can rent and buy content direct from the AppleTV interface, it also comes in at a lower price point now $229 instead of the previous $299.
Existing AppleTV users can download the update for free within the next two weeks.
Films can be rented in either DVD quality or HD + 5.1 Surround Sound.
As rumored by many a Mac news / rumor site, Apple has unveiled the Macbook Air, it features a magnetic latch lid, 1 USB Port, 1 Mini DVI port and a headphones port.
It lacks an optical drive, but it has been announced Apple is developing a program that allows the Macbook Air to take control of a Mac's or PC's Optical drive.
All models feature a 1.8inch hard drive and and 2GB of RAM soldered onto the motherboard, the HDD is a traditional platter system, but a SSD based drive is available for $999.00
Intel is reported as to have shrunk the Core 2 Duo CPU by 60% to make it fit inside the system.
Elgato will release version 3 of it's Mac OS X TV software on tuesday, almost every feature of the suite has been revamped and re-designed, based on EyeTV 2 user feedback, it not features an iTunes-akin interface, and offers an easy to read TV Guide that now occupies the entire screen opposed to a small window with tiny writting.
The software also has WiFi access support allowing you to watch lower resolution versions of program on your iPod touch / iPhone and safari on your other mac's.
