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MacWorld Expo 2008 has just finished. The main event for this keynote is “Macbook Air“, another version for macbook line. It is targeted mainly for business/traveling person. It is only 3 pounds and 0.16 to 0.76 inch of sleek, sturdy anodized aluminum. By the way, the naming seems to related to “Nike Air” =.=!!!

This so-called ultra-portable is still 13.3″, same like his bro (macbook). It has one new technology apart of his slimmest. The technology is the trackpad, which is now multi-touch trackpad. It uses the similar technology as iPod Touch or iPhone. Zooming by pinch gesture and etc. Since it is ultra slim, so it surely does not have optical drive. Wait.. There’s one new technology. It allow to “borrow” other machines’ optical drive via wifi, which called “Remote Disc” feature. The machine must install the software first from Leopard DVD, even normal machines with winxp or vista works as well. Battery life can stand up to 5hours

Sadly, only got one USB port. No firewire, No LAN. Just 3 ports, one USB, one headset jack and one micro-DVI. For the price? Yea.. It is USD1799 which is 1.6Ghz Core2Duo (Apple purposely ask Intel to make the processor smaller of 60%), 2Gb DDR2 RAM (build onboard, so CANNOT upgrade) and 80Gb HDD. Apple offer 1.8Ghz speed for the processor and 64Gb SSD (flash memory drive) for a double price. USD3k+.

Apart of this, there also has new product which is Time Capsule. Basically it is Airport Extreme Base with HDD. It allow to backup your data via wifi with Time Machine support.

Few new applications for iPhone and iPod Touch. And finally. SDK for iPhone coming this late Feb.

Based on latest MacRumors, it is said to have LED backlit Macbook coming soon, probably during the Macworld Expo 2008 on middle of January 2008. LED backlit will be 50% lighter and save more battery life as well. It is rumored that it will be in aluminum casing like his bro, macbook pro and slimmer than before.

The sources disclosed that Nano-Op’s LED notebook BLU [backlight units] shipments in November were only about 10,000 units, but Apple orders are expected drive up shipments to over 90,000 units in December.

Personally, I have seen the new 15″ macbook pro during the time that I installing “upgrade” Leopard and some softwares for the customer. The new 15″ is using LED backlit. The downside is the upper top corners of the screen have the “extra” bright light. It pretty annoys me if I was the user. If you are smart, you should know the answer. Those two “extra” bright light is the LED. I’m not so sure how Apple “dare” to build it that way or originally it is made to be like this way and hopefully it fix it :roll:

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Lately, I was surfing at Malaysian most popular forum and found out of this low-end budget PC or Tablet for everyone or makcik .

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Yesterday afternoon, I just went to ITFusion which behind HSBC building and bought an iPhone.

iPhone? Yeap… Only in my dream. Actually this iPhone is belong to Frost, one of the staff from ITFusion. I just have a look on the iPhone, it feels darn good. The touch technology really amazing and pretty sensitive. It’s pretty “cool” gadget to own one

Back to my topic, I bought white macbook, with 120GB hdd space and 1Gb ram. It is the latest revision, with Santa Rosa Platform and Intel X3100 graphic chip. Too bad, there ain’t any good promotion or freebies when I buy. The only freebies are free upgrade to 1.5GB ram and waist protector for macbook (mabby ) In addition, I bought a protector cover (orange) worth Rm150. Yea.. I know, it pretty pricey. Do I have a choice?

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It’s about time, Steve. X3100 driver secretly appeared in final Leopard (10.5), but where is macbook with GMA X3100? Macbook secretly gets update just few hours ago and as well as his older brother, Macbook Pro, speed bump from 2.4Ghz to 2.6Ghz. Macbook finally gets the latest goodies from his older brother, with Santa Rosa platform and preloaded with Leopard(10.5).

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+Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 by 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors

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PS: Yahoo.. I’m going have my first mac machine, macbook.