I’ll take one of everything.
Time Capsule – wonderful. Don’t have to have a dedicated hard drive for Time Machine, and must be fantastic with a laptop (a very certain laptop!!!). Completely unexpected, completely brilliant.
iPhone stuff – I don’t have an iPhone, but it sure looks like fun. But a firmware update to a device I don’t have: hard to get excited.
Movie rentals – sounds fair, I’m glad they got all the studios instead of just Disney.
AppleTV take 2 – I would so use this. In a heartbeat. That UI is fantastic.
But who cares about all that?! MacBook Air! – I will have one. Guaranteed. My parents are going to get me a laptop when I get back from my mission, and I’d always thought “I want a MacBook Pro. They’re big and powerful and shiny.” Not anymore. Tiny thinbook is blowing my mind.
No CD drive on the Air means that physical is dead. Apple just called time of death. Remember the original Bondi Blue iMac? No floppy drive. How many of your computers have floppy drives?
You might say “But M, just because Apple doesn’t have a CD drive on their new laptop, that doesn’t mean everything will be digital download from now on!” Don’t you talk back to me.
Music and movies are already on iTunes. What’s left? Software. And who makes software for the Mac (besides Apple)? That’s right, people who use Macs. Adobe Creative Suite 4 will be downloaded. Watch.
Of course, there wasn’t an iPhone nano, which is what I predicted, so don’t trust anything I say. I’m clearly at least three-quarters retarded.
Thanks for the heads-up — I somehow missed the boat and didn’t realize today was MacWorld Expo until I saw your post.
When I first saw that there was no CD drive on the Air, a mild panic set in, but then I realized that you’re right — physical is on its way out. And that’s a wonderfully good thing. Dang. I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it. Can’t wait for the movie rentals, too. (I’m updating iTunes as we speak…)
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