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 Jason Snell Jason Snell, MacWorld Editorial Director: "...what we're going to talk about is something a little newsier, namely the release of the MacBook Air. It was announced at MacWorld Expo, on January 15th, and it's arrived. I have one right here. Oooo, it's very thin.
"...The MacBook Air is thin and light. That is what it's all about. If you're somebody who cares more about processor speed and a big hard drive and lots of flexibility, lots of options when you order it on the Apple Store, you're not gonna get that with this product.
"And that's OK. This is a product that's very specifically for a certain audience. It's the audience that cares about the fact that this product is roughly three-quarters on an inch thick at its thickest point. And for me more importantly, it weighs 3 pounds..." |
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 Nifty Little Robot "Many robotics researchers are now taking inspiration from nature. It's not only the brains of the animals they're copying, but also their shapes and their behavior in unpredictable situations.
Swiss researchers developed a model of a salamander's spinal cord and created a similar system to control the movement of their salamander robot. It receives electrical signals from a wireless laptop that can tell it to switch from swimming to walking and to change speed or direction. Nature helped these scientists, but it also turned out that their robot helped neuro-biologists understand four-legged locomotion.
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 At Macworld Expo His stops include the booths of: Axiotron, makers of the Modbook tablet computer; Matias, which makes the Matias folding keyboard; Dream Cheeky, which makes the MSN Missile Launcher; Otterbox, where we look at the Armor series of cases for the iPhone; and Vestalife, which makes the Ladybug speaker dock for the iPod.
The MacWorld Conference & Expo features educational conferences taught by leaders in their field, which require large admission fees to attend, and last for a few more days than the Expo. The Expo is open for a number of days (generally three or four), and attendees can visit the exhibits set up by hardware manufacturers and software publishers that support the Macintosh platform. |
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 Steve Jobs & Air
Jobs
also confirmed the consumer electronics company's foray into online
movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios
to offer films over high-speed Internet connections within 30 days
after they're released on DVD.
Always a showman, Jobs unwound
the string on a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out the
ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter
from fans at the conference.
At its beefiest, the new computer
is 0.76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it's 0.16 inches, he said. It
comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a
64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade.
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 David Pogue & Laptop "The idea behind this is to make it so inexpensive that poor countries can afford to buy them for their students, their educationally deprived students, in the hundreds of thousands or the millions.
"But what's interesting is that they're actually going to sell this thing to Americans for two weeks starting November 12th. To me that makes it fair game for a review.
"Well, first of all, I've got to say that for it's mission, it's pretty amazing. Game controller, stereo speakers, built in camcorder..."
"As you may have heard, the one hundred dollar laptop did not in fact come in a a price of one hundred dollars. It's one hundred eigthy-eight bucks and sinking. If you want to get one you have to order it within that two week November window. You pay $400. It's 'give one, get one'. So you get one and a tax deduction, and the company sends one to a poor kid in another country on your behalf..." |
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