I think you missed the real story Allen, Apple punishes early adopters of ipod touch and forces them to pay for a software upgrade. Fair enough if the product was a year old but its ain’t.

crap keynote, nothing of value you in it.

thing is – everyone will pay the $20

(sorry I should convert to pounds for you lol)

The new MacBook Air has nothing interesting except the design. But it’s over-priced and the specs is not that good (lack of alot things).

It is not a Macbook, or a Macbook Pro – if you want those features, buy that product. For me, a full size display and keyboard in a machine that is super-light, and cost $500 less than a similarly equipped and weight Sony Vaio (with a smaller display and keyboard) and with the ability to run OS X, is a dream machine.

My one real concern is the lack of target disk mode (no firewire port). If the OS or hardware that supports booting goes south, the low-level target disk mode is a Godsend! Somehow, this needs to be implemented. Booting from a DVD (or remotely, if possible) does not solve the issue unless you can see the drive as a disk, and either fix the problem, or recover any data not currently backed up. My new MBP HD died after 3 weeks, and target disk mode was the data saviour for a few days worth of unbacked up data.

As for the Air, I would consider a SSD one if it wasn’t $5000 here in NZ. I am a Mac convert (a few years back). I currently work daily on a MacBook Pro – OSX is the bees knees of operating systems.

However this laptop gets hot – like burn your fingers HOT, and yeah I run it for a solid 10hour working day, and then again in the evening at home for a few hours. No idea how the Air will be with no fan. I’m guessing given it’s a UMP and not a laptop means it’s targeted at running for a few hours, maybe long enough to upload a presentation to it and present?

I could see me using one as a support machine to a desktop, where your desktop is the one you do all the work on, the Air is what you take to client meetings etc ….

I have a post on my site detailing a few more disapointments with the Keynote

Set up a nice workspace powered by a Mac Pro, then pick up a Macbook Air to use around your mansion when you’re not in the pilot seat.

There are people on the forum who paid for the update and it didn’t even work.

another pointed out that the ipod touch works on the same os as the iphone and these apps already existed so there was no developer time needed to recode these apps so what are they charging for.

also some others pointed out what if they buy one from amazon and don’t get the updated one even though it was purchased after the time where it should of had it….

Also anyone know if the iphone sdk can be used on the ipod touch?

no 3g version of the iphone makes it a pointless phone for me.

No idea how old ipod touch is, or since when you had it, but for example, I bought a Mac Mini in October and due to the timeframe I was eligible to receive Leopard for 10 Euros when it came out. A grace period would be somewhat nice, but then again it’s only 20 bucks – if you sell it for 2 you are probably in the negatives.

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