MacRumors.com is forwarding a variety of news that speculates a MacBook revision to appear in the 3rd Quarter of this year. The news is originating from the Commercial Times, who is citing a research large purchase of flat-panel displays from AU Optronics and Chi Mei Optoelectronics.

Read the full article @: http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05
/15/apples-next-macbook-due-in-q3-2008/

The iPod Touch has continued to captivate me. I’ve been increasingly interested in purchasing one for quite some time. The ability for the iPod Touch/iPhone/OS X software to become more complex and developed, alongside 3rd party app development, is making it an enticing buy. But what’s holding me back?

For starters, there’s a hefty price tag–$299 for an 8GB model. I have a relatively large music collection, but an even larger (size) of TV Shows and Movies that I’ve downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store. By all means I don’t have to have my entire iTunes library with me at all times, but sometimes I want to rock out to some punk and sometimes I want to listen to some indie rock. I go through different music moods and I want to easily switch between my whole library.

What occurs to me is that every sign is pointing me towards the iPod classic. It’s got the size, ability to play TV Shows and Movies, and is even slighty smaller than the iPod touch. Unfortunately, I don’t want to part ways with the iPod touch’s features and larger viewing screen.

I want the touch interface and web capabilities of the iPod touch with the storage capacity of the iPod classic. Oh and one more thing, I’d like to see the device’s size shrink down to that of an iPod nano.

iPod touch interface, iPod classic storage size, and iPod nano form factor. Bring me that Apple, and I’ll hardly think twice about dropping $299.

Dates for this year’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) have just been released. The conference, which consistently features new Apple products, will take place in San Francisco from June 9-13, 2008.

The update that came as an e-mail to developers today highlighted the iPhone and new Mac hardware such as the MacBook Air. The e-mail also has the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco splitting into two. What this may or may not mean will be plenty of nourishment for the rumor mill.

Check out the new ad at: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/#ad

Check out the guided tour for the new device at: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/

In the 4th and final announcement of the Macworld keynote, Jobs announces the MacBook Air.

“MacBook Air is 0.16″ to 0.76″. The thickest part of the MacBook Air is thinner than the thinnest part of the Sony. It fits inside a envelope”

“Magnetic latch, 13.3″ widescreen display”

“Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb. Of course, pinch-zoom.”

“1.6 GHz Standard, 1.8 GHz Option — Intel Core 2 Duo”

“Apple asked Intel to shrink the Core 2 Duo. Intel shrunk the processor by 60%.”

“80 GB hard disk standard, 64 GB SSD as an option. ‘they’re pricy, but they’re fast’”

“5 hours of Battery Life”

“802.11n + Bluetooth 2.1/EDR”

“45 Watt MagSafe, 1 USB 2.0 port, Micro-DVI, Audio Out”

“No optical drive, but a Superdrive accessory is available for $99. Also, software comes with the MacBook Air that allows you to “borrow” a Mac or PCs optical drive”

“2 GB of Memory Standard”

“Pre-orders today, shipping in two weeks”

“Environmental highlights: fully aluminum case (good for recycling), first fully mercury and lead free display, circuit boards are BFR free, retail packaging are 56% less volume than MacBook.”

“$1799″

Fits inside envelope.

More to come!

In case you haven’t recently checked out Apple.com, you might want to head over there and watch the two new Mac ADs.

The first is the holiday “Santa Claus” ad and the second is “Now What.”

Check out both the ads at: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

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