Obligatory post-Macworld blog post

I have to post this simply because it is so cool. In case you didn't know, Apple announced various products on January 15. Among them was the MacBook Air. Here's the ad:



I was very impressed by the engineering involved. They managed to cram a Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive, and an iSight camera into this thing. There's an option for a 64 GB solid-state (flash memory) drive rather than the 80 GB hard drive. It costs an extra $1000, though. There's also a 13.3-inch screen and an ambient light sensor that controls the brightness of the full-size back-lit keyboard. There is no internal optical drive, but you can buy one from Apple for an extra $99 or you can use some included software to "borrow" the optical drive of another computer on your local wireless network. This isn't cheap, though, it starts at $1799.
I'm looking forward to seeing this in stores next week. By the way, I have also embedded Apple's official promotional/introductory video for the MacBook Air.

Where to go #3

For the third installment of this series, I would like to recommend a website that should be know by most techies and podcast junkies. Leo Laporte has been in technology broadcasting for many, many years, probably longer than I've been alive. If you're even a little bit into technology, I would highly recommend you check out this site. Even if you're not, there are podcasts about junk food and raising kids: Munchcast and Jumping Monkeys, respectively.

Personally, I am subscribed to This Week in Tech, FLOSS Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, net@nite, and The Tech Guy. TWiT is a weekly roundtable about tech news in general. FLOSS is usually less than weekly and is a roundtable about Open Source software. MacBreak Weekly, as you might expect, is a weekly roundtable about Macintosh-related news. Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur do net@nite, which is a show about Web 2.0 and new stuff that's popped up on the internet lately. Finally, The Tech Guy is a 2-hour long copy of Leo's weekly radio call-in show by the same name. I hope you enjoy this site!

http://www.twit.tv/