Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Jan 2008 18:36 UTC
During the MacWorld keynote Steve Jobs introduced various new products. Jobs started off with Time Capsule, an AirPort Extreme base station with an integrated hard drive, so you can use Time Machine wirelessly. The 500GB version is USD 299, the 1TB version USD 499. Apple also released an update to its Apple TV (free software update for current owners), which now does not require a computer to access new content. You can rent movies (new in iTunes) straight from the Apple TV, in DVD or HD quality. Lastly, as anticipated, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, which is quite thin at 0.16" to 0.76". It has a 13.3" display, multi-touch trackpad, optional SSD 64GB drive, Core 2 Duo processor (1.6-1.8Ghz), and 2GB of memory. The device lacks an optical drive, but you can either 'borrow' one from another Mac, or buy an external one for USD 99. The machine costs USD 1799.
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RE[3]: AppleTV is a bust
by Gryzor on Wed 16th Jan 2008 10:03
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…only that the Apple TV's target doesn't care and will never care about it.
Cry a river, build a bridge and get over it. The fact that you became an "expert" in movie/codec/video stuff lately, doesn't mean that you can scream like hell at a product that is clearly not targeted at you.
You overreacted too much. It's silly.
But wait... you can.
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I read your blog (but I can no longer post to it) and while I agree with most of what you say I think there are reasons why they don't yet support 1080p and why they don't support WMV, though why they don't support DIVX is beyond me. The main reason I think they don't offer 1080p is because first the current AppleTV doesn't support it and I think they were not ready to put a lot of money behind developing a new AppleTV (it hasn't done very well so far) just for 1080p support or allow for all of the additional bandwidth the larger file sizes would take up. The reason I believe they don't support WMV is because Microsoft doesn't support or develop WMV for Mac. It may be a dumb reason, but I think a legitimate one. Think about it, someone gets an AppleTV to use with their Windows PC, puts a lot of WMV files on it, then decides to get a Mac and then suddenly they can't use those files with their computer, then their on the phone with Apple asking for help with something Apple can't help them with. I also don't think Apple wants to put anything on their products that will have to say Windows only. The simple answer is, if it doesn't work with the Mac then they are not going to allow or support it period.