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Welcome to the Appletell, Macworld 2008 live blog. Feel free to join our chat and live audio stream.
Steve is now thanking everyone for coming, and it’s over. Thanks for choosing appletell for the keynote coverage!
Randy newman is now singing, and it looks like the keynote is wrapping up.
Macbook air product page is up on apple.com – http://apple.com/macbookair/
Check out our posts on http://macworld.appletell.com/ – We’re pumping them out.
Randy newman is now performing on stage.
We made a boo boo, we heard Mandy moore, it’s actually Randy newman. Sorry folks.
In the first 2 weeks of 2008, we have updated the Mac pro, introduced Time Capsule, software updates for iPhone and iPod Touch, Movie rentals for iTunes, Appletv software updates, and the new Macbook Air.
Oh wait, steve is talking about itunes movie rentals and that. Mandy moore is on stage.
Steve is summing up products, and thanking everyone. There’s no one more thing.
Uses green packaging and greener components
No optical drive, but optional superdrive. 5 hours of battery life.
Steve airing new macbook air advertisement.
Macbook air ships in 2 weeks for 00.
Comes with 80GB hdd, 64gb ssd option. “Man they’re pricey, but they’re fast” – Steve
Macbook air has multi-touch!
Full size notebook keyboard, best keyboard ever shipped.
Full size 13.3″ screen, LED backlit display, on top of display is built-in iSight.
MacBook air only weighs 3 lbs, good target weight.
Macbook AIr announced. “the worlds thinnest notebook” – 0.8″ thin!
New price for AppleTV is just 9 – shipping in 2 weeks.
Finished AppleTV, will there be One more thing?
You can purchase music titles directly from the AppleTV.
Steve demoed a movie after renting it. He has fast internet connection, downloading at over 1%/second
Over 6,000,000 songs available on iTunes.
Over 600 shows on iTunes you can buy for .99
Demoing AppleTV Take 2. Can preview movies from the interface, and see what others who rented that movie also rented. (sort of like amazon suggestions in a way).
AppleTV 2.0 announced, called AppleTV Take 2. No computer required. Rent/Buy movies on AppleTV, DVD quality + HD + Dolby 5.1
Watch it on Mac, TV, iPod, iPhone, etc. Anywhere you want!
You have 30 days to start watching rentals, 24 hours to watch it as much as you want – after you start.
Over 1000 movies for rental (available 30 days after DVD release)
.99 to rent titles in HD quality!
Every major studio is on board with iTunes movies rentals. Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, Fox, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony, all on board.
iTunes Movie Rentals! .99 for older releases, .99 for a new release.
3rd thing: iTunes updates. 4 billion songs sold as of last week. 20 millions songs sold in a single day, on Christmas day.
New software for iPhone as well. Maps with location, Webclips, Customize home screen, SMS multiple people.
iPod touch now includes 5 new apps. Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather and Maps
200th day since iPhone went on sale, over 4 million sold. 20,000 iphones per day.
New product today: Time Capsule. Airport Extreme with ‘server grade’ hard drive integrated. Comes in 2 versions, 500gb – 9, 1TB – 9
Sorry, we’re back.
http://ustream.tv/channel/appletell-live – Join us live. We have about 20 minutes to go, the keynote was pushed off by Apple until 9.30PST
10 minutes to go, just ironing out errors with our live stream. http://macworld.appletell.com
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