I’d gone\u00a0 a while without ogling Apple products. So they came out today with some new products.<\/p>\n
This<\/a> is a neat idea. It’s their “Airport Extreme” wireless AP (with N-capability), but with a neat addition–a 500 or 1TB disk for wireless backups. Sure, the real<\/em> geeks already have their Linux server in the basement with a RAID array of 500GB disks accessible over NFS and rsync, but Apple brings something cool into a nice little box, makes it work pretty seamlessly, and, get this–sells it at a fairly cheap price.\u00a0 $500 for an 802.11N AP with an integrated 1TB backup fileserver?<\/p>\n Of course, I’d need a Mac machine to sync to it. But I’m already carrying so much stuff to class, I want something light! I guess I’d need the world’s thinnest laptop<\/a>, the Apple MacBook Air.\u00a0 Not only is it ridiculously small, but it takes the awesome MultiTouch technology from their iPod Touch \/ iPhone and applies it to the trackpad. 2GB standard, and if you don’t like the sound of your hard drive spinning, you could always opt for the 64GB solid state one. (Apparently at a cost of $1,000, though… But that’s what you pay for 64GB SSD drives right now.)<\/p>\n And they relaunched the AppleTV<\/a>, without the suck this time. You can also do the much-rumoured movie rentals<\/a> through iTunes.<\/p>\n Darn you, Apple! Today was supposed to be the day that I caught up on all the work I need to do!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d gone\u00a0 a while without ogling Apple products. So they came out today with some new products. This is a neat idea. It’s their “Airport Extreme” wireless AP (with N-capability), but with a neat addition–a 500 or 1TB disk for … Continue reading