An Apple A Day

Apple has just released some new products, some amazing, some minor upgrades, and some that are just for show.

Some of the cool new stuff includes a new computer sporting eight processors, don't know who would ever be able to make use of this, well short of use for computational fluid dynamics, but cool none the less.

Many of their products are getting upgrades too.
Two of those being the iPhone, and the iPod Touch:



I currently own an iPod Touch, which to say the least, shows me why Apple owns the mp3 player market. The new features on these items include expanded capability such as weather, mail, and more for the Touch and triangulation for Google maps on the iPhone. Also both products have just had a memory upgrade.

The Touch now has a 32GB model and the iPhone now has a 16 GB model, of course this upgrade will set you back another $100. Personally I have hard enough time filling up my 8GB model, but I can see the use for it.

Another product getting some upgrades is Apple TV which has had a new interface made for it, as well as many new features from wireless connectivity to access to Flickr. This product is intriguing and I have thought about getting myself one.



Last but certainly not least is the new MacBook Air, which has had a lot of hype surrounding it. It truly is one of the smallest laptops ever created; at its thickest, 0.76" which is thinner than the Sony versions thinnest point of 0.8". It sports a Core 2 Duo processor and many other features. Great, but many say it's not worth it. The battery gets you about 2.5 hours which is half of the time given in specs. The solid state hard drive is no faster or better with power usage, and nearly doubles the cost of the machine, all while offering less hard drive space. In the end this turned out to be a niche product, not worth the money it costs.