[Evildave]

Well, 6/8 is finally here. All of the silly rumors will be put to rest... for now. I'll be able to decide on whether to buy a Kindle. I'll be able to see if any 'new' Mactastic thing happens before I slap down the bread for an iMac.

How much hype can anyone stand? I sort of tuned out all of the rampant, baseless speculation myself. Of course, I wonder what NEW rampant, baseless, wacky speculation will be spawned by the crumbs of information tossed out today and this week, too.

Needless to say, I didn't get a golden ticket to see what the oompa loompas made under the candy rainbow first hand. I'll just read up on it after the fact.

[Evildave]

Well, I'm reading over the keynote notes from MacWorld...
http://www.macworld....06/keynote.html

Seems I was right to wait. The whole MacBook line got improved, and in some cases a lot cheaper. $700 off the air. The Apple site hasn't refreshed to the newly released information, even though the new gizmos are supposed to be shipping.

The Snow Leopard upgrade will be $29 for Leopard users.

iPhone 3.0 adds tethering, so I wouldn't have to use my evil developer tweaks to run a proxy on it to share its connection.

[Evildave]

And bang, the Apple web site updated. All the new toys are there.

[smax013]

Evildave said:

Well, I'm reading over the keynote notes from MacWorld...
http://www.macworld....06/keynote.html

Seems I was right to wait. The whole MacBook line got improved, and in some cases a lot cheaper. $700 off the air. The Apple site hasn't refreshed to the newly released information, even though the new gizmos are supposed to be shipping.

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The dropping of the ExpressCard slot on the 15" MacBook Pro for a SD card slot is dumb...you can certainly get an ExpressCard that can handle CD cards if you want. So, they go with something less flexible.

Putting a Firewire 800 port on the MacBook...all I can say is...DUH! I guess they learn from their stupidity of dropping Firewire from the MacBook.

Not sure if I like the built-in batteries on all of the laptops or not...even if they are the longer lasting, "more advanced" batteries.

I did not see anything about matte screens being added back for the 15" MacBook Pro...maybe they have not learned that lesson yet.

Glad to see they dropped the prices...

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The Snow Leopard upgrade will be $29 for Leopard users.

Good price. Was not sure I was going to upgrade...this makes it more likely.

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iPhone 3.0 adds tethering, so I wouldn't have to use my evil developer tweaks to run a proxy on it to share its connection.

Yeah...but it is not clear if AT&T will support it (from the notes)...thus, it is not clear if we get it or not in the US.

Much of the other iPhone stuff is nice. I will certainly pay the $10 to upgrade my iPod Touch to "play" with it. And it makes it much more likely that I will seriously consider an iPhone when I am ready to get a new phone (it woult still be nice if they did a model with a REAL keyboard...still had the onscreen one).