WWDC and MacBook Air

I am sooo hoping for update of MacBook Air during WWDC! After spending some time with my iPad I realized that it's not for me. I also realized, that MacBook Pro 13" isn't either - it's just too heavy.

I went through videos, reviews, etc. etc. of Air over the last few weeks and decided - I want one :) Now, I may be one of those with more money then sense (not much of either though ;) but still won't throw €1700 on what basically is a 2 year old machine with 2 GB RAM.

I would assume after 2 years of feedback Apple should spice up their machine quite significantly. Here's few things I would like to see in the new MacBook Air, which I do believe are reasonable...

- 4 GB RAM (a must!)
- option of 256 GB SSD
- black bazel and glass all around the screen
- GeForce 320M graphic
- Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz
- New battery (7 hrs+)
- Memory card reader (i know it's a long shot, but I do use it a lot, and that would do for me more than extra USB port)

THe way I see it - there's only one "must" on my list, and that would indicate to me, that MacBook Air already, as it is, would be a machine for me :)

Snow Leopard less and less fancy...

I found it very intriguing, that while Windows 7 with it's release scheduled for late October just hit RTM (or did it? :> ) at the same time, when Apple is still straggling with yet another Snow Leopard builds, after promise that it's going to be completed a month before Microsoft...

And to be very honest, I am still not sure weather Snow Leopard will be able to compete with Windows 7... I never realized, that majority of most useful "new" features, like Mail support for Exchange, CalDAV etc. are already available in MacOS 10.5... I also noticed, that in the latest build of Snow Leopard, 10A411, QuickTime playing HD movie is using much more (about 40% (!!!), up from about 6%) CPU... boooooo!

I decided to switch back to 10.5.8 for now. The day Snow Leopard appears in store, I'll be first one there. But I won't hesitate to visit shop next door a month later, when Windows 7 hits the shelves either.... And to be very honest, watching the way both OS's are going at the moment, more and more often I am considering choice of PC for my next laptop... (no, not $400 model :) time will tell!

Somewhere, deep deep in my heart, but far away from my head, there's hope that Apple will pull out a big surprise from their sleeve (or should I say Steve? ;) which will be sooo big, that we all forget about new Windows :D

In the meantime I visited local PC World store (there's no dedicated Apple stores in Ireland :( ) and here's what I found. Must be the only MacBook Pro 13" with GeForce 9600 in the world :) and that's for just €0.99 more than the 9400 model from Apple themselves :)

Snow Leopard is messing up with bluetooth

It looks like new Snow Leopard, and that after installing latests build, which was pushed via Software Update, seems to have problems with bluetooth...

Everything works perfect when computer is switched on, or woken up from the sleep state. However, when "safe sleep" is used (known as "hibernation" in Windows), where computer's memory is saved on the hard disk, and computer effectively switched off, it looks like our bluetooth isn't being revoked , and becomes unavailable, at least from the icon in the menu bar...

in order to switch bluetooth on again, I need to either reboot Macbook, or enable it in bluetooth preferences panel.

Weird...

Apple Inc.

What I love about Apple is that every time they improve their product, they add the only thing I was missing in it's predecessor. What I hate about Apple however is that every time they improve their product, they add the only thing I was missing in it's predecessor which I purchased just couple of months ago. And now as a reasonable person with limited disposable income, I can't justifying spending €1500 for SD slot. And no firewire, brighter screen or digital compass will change that...

The problem is, that I told exactly the same to myself just before i upgraded my white MacBook to unibody one, and iPhone to it's 3G version... sometimes you just can't say no to the little half eaten fruit :)