New Apple Patent

Apple has patented the Macbook Air "Port Door" so it seams highly likely that this will make its way to other Apple laptops in the near future. The patent oddly enough shows the "door" with multiple USB, ethernet, and Firewire which are lacking in the Macbook Air.

New iPod Touch Ad

Last night Apple introduced a new iPod touch ad which shows a table thats full of iPod Touches showing of its features. Brendan Benson is the Artist featured in the new ad with there song What I'm Looking For. Will they get as much attention as Feist did? 

Link to the new ad

iPhone now coming to Ireland

O2 announced hat they would be brining the iPhone to Ireland on March 14th, 2008. O2 retail stores and Carphone Warehouse will be selling the iPhone. The 8GB is 399 euro and the 16GB is 499 euro. 

45 euro/mo: 175 minutes, 100 texts, 1GB data

65 euro/mo: 350 minutes, 150 texts, 1GB data

100 euro/mo: 700 minutes, 250 texts, 1GB data

As of right now Visual voicemail is not available 

iPhone/iPod Touch SDK Delayed and Time Capsule starting to ship

Finally the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK has a launch date, and yes it is late but only by a little bit. An invitation was sent for the launch of the iPhone SDK the event will be showing on Cupertino campus on March 6th. But don't be hating Apple because they might actually make there promise on a release date this time. According to AppleInsiders sources Time Capsule is starting to ship. Some readers pointed it out to them  and said "I just checked Apple's web site and my Time Capsule order has changed to 'preparing to ship, Historically that usually happens the same day products I have ordered from Apple ship."

iPhone/iPod Touch 1.1.4 update and iTunes now #2

A new 1.1.4 Firmware update for iPhone and iPod Touch was released by Apple today, there are no details yet on what new features have been included except "Bug Fixes". Some early reports say that the new Firmware does break some unofficial apps. Hopefully this has something to do with iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) maybe it will be released this month! The 1.1.4 firmware update is available through iTunes so grab it for your iPhone/iPod touch. Speaking of iTunes its now the #2 music retailer in the United States, just behind Wal-Mart.

Statement from Apple:

"We'd like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone,"We continue to add great new features like iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more reason to love iTunes."

Penryn Macbook's

Today Apple updated there consumer laptops the Macbook's with a few new features. The Macbook still has the same 13-inch glossy widescreen display(not LED), the new MacBook lineup comes in three models which includes faster processors (Penryn) and larger hard drives. The new Macbook's are expandable to hold up to 4GB of ram. Another thing to note is that the Macbook's do not feature a Multi-Touch trackpad like the Air/Macbook Pro and the base model Macbook still has a combo drive.

$1099. Macbook 13" 2.1GHz / 1GB / 120GB / Combo / White

$1299. Macbook 13" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 160GB / Super / White

$1499. Macbook 13" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 250GB / Super / Black

Apple updates the Macbook Pro

Today Apple released new Macbook Pro's based on Intel's latest Penryn mobile processors plus the newest NVIDIA graphics processors with up to 512mb of Vram, and that snazzy new Multi-Touch trackpad found on the Macbook Air. The new Macbook Pro runs at speeds up to 2.6GHz with 6MB of shared L2 cache and 2GB of memory standard, the Pro also has larger hard drives (up to 300gb). Unfortunately no redesign on the new pros, it seams we have been waiting an eternity on an exterior refresh.

$1999. Macbook Pro 15" 2.4GHz / 2GB / 200GB 5400RPM / 256MB Vram

$2499. Macbook Pro 15" 2.5GHz / 2GB / 250GB 5400RPM / 512MB Vram

$2799. Macbook Pro 17" 2.5GHz / 2GB / 250GB 5400RPM / 512MB Vram