Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

There are rumors flying around online about a 10 inch subnotebook sized MacBook from Apple that has a solid state harddisk. But knowing the Rumor Distortion Field around Apple (like the REALITY Distortion Field around Steve) your guess is as good as mine.

Well, since Apple is taking it’s own sweet time to introduce solid state hard disk in their notebooks I decided to be proactive and try this myself.

I had a 1999 original clamshell Tangerine iBook that a friend of mine (thanks Jay) donated since he was upgrading to a more recent iBook. This clamshell is a 300 Mhz G3 with 192 Mb of RAM with a 6GB hard drive. Luckily it also has a Airport 802.11b network card. The hard drive was quite noisy when the iBook was turned on and the whole laptop heated up significantly. Also, the battery was dead having passed it’s charge cycle limit.

So I decided to replace the 6GB hard disk with a 4 GB Compact Flash drive.
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This is a great little DVD Player that can also play video’s stored in
your video iPod. For $250 you can get this 7 inch DVD player that has a
iPod dock. You can then view the videos stored on the iPod either on
the 2.5 inch iPod screen or on the 7 inch iLuv screen.
It also comes with car straps and a card ac adapter for viewing in the
car. Plays DVD, VCD, MP3 audio and of course iPod video files. And it
comes in Black or White. Read more about it on the product page at
http://www.i-luv.com/iLuv/product_info.php?products_id=286

According to some patent filings with the European trademark and design office, Apple recently filed designs of new iPod controllers. See the picture for some idea of what the next iPod Nano might look like. The first looks like a mobile phone while the second looks like a game controller.

There are some more which have a totally different controller. Seems like trackpads and some kind of joysticks. What gives ? Let’s wait and watch. Hopefully sometime before Christmas this year we should get some new iPods.

In one word: this machine ROCKS ! I mean R-O-C-K, rocks !

By the way, I coined the term ‘iiMac’ to mean ‘Intel iMac’ and it fits quite nicely. Dont you think ?

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