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Mac World 2008 : MacBook Air & Apple TV

# By Cam, on 01/21/2008 02:48:39 PM

Mac World 2008

Hi everyone,

On January 14th and 15th 2008 was standing THE event for Apple fans: The Mac World 2008, which took place in San Francisco, CA. Steve Jobs, Apple's boss, has showed some new interesting products, some of which you are going to discover through this news.

MacBook Air

Some visitors were sure that Apple would change the standards of the technology another time just as they did last year by presenting the iPhone. But this year Steve Jobs presented the MacBook Air, the thinnest laptop ever. According to Apple, it would be the "most portable laptop", and the "most different from the others".

The new Mac is really thin: 0.73 inches (1, 94 cm) !! It is 12.8 width and 8.94 depth (32, 5 cm and 22, 7 cm). It even fits in an envelope!
Mac's newest gadget is made out of aluminum, as his brother the iMac. It weighs 3.0 pounds (1, 36 kg), and has a 13 inches screen, which allows a resolution of 1440x900. It comes with a full back lit keyboard, just like the ones theMacBook and the MacBook Pro. Very useful when typing in the dark ...

Here are some pictures of the beast

Cilc to show details.

Apple TV reviewed

If you don't know Apple TV yet, it is a device that enable a connection between your computer (Mac or PC) using a wireless or Ethernet media, and can broadcast your data, such as music, pictures onto a TV screen. It wasn't successful at first, so Apple decided to design a new version, which was presented during the Mac World 2008.

The first version of Apple TV wasn't really popular, because of its poor features. With the new Apple TV, it is now possible to watch YouTube videos from a TV set through the Cover Flow interface. Apple is also going to introduce iTunes Movie Rental, a movie renting service from the well-known iTunes Store. That feature is now available in the USA. The movies' quality will be DVD or HDDVD, and the sound format will be Digital Surround 5.1. A movie will be sold 3 to 5 dollars for a 24 hours rental, depending on the release date.

Apple will sell the new Apple TV less than the old one: $229 instead of $299. Unfortunately the price is will still be the same in Europe ($299).

Conclusion

Some surprises this year in the Mac World 2008: the release of the MacBook Air, a new version of Apple TV, new features for the iPhone, etc.
As always, Steve Jobs showed a couple of statistics: Apple has sold 4 millions iPhones, and 5 millions copies of Mac OS 10.5 Loepard !

Links

Enjoy!

Thank to the NTS for the translation

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prs513rosewood	# Posted on 01/21/2008 04:21:05 PM
Go Tigers !! Group : Members	Cool ! But someone forgot the link to the NTS page, and also forgot to tell that NTS translated the news . Here it is : NTS cya Live to learn and learn to live. NTS, News Translator Squad
ixM	# Posted on 01/21/2008 05:09:56 PM
Made in Belgium	You're right, I didn't know. Speedking just told me he had forgotten to add the link Everything's a fallacy
nicoco_40	# Posted on 01/21/2008 09:55:13 PM
How 'bout some lolz ? Group : Members	Yep, thanks NP to let us translate it for you. We will be pleased to hear any comments... NTS - News Translator Squad.
AleX_XelA	# Posted on 01/21/2008 10:54:50 PM
Group : Members	I must say I'm not satisfied with the quality of the translations that are done on this website. Its French counterpart (Le Site du Zer0), is excellent on the grammar and expression sides, whereas here, texts often have silly mistakes that a translator shouldn't make. You should definitely hire native English or American "newsers" if you want this website to grow and to be well-known among the wide English software making community. BTW, the mistakes on the article are these : "this news", a better translation would be "this piece of news". "his brother the iMac", when you're talking about an object, you always refer to the object as "it". "It comes with a full back lit keyboard, just like the ones theMacBook and the MacBook Pro.", the end of the sentence is missing a verb, "just like [...] have". "it is a device that enable a connection", this is the unforgivable mistake, where is the "s" on the verb "enable"? "sold 4 millions iPhones, and 5 millions copies of Mac OS 10.5 Loepard !", "million" doesn't have a plural form in English, therefore there shouldn't be an "s" at the end of the word. I'm really disappointed to see the level of the translations because I love the French website and can't stand seeing this website doing so poorly. Please guys, I'm sure you can do a much better job! When you translate, try to forget about the French language, you have to rethink the text and use English idioms, not French!
nicoco_40	# Posted on 01/21/2008 11:45:36 PM
How 'bout some lolz ? Group : Members	all right, why dont you help us for the next ones ? Because we did it by ourselves, and we know that is not perfect... You could help us for the next one, correcting what we are doing ? NTS - News Translator Squad.
prs513rosewood	# Posted on 01/22/2008 03:05:01 AM
Go Tigers !! Group : Members	I totally agree with nicoco_40,why don't you join us for the next news ? We will be three, so more efficient and the news will be better. But NTS is not an official group. We (nicoco_40 and I) are neither newsers, nor translators. We are only newbies who want to help Newbies Paradise to grow. We are good enough in english to translate news properly. It is the first one, and we are sorry for the mistakes . We are still in a "trying" period. Again, if you want to help us, it will be great . cya PS: I don't know why, but the NP news is not exactly the same as the one on the NTS page. The "backlit" mistake is not the same. Live to learn and learn to live. NTS, News Translator Squad
AleX_XelA	# Posted on 01/22/2008 08:06:32 PM
Group : Members	Looking back at my post I figure I did sound a bit rude, I must apologize for that. Well your offer surely is interesting, but sadly I don't have much time on my hands, the best I can do is correct the translations you guys make, before you post them on the website. And even that, I'm not sure I would be able to do it everyday. In any case, just warn me whenever you are translating news and I'll see what I can do.
nicoco_40	# Posted on 01/22/2008 10:48:10 PM
How 'bout some lolz ? Group : Members	all right we'll tell you when we'll be working on the next one. For information, we didn't find any people ready to help us, but we tryed ! Nice to see that we are ok. NTS - News Translator Squad.
prs513rosewood	# Posted on 01/22/2008 10:52:07 PM
Go Tigers !! Group : Members	Great ! We were looking for an native english speaker to correct us once the news is translated. Here is the web page where we translate the news.---> NTS The nCode (zCode) is in french, but nicoco_40 contacted the developer, to translate the zCode, and we are still waiting for an answer. Do it when you want. The "news-stream" is not big on NP, so we can take the time to publish good news . PS : nicoco_40 was faster. Live to learn and learn to live. NTS, News Translator Squad
yabberyabber	# Posted on 01/23/2008 02:30:17 AM
come faster tutoreals! Group : Members	MAC IS EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i was young, i had a bunch of pets, but my dad got a mac, and they ll died within a month! i blame it all on mac! and mac doesn't let people make software for mac commercially without a liscence (never figured out how to spell that...), thats not right (Nintendo can do that fine but thats just because they do games...) and besides, $1799! thats like, expensive, i kno its innovative but $1799? how do like that for reasons azymuth! m@teo21: you are my idol! you to nicoco_40...
Azymuth	# Posted on 01/23/2008 02:56:44 AM
Victory is mine Group : Members	I appreciate that you tell us your opinion. I like people that do not fear to participate. However, next time, you could try to do the same thing, but add ARGUMENTS. Yes, I know, it is probably a new word for you, but society provides you with a great tool that will let you understand my word which is a dictionnary. A forum without flooder is just like a couple without conflict: ideal, but impossible
madmac	# Posted on 01/23/2008 11:34:44 PM
Group : Members	Well, I'm very surprised to see this piece of news on NP's homepage, what a surprise! To some extent, the translation is quite good since French are really bad at trying to speak foreign languages. I also think NP needs more native speakers, but we're not in a hurry are we?
C0c0	# Posted on 01/26/2008 05:39:31 PM
Group : Members	Thx very much for this news Cam .
Vincordi	# Posted on 02/03/2008 06:49:36 PM
Group : Members	Is the same of the SdZ's news, no?
nicoco_40	# Posted on 02/03/2008 07:07:13 PM
How 'bout some lolz ? Group : Members	Yes it is, we just translated this news in order to make Newbies able to read it too. NTS - News Translator Squad.