My Opinion on Apple’s Jobsnote….

Now that Apple’s released em, I am going to post my inital Opinion on each:

Apple iPhone

Sleek Design.  Very nice looking.  I totally disagree with not including a keypad or a stylus.  All of that pressing on the screen is going to leave greasy goobers all over that beautiful screen.  PLUS they could have put Inkwell on it and had a Newton reborn.  Anyway, the two finger navigation is kind of intresting and we all saw the Demo from TED.  That’s almost exactly what this is.  Anyway, the network choice is lousy.  Cingular sucks.  They’d have been better off going with Verizon or Sprint.  Only EDGE and WiFi??  Not even HSDPA.  If they’d have gone the CDMA route, they’d have EVDO in the handset and then it would be great.  Why do you need  broadband?  Because with 8 gig max, you ain’t going to have a whole lot of Video on it so that means streaming.

Airport Extreme

Nice update.  Easy to see why they skipped it.  Even though 802.11N isn’t final just yet, it’s going to be soon and you’ll need this to stream highdef to your Apple TV.

Apple TV

A good idea, but I think they’d have been better off with just building it on top of the Mac Mini.  The price would have been higher, but then you’d have a bigger hard disk.  40 gig ain’t a whole lot anymore.  I’ll probably get one once I get a HDTV.  If I can hook it up to my regular old school TV then I’d go for it now.

In another blog, they mentioned this was the greatest keynote ever.  While it had some nice products,they are not THAT revolutionary.  No 8 core MacPro’s??  Maybe they are coming out later this week….

Apple Releases Apple TV and iPhone (in June)

Apple Inc (now Renamed) has brought out the new Apple TV which is a set top box that allows you to view anything in iTunes on your TV.  Movies, Photos and more on your TV.  Includes a 40 GB hard disk, HDMI and more.  Check out Apple TV.

Either I missed it in the Keynote, or they didn’t think it was a big deal, but Apple also brought out a new Airport Extreme Access Point that supports the new 802.22N draft.  Check out Airport Extreme.

Also, in 6 months on Cingular Apple’s iPhone will be released.  Available at the Apple Store or Cingular stores, the iPhone is a iPod smushed together with a smart phone and it runs Mac OS X.  Check out the iPhone.

Of these, I am more itnrested in the Apple TV box.   All of my stuff, music and video will fit on this but one thing….does it support old school TV’s like mine?  Might be a few more months until I get a HDTV.

All in all some intresting things.  One thing that surprised me a little was that they did not announce new 8 Core MacPros now that the Quad Core part is out from Intel.  We’ll see.  They will happen.

Oh and Apple, if you want a review, just send me one ‘mkay?? 

Putrid Play by OSU….

All I want to know is what happened?  We deserved to lose.  We looked like a High School team playing a college team.  I have never seen such a horrible performance.  All I want to know is what the hell happened?  We should have beat this team.  This tells me one thing….we need to schedule more SEC teams in our non Big Ten schedule.  Also, it would not surprise me to hear people calling for Tressel’a job.  It’s almost as if they did not practice….at all since Michigan.  Oh well.  See ya next year Buckeyes.