is it just me or did this left you...yawning?

Apple are full of bullshit, having to pay for an update is a kick in the ass to early adopters of the ipod touch. Their excuse is bullshit too. The psp has had many features added, same with ps3, xbox 360. All these additions were FREE!!!

There's something in the air alright! A rotting stinkin dick for charging us $20 for something that's free!

@Ajay: People actually bought PSPs? I thought the DS won. Also, Apple is singular - "is" instead of "are", douchewaffle.

yea.. it was overhyped. Yea, the new laptop is nice but the rest is pretty lackluster.

This is the reward people get for trying to be all nosey about Apple's plans prior to Macworld :)

Wow GADGETCHIC, I was intending to write that very thing as I was logging in.
I'm sure the small notebook is cool, but why two size screens? More than likely, one of them will be discontinued in a few months.
I'm not sure what the hoo-hah is over the rentals, I can beat that price at the video store around the corner that has 20-30,000 titles. Of course I can't keep them for 30 days, but I can keep the Netflix movies.
Not being an iPhoney, I don't understand it's stuff either.
Here's what I'd like to have seen. A Leopard update that'll take care of the constantly occurring annoyances from 10.5.1. As much as I'd like to, I can't even use Apple Mail for fear it will stop working at a job-critical time...like it has been.
I'd like to see streaming movie rentals that aren't so highly compressed their near unwatchable (hear that Netflix).
Give me an iMac update that'll fix the USB wake problem.
Give me a platform that is as stable as 10.4.x and I'll be much happier.

Has anyone else noticed how this was not a particularly good day for Blu-Ray?
Apple put out two new products that imply that the whole optical drive thing is on a dead-end.
HD DVD has definitely had worse days this month, but it can't be encouraging that one of the big Blu-Ray partners seems to be placing its best on download.

@matt1978: PSPs are on the attack after the revision. The black ones are pretty much sold out everywhere.

@Lorne:

Good point

This keynote disappointed me. I would never get a ultra portable since I don't need one and I would have almost no use for it. I don't have an iPhone and I don't have 20 dollars to spend on a some stupid apps on the Touch that should have both been there already and should be free. What I was really looking forward to was a Leopard update. Maybe with a nice speed increase. I already have an external hard drive for backups.

It pretty much put me in a bad mood. I waited all year and barely got through last week waiting for the keynote and this is what I get for it. Even though Apple is my favorite electronics, I'm still very disappointed in what was shown today. Hopefully they'll get their act together for next year's keynote.

Don't fret people! Jobs will be back on stage pretty soon with new stuff. Like he said, this is only the first 2 weeks of a new year. I'm waiting for the 32GB iTouch. Perhaps an iPhone Nano? Macbook update too!

Could Steve's RDF be wearing down? The last few product announcements have been pretty Meh for me and this one is more of the same. Maybe if the Air rolled in at $1000 instead of $1800... It doesn't even come with a remote. And this opens up the market for other companies to make non upgradeable 'device' laptops as well. Bah.

Wow, disappointing.

The MB Air is nice, but not impressive enough all by itself. Would've been a nice compliment to a new MBP though.

@matt1978:
If he's from England, then it's okay. Companies are always plural to them, because their made up of more than one person (at least that's how I understand it).

Thats it? Apple TV Upgrade and the Air laptop? 1 new product? CES and now Macworld failed to excite. The best thing to come out was the Eeepc with the 8 inch screen. Yawn

@shini(and everybody else): Let's sing the chorus line: 'I'm so disappointed...trala, trala...'

Has anyone seen Apple´s stocks today? They have gone down 5.5%, I guess this is a reflect of what we have seen on the Keynote.
---Whos going to pay 4$ for a movie when you can download it for free?
---Where is the capacity increase in the iphone and ipod touch?
---What are those 20$, is it a joke???!!!!
---Time capsule is not going to change the world
---We all want bigger screens in our laptops, they could have "aired" the current 15,4 and 17" models to make a really outstanding laptop.
Apple has missed a great chance to shake the market and cut Microsoft´s head. And the whole world was looking at them

@photophile: Who cares? I don't post on the Sun's website for the same reason.

@matt1978: wow, so indirectly defensive of this $20 charge.

Frankly I think the MB Air is a great idea-- I don't need cable ports and never use DVDs or CDs. I would download movies on to it and it would be excellent when I travel (which is often).

Unfortunately I'm locked into a ginormous Dell from my company.

@shini: Agreed. Everything nowadways seems gimped. Wireless keyboard with no number pad, no streaming audio via bluetooth for iphone etc.. It's as though they purposely leave stuff out for future iterations.

and yes, Leopard is slower

I think I'll be the one individual who comes out and says can the yawns and hush up the complaints. Tough words, eh?

You've all been through a couple announcements that were huge, specifically the iphone and touch, and to a lesser extent the lackluster tv and newly revisioned imacs. It might tbe Jobs' fault for setting the bar so high, but you've got to reset your expectations and recognize that this is more like an update, a grace note to last years success.

I know I'm opening myself up here, but jeez people. C'mon. Maybe if you quit fawning long enough you might realize that not every announcement will feature the second coming.

And not a peep about the SDK slide? I haven't seen any additional info on that show up, have they provided an SDK for the iphone--what was that all about?

Please, for the love of God, stop this insanity of Mac Mac Mac Mac Mac Mac Mac wwwwaaaahhhhh the world not only turns arround mac, I am getting tired of getting to my best internet site and see another MAC article.

@amgra:

.... mac

@amgra:
I completely agree and hope to god someone can remind me how to filter out all apple related posts so I can read other news without having to go through 10 pages of MACWORLD crap.

im sorry, but i cant read this blog for a while after 2 full pages of nothing but mac/apple. I understand some people (less than 5%) of all computer users may be interested in buying nothing but apple products to match their ikea furniture; but as a pc and linux user all this MacLovin' here is making me want to divert my attention to a certain other blog whom i wont name here. Though i'll never leave the consumerist, that shit is my homepage.

In short, give macword SOME attention; don't kill this awesome blog by letting Apple fanboys do nothing but TWO PAGES of posts on macworld.

Yah, I think you guys are just way to fucking expectant. Apple does one thing above all else, and that's release finished products, that are well thought out, and ready for prime time. These things take time, its not like that company can say "okay today we're going to reinvent the macbook, tomorrow the iPhone, then the mac pro, and we'll take the rest of the week off, but next week we'd better get a new iMac ready..." I wasn't really expecting much, so the time capsule and macbook air are both pretty impressive to me. What stuck out most to me during this presentation was when he showed the shot of the actual board in the new macbook air with the cpu and gpu, and everything else built in. It was tiny as hell, and then I got to thinking. Why the fuck would intel go through the trouble of re-designing their processor just for this one laptop. Sure its cool, and it got peoples attention and they will surely sell the processor to sony and everyone else as they attempt to play the catch up game again. But I have to imagine apple has something up their sleeves (plural and i'm not from the UK). Either a tablet of some sort, or maybe a umpc or something. I don't know, he stressed screen size so much i have to imagine it's the former, and this is all just me throwing it out there. I don't even want a tablet myself, I'm happy on a laptop, but I have to imagine with what they've learned from the iPhone, and multitouch and all that business, a larger product is on the horizon that will either be super amazing, and everyone will have one, and it will change computing, or it will be like the first apple tv, and languish.

Also what's up with the dude from intel chef boyardee or whatever showing up, and talking about all the great innovation, and they can't throw wimax into the mix? That bummed me out.

And I'm still surprised by the lack of redesign on the monitor front. They need iSights, and they need LED backlighting, c'mon Steve. And the mac pro really ought to get a refresh as far as it's case goes.

I did really appreciate the disc drive feature for the Macbook Air, being able to use someone elses to install stuff is fresh, although I thought he was going to announce software downloads from iTunes... which I have to imagine is coming....

So all and all Apple's still there, and still coming year after year, and I think we can all expect amazing things from them. Just not every couple months.

I was underwhelmed with this keynote. It had EVERY opportunity to be the biggest keynote in Apple history, coming off of their biggest year in company history. They had the momentum and CASH to do something mind-blowing, and they didn't.

I suppose part of the let-down was that most of the announcements were known before the keynote. We knew they were going to update the iPhone and Apple TV. They did. We knew they were going to come out with an ultra-portable. They did. iTunes rentals are nice, but not huge. I'll still rent from Netfrix, rip, and watch on Apple TV.

Time Capsule is nice, but it's a necessity of the new tech, not mind-blowing. Plus I can buy a 1TB drive for far less.

Yes, the Macbook Air was crazy cool, but we all expected updates to the Macbook and Macbook Pro and didn't get that.

iPhone: what happened to 3G and a 16GB model? iPod Touch has 16GB, why not announce a 16GB or a 32GB iPhone? The s/w enhancements were really 'neat' but the GPS doesn't even work in my major metro area and what's still missing are important productivity gems like copy+paste, faster mail (it's so slow, c'mon), and the ability to delete multiple (or all) messages in an inbox (two finger gesture to highlight multiple messages with a delete option is all it takes here Stevie baby).

No BOOMs.

No "One more thing..."

And Randy Newman looked drunk.

Boo hoo... I got all worked up for nothing. What a let down...

Nothing really for me to spend my money on either. I was hoping for an AppleTV hardware upgrade. I thought B-Ray would make a showing.

All this disappointment linked with Office2008 not supporting full Exchange...today has been quite the let down. Go thing I don't live in a high rise apartment with windows that open.

@crimsonfury:

Well, when Linux comes out with something interesting, you let us know.

..oh right.

Seems like Gizmodo has two things on their minds today:

1.) MACWORLD
2.) Masturbation

I wonder if they're related.

Sorry, the Air is just that....slick packaging without any great substance...I use several Apple products ( MacPro, MBP 15, iMac, iPhone, iTouch) and always looked at Apple coming up with something exciting....Not so this time. The Sony VAIO SZ whips the air out of air. For not very much addition to the weight, you get Optical drive, nVidia 8400, 2.5 GHZ clocking on a CPU with 8MB cache and more. The only thing that I would lust for are the Multi-touch trackpad and keyboard backlighting....

How about coverage other than Apple? elgato? Garmin? Logitech? Adobe? etc??????

Macworld really underwhelmed the market.

AAPL closed at $169.04. That meant Apple's share price went down $-9.74 or -5.45% on the stock price. Everything went down today, but you'll have to look really really hard to find another major tech stock that sank -5.45% today.

@Lorne: Do you really think so? I would disagree with you. Optical media makes sense on a technical and logical level.

Memory hierarchy dictates that some things will just be faster than others, and we build computers according to that. Extremely fast Level 1 Cache that builds up to Level 2, then RAM, then hard drive, etc. My point is, an internal drive will always be faster than something network based--after all, the solution doesn't eliminate the optical media, it just offloads it to something else. There is no doubt that this solution will be slower and less convenient than the Macbook Air having its own drive.

Logically speaking, I always find physical media to be helping in categorizing. I am seriously considering buying a BD drive (and corresponding media) to watch shows; hard drive space isn't infinite, and even if it was, they get corrupted and/or need to be formatted from time to time. Having a physical disc on hand makes it much easier to find the show you want and also eliminates the possibility that a massive amount of stuff gets nuked at one time.

Uh everything was down in the market. Apple always falls following announcements b/c even Steve can't match the expectations of shareholders.

AAPL did fall another 6.03 to 163 in after hours. THat's 8.8%

@lucky_you: Sorry, but distributions of Linux don't come with black clothes, beanies, and superiority complexes; you will probably never be interested.

Keep this blog about technology, not about mac/apple.

@lucky_you: pwned.

A toast to impossible expectations!

nothing about a iphone v2?? what a major disappointment. Jobs, you suck.

Let's get this straight:

He alters the culture's aesthetic, reinvents music distribution, redefines mobile hardware, sets the standard for user interface... oh, and survives pancreatic cancer. Then Steve gets bitched-out because today's keynote ONLY introduced a redefining notebook and the iTuning of movie distribution.

Criticism without accomplishment is a hallmark of amateurs.

@crimsonfury:
LOL.
No one forces you to read (much less write about) Apple hardware.
Move out. Find a girl. Be happy.

For 1800 dollar youd expect at least a freakin' optical drive and more than 80 GB's of HDD. Heaven forbid Microsoft release something like this. Apple is the only company that could get away with crap like that, trying to say 'its built for wireless'. Last time i checked I still need CD's to install 3rd party programs and games........

@Luuey: Its classic marketing, take a limitation and advertise it as a feature.

For the best in apple fanboyism, visit Engadget (or Engapple as i call them.)

Gizmodo is for the sensible gadget junkie.

To much fucking macworld coverage, give