Week in review: Thin is in at Apple
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The new all-in-one iMac G5 desktop tucks all of its components, including its hard drive, processor and DVD drive, behind a wide-screen liquid crystal display.
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âThe phone is so sleek and thin,â reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that âit makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.â And the software transcends. âItâs fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.â If you need âto answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.â As for email, itâs âfantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.â And âthe Web browser,â he points out, âis the real dazzler.â No âstripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip â much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.â In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, âthe most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.â
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Tired of Apple's elegant, understated product design? A host of companies banish the bland with custom designs for iPhones, iPods, MacBooks and other products. Commentary by Leander Kahney.
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Last week, Computerworld offered up a list of 15 things in Apple's Mac OS X that needed changing. This week, it's the readers' turn.
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How much is two months of fashion-forwardness worth? About $200, judging by Apple's precipitous iPhone price cut on Wednesday -- or a whole lot of customer goodwill, judging by user reaction to Steve Jobs' announcement.
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Rumor has it that Apple will announce a super-slim laptop and online movie rentals at its Macworld conference next week.
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First, let me gloat.  I bought $49,761 of AAPL on Oct 8.  My investment is now worth $54,933. That's 10.5 percent growth in less than a month. Hah! I bought the stock because I was going to buy everything Apple sold from now until forever. The last product I had yet to purchase was the company's stock. That was a mistake. The beauty of owning the stock is that you can use the increase in value to fund the hardware habit. So far so good.  My very dear friend Sylvia Paull bought an iPod a month ago. In a blog post today she calls it a gateway drug. Having read early reviews of the new operating system, she's ready to buy a 24 inch iMac.  I recognize the signs.  It's like a virus I tell you.
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As the annual Consumer  Electronics Show in Las Vegas winds down to lackluster reviews,  Apple Inc  is expected to grab the spotlight with an  ultra-slim laptop computer and online movie rentals at its  biggest annual show next week.
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Reviewing MacBook Air for the Daily Telegraph,  Claudine Beaumont notes that most of the staff there âhave found this lightweight laptop very impressive.â MacBook Air, she indicates âis a delightfully designed gadget, hewn from aluminum and glass, and draws amazed gasps from almost all who see it. Itâs hard to appreciate just how slim it is until you hold it for yourself.â While âthereâs no doubt the Air is beautifully designed,â Beaumont points out that it also â packs all of the powerhouse computing we expect from Apple.â
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SAN FRANCISCO - Apple introduced online movie rentals and the MacBook Air, a laptop small enough to fit in an manila envelope. The three-pound laptop is the "world's thinnest," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday at the annual Macworld conference. Jobs also touted new entertainment initiatives and an upgrade to Apple TV in his much-anticipated speech.
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Plus: Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers...Alltel profit, revenue rise...SanDisk earnings top estimates.
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Sure, there was the MacBook Air and the buzz around "thinnovation." But wasn't that -- pun intended -- too "thin" for a big media splash, especially compared to past years?
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Thanks to the Razr fad, there are plenty of thin phones out there by now. But in terms of sheer smallness, the options remain slim.
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Apple introduced a new iTunes movie rental service and an ultralight Mac notebook that could set a new industry standard for thinness.
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MacBook Air users might need to move their new ultra-thin laptops to keep bits moving to and fro, Apple Inc. said in a note on its support site, just one of several problems posted now that the new portable has started shipping.
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Take that, Gateway: Steve Jobs rolls out slimmer, faster, aluminum-clad all-in-one computers.
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Science & environment: Â· Apple announces UK sale date for Â£269 gadgetÂ· Rural customers face network problems