The MacBook Air, “the world’s thinnest notebook”, was announced by Steve Jobs today. He boasted that at its thickest point it is only 0.76 inches across.
The unit has a 13.3″ lcd monitor, a full sized keyboard, 2gig ram, 802.11n networking, webcam, dual core processor, and a choice of a regular or solid state hard drive. Quite an accomplishment! But where is the optical (cd/dvd) drive? There isn’t one! So it is not really fair to call it the world’s thinnest notebook as it doesn’t have all the components that most other notebooks have.
Still, if you don’t need to watch dvds on your laptop, and you’re happy renting films from itunes (as Steve would like), then it looks like a great little unit.
UPDATE Jan 17th 2008: The original embedded player has been restored and is now working again.
A lot of people have been messaging me about this, and I’m sorry to hear about it.
It seems as though ZVUE, in their infinite wisdom, have disabled the embedded videos on Putfile. They have been replaced with what looks like an embedded player, but clicking on it will take you to the Putfile site instead. If that is ok with you then thats great just leave the code as it is and people will be directed to the video on Putfile when they click it rather than viewing it on your site, myspace, ebay, or wherever you had embedded it.
I’ve not been working with ZVUE (who purchased Putfile) since the later part of last year, so if you would like to complain please open a support ticket or contact them through Zvue.com.
I’m sad to say, but it certainly is true, that Putfile simply doesn’t measure up to the competition anymore. ZVUE seem to be focusing on adding music videos and redesigning (cluttering) the site rather than adding any much needed core features (ftp upload, upload progress bar, friends, groups, message boards).
If you’re looking for a new video and/or photo host I’ve started using Flickr.com for photos and Dailymotion.com for videos both of which work really well.
Below is an example of the now defunct Putfile embedded player:
A video for ‘Blackwatch Prototype’ by Canadian Radical Entertainment was shown at CES this month. The game promises to be the next best shooter with realistic graphics, interactions, environments, and a very in-depth storyline.
Blackwatch is a top secret special forces branch of the US military who were set-up specifically to deal with biological outbreaks, wiping out everything in their path for the greater good. The story begins with a viral outbreak in New York city and Blackwatch are brought in to clean up the mess.