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New MacBook Pro Battery: More, Longer, but Locked In

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
The MacDaddyBook Pro

The MacDaddyBook Pro

Not only can you NOT upgrade the battery but you can’t upgrade the hard drive nor the RAM (without major surgery). Memory upgrade is a must IMO as I have always upgraded the RAM at one point or another. The other problem is that your now forced to get the 8Gigs if you want an update from Apple at the ridiculous price of $1,200. Oh… and the battery… if you think you’ll get 8 hours, I would like to introduce you to this Nigerian prince I know.

Apple Keynote Summary

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

iPhoto 09
• Face Recognition
• Geo-tagging
• Facebook and Flickr Integration
• Slideshow themes that can be saved to iPhone/iPod

iMovie 09
• Precision Editor
• Advanced Drag & Drop
• Dynamic Themes
• Animated Travel Maps (like in Indiana Jones)
• Video Stabilization
• FX Library (they got cut and are now back)

Garage Band
• Learn to Play lessons
• Celeb lessons at $4.99

iTunes
• 3 pricing tiers. $0.99 cents, $0.69 cents, and $1.29
• Starting today, 8 million (out of 10 million) songs are now DRM free (this is HUGE)

(What happened to iWeb?)

Keynote
• New transitions
• New animations
• New themes (yawn)
• Keynote Remote app for iPhone/iPod
• Magic Move (auto-tweening)

Pages
• Fullscreen mode
• Dynamic Outline View/Mode
• Mail merge with Numbers
• New Themes

Numbers
• Table categories
• Advanced Chart options
• Numbers + Pages integration (between functions and charts)

Mac Box Set (iLife + iWork) for $169.

New iWork.com site to share, edit and download your docs with PC/Mac peeps.