WWDC 08: .Mac Becomes MobileMe, New iPhone Announced...

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 8:36 am

Tracking the WWDC liveblogs right now and it looks like .Mac is going to get beefed up a bit. Also the 3G iphone has been officially confirmed.

More to come...

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 9th, 2008, 8:42 am

Yea I got a advanced alert of this on a blog a few weeks back. It was speculation at that point.. but everything pointed to that as true.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 8:54 am

Yep, here's the iPhone 3G. Coming July 11...

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/s ... co=MTE2NTQ

$199 for 8GB!!! And a white version too!!!

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 9th, 2008, 8:57 am

GPS cool. I've got to get this new one. :wink:

DaJudge · Postby **DaJudge** » June 9th, 2008, 9:01 am

EagerBeaver wrote:Yep, here's the iPhone 3G. Coming July 11...

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/s ... co=MTE2NTQ

$199 for 8GB!!! And a white version too!!!

Clutch the pearls... I'm all aquiver.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 9:26 am

You know what they say about early adopters like myself, haha.

one love · Postby **one love** » June 9th, 2008, 9:43 am

I will say i have asked a lot of people and they claim the Mac's dont have near as many problems and last longer. Also they are more user friendly. ONce I get some money again I may get one.

I will most likely get a P.C. since i have a laptop but i do like that real thin mac notebook anyone know how good that it is?

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 9:46 am

one love wrote:I will say i have asked a lot of people and they claim the Mac's dont have near as many problems and last longer. Also they are more user friendly. ONce I get some money again I may get one.

I will most likely get a P.C. since i have a laptop but i do like that real thin mac notebook anyone know how good that it is?

I have a friend who owns one. Says he likes it for portability but he can't connect his videocamera to it, some USB sticks don't fit in because of the design and so forth and so forth.

He says the MacBook Air is a good idea, it's just a couple years ahead of its time and he's disappointed he adopted early instead of waiting for a redesign.

one love · Postby **one love** » June 9th, 2008, 9:49 am

EagerBeaver wrote:
one love wrote:I will say i have asked a lot of people and they claim the Mac's dont have near as many problems and last longer. Also they are more user friendly. ONce I get some money again I may get one.

I will most likely get a P.C. since i have a laptop but i do like that real thin mac notebook anyone know how good that it is?

I have a friend who owns one. Says he likes it for portability but he can't connect his videocamera to it, some USB sticks don't fit in because of the design and so forth and so forth.

He says the MacBook Air is a good idea, it's just a couple years ahead of its time and he's disappointed he adopted early instead of waiting for a redesign.

do you have a laptop or PC, im wondering which i should get I felt since i have a laptop and my current pc is not even being used because it has problems that I should get a PC, however I LOVE LABTOPS......any advice?

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 9th, 2008, 9:49 am

If you're not bleeding edge.. just go with a MacBook or MacBook Pro. If you are stable.. you can't beat the 24" plus iMacs.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 9:55 am

MacUser wrote:If you're not bleeding edge.. just go with a MacBook or MacBook Pro. If you are stable.. you can't beat the 24" plus iMacs.

One of the video editing stations at my work is a 24" white iMac. Renders video so quick on Avid Xpress. 500GB of storage...and to think the iMac is basically a desktop with laptop parts, it's pretty astounding.

MacBook should suit you fine unless you're doing some pretty intensive work.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » June 9th, 2008, 10:08 am

iphone - bah - the price is certainly coming to a normalcy, but come on guy's - 8 or 16g?!?!??!? that's like having an air without ports - oh wait. :roll:

phones are free now a days, so having to be limited to 16g on a media device is just silly now a days, especially when it is supposed to be cutting edge. (not even memory-expandable, are they going tor "retro-tech"?)

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 10:13 am

RamboPreacher wrote:iphone - bah - the price is certainly coming to a normalcy, but come on guy's - 8 or 16g?!?!??!? that's like having an air without ports - oh wait.

phones are free now a days, so having to be limited to 16g on a media device is just silly now a days, especially when it is supposed to be cutting edge. (not even memory-expandable, are they going tor "retro-tech"?)

Don't be a killjoy, man.

You can't tell me that despite the memory size limitations, Apple doesn't know how to create a quality computer platform such as the iPhone and market it well.

My iPhone is used as an actual phone maybe 3% of the time I actually use the thing.

Postby **Pastor Gary** » June 9th, 2008, 10:20 am

Any of you guys who frequent the Apple rumor sites have any idea if there are any plans to port a version of Word/Excel to the iPhone? I know the memory limitations would make it difficult to save tons of documents along for the ride (My user folder on my MacBook Pro is 120 GIGS and I have a 500 GIG external for archives!) -- but the ability to edit/create a simple Word doc on the run is on my wish list.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » June 9th, 2008, 10:24 am

Pastor Gary wrote:Any of you guys who frequent the Apple rumor sites have any idea if there are any plans to port a version of Word/Excel to the iPhone? I know the memory limitations would make it difficult to save tons of documents along for the ride (My user folder on my MacBook Pro is 120 GIGS and I have a 500 GIG external for archives!) -- but the ability to edit/create a simple Word doc on the run is on my wish list.

Not entirely sure, even though it looks like MobileMe may carry some sort of export functionality...not sure though.

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