Survey Says Apple Owners Have Sense Of Superiority: No… Really?

In another unnecessary line of surveys that tell you that guys think about sex more than women, or people who have a lot of sex have more chances of getting an STD. Such is the case with this survey taken at MacWorld, which says that Apple owners “are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large." No…. that just can’t be!

It goes on to say that Apple users have high indexes for "low modesty," "high perfectionism," and "high superiority". You’re kidding right? This just can’t be true. All of those “Get a Mac” commercials never come off as being smug or pretentious. This survey has to be an absolute lie, right? I don’t think that I know one Apple owner who has a “high superiority” complex. I don’t recall any Apple owner referring to PC owners as “the dark side” or saying “owning a PC is like driving a Hyundai, why do it if you can own a Mercedes”. This survey is just lies a untruths to make Apple owners look bad. It’s just not true.

\Sarcasm off

[Engadget]

MacBook Sealed Up AIR Tight: Like ipods

As some of the excitement dies down from the MacWorld convention, some interesting questions are coming up about the new MacBook Air. One of them is Apple’s decision to seal the notebook up like the ipods. This doesn’t allow you to change the battery out (when Apple says 5 hours is all you get, they mean it), upgrade the memory, replace the hard drive, and there’s no Ethernet port.

I imagine that Apple will have add on features to address these major issues, but for an $1,800 notebook, I think you should have the option to make some changes to it.

Not sure that I like that!

[Gizmodo]

MacBook Air: Worlds Thinnest Notebook

Crunchgear has already gotten their dirty hands on the new MacBook Air that Apple rolled out at MacWorld today. And I have to say that it’s gorgeous, and the LED backlit display is hot. The 13.3-inch widescreen LED display has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.66 GHz, 80GB hard drive standard with a 64GB flash drive optional. It uses a multi-touch trackpad with Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 2GB RAM standard.

All wrapped up in a 3 pound package for $1,799.

You can pre-order it today and it will ship in two weeks. Apple was nice enough to put together a demo video for you right here.

[Crunchgear]

Apple TV Take 2: Price Dropped To $229, No PC Required

So Lord Jobs has admitted the error of his ways (or rather Apple TV) and are re-launching Apple TV Take 2. First and foremost Apple dropped the price to $229, and it doesn’t require a computer to download and stream to your TV. You can rent from iTunes right on your set, with rentals for $3.99 and HD rentals at $4.99. Movies will be available in HD Dolby 5.1, and you will be able to do podcasting, photos from Flickr and .Mac directly to the box. And all this is free software upgrade that will be available in 2 weeks.

The cheaper price starts today though, so go get it kids.

[Crunchgear]

Concept iphone Ordering Screen For Starbucks

Apple has talked about how they will have a ordering and paying patent for iphone, and it looking like that might be coming to light. These concept designs were created by Phil Lu, and they look pretty real. Turns out that Apple didn't go with this design, choosing to go with a credit card payment system instead of Lu's Semacode to confirm payment. Lu's answer to this:

"This concept was designed before the Apple patent is widely publicized. Similar to ordering song through the web via iTune account, Semacode works like a digital "receipt," allowing the user to use their iTunes account for the transaction (which will bypass credit card transaction/identification, and speed up the pick-up process)."

Although these designs look so good, we'll have to wait until MacWorld to find out what it will truly look like.

[Genoco via Gizmodo]