2008: Apple's Year
By Dave Hecei dhecei@post-journal.com 2008 has been an amazing and interesting year for Apple and Macintoshes. We have yet again reached another years end with 2009 rapidly approaching. There have been new products released, software upgraded, and some odd things have occurred. As usual, the year started out at the MacWorld Expo 2008. The major release at the expo was the MacBook Air, something new for the MacBook line. The Air is a super thin ultraportable notebook, touted by Apple as the world’s thinnest notebook. To get the Air so thin, Apple did have to remove some stuff. There is no optical drive, but a small external USB Superdrive, DVD burner, is an available option. Apple, in their usual way, came up with a clever way to ‘borrow’ another computer’s DVD drive, as long as it was on the same network. This was software that works on both Macs and Windows PCs. Also missing were most of the ports. There is only one USB port, a video
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