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I want one of these!

But alas:

System Requirements

MacBook Air computer

Bugger!

From The Guardian:

It may be a critics’ favourite and a candidate for this year’s best film Oscar, but it seems that the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men is no match for the combined might of a bunch of digitally created extra-terrestrials - losing the battle to Aliens vs Predator: Requiem at the top of the UK box office.

Oh dear.
Is this the end serious cinema as we know it?

First impressions, having just read the spec.

For the record, I like small laptops. And I mean, I REALLY like small laptops. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sub-notebook I’d actually consider purchasing, be it Mac or PC.

And I can’t see that changing with the announcement of the MacBook Air.

I’m using a 1.83ghz Core2 MacBook with 1.5gb RAM at the moment.

An entry level MacBook Air is running at 1.63ghz and shipping with 2gb RAM.

While there’s not a lot of difference here, it is worth noting that the Air has 4mb of L2 cache on the chip (versus 2mb on the MacBook) and an 800mhz FSB (versus 667mhz on the MacBook). I’m unsure as to how much of a performance increase we’ll see from this. Have to wait and see.

Interesting to see a PATA instead of a SATA hard disk in the Air.

Multi-touch trackpad is a nice feature too. Looking forward to playing with that!

The Air certainly looks the part. It’s small, it’s light, spec is pretty good, looks amazing. Couldn’t ask for more.

Until…….

A: No Firewire.
B: No removal/upgradeable memory.
C: No optical drive as standard (available as an option)
D: No removable battery.
E: Hefty price tag

Any one (or maybe even two or three (at a push!)) of these would be acceptable, but all five really makes me shy away a bit, which is a real shame.

I was really hoping Apple would release a sub-notebook and not the iPhone-esque tablet thing that everyone’s been praying for, so I was really excited to see the MacBook Air release news.

I’m a little disappointed on initial inspection. That may change when I actually have one in front of me.

I’ll let you know when that happens.

WTF

Following my post about the excellent Multi-Safari:

Multi-Safari is broken in Leopard, but fear not!
A fix is available from Thomas Aylott.

Nice one!

More cool Wii remote stuff!

Via the BBC Website

BBC Radio 1 has banned the word “faggot” from the Pogues’ 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence.

…MacColl’s mother, Jean, called the ban “too ridiculous”, while the Pogues said they found it “amusing”.

It’s quite funny actually. Listen here

UPDATE

The BBC has backed down!

BBC Radio 1 has said it will allow the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York to be played on the station uncut, after criticism of a decision to censor it.

The world is full of strange people.

Firefighters had to turn a waterhose on a man armed with a samurai sword while attending a fire in Dundalk.

(Via BBC News.)

Awesome!

From Macworld News

A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young girls and used illicitly gained data to blackmail them.

If you read the article, yup, the guy’s a scumbag.
But 110 YEARS?!