Stevenote video now live on Apple's site

You brought AOL to its knees, you took out the Apple online store, but now the true test: can the power of one billion fanboys take on Akamai?

Update: The answer was a quick yes -- but we're sneaky and figured out the direct link. Have fun, kids.

[distantbody @ Jan 15th 2008 3:27PM]

PLUSES
-multi-touch


-led backlight (I should think so)


-nice enough design, just...


-usb bus-powered external disc drive is great, there are plenty of them but finally this one is good looking.



MINUSES
-lcd is an apple studio display


-reflective display, dear god why!?!?!?


-battery life is poor


-mechanical drive is standard; this is 2008 right?


-the black keyboard (ie non-matching) just feels spiteful


-the hinged ports look like a failure point, can't be too sure though


-IS THE BATTERY EVEN REPLACEABLE!?!?


-the specs would be acceptable if it had the looks of a shrunk-down MBP, but this is simply too curvy, I'm disappointed with it. I mean yes it does look nice but imagining a ultraportable, slim MBP (with a *symmetrical* profile)... just makes this feel like second-best.


Sorry Steve. I was looking for a MBP with an SSD -- even just 8GB would have done!(with expandability) and this simply isn't that. I'm simply sick of dying hard disks! I'm not waiting for any redesign. I'm going to keep my money in my pocket for now and wait for vaio updates; at least they are sharper-looking.

The shark. Steve has jumped it.

[retro77 @ Jan 15th 2008 3:31PM]

The nice thing about SSD is that you can put one in any laptop. So when you get your "Air" just go buy an SSD for it. After the 64GB ones come down, I'm putting one in my XPS.

[BradVT @ Jan 15th 2008 3:31PM]

Yeah, this is 2008, and in 2008 SSD is still too expensive to put in every computer. At least you have the option to spend another thousand dollars, would you rather apple make that choice for you?

[Apple makes garbage @ Jan 15th 2008 3:33PM]

Apple usually makes that choice for us: Example, 1800 dollars for a garbage laptop that isn't even shaped properly :)

[retro77 @ Jan 15th 2008 3:25PM]

The answer is yes.

[applefreak @ Jan 15th 2008 3:34PM]

dito

[thef1re @ Jan 15th 2008 4:43PM]

the answer is: direct download link !!

[gijs @ Jan 15th 2008 3:28PM]

It can, the video feed is breaking up all the time.

[DJDevine @ Jan 15th 2008 3:28PM]

dial G for go baby go!

[Wes Joyce @ Jan 15th 2008 3:28PM]

cant wait to get home!!!!!!

[Apple makes garbage @ Jan 15th 2008 3:29PM]

That link isn't working for me, the only place I could find video of it was here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTOoXpeNwMI

[retro77 @ Jan 15th 2008 3:52PM]

Nice video. Covers both Mac and current affairs.

[Steve B. @ Jan 15th 2008 3:31PM]

I found the link in the source code.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/f27853y2/m_972345688g_350_ref.mov

[Apple makes garbage @ Jan 15th 2008 3:32PM]

It was a joke, click on my link and you'll understand :)

[Steve B. @ Jan 15th 2008 3:35PM]

Love that video.

[Grandalf @ Jan 15th 2008 3:39PM]

Here he's talking about HD and how fast it is to get a rented video and stuff, and he present us with a measly 480x270 piece of feces video. Come on!

[i2ehan @ Jan 15th 2008 3:46PM]

This is the coolest release since the...

Oh, sorry...

Thought this was the Vista post!

[john @ Jan 15th 2008 4:36PM]

Is there a download (non streaming) version of this?

[Apple makes garbage @ Jan 15th 2008 4:45PM]

i would think if you put that link that's posted above: http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/f27853y2/m_972345688g_350_ref.mov
you could probably download it to your Personal Computing Device.

[OSnix*-geek @ Jan 15th 2008 5:25PM]

Did anyone notice that he says a NEW feature of "TIGER" is Time Machine... me thinks he flubbed that one. It through me through a loop when he said that.

[Stetson @ Jan 15th 2008 5:12PM]

Sadly this doesn't seem to work on Apple's own iPhone/iPod touch.

[Doc @ Jan 16th 2008 12:15AM]

Thanks for the link but,
This is ONLY a Streaming link not a Download link.
Last year it was up on itunes as a podcast. Hope they do it again!
If anyone knows how to save this as a full (.mov and not a .ref)
PLEASE TELL US?

[hotdogee @ Jan 16th 2008 1:11AM]

Hacked the link out of the mov files:

MP4:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/f27853y2/iphone/972345688g_1_ip.mp4

3GP:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/f27853y2/iphone/972345688g_1_ip.3gp

[Doc @ Jan 16th 2008 1:31AM]

Thanks so much for the link.
Mad Skills, you have them:)!