Way too much Apple coverage at Macworld -- it's all here

It was a big first day at Macworld -- maybe not iPhone big, but certainly big enough. We know most anyone who's not into Apple (and even a few who are) is ready for their regularly scheduled programming to return, and the good news is, for you, the Apple glut is over. But if you're not quite ready to let go (or missed the real-time wall to wall coverage), check it all out below.

Keynote

• Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote
• Stevenote video now live on Apple's site

MacBook Air

• The MacBook Air
• Apple MacBook Air first hands-on
• Video: MacBook Air hands-on
• MacBook Air: plenty more details
• MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery
• MacBook Air battery replacements: $129, free install!
• MacBook Air features Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• The MacBook Air SuperDrive
• Apple USB Ethernet Adapter brings RJ-45 to your MacBook Air
• Apple MacBook Air and MacBook Pro size showdown
• Apple offers up Micro-DVI to DVI / VGA / Video adapters for MacBook Air
• Apple announces Remote Disc to wirelessly install software on MacBook Air
• Meet the new MacBook family
• Apple's MacBook Air is available for pre-order
• First Macbook Air multi-touch control panel screenshot
• Poll: Did you pre-order a MacBook Air?

iPhone / iPod Touch

• Apple's sold 4 million iPhones since launch
• Apple adds five apps to the iPod touch -- for a price
• iPhone firmware 1.1.3 update announced: it's just like we heard
• Updated firmware 1.1.3 is available for iPhone and iPod touch, sort of
• The skinny on iPhone and iPod touch firmware 1.1.3
• Apple iPhone firmware 1.1.3 hands-on
• Video: iPhone firmware 1.1.3 doing its thing
• Apple TV (Take 2), iPod touch, and iPhone: yep, more details here, too
• Poll: Are you spending $20 on new iPod touch apps?

More (groan!) after the break.

iTunes movie rentals

• Apple introduces iTunes movie rentals, HD rentals
• Apple and Fox announce iTunes-ready digital copies on discs
• More details on Apple's iTunes movie / HD rentals
• Apple's iTunes 7.6 plays nice with 64-bit Vista

Apple TV

• Apple unveils the Apple TV, take 2
• Apple TV Take 2 hands-on
• Video: Apple TV Take 2 menu hands-on
• Apple TV (Take 2), iPod touch, and iPhone: yep, more details here, too

Time Capsule

• Apple introduces Time Capsule, a NAS companion to Time Machine
• Apple Time Capsule hands-on

Other

• Apple Macworld booth tour
• Apple ships five million copies of Leopard in three months

[Blabster @ Jan 15th 2008 9:39PM]

The question I have that I haven't seen addressed anywhere involves the hard drive. Can it be upgraded by the end-user? And, if so, what kind of hard drive would be necessary? Jobs said during the keynote speech that it uses basically the same HD as the iPod classic, but are these hard drive (in larger versions) available?

My only quibble about this is the 80 gig hard drive...why not more?

[Camperton @ Jan 15th 2008 9:46PM]

They're saving it for the new improved model that will come out in 6 months.

[Johnathon Zirkle @ Jan 15th 2008 9:46PM]

Its not meant to be your only computer. Its to complement your current computer by being more portable. So really you shouldn't need a huge hard drive. Its not spec'd for much more than office productivity anyways.

[Blabster @ Jan 15th 2008 9:49PM]

I don't need a supercomputer (at all, nor to carry around with me), but I do have a lot of videos, music, and pictures that I like having with me. 100 or 120 gigs would be an enormous improvement.

Toshiba makes a 160gig hard drive with the model number MK1626GCB. Does anyone know if this would fit in the Macbook Air?

[OmG @ Jan 15th 2008 11:05PM]

@ Johnathon Zirkle

But shure as hell is priced ALOT more isnt it?

Last I checked, I could buy a windows based DELL M1330 which is FAAAAAAAAR higher specced, FAAAAAAAAAAR better, and has been out for months now with interchangeable batteries, optical drive etc.. Just all around better, and wont make you feel like a complete retard for buying it. Not to mention it looks a TON better than this piece of apple crap.

[aaron @ Jan 15th 2008 11:28PM]

@OMG

FAAAAAAAAAR inferior OS on that Dell also.

[Camperton @ Jan 16th 2008 12:52AM]

It kind of reminds me of the G4 Cube of the new millennium. Well intentioned, but too pricey for something so esoteric and underpowered to really catch on.

[OmG @ Jan 16th 2008 2:17AM]

No, I'm shure you have that wrong, the OS is also FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR supeior as well.. so much infact that I just got finished playing Crysis, then COD4 MP before I read your dumbass comment..

enough said, END.

[BrianB @ Jan 16th 2008 2:39AM]

Just found this site maccomplainer.com.

[kb2zuz @ Jan 16th 2008 2:53AM]

Toshiba makes a 160GB drive, however I believe that uses an additional platter(s?) and is thicker. Compare the thickness of the 80GB iPod to the 160GB iPod. So from what I have a feeling the 80GB was chosen to minimize the size of the laptop.

If the HD is near the bottom plate, someone might make a replacement bottom plate with a bulge to accommodate the larger HD if there is a demand for it, however it's more likely that in 6 months you'll be able to buy a 200+GB drive in the same form factor, or possibly even an SSD with a good amount of storage.

Finally, do you really need to carry every movie and song you have with you everyday? If so, this is not the laptop for you. I need firewire to connect my laptop to digital camera backs when on shoots. Yes, this thing is sweet and portable, but it's not for me either. I sure looks cool though.

[Lokizilla @ Jan 16th 2008 8:52AM]

Back To My Mac means you can grab your files over the Internet, so you can leave them at home, and not have to swap out the HD quite so quickly.

Caveats: it requires a wifi internet connection, a Mac you've left on at home, and a .Mac subscription - thus making it completely useless.

[ZeroCorpse @ Jan 16th 2008 2:11PM]

@ OmG

So your criteria for a good OS is is "will it play Call of Duty 4?"

Grab a PS3 or XBox 360, dude. It sounds like you don't need a computer. You need a toy.

For those of us who want to get some work done, being able to play Call of Duty isn't our top priority. But you know what? I can still boot over to your crappy OS to play Call of Duty, and then pop back to OS X when I want to get back to work.

If your priority is gaming, then by all means: You need a PC or a video game console. Stay away from Apple. We don't want you polluting our user base until you're older and stop seeing everything in terms of whether or not it will play games at the highest FPS possible. Your needs are decidedly less sophisticated than the average MacBook Air buyer's would be.

[OmG @ Jan 16th 2008 7:13PM]

Yes ZeroCorpse , I SOOOOO badly needed that new 8core processor just to encode video, or do a document.

You pathetic apple queers disgust me. What exactly do YOU need an 8 core PC for? what the hell do YOU need 16GB of ram for? what the hell do YOU need an 8800GTX for?

It's Gaming hardware! FOR GAMES, or game development, and last I checked, they don't make respectable 3D dev software for that queer OS of yours do they? Thought not.

While your overspending just to be a prick loser who doesn't even know why you have in your pc what you have, and use an OS that can't utilize it at all, just to try and prove your better than... well nothing really, I'll be enjoying my PC the way I BUILT IT, and using it the way the hardware was MEANT TO BE USED.

I will never buy a console, almost as much as I would never buy a mac. It's unneccisary to have work and play seperate, and further complicate it, when everything can be seperated and done on one OS.

LAstly, I think ZeroCorpse , you need to see a counselor, you seem to hate your own life judging by the way you negatively write about other people enjoying themselves, work is not the only thing in the world, I think you need to grow up and realize that.

[aaron @ Jan 15th 2008 9:44PM]

Soooooo...Where's 10.5.2 ????

[Camperton @ Jan 15th 2008 9:44PM]

So how long are we gonna have to wait for a Macbook Pro refresh?

[Nick Catalano @ Jan 16th 2008 1:19AM]

It was refreshed not too long ago with the Santa Rosa chipset. That gave it 4GB of memory support and a LED backlight. Only thing that needs to be added is LED backlighting on the 17", but I don't believe such a thing exists yet (in production) although I am not 100% sure

To be honest, my Macbook Pro basically has all the features I need. I don't see any feature in any other notebook that would really add anything to the MBP (other than the new multitouch trackpad, but I find the entire 'pinch' thing annoying and would probably just turn it off)

Could also use a magnetic latch. Apple, you hear me? FIX YOUR LATCH/SPRING SO IT MAINTAINS ITS 'SPRING' FOR MORE THAN 2 MONTHS OR CHANGE IT TO MAGNETIC LIKE THE MACBOOK

[Camperton @ Jan 16th 2008 1:26AM]

I would also really, really like them to start using the new rubber feet like on the air and macbook that don't come off. That is years overdue! I would be happy with just that and a magnetic latch in a refresh.

[RyanTV @ Jan 15th 2008 9:46PM]

Great coverage of a mediocre day. I had such high hopes for this keynote.

The iPhone update is welcome, but no "boom" factor since it was all leaked weeks ago.
I don't care about renting movies over iTunes so that wasnt a draw.
The MBA is a cool gadget, but it isn't a pro level workhorse which is what I'm looking for and I most definitely wouldn't shell out that kind of coin for what is essentially a souped up EEEPC.

[JJV @ Jan 15th 2008 11:52PM]

Yeah me too, i was expecting a lot more. I guess once you've watched the iPhone keynote last year, you expect Steve to pull off something better..
I was also disappointed that there was no Mac Mini update which is long overdue for one.

Oh Well.

[Snipermonky @ Jan 15th 2008 9:49PM]

Engadget, please condense posts in the future. No need to have a post covering the replacement fee of the "air's" battery, only to be shortly followed by another post claiming it isn't user replaceable.

[tyler @ Jan 16th 2008 12:22AM]

I agree completely.. I love my MBP.. but that many Apple posts in a row is downright ridiculous..

[Constable Odo @ Jan 15th 2008 9:53PM]

What MacWorld coverage? It should go on for another week. I never get tired of Apple news. It turned out that there wasn't much interesting hardware, but what the heck. Just feeling the buzz and hype was invigorating.

[jamma @ Jan 16th 2008 12:25PM]

Go on for another week? Don't be ridiculous, by next week, they'll have another version of the Air, but all the people who pre-ordered the original will be shit upon.

I'm not watching and Apple keynote again until they release the £13 iPod Touch update for FREE! and it isn't even an update, it's unlocking software on an iPod that must already have 1.1.3!

Even MS gave free updates, and that was when the Zune was updated after a year, not three months.

Get it together Apple, or i'm going somewhere else for my music

[Dougal @ Jan 15th 2008 9:57PM]

Thank god this is over, maybe we can now start to talk about interesting stuff on engadget tomorrow?

[majortom @ Jan 15th 2008 10:03PM]

and please, please, no really, PLEASE tell Randy Newman to shut the FU*K UP. Jesus.....

[Phineas J. Whoopie @ Jan 15th 2008 10:06PM]

What wasn't mentioned today? ................. DRM-free music on iTunes.

[jamma @ Jan 16th 2008 1:05PM]

iPhone / iPod Touch SDK wasn't mentioned either, but that's probsbly because Apple want to charge for that too

[Andy M. @ Jan 15th 2008 10:09PM]

Wow what BS...every1 is lenient on Apple saying its a Foleo type machine... For AN $1800 laptop in 2008 id atleast expect a friggin optical drive. No other company would get away with creating a laptop as useless as our buds from CUpertino have given us

[MoonMan @ Jan 15th 2008 11:28PM]

The problem is that you expect everything from Apple to be tailor-made to suit YOUR taste, but sometimes, and I mean just sometimes (because you are always on Steve Jobs' mind), down at Cupertino, Big Steve is heard to say, "Aw, f*ck Andy M, let's just this one time make a product for a different market segment."

But chill dude, you can rest assured you are otherwise their main focus. So be a stand up guy and let Apple, just this one time, make a product for someone else other than you.

[Zed @ Jan 16th 2008 12:28AM]

so what happens for the rest of macworld? will they unveil anything else new? or was that it?

[BobTurbo @ Jan 15th 2008 10:13PM]

First impressions of MBA:

Step backward in design (like the widescreen iPods).

Gestures are excellent.

I would prefer 8GB of flash to 80gb normal and slow hdd.

[mark @ Jan 15th 2008 11:03PM]

you could opt for the $3,098.00 version of the MBA. gives you 64gb of solid-state hard drive.

[BigTeebo @ Jan 15th 2008 10:17PM]

Hey thanks for posting these links. It's not like Engadget had nothing but Apple-related articles for the last 40 or so.

[jborneman @ Jan 15th 2008 10:26PM]

41 of 49 posts in 8 hours are Apple related. Why not just rename the site macgadget? The only thing more annoying than Sony fanboys? Apple fanboys.

[puxpux @ Jan 15th 2008 10:36PM]

It's once per-freakin-year, get over it everyone.
(not a fanboy)

[Mtirv @ Jan 15th 2008 10:47PM]

It already exists, http://tuaw.com

[Simon @ Jan 15th 2008 10:53PM]

No there are two things more annoying than Sony fanboys:
1. Apple fanboys
2. Sycophantic engadget writers fawning/gushing over the latest Apple products

[3rdsun @ Jan 15th 2008 10:52PM]

Why do some people flame someone's comment of their idolistic corporation and end by saying "I'm not a fanboy". Its like you don't have the balls to back up your statement.

[muyiwa @ Jan 15th 2008 11:50PM]

@Simon:
how can u criticize engadget covering macworld...take a peek at the gizmodo writers they were even scared to criticize the shortcomings of the MBA...its as if apple pays the writers

http://gizmodo.com/345177/macbook-airs-fatal-flaw-battery-ram-hd-sealed-like-an-ipod

[Louis @ Jan 16th 2008 12:51AM]

Oh my god a gadget site covering a technology conference? Holy shit, why the hell would they do that? Seriously, Engadget, stop and listen to jborneman here, he has a wonderful, well thought out point. It's not like this is the biggest Apple event of the year and anything that happens, whether good or bad will affect the rest of the consumer electronics industry.

Seriously, how about you just skip over the posts if you don't care. No one gets on here to read you complain about how hard it is to move your finger a little bit more to skip over the articles or being 'forced' to read comments made by Apple fan boys. Engadget blogs about every piece of technology news under the sun, and today, it happened to be about Apple. Get over it.

[mark @ Jan 15th 2008 10:44PM]

i was really hoping the macbook air would be something like mac's answer to the asus eeepc. what a huge disappointment.

[Voice of Reason @ Jan 15th 2008 11:41PM]

Your parents were really hoping you would be a doctor, but, you work at MacDonald's. You are a huge disappointment...

[Paul @ Jan 15th 2008 10:45PM]

I want wireless syncing for my iPod!

[John Russell @ Jan 15th 2008 10:50PM]

Now if only you could have done something about the hundred and hundreds of CES Posts.

[Matt @ Jan 15th 2008 10:51PM]

So.... if you want to install Windows on the MBA, how do you do it without an optical drive?

Once you have Windows installed, how do you install Windows software?

[Tim @ Jan 16th 2008 8:37AM]

Who cares?

[aaron @ Jan 15th 2008 11:04PM]

Ummm..external optical drive.

[lladnar @ Jan 15th 2008 11:56PM]

I'm sure remote disk will let you install Windows. As far as using discs in windows, well thats not really apples job.

[BobTurbo @ Jan 15th 2008 10:55PM]

Second impressions: I don't think it will sell very well.

[Camperton @ Jan 16th 2008 12:46AM]

I think you're very right on this one. At that price most will look at this and get the Macbook instead.