The All-Embracing Look into Apples Latest Lineup

Today, after a week of rumors, Apple released a few exciting and revolutionary products. I’ve summed up the important parts and compiled the ultimate quick-look into their latest lineup…

Meet the Magic Mouse

The entire mouse has a seamless multi-touch surface!

It’s got low-profile design and seamless top shell – so sleek and dramatically different, it brings a whole new feel to the way you get around on your Mac. You can’t help but marvel at its smooth, buttonless appearance! The Multi-Touch area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the mouse itself is the button.

Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.

Click
Magic Mouse is an advanced point-and-click mouse that lets you click and double-click anywhere on its Multi-Touch surface.

Two-button click
Magic Mouse functions as a two-button mouse when you enable Secondary Click in System Preferences. Left-handed users can reassign left and right click, as well.

360° scroll
Brush one finger along the Multi-Touch surface to scroll in any direction and to pan a full 360 degrees.

Screen zoom
Hold down the Control key on your keyboard and scroll with one finger on Magic Mouse to enlarge items on your screen.

Two-finger swipe
Using two fingers, swipe left and right along the Multi-Touch surface to advance through pages in Safari or browse photos in iPhoto.

The New iMac with 21.5-inch and 27-inch displays!

The new iMac has come a long way from the first 15-inch iMac. A 21.5-inch or 27-inch display with edge-to-edge glass covers nearly the entire front of the enclosure. When all you see is the display, nothing gets between you and what’s onscreen. Movies, TV shows, websites, photos -everything looks stunning on the new 16:9 widescreen iMac display with higher resolution!

The new 21.5-inch iMac features 1920-by-1080 HD resolution. Apple engineers could simply have stretched that resolution up and out for the 27-inch iMac. Instead, they took the display well beyond HD with 2560-by-1440 resolution. That’s 78 percent more pixels than the 21.5-inch iMac!

In addition to every normal input, the new machine also has a SD card slot built-in to transfer your photos and videos to and from your iMac just as fast as you’re able to take them.  Just insert your camera’s memory card and import your photos to iPhoto.

Wall mountable? Yes, it’s easy to give your iMac a place of honor on the wall. The 27-inch iMac is compatible with the VESA Mount Adapter Kit for use with wall mounts and articulating arms.

Last, but not least, the specs are incredible! 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache; Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 3.46GHz; Hyper-Threading for up to eight virtual cores

Lastly the Durable Unibody MacBook

A mere 25.5 mm thin and even lighter at 1.8 kg, the sleek new MacBook cuts a slim profile on any desk (or in any backpack or briefcase). It features a new seamless, more durable unibody enclosure with rounded contours that make it easy to pick up and slide into and out of your bag.

And it’s made of rugged polycarbonate that withstands the rough and tumble of everyday life – at school, at work, or while traveling. Even the bottom of the new MacBook feels different. Covering its entire surface is a nonslip material that keeps your MacBook right where you put it, whether on a desk, table, or airplane tray.

Brilliant LED-Backlit Display - A glossy widescreen display with spectacular color and instant-on brightness.

Built-in 7-Hour Battery - Work or play for up to 7 hours between charges thanks to the long-lasting battery.1

Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad - Plenty of room to navigate and more innovative ways to interact with your MacBook.

Under the Hood - Advanced NVIDIA graphics, a fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, and a large drive up to 500GB.

MagSafe and More - A magnetic power connection, built-in wireless, SuperDrive, and ports for your everyday tasks.

Built-in iSight camera - Use the camera and iChat software to stay connected with friends and family.

Visit Apple for more info on everything above.

Turn Your Laptop Into a Desktop

If you use your MacBook as your main desktop computer, then you might find the BookArc appealing…

It’s a stand for your MacBook (regular, Air and Pro all work) that keeps it out of the way while it’s hooked up to your external monitor. You can position it so all your cables are and out of the way – personally, I can never have enough monitors, so I prefer a stand that actually lets me use the built-in screen.

Either way, it can be yours for $49 (about R390) from Twelvesouth.

Snow Leopard Finally Shows Itself

That’s right Mac lovers, it’s being released this week, right on schedule!

A glimpse at some of the new enhancements:

More Advanced Finder includes 64-bit support

It’s more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder. And it includes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that lets you thumb through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.

New look and features for Exposé

It’s now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one. So if you hold down the Pages icon, you’ll be shown the various templates for which you want to create a new file from.

Faster Time Machine backups

Now Snow Leopard makes Time Machine up to 80 percent faster and reduces the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule.

50% Faster wake up and shut down

Your Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. And shutting down is up to 80 percent faster, saving precious moments. Time to connect to wireless and ethernet connections is also reduced!

Smaller footprint

Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing up roughly 7GB of space for you.

A Leap forward for Quicktime

It includes a completely new QuickTime Player application with a clean, uncluttered design, a new trimming interface, and easy uploads to YouTube and MobileMe.

The Right Service

The Services menu in Mac OS X lets you use features of one application while working in another. In Snow Leopard, services are more simplified, streamlined, and helpful. The Services menu is contextual, so it shows just the services appropriate for the application you’re using or content you’re viewing rather than all available services.

And the Winner… Built-in Support for Microsoft Exchange

the Mac is the only computer with built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. So you can use your Mac — with all the features and applications you love, including Mail, iCal, and Address Book — at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one place.

iPod Shuffle Covered in Sweet Chocolate

Not too long ago, we showed you the new Apple iPod Shuffle. Today we’re showing you a nifty case for it that is shaped like a piece of chocolate. Isn’t it sweet?

It will protect your tiny music player, but there is no guarantee some fat kid won’t mistake it for the real thing!

Charge Me Up Scotty!

Although Mac’s are largely known to be much easier and more efficient to use, there’s no doubt why people just can’t put them down. The HyperMac is here to end the problem of having to charge up after hours and hours of potable usage. 4 different options are available to have your MacBook running for up to 32 hours on a single charge.

Happy Birthday Apple

No jokes on 1st April 1976 Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne (he stupidly sold out shortly after, that’s why we don’t hear about him).

Their first machine, the Apple I, generated enough cash for them to formerly incorporate roughly a year later. Who would have thought that a couple of decades down the line it would evolve into this:

We sure have come along way and it’s emphasised when we put it into perspective like this!

iPhone OS 3.0 Software

Apple have released a preview of the most advanced mobile phone platform yet…

There has been huge confusion in that many think there is a new iPhone 3 on the way – that’s kak!

What this means is that the software on the iPhone is being upgraded to include new features, applications and enhancements of which the following is included: Spotlight Search, Voice Recorder, Editable Voice Memos, MMS, Cut & Paste, Landscape Mail, Shake to undo, Shake to shuffle iPod, Stocks News Feeds and much much more!

This is the reason I just love my iPhone because unlike conventional smartphones, the OS can be upgraded and built on essentially making it capable of doing ANYTHING! I’m give it 6 months until someone uses it to make coffee!

New Apple iPod Shuffle

Being the complete brand whore that I am, I just love Apple products. In the last few weeks, despite the absence of Steve Jobs, they have released several less significant products. This one however is slightly more revolutionary and popped up just a few days ago on apple.com

It’s the new Shuffle, has 4GB of memory and has it’s controls on the earphones cable. Using three little buttons and VoiceOver feedback you can navigate through your music and playlists. Pretty sweet!