Postcards From Myself

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I am actually writing this while sitting in line in the Charleston humidity for the Apple store opening. It is 8:15 am, and I have been here for about two hours. Just because you want to know, I am number 34 in line behind a dog named Olive and her owner. The number one person in line got here last night at about 8:30 pm. The line and the waiting isn’t too bad, but the humidity is killer. Has to be about 95 percent! Combine that with a temperature of about 76 degrees and we are all drenched.

Well, here is hoping I get my iPhone this morning. I would hate to think that all I am going to get out of this is a free t-shirt. Of course I do get bragging rights to being one of the first people in the new Apple store. Is that geeky or what?!

The first Apple store in South Carolina is officially scheduled to open this Saturday, July 25th, at 10 am on King Street in Charleston. I can tell you that I for one am extremely excited. I will be there waiting for those doors to open!

Who else is going to be there? And the big question – how early do we need to start lining up? Damn I wish I hadn’t placed my iPhone order last Saturday.

I am a Mac fan, user, and evangelist. On the other hand I earn my living on PCs and Windows machines. And yes for those of you out there, I have used Linux too and continue to use it from time to time. But truth be told, they are all a pain and each one has its positive points and drawbacks. You have got to admit it — no matter how fond you are of the machine you use, at times you just want to scream at it.

You need to take a look at this video from YouTube. Basically a Southpark style remake of the famous Mac / PC ads from Apple, it hits the nail dead on the head. And in the end I do mean dead.

I really, really want one of these! At MacWorld a couple of days ago Steve Jobs introduced the newest Apple notebook – the MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest notebook and is small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope (hopefully a padded one). It will be available in February with base price of $1,799.

The MacBook Air Features:

• 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with 1280×800 pixel resolution
• Full-size and backlit keyboard
• Built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing
• 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache
• 800 MHz front-side bus
• 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor
• built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• 1 USB 2.0 port
• multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe
• (OPTIONAL) MacBook Air SuperDrive (external drive via USB).
• Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters)
• 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
• 1 headphone port

Macbook Air has a slightly wedge-shaped profile. It weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep.

This is one seriously cool machine. It is exactly what I want for carrying around with me to places like Panera Bread, Starbucks, the library and such where I can grab that wireless signal and work away to my hearts content. Or better yet, not get the wireless and actually concentrate on writing and not surfing the web.

For a bit of a review and some cool video, check out AppleInsider’s First Look.