I've ditched itunes more because it's a resource hog than anything else. Appart from a few tracks unavailable, I've moved totally to Amazon's mp3 store.

The new 17" Macbook Pro is essentially a large iPod Touch. want to remove the battery, to bad, you are SOL.

It's for professionals, well why does professionals need 2 graphics cards. Personally I'd rather have a removable battery, able to add another hard drive like a lot of other laptops out there and able to swap out the CD/DVD drive later to a Blue-Ray.

Why oh why does this thing have no number pad?

Argh!

I was waiting for the imac and mini refreshes... now what to do... :(

The current lineup is now obviously too expensive (6+ months on the imacs, over a year for the mini?) and I was supposed to provide a user-friendly machine for computer-challenged relatives with minimal maintenance needs (anti-virus, firewall and whatnot...)...

Dammit :(

So, how can they sell DRM-free music and hope that people won't pirate it?

Existing iTunes users get the "privelege" of spending an additional 0.30 per song to get DRM-free versions of their entire purchase history.

Which is kinda nice for me, since I lost some of those tracks and never could figure out how to re-download them.

iLife salvaged this keynote from being awful. Forget the giant Macbook Pro - hardly anybody buys those, right? 8 hours of battery life is sweet, hopefully they find a way to get that through their entire line.

seams a little pricey??? for those specs

I always am behind on finding things I guess. I'm not an aggressive enough shopper to find bargains. Though I did find that you can get pretty good used CD's from Hastings online. I bought a used cd from them online and when it arrived, zero scratches. They probably polished it or something, but still, can't beat a scratchless cd. As far as downloading music from iTunes and similar music services, I love the convenience and instant gratification, but I am sort of an Audiophile, and I love my music to sound as good as it can. I used to have a pair of Bose 901's, but donated them to a church to reduce my clutter. Still have my Bose 5.1 accoustimass speakers though, pretty good for music and movies, still waiting on a new Denon receiver I ordered from crutchfield to arrive. I'm getting off track. On a good set of speakers, I can definitely tell the difference between downloaded music and a cd. Too bad Sony's SACD or DVD-AUDIO never took off. I had a few DVD-AUDIO disks and they sounded totally excellent. I would gladly pay a buck or more a song if they provided it in a 24-bit, 192khz download. But that will NEVER happen.

Craptastic! Now I shalt purchase DRM free music! Can anybody say, no more authentication? I hopeth anyway!

eh ill get the 80 gig MacBook wheel...

Wow... that's retardedly expensive for what it is. Maybe if it had a bluray player it would be "worth" that much money.

Maybe I just don't get the appeal of 17" lapcrushers.

the $2,799 starting price gets you a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics,

so which is it? the 9400 or 9600?

Where's the refreshed Mac Mini? Goddamnit Apple is being so retarded.

The announcement was that ALL iTunes tracks were going DRM free, not just a subset and not just the $1.29 tracks. The deal announced is:

1. 8 million tracks DRM free today.
2. Remaining 2 million tracks going DRM free over this quarter.
3. Conversion complete by March and iTunes store will be 100% DRM free for music (presumably, video wasn't mentioned).
4. Existing customers will be able to convert their existing library to DRM free "easily". No word on if there will be a fee (though the rumor is no).
5. Tiered pricing was the sacrifice Apple had to make to accomplish this (though they were able to limit it to 3 fixed tiers rather than the sliding scale the labels wanted). Tier has nothing to do with quality or DRM status.
6. All tracks will be sold in the higher quality 256k AAC format (once they are DRM free).

This post causes Britney Spears to appear on our front page. Doesn't anyone else have a problem with that?

Yet jacks their prices up and knifes users in the back on going DRM free. $1.29 for a single song? I thought the attraction to theser services was price. How is Amazon able to maintain their system, DRM free all along, and Apple can't pull this for their users?

this is still not that much better than my 2.4ghz with 4gb and an 8600GT.

better battery though, but i hear it's not removable. I'm gonna chill with my mine will they release a quad core with blu-ray.