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Steve Jobs: The Opera (June 2009)

One of the biggest news about Apple this week is none other than the Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Steve Jobs having liver transplant. The news was first broke by Wall Street Journal shortly after iPhone 3GS (formerly iPhone 3G S) was released and the stock market closed. It is speculated that WSJ was informed from within Apple’s own since WSJ did not mention their sources which is a little bit out of the ordinary.

Steve Jobs was then reportedly back in Apple’s Cupertino Campus on Monday June 22nd, 2009. Anecdotally, it was reported that Jobs’ first order of business is to correct the nomenclature of the new iPhone, striking the extra space. Thus the iPhone 3G S is now known as iPhone 3GS.

In the meantime, many questions Apple’s practice in keeping secrets about Steve Jobs health. Some even believe that Apple broke the law for failing to disclose Steve Jobs’ liver transplant. There is Steve Jobs the CEO of Apple Inc., a publicly traded company and there is Steve Jobs a private citizen.

On Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 Metodhist University Hospital confirmed Steve Job’s liver transplant in a PDF statement. As stated in press release Steve Jobs gave the permission for such information to be made public. Thus further the speculation that WSJ’s source is none other than Apple itself.

I for one am glad that Steve Jobs is back and I wish him the best.

More articles about the return of Steve Jobs:

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Anything Goes: June 22nd, 2009 Edition.

It’s Monday and I feel fine. It’s not even close to the end of the world.

News from the series of tubes:

to be continued…….maybe

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Anything Goes: June 21st, 2009 Father’s Day and Summer Solstice Edition.

Happy Father’s Day and Summer Solstice!

The day is not over yet.

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Apple WWDC 2009 Live Coverage Links

As usual, numbers of sites will be providing live coverage of Apple WWDC. More links will be added as they are found. Links will be updated as they are confirmed.

NOTES:
According to a completely bogus information from an imaginary person who is definitely not Phil Schiller:

  • New iPhone OS 3.0 will be released on Monday/Tuesday following WWDC 2009 Keynote.
    Please note that iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 will definitely expire by the end of June.
  • iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade will be released ahead of the new iPhone.
  • A “few words” regarding Apple’s portable computers during WWDC.
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Steve Jobs Breaks The Silence

Apple has posted a letter from Steve Jobs addressing the rumors about his health.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

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The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

In addition to that, Apple’s Board of Directors also releases a statement supporting Steve Jobs.

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The Upcoming Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro

Let’s recap what went on Apple’s “The spotlight turns to notebooks” event. Steve Jobs unveiled new 15-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook, dubbed as “Late 2008” model. They are also described as Aluminum and Glass MacBook and MacBook Pro. Some would call em as “the brick” MacBook Pro; well that sounds stupid, but this whole “brick” thing went out of control. Apple never once mention anything about “brick” or implying anything. The new MacBook and MacBook Pro can now have “unibody” designation, as Apple uses the word over and over.

MacBook is significantly updated , but missing one important feature: FireWire Port. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is also missing one FireWire 400 port, while retaining the FireWire 800 port. Both MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro gains new glass screen with LED-backlit display, and large multi-touch glass trackpad.

Overall, it is a significant upgrade for the MacBook and a nice incremental upgrade for the MacBook Pro. The inclusions of nVidia chipset is one of the biggest upgrade for the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The nVidia 9400M chipset adds h.264 support on the hardware level.

Now, whatever happened to the 17-inch MacBook Pro? For those who are complaining about the lack of 17-inch MacBook Pro update needs to take a big cup of “shut the hell up.” Apple is working on it, and it will be announced when it is ready for release. Apple engineers have been exploring different avenues in redesigning the MacBook Pro, and more often they stumbled upon some road blocks. The new unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro feature a reduced size logic-board similar to the one in MacBook Air. Apple engineers are working to find the balance between features and form factor in the notebook line. No coubt that Apple would like to include Intel QX9300 processor (or higher model) in the MacBook Pro. It is likely that the upcoming unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro would have this CPU in the BTO options. Even though the current MacBook and MacBook Pro seem to be running cooler compared to the previous models, there will be some thermal challenges with Intel QX9300 in the MacBook Pro form factor.

It is possible to have the Intel QX9300 in the 15-inch MacBook Pro, but it would make more sense to have it in the 17-in model. The 17-inch MacBook Pro would have some extra surface area to dissipate heat compared to the 15-inch model. Eventually Intel QX9300 or its successors would make their way to the 15-inch MacBook Pro, but we would see it on the 17-inch Model first.

Logically, January 2009 would be the next window for Apple to introduce the unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro. We all have to wait until then.

To quote Ice-T, “Shut up, be happy”

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Ice-T: The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech…Just Watch What You Say

If you bought it through Amazon link above, and I get some kickbacks.

“If you buy the CD, I can buy a MacBook Pro” to paraphrase the great Robert Schimmel.

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“Thanks to the spoilers, I hate the soon to be released MacBook Pro already.”

Apple has yet to officially reveal the new notebook line on “The spotlights turns to notebooks” event, but the leaks and spoilers are ruining everything I’d ever hope for. Well, at least for the design of the MacBook Pro. The Mac news/rumors sites seems to think that John Gruber has already nailed it.

According to Gruber there’s only one display for the MacBook and MacBook Pro from now on. That display is a shiny and glaring one. Yeah, apparently no more matte-finish display. On the other hand, we get to use the screen as an emergency mirror now.

Personally, I am not really liking the black keyboard on a silver aluminum casing. But that’s not really a huge issue. The biggest issue for me right now would be the rumored pricing. I have been paying a lot for PowerBook G4’s and MacBook Pro (yeah, I only bought one Macbook Pro from January 2006) and hoping at least that Apple would reduce the price. I still remember when Apple introduced Aluminum PowerBook G4 at lower prices.

One thing that has not really been discussed in the leaks/spoliers/rumors so far is the CPU of the MacBook Pro. I have been hearing that somehow Apple would utilize Intel’s mobile Quad-Core CPU (here and here) into the MacBook Pro. The real question is “when?”

I know that I am complaining about products that have not been officially announced yet. It is only two hours away from this posting.

In spite of all the bitching and complaining based on the leaks and rumors, there are a few things that I am looking forward to find out. As I’ve been saying before, according to a super stealthy secret source the new MacBook Pro line would have an easily accessible hard-drive bay. That would be a huge advantage for the consumer. All you would have to do is removing the battery and a few screws. No more cracking open the casing by removing 14 screws just to get to the hard-drive bay. A few more screws to actually replace the hard-drive. I have done so many hard-drive upgrades on MacBook Pros, my best record is about 15 minutes to actually open the case, take out the hard-drive, install the new hard-drive, and putting it back together.

Apparently I am rambling too much for now. We’ll see in exactly two hours from this post if I’m going to buy a new MacBook Pro today. The sad thing is that I am still on the fence. Should I wait for the Quad-Core MacBook Pro to arrive?

Disclaimer, this is a poor attempt at sarcasm and irony.

I have compiled an extensive list of sites that would be covering the event live on this post. So, click this link. Yes, this link. CLICK.