Oh, as as far as the other announcements...

iLife enhancements, eh, but something I bought anyhow. I use iPhoto a lot, so it's worth staying up to date for me. I also get enough use out of iMovie to justify it.

OS X Lion, the full screen mode could be handy depending on how apps use it. Mission Control looks like a decent refinement and should clear up a bunch of my function keys if it works well. Launchpad is kinda weird to me since I use spotlight as an app launcher, but I see it being useful for others. At this point it seems like Lion may just turn out as another $29 upgrade unless they held back some other really big features from todays preview.

The new Air lineup looks really slick. Had I not gotten an iPad, I'd be really tempted by the new ones as I really liked my older Air. The resolution bump, the ability to go to 4GB of RAM, the better battery, and the extra USB port really addresses any concerns I had with the last model.
Originally Posted By: msaeger
The new air looks like a nice sub note it would have been nice if they put an ethernet jack on there though.

If they did, it wouldn't be so thin. Kinda weird to think that even USB may be getting too big as a port for how thin Apple really wants to make these devices. I will say the only time I used ethernet on my Air was at work when there wasn't a WiFi network for 3 months. Once they added that, I took the USB ethernet adaptor and threw it in a drawer. If I traveled to a place with only ethernet in the hotel room, the Airport Express came to solve that one.

I will say an innovative solution to the need for ethernet was done by the Voodoo PC folks. They built the equivalent of the Airport Express into the power adaptor for the computer. So if you did hit an ethernet only situation, all you had to do was use the same power adaptor that was likely to be on hand instead of needing a separate device.