Antipresto: Deviant Magic

MacBook Air.

Many “leaked” and “rumored” names for the device including MacBook Nano and
13-inch MacBook Pro and even some (very likely) doctored images, concepts and guesses… even some Apple tablet rumors (no, not like the Axiotron) because of the Apple-filed patents for technologies—none of this does justice to or matters in the face or-even the shadow of the “flat-out stunning” MacBook Air.

It wasn’t the only item announced, but for me, it really could’ve been. It’s nowhere-near an end-all machine and it’s not going to appeal to everyone. Many “performance users” are going to stick with MacBook Pros, Mac Pros and even the iMac (at 24-inches and elegant design). The road-warriors finally have a “real” Mac option.

My MacBook Pro is messed up; something happened with the HDD and I got an invalid/missing b-tree node-something, and long-story short, it appears to be a fatal disk problem and I need to bring it to the Apple Store, send it out and get a new HDD installed. Oh well, likely my fault. But here’s some good news for me and other Mac fans!

Apple will unveil a new MacBook at MacWorld!

It has officially been 100% confirmed that Apple will indeed by announcing a new laptop at MacWorld and the new MacBook “will go on sale a week after MacWorld.”

In terms of details surrounding the new notebook, they’re a little more difficult to come by. Steve Jobs and the rest of the Cupertino crew are staying pretty tight-lipped, but I’m sure industry pundits will have plenty of predictions for us to consider over the course of the next few days and weeks. It’s very possible that January 2008 could see an ultra-portable MacBook of some kind, possibly competing against the Apple-esque Asus Eee PC.

Meebo is awesome.

Whether you’re looking to chat on your favorite messenger (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, etc) or all of them, you can’t really go wrong with Meebo. For those of you out there looking to sneak-in some IMs at the workplace (one that either frowns-upon or straight-up “doesn’t allow” instant messenging), Meebo can sit in-browser so as long as your not a the net-user equivalent of a caveman, you can setup tabbed-browsing to “hide” the site. It’ll look just like any other “blog,” or whatever it is that you use browsers for.

It’s worthy of note not-only because it’s free, combines all of the majors in-one, but because it’s designed really well. It’s simple and clutter-free, it’s fast, and it’s modifiable. You can minimize, maximize, pop windows in and out… it’s all you could ever ask for.

So now you don’t have to worry about proprietary ad-covered offerings, and gone are the days of installing and uninstalling services, or the very-dreaded “forgot to sign-out/remove your username/password” at the netcafé or other public computer.

Check it out. And then twitter me.