I hope they will be similar to the Sony Vaio TZ series, though at a lower price, at least less than Sony's $3699.

Exactly. Its an impressive fake with a lot of good ideas and things that may come to pass tomorrow, but there was a couple things that stood out to me as VERY wrong/odd.

What are you doing that you need 340gb of internal, portable data?

Oh jebus, not only has that never been true there have been a number of (barely scientific) studies that have shown the TCO of Apple computers to be less than name brand PCs. Fact is that Macs require less service, fewer upgrades, they stay usable longer and they hold their resale value better.

Apple should be able to beat that price. I read something yesterday that 160gb solid state HDs can be had for around $200 these days. That should be more than enough storage for the average user. I think most people are connecting their laptops to large external drives these days where they are storing music/photos/video/backups etc. as standard HDs are dirt cheap these days.

Check out Wired's Gadget Blog for their guess at the ultra-portable, which they claim was leaked by an insider.

No specs or pricing. Two pictures, with the warning "Expect reality to disagree with our photoshops." (Has "Photoshop" gone generic to the point where it no longer has to be capitalized?)

An hour to go ...

woo hoo! Lights are going down at Moscone Center. ^

1) Time capsule; enternal 802.11n airport extreme with a 500Gb or 1Tb drive. $299 and $499.

2) SDK for the iPhone. And a new update with location finder, multiple SMS recipients, better home screen, lyrics.

3) iTunes Movie Rentals

4) "Today we're introducing a third kind of notebook, and it's called the MacBook Air. In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook."

Minute-by-minute live updates at www.macrumorslive.com

Oooh 64GB Flash based HD! I wonder how long the battery will last on this thing... :)

According to Jobs, five hours. He didn't say which kind of storage, what usage, etc. YMMV.

It may be a fluke but online, if you add the 64GB SSD, the price jumps to $3,100. :td:

Disappointing machine. There is (IMHO) a limit to how thin something really has to be. For the same price as the Air, you can get a Sony SZ which has better specifications AND a dual layer DVD burner. Apple went for thin, and cut away everything they could from this machine. But it sure is pretty, so I bet it'll sell like hot cakes. It's clear Jobs had a hand in designing it. Just like the iPod he probably made people remove anything they could just so he could claim the "thinnest in the world".

Things I don't like about it AT ALL:

1) 1.8" HDD = slow slow slow. It's the same drive as in the iPod.
2) No expansion slots at all. No expresscard and no MiniPCI. So no way to add wireless broadband.
3) MicroDVI? Just means another new cable, and another dongle to lose. They should have added HDMI which would have fit just fine.
4) The price. With those specifications you must REALLY love Apple to drop $1800 on it. $3100 for the SSD version is just a plain ripoff.

It's no fluke. The 64GB SSD upgrade's price tag is $999. I wonder how many people will be driven to SSD by the slow speed of the 1.8" HDD.

All the memory is onboard. There is no SO-DIMM slot, so no way to upgrade it. 2GB is plenty for now, but who knows in the future.

Yup. The SSD drive is a $1000 option. Unless you're using the computer outside the operational limits of a hard drive (e.g. over 10,000 feet), I don't see how this is worthwhile given the price.

The 80 GB drive is a bit of a limitation, but in truth, I tend to travel with 1-2 external drives anyway.

AAPL is getting hammered today. Imminent earnings miss? Or disappointing new products?