Apple updated its basic MacBook this week. The look and basic features are the same, as well as the $999 price tag. But the laptop now features a slightly faster processor and video chipset, as well as a new battery that claims to give it 10 hours of runtime.
Early in the week there were rumors that Apple planned to redesign its pro-level video editing tool, Final Cut Studio, to make it more user friendly to non-professionals. Many professionals expressed concern that the application would not meet their needs if this happened. But later in the week Apple responded by saying that any new version of Final Cut Studio would take into account the needs of its existing users.
Apple released updates to all three iWork apps on the iPad: Pages, Keynote and Numbers. All three apps get some bug fixes and support for more languages. Pages now supports more of its features in horizontal orientation that were previously only available in vertical orientation.
An update to MobileMe’s web mail interface is coming, and some users have been invited to beta test. The new interface features multiple display modes, including one that looks much like the iPad’s Mail app. There are also rules that can be applied in the web interface that will also automatically file messages into folders in client software, such as the iPhone and iPad.
In Beatles-on-iTunes news, Paul McCartney said in an interview that it is the record company EMI that is creating the problem. He said there are “all sorts of reasons” why the middlemen at the company don’t want to put the Beatles catalog on iTunes.
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