MacBook Air

Recently at Macworld 2008 Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new MacBook Air – the new ultra thin notebook which is currently taking the web and the world by storm. Just try YouTube and you’ll find a plethora of video footage exploring every aspect of the new MacBook Air.

Apple.ie in Ireland are selling the new MacBook Air from a base price of Eur1,699 – great value because this new piece of kit from Apple is perhaps only the beginning of more fantastic hardware and software that has yet to appear. I would urge anyone interested in Apple software to go along and see a demonstration of this magnificent piece of technology. Who knows you might even buy it there and then.

Check out the new MacBook Air on Mac Life (Create, Share, Enjoy) the online version of the magazine of the same name.  And for your daily dose of all things Mac click on MacSlash

On the form side of things you have the incredibly useful Mac-Forums (The ultimate Source for Your Mac).

Am I converted I hear you ask. Absolutely! Should have bought a Mac computer years ago.

My Favourite Writers and more …

Thursday 29th March 2007

Today like so many other days I ventured into Chapters Bookstore in Parnell Street, Dublin. This new bookstore which opened early in January 2007 is excellent as it’s not as crowded as Easons and it has as many book titles if not more.

The following authors interest me. First off is the contemporary German writer Gunter Grass. He is highly rated both in Germany and throughout the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. More details about Gunter Grass can be found on the web site Books and Writers.

Ernest Hemingway is also one of my favourite must-read authors. As a child I remember being fascinated by the film version of his book The Old Man and the Sea. I noticed it’s a very slim volume but what a story. Read it and be enthralled!

E.M. Forster and the book which made him famous A Passage to India is also on my reading list. It’s a fairly large tome but judging by the reviews on the dust jacket and references to it by other famous writers it is definitely a book worth reading.

Back in the year 2000 I went to see the film Finding Forrester about the Pulitzer Prize winning author William Forrester. He wrote only one book Avalon Landing but it earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. I will definitely read the work of William Forrester. And you dear reader should do likewise.

Perhaps the one of the most interviewed of authors is the English writer Philip Pullman. This morning he was on the Radio 4 programme In Conversation presented by Terry Jones. Pullman became famous for his Dark Materials Trilogy, the first book is entitled Northern Lights. He said he was very much influenced by John Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress and he also stated that mediaeval and classical literature are the original and the best stories to read and learn from. I intend to read his work in the near future. “Writing is a journey of discovery,” Pullman says of writing. And how right he is! More on Philip Pullman in the next post.