Bremsstrahlung

I gather that the Macworld Expo's keynote event was today and several new Apple products were unveiled. Although I'm quite a Mac enthusiast, there doesn't seem to have been much that was exciting to me:

• The new MacBook Air is interesting, but I wouldn't really want one. It is significantly more powerful than my aging powerbook (and even has a bigger hard-drive in either configuration), but for that kind of money, I'd rather get a MacBook Pro—way superior hardware inside, and I really don't care about the weight.
• The Time Capsule is again a nice idea, but i won't be getting Leopard until I get a new Mac, so it really doesn't matter to me at present.
• Movie Rentals from iTunes: i use iTunes to play back music I already own that I ripped from CDs. I've never purchased a song from the iTunes store and I honestly don't ever watch television these days. I might like to—there are a number of things like to see i guess, and rentals would be better than buying them— but two questions arise: Would they have stuff I would want, and even if they did, would i have time to watch it? The answer to the first is uncertain, at least to me at the moment, and the to the second is basically no, so all this is academic without real application.

Unfortunately for me, I'm what might be termed a 'hardline' Mac user: I buy and use computers and that's it. I don't have and don't want any sort of iPod or iPhone, so to me the many more peripheral devices that Apple has been working on are merely curiosities. Oh well, they keep the company going strong and do help win converts to the One True Platform, so they aren't without merit. I guess I'll just go back to dreaming about those 8 core Mac Pros that I'll never in a million years be able to afford.