Apple Updates All !

The highlight of this update, the mouse ! Mighty no longer, the mouse is now Magic ! Yes, you read it right, the Magic Mouse ! Its the world's first mouse with multi touch capabilities, and touted to be the best mouse ever made by Apple in years ! Well, take a look at the Magic already :D You obviously can't tell one side from the other :S

There has been a multitude of updates on the Apple website, here's a summary to make it easy for you guys !

Magic Mouse
Mouse with multi touch abilities !

• Connects over Bluetooth
• Compatible only with the iMacs it ships with, for now
• Gets its own Preference Pane

This one can be yours for $69, pricey for a mouse, but that's what Apple thinks you need to pay to do some 'Magic' !

Polycarbonate 13" MacBook
Now unibody, just like its aluminum cousins 

• LED Backlit Display
• Unibody enclosure, non user-serviceable battery
• Upto 7 hours of battery life
• 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• DDR3 RAM (Upto 4GB)
• Unified audio in/out jack
  

Still priced at $999, this one's a steal dea, but there's a small catch, the Apple Remote doesn't work with this baby now !

Mac Mini
Now, there's an option for making it a server, with an additional hard disk

• Choice between a 2.26/2.53/2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB shared memory
• DDR3 RAM (Upto 4GB)

Starting at $599, this is the cheapest legit Mac you can buy, too bad Apple says BYODKM

 

iMac
New options of either a 21.5" or a 27" iMac
The only Mac that ships with the Magic Mouse out-of-the-box

• 21.5" & 27" Models: 3.06/3.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• 27" Model: 2.66 GHz Core i5 or 2.8 GHz Core i7 Processor
• DDR3 RAM (Upto 16GB)
  
• 16:9 Full HD LED Backlit screen
• Choice of NVIDIA or ATI graphics

Starts at $1199, goes all the way upto a whopping $4000 for a fully pimped out version of the 27" iMac ! Outrageous right ? That's Apple for you guys :)

Images courtesy: Apple website

Make Good Use of Your Spaces

Space: a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied

I'd say Spaces is probably THE most underrated and underused feature of OS X ! Some of you don't even know about it :( Some of the mainstream Macs come with screens, that have comparatively low resolutions, viz. 1280x800 px of screen estate is all you get on a 13" MacBook !

With "so much" screen space, you can probably have a Firefox window occupying all of the screen. If for some random reason, you wanna have one or two more windows/apps open, and be able to switch between them seamlessly, Spaces is the way to go !

You can have a maximum of 16 virtual desktops, all running at the same time, but each one different from the other. Now, that's Spaces for you !

If you're using Spaces for the first time now, you'd have to enable it from System Preferences.

• Open System Preferences
• Click on the Expose & Spaces icon
  
• Click on the Spaces tab
• Click "Enable Spaces"

You can choose to customize the shortcut key for activating Spaces. Press that key and see the magic happen!

Psst, try hitting the Expose shortcut when you're using Spaces