Dear Friends,
We are in the midst of a very mild spell of weather here in the Green Mountains. We have had very little snow, at least here in the Mad River Valley—Burlington got socked with three feet! The temperatures have been around freezing for the past week.
While a January thaw is common, so is that week were the temperatures seldom get above 0º. We have not had that cold snap—yet. Nevertheless, flying in and out of Burlington, Vermont is always an adventure in the winter. Hapy and I were stuck on the tarmac for over an hour on our way to CES because they needed to kick five people off the plane because it was too heavy. That, of course, meant we missed our connections and ended up spending the night in beautiful Detroit.
All eyes will be pointing west on Wednesday as Steve Jobs takes the stage to reveal Apple’s “latest creation.” The news and rumor sites are taking every remote clue and extrapolating to come up with predictions of just what might be up Steve’s sleeve. Even mainstream publications like the Wall Street Journal are joining the speculation.
I’ll be heading to Cupertino on Feb 10th for some meetings and I am sure that the implications of the new announcements will be a topic of discussion. We will have all the details of the announcement and our reactions in the next issue of Kibbles & Bytes.
We have a couple of really interesting new discontinued products in stock now. The first is the $1699 MacBook Air with the solid state drive. This 1.86GHz MacBook Air has a 128GB drive that has no moving parts—it is all made of RAM. This Mac was originally $2499, then $1699, and we were able to buy up the remaining stock so are now offering this ideal Mac for the road warrior for only $1349!
The other great value right now is the discontinued 24-inch iMac. We have several configurations available starting at $1149, including the full-featured MB420 that has 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive for only $1499.