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Behind the scenes: MacBook Air 11 "Muse gets Moshi + Speck SeeThru Satin"

A great sensation by hand is one of the things that we are looking for - and only sometimes find - for MacBook, particularly given that the MacBook Air is small and thin enough that you'll wind up holding a palm or one arm at a certain time when you are walking with her 11 "." It is a point not insignificant when we watched week last Covenant United leather pouch and noted that the smooth texture of the case dear envelope-style might not work for some users; a bit of tack can turn a long way when device hand-holding for long periods of time. Two new cases for MacBook Air offers completely different approaches to the protection of the laptop, but both 11 "use textures to differentiate himself from competing products."

Muse 11 of Moshi ($35) is undoubtedly just a longest ever-so-slightly darker grey version and Muse for iPad, adding just enough length to accommodate the MacBook Air in one of his two pockets of Rabat 11 "society." The other pocket for accessories - say that included eating Air - but made enough room for a full iPad inside, assuming that you're ready to go through some insertion and deletion of the contortions Moshi or we would truly recommend. In any case, it is a great Pocket second, and the contrast colour front flap is sealed with a couple of magnets hidden, then topped with a few nice metallic name badge.

It is a design certainly sharp - research, but let's be frank: there are many nice there sleeve MacBook research. The thing that makes it stand out you we really is texture, which, like the iPad, version resembles the surface of a high quality sofa rather than a typical case. Microfibre Moshi, which marks it as Terahedron, is sufficiently flexible be used to clean up the MacBook screen and plush enough to feel as if it is inflated. Each time that we receive, we want to reach some more - it is just as nice. For the price of $35, it has just the right look and feel; If the idea take your MacBook Air bare or with a sleeve film appeals to you, this is a really great option.

Speck has a completely different but equally compelling solution in the form of SeeThru Satin for MacBook Air 11 " ($50)." Several generations of SeeThru and SeeThru Satin cases have been released for previous MacBook (and, of course, iPod, iPhone and iPads), but this version is probably the best yet for a laptop. It is supposed to be 50% thinner than the last generation MacBook cases, a difference which is evident when the hull plastic lasts is disabled, because it can flex a little despite its edges molded precision. Yet when he is on the MacBook Air, he does no less protection than feel before, just more thin. And it seems all so cool.

Rubber touch outside is called Satin because it feels like that: rail at microscopic without be shiny or slippery, a difference between this and standard SeeThru cases. It adds a translucent frosted coating black air which allows Apple, logo to shine from above, diminished somewhat, while providing port areas open and antenna/rear hinged access if necessary. That it can align 11 "Air to all them should not be taken for granted having regard to the thinness of the computer to its minimum points;" Speck uses very small clips to keep the case attached to the edges of the MacBook and rubberized bottom pads to cover rubber black ones on the computer.

Just as with the Muse, SeeThru Satin feels really well - "right", same - and offers a truly minimalist protection form if you are simply looking to keep most of scratch-free Air aluminum frame. Then the $ 50 price tag feels like scope given that Speck costs the same price for larger and heavier for the 17 versions "15" and 13 MacBook Pros,"he does there not getting around the fact that the MacBook Air version 11" sentiment accurate, crisp, who deserves a kind of premium version of SeeThru Satin iPhone, itself a true standout of rivals through his company appearance. It's a franchise that Speck has consistently improved safe in every generation, improved versions of each year as large those who preceded them, and if we weren't such enormous fans of protective films for the MacBook Air, we would use Satin every day. It is easy to install, solidly constructed and complement good appearance really nice Air.

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Behind the scenes: How iPad 2 G of the camera is probably descriptive (And Be Magical)

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Regarding the second-generation iPad Rumors have been circulating since the release of the first model, and some of the most popular recent speculation relates to cameras. It's widely assumed that the new iPad will have one camera on the front for FaceTime, and potentially one on the back as well, the latter point seemingly confirmed by iPad 2 G boxes this morning. Yet there has been considerable ambiguity as to whether, why, and how Apple would implement a rear iPad camera up until this point, so we're going to discuss the issue and add a little to the speculation here.

Whither A Rear Camera? Prior to October, FaceTime seemed to demand two cameras, as Apple included camera switch-off feature in both the iPhone and iPod touch 4 G 4, the latter of which needn't can't have included a rear camera at all. However, in light of FaceTime's jump to single - camera Macs in October, it became obvious that Apple thinks "FaceTime" should minimally require "camera focused on your face," a microphone and a speaker, plus the horsepower and battery life to maintain smooth audio and video calls. Beyond that, FaceTime can leverage whatever other related hardware the device happens to otherwise include, but nothing's mandatory. So the choice of whether to add has rear camera smartest iPad would be strictly optional from Apple's standpoint, at least if adding FaceTime support is the key reason to do so.

Why Do It, Then? Competition is a starting point. Regardless of whether Apple likes to appear above adding features merely for the sake of adding features, an increasing number of rival tablet products are including rear-facing cameras. The rest of the iOS line is another factor. Leaving a rear camera out there the iPad when the iPhone and iPod touch now both have them would surprise and disappoint some people, leading to "wait for 2012" Apple would rather not start discussions. There's also the issue of practicality. Unlike a Mac, which sits on a desk or lap in positions that make less sense for taking rear pictures, the iPad is held in one's hands and can easily be positioned for photography. It mightn can't be as ideal for photography as something smaller in some ways, but it could be positive in others.

How Will Apple Do It? One thing that Apple really enjoys doing, particularly when adding a new feature to an established product is rethinking things that competitors have attempted and gotten wrong. In a highly unusual public blasting of the current crop of Android tablets, Steve Jobs personally criticized the whole lot for trying to use a phone-optimized operating system in what amounts to a bigger shell, without going into specifics as to why that was a bad idea, or why Apple's approach with the iPad (iOS 3.2) was so different. The rear camera could be a prime example.

If you've ever tried taking a picture with an Android tablet (say, Samsung's Galaxy Tab), you probably have some sense of what jobs was referring to. Filling the screen of a 7 "tablet with the same image that appears on the screen of a 3.5" phone just doesn't feel right. Part of the problem is the field of view. Another is the quality of the photo. The third involves the disorientingly wide previewing of that small, low-resolution image. Apple has a chance to fix all three of these things with the iPad.

The first part of the fix would involve using a lens that lets the iPad capture an even wider picture-something closer to a 28-millimeter equivalent. Picture the iPad in an advertisement looking out at a landscape, snapping a picture, and having the landscape appear on the iPad's screen looking just like what your eyes were seeing. Or taking a picture of a group of people, then becoming the picture frame for the family photo. It sounds so simple, but with the lens on the back of the Galaxy Tab (or, say, the iPod touch) right now, that's not happening. The iPhone 4 at Pompeu 30 millimeters comes the closest in its family (previously 37-millimeter equivalent) to being able to capture a wide angle, but the iPad could go further. Even if it was iPhone 4-like, it would be pretty wide-better than the iPod touch by far.

With the right lens and field of view, the next issue becomes image quality. The iPod touch's 0 69-Megapixel still rear camera has been pilloried for poor image quality and lower resolution than any iPhone ever released. Its 960 x 720 images look so - so on the iPod touch, so similar to the iPad's current image upscaling 1024 x 768 display would look pretty weak, ignoring whatever Apple has planned improvements for the next iPad's screen. An iPad rear camera will need to be better than what's in the iPod touch to be at least acceptable, and as rivals are using much higher specced sensors in their devices, it wouldn't can't be crazy to see something similar to the iPhone 4's 5-Megapixel sensor inside.

Last is previewing the issue, and this one's tricky. Try and hold the Galaxy Tab up to take a picture and what you see on the screen is a big blown up picture of a narrow area in front of you. It just doesn't feel right, and Apple has to know this. So it has two choices here: adjust the lens and fill the screen, or use a phone-like lens size and display video in a smaller and thus less disorienting preview window. The form would be really cool without much effort, but the latter would give Apple the chance to add buttons, filters, and other stuff around the edges of the window, including features previously found in iChat.

Previewing becomes especially complex because most of the video that's going to be displayed on the iPad's screen over FaceTime is going to come from 640 x 480 front-mounted iPhone and iPod touch camera-ones that won't look so hot filling a big iPad screen in any case. On the Mac, it displays FaceTime videos by default in a small window, but the windowless iPad presents a new challenge. Apple's going to need to figure out whether to fill the iPad's higher-resolution screen with blocky pixels, upscaled or do something different. Apple favors consist of interface solutions, so it wouldn't can't be a shock if it introduced an across-the-board "live video" interface that doesn't fill the screen either for FaceTime gold camera applications. Then again, it ain't wouldn't be surprising if it went full screen for both, or used different approaches because different teams are working on the apps.

Our Predictions. Our best guess at this point is that the rear camera on the iPad seront bigger, wider-angled, and better resolution than the one on the iPod touch, with at least one if not two of those factors at least rivaling if not surpassing the iPhone 4. We'd expect new FaceTime and camera applications for the iPad, the train with a well considered approach to handling both outgoing and incoming video from the increasing array of FaceTime devices, and the latter with a previewing methodology that makes more sense on tablets than what Android-based rivals have accomplished. And of course, we're betting that there will be ads that focus on the camera and iPad synergy as creating the first picture frame that actually takes photos worth framing. If Apple pulls off such a feat, which depends on the right lens, sensor, and UI, the next iPad will instantly be even cooler and more social than the first one.

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