If seeing is believing, then the 16GB iPhone is here. Noticed this morning in the Apple Store that the new model is available, and is selling for $499 USD.

This is great news for those of us that need more space on the iPhone for pics, music or whatever… The extra 8GB should come in handy!

My only question is… Do you feel the extra $100 for 8GB is worth it?

You can pick a 16GB iPhone up from the Apple Store.

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: 16GB iPhone, Apple Store

The Apple Store has announced price cuts on current generation refurbished 4GB and 8GB iPod nanos. The refurbished 4GB iPod nano is $129 (was $149) and the refurbished 8GB is now $169 (was $199). On top of the lowered prices you can get free shipping as well!

The nanos ship in ‘the updated, beautiful white refurb boxes’ and come with a 1-year warranty (same warranty that comes with all new nanos)…. The 4GB is currently only available in silver, but the 8GB is available in black, silver, blue and green.

Click here for more info or to buy the refurbished 4GB and 8GB iPod nano with video.

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: Apple Store, iPod Nano, Refurbished

Valentine’s day is fast approaching, and it’s time for us to all get out our credit cards to drop some coin on our loved ones. Thankfully for those of us that buy Apple products a little too often, Apple has launched their Valentines Day Gift Guide.

Some items of note from the guide:

• Free gift wrapping and shipping on the iPhone
• Free gift wrapping, shipping and engraving on the iPod
• US orders on or before Feb. 12th will receive orders by the 14th
• Canadian orders by Feb. 9th will receive their orders by the 14th.

Of course there is the usual assortment of red and pink nanos, cases, earbuds, you name it… Apple has it. You can also watch them disappear from the radar in an instant on the 15th

For a complete list of products with shipping dates, check out this handy page.

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: Apple Store, Apple Valentine's Day Gift Guide, Valentine's Day

Well, today is the retail launch of the MacBook Air, and as suspected pictures are starting to pop up all over the web. Apple Store employees were hurriedly setting up the airs overnight to get ready for the big day. 24 hour stores had the MacBook Airs ready and on display at midnight.

If you want to pop by an Apple Store to pick one up, individual stock does vary… So don’t be disappointed if they’ve run out of ‘air’.

A big thanks to MacRumors for the great pictures.

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: Apple Store, MacBook Air

This morning the Apple Store was down, but unlike most times the store goes down, this time something changed! Apple just updated the Mac Pros and Xserve. Here are some of the main basic configuration specs.

Mac Pro Configuration

• Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors
  • Up to 3.2GHz
• 2GB memory
  • Up to 32GB
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256MB memory
• 320GB hard drive
• 16x double-layer SuperDrive

The basic Mac Pro configuration will cost you $2799.
More info on the Mac Pro page at the Apple Store

Xserve Configuration

• 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processor
  • Up to 3GHz
• 1600MHz frontside bus and 12MB L2 cache
• 2GB memory
  • Up to 32GB
• 80GB hard drive
• Built in graphics with 64MB RAM
• Mac OSX Server 10.5 Leopard Unlimited Client

The basic Xserve configuration will cost you $2999.
More info on Xserve at the Apple Store

written by Jack \\ tags: Mac Pro, Xserve

Every Mac in the Apples Stores are setup to use all of the usual core Mac software including iChat. Each iChat is equipped with a screen name that you can contact at any time! There’s no guarantee you’ll receive a response, but I thought this was cool nonetheless.

If you can’t find the store you want to try and contact, you can click here to find iChat names for more stores.

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written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: Apple Store, iChat