Live highlights as they happen, all times are London, UK. Updated, now with pictures…

18:40 - And thats us done. All run over to the Apple Store and have a look!

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18:39 - Randy Newman preforms ‘You’ve got a friend in me’.

[Sorry if we are slowing down, server traffic up 900% and we just did a month of traffic in under an hour!]

18:31 - Sustainability focus for new MacBook Air, green packaging and components

18:29 - No optical drive, but Apple will sell you one. So don’t cry

18:22 - Again, you’ll have to wait two weeks. Going for $1700 (so you only need to find $120 bucks a day)

18:20 - Multi touch track pad for gesture support. 80GB hard disk standard with option for 64GB Solid State Disk!

18:15 - Base model ships with 80GB HD and a 1.6Ghz CPU

18:14 - 13.3? Display. full sized notebook keyboard.

18:13 - Built-in iSight camera, ambient light sensor, backlit keyboard.

18:11 - Worlds thinnest notebook at just 0.8?

18:10 - MacBook Air!

17:59 - Apple TV shipping in the next few weeks for $229 USD

17:59 -This new interface is looking really sweet..

17:52 - Apple TV, no computer required. But will sync back to computer

17:48 - Demo, new user interface.

17:44 - Podcasts from AppleTV

17:43 - AppleTV - rent movies right from the TV

17:42 - Movies in HD ($4.99), New Movies ($3.99) and from the archive ($2.99)

17:42 - Movie rentals, from today across all your apple products, iPod, iPhone, Mac and Apple TV

17:38 - Every major studio signed up for movie rentals.

17:37 - Movie Rentals from iTunes Music Store

17.34 - Live applications on iPhone and iPod Touch

17:33 - All new features coming as a software update from Apple

17:27 - Multi-Person SMS Sending

17:24 iPhone - Maps with Location (Just like Google Maps on Windows Mobile)

17:18 - Companion product for Time Machine - called Time Capsule - think ‘AirPort plus hard drive’ - back up without wires!

17:17 - Microsoft shipping Office 2008 for Mac today.

17:16 - Steve on stage - talking about OS X 10.5

17:13 - AppleTell report Twitter is down, if you are using twitter for RSS or SMS updates find another source of coverage now.

16:55 - Keynote Delayed - up to 30min…

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