Today at the “Back to Mac” Announcement Event, Steve Jobs of Apple announced the release of the beta version of Facetime for Mac. Facetime for Mac will now allow users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard or later to use Facetime and connect with their friends. Facetime has only been available for the iPhone 4, prior to this new release. It is now available on the Mac, Macbook, and Macbook Air using Mac OS X.

One of the main negative points that people were talking about when Facetime was first released, was that it could only be used by those with iPhone 4 devices. Now with the release of Facetime for Mac, even if you do not have an iPhone, you can still connect with your friends and family who do. That is of course if you have a Mac.

According to reports, there are some errors when trying to connect to iOS 4.0 devices, but those running iOS 4.1 had no problems. There will probably be updates and fixes in the near future if these problems persist.

It should be interesting to see if this newest integration of the Facetime service helps Apple sell more iOS and OS X devices. The latest Macbook Air was also released today. If you thought the previous version was incredible, the new one is even more so. The 13.3 inch model is only 2.9 pounds, and has a solid state flash storage hard drive, that can hold up to 128GB of data.

If you are interested in downloading the new Facetime for Mac software and you are running Mac OS X v10.6.4 Snow Leopard or later, you can download it here.