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Old Jan 15, 2008, 01:22 PM   #1
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Macbook air remote costs money..

You can check it; when you pre-order. If you want a remote control with your macbook air, you'll need to pay 19 $.. what's this?
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Old Jan 15, 2008, 02:10 PM   #2
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Well i never, that remote is actually more expensive in USA then over here in the uk, we only pay £9 for it, oh we are lucky! a 66p saving

YIPPPPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
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Old Jan 20, 2008, 02:47 AM   #3
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I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the store: the Macbook Air doesn't seem to have an IR sensor.

edit: I'm wrong:
http://developer.apple.com/documenta...loperNote.html
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Old Jan 20, 2008, 05:06 AM   #4
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see if you have one lying around. I almost never use the one on my iBook.
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Old Jan 20, 2008, 07:12 AM   #5
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see if you have one lying around. I almost never use the one on my iBook.
Does the remote work with iBook?
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I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the store: the Macbook Air doesn't seem to have an IR sensor.

edit: I'm wrong:
http://developer.apple.com/documenta...loperNote.html
you can actually see the ir sensor on the front to the right of the pulsing sleep light in the mba ad. there's a really good shot of it at the beginning.
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you can actually see the ir sensor on the front to the right of the pulsing sleep light in the mba ad. there's a really good shot of it at the beginning.
oh, so nice!!
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