Why? Just because you don't want one?
When you are the CEO of a computer company maybe someone will listen to you!
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15" MacBook Air Under Development?
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Why? Just because you don't want one?
When you are the CEO of a computer company maybe someone will listen to you!
Then it is not for you! Do you see the point of everything that is on sale in the world?
That was the point of my post, but my punctuation was incorrect (now edited). The link shows that Apple refers to all the Alum machines as unibody.
I agree with you and Eidorian on this one. Where the hell is Apple's roadmap for laptops or even desktops which right about now Apple fails at?
I don't see this rumor coming to fruition but I do know that a lot of tech junkies that don't do much with their machines but check Facebook will love to have a $2300 15" MBA with one USB port and a 1.6GHz processor.
Not to mention that Sony has already destroyed the concept of the Air by producing an 11.1" notebook that is lighter than the Air and still totes an optional Blu-Ray disc drive.
Maxed out, it will be heavier than the Air and cost $4000, but you get TWO SSD, two USB, HDMI, media card reader, Blu-Ray, 3G/WiFi, LED backlit display and up to 7.5 hours of battery life.
Apple has yet to compete with that type of machine but considers putting out a 15" Air?????
Glad that's it's a rumor and has no possibility of coming true.
p.s. AND FIREWIRE!
Apple is probably releasing the mini-tablet instead. 7"~9" display, extended iPhone OS.
I think it would be a great idea. I'd buy one.
I'm just waiting for the release of Snow Leopard before pick up a MBAir but if they come out with a 15" version I'd definitely take that over the 13" assuming they can make it as thin and light.
I don't need any more ports than what the current one has but stereo speakers would be nice addition.
I'm just waiting for the release of Snow Leopard before pick up a MBAir but if they come out with a 15" version I'd definitely take that over the 13" assuming they can make it as thin and light.
I don't need any more ports than what the current one has but stereo speakers would be nice addition.
Yep, there's not much of a chance of seeing a new MacBook Air anytime soon. I think we will see either a tablet or netbook, just like rumors are saying.
Yeah... and look what is happening to the Mini...
Anyway, the Air isn't dead. The Air failed to be a netbook... because it isn't a netbook. Apple is testing a new genre of computer; they're meshing the best of both worlds.
They've made a thin computer to match the netbooks, but they know that tiny keyboards and tiny screens suck, so they made them full size.
It's a test, and they did better than most companies on their first shot. Apple needs to shave the bezel. If they make a really, really tiny bezel, the MacBook Air becomes a true ultraportable.
The MBA is not a failure because it sells well, but netbooks that sell well are "trendy crap"? I'd say reverse that - if anything is trendy crap it's the MBA. Overpriced, underpowered, lack of features. But it looks slashy and swoopy.
Why would anyone need more than 640k of RAM?
Why would anyone want an LCD screen?
Why would anyone want a computer with no floppy drive?
Why would anyone need a GUI?
etc. etc. etc.
I like this guy....
I say the same thing for my 17" power house desktop replacement with quad core and 4 DIMM slots and dual HDDs. As a matter of fact, Apple should just go to Dell and copy all of the specs of the Covet which blows away any other machine spec wise, and price wise
Then when the consumer whiners that just d!ck around with their 15" Air ask why anyone would want a heavy computer that actually replaces the desktop and is a portable powerhouse for on location multi-stream HD editing coupdetat will have my back.
No, I am not being sarcastic. I want that machine from Apple more than anyone would want a 15" Air.
Where goeth Apple portables?
A few observations:
- The benchmark for portability is an A4/Letter size sheet of paper; that's what people have been carrying around for decades. If Apple can shrink the bezel gap of a 15" MBA to the point where the machine's not much bigger than the existing 13" MBA, then I think they'd ship it.
- I really don't think that Apple will make a MBA that weighs much more than the existing 3 lb unit. If they come up with some way to make a 15" widescreen MBA weigh insignificantly more than the existing unit (I dunno, magnesium case parts, polymer screen instead of glass, new lighter battery from 17" MBP, etc. Who knows...), then they'll greenlight the product.
- Steve has commented publicly that they're not interested in making a machine that has the reduced usability of a netbook (small screen, crappy keyboard, etc) & they're certainly not interested in competing in the netbook market based on price. If Apple released a NetMac or something even vaguely trying to target the netbook market, it would certainly cost at least $700 or so, and netbook buyers would snub them because of the price, regardless of how good the machine was. Apple's student machine is the plastic MacBook, which sells like crazy and is an amortized product for them; they have no reason to replace it with something cheaper for a long time.
- I think about the smallest laptop they'd make would use the existing keyboard size (maybe scrunched up a bit, but not by much), big(ish) trackpad, and an edge-to-edge screen. Probably in fact still a 13" or so screen (certainly not smaller than 12" widescreen), but with a lot less bezel gap around it.
- There's been a rumor recently that they'd be using NVidia's ION platform for the mac mini. I could see them using it in the AppleTV as it fits that product perfectly, but speaking as someone owning a netbook with Leopard on it I don't think that Atom (even dual-core) will run their apps the way they want it to. Now, maybe Apple's seen a next-generation Atom that will do what they want it to, but I think it's more likely that the next Mini (if it's ever released) will have a 9400M and MacBook-grade guts.
A few observations:
- The benchmark for portability is an A4/Letter size sheet of paper; that's what people have been carrying around for decades. If Apple can shrink the bezel gap of a 15" MBA to the point where the machine's not much bigger than the existing 13" MBA, then I think they'd ship it.
- I really don't think that Apple will make a MBA that weighs much more than the existing 3 lb unit. If they come up with some way to make a 15" widescreen MBA weigh insignificantly more than the existing unit (I dunno, magnesium case parts, polymer screen instead of glass, new lighter battery from 17" MBP, etc. Who knows...), then they'll greenlight the product.
- Steve has commented publicly that they're not interested in making a machine that has the reduced usability of a netbook (small screen, crappy keyboard, etc) & they're certainly not interested in competing in the netbook market based on price. If Apple released a NetMac or something even vaguely trying to target the netbook market, it would certainly cost at least $700 or so, and netbook buyers would snub them because of the price, regardless of how good the machine was. Apple's student machine is the plastic MacBook, which sells like crazy and is an amortized product for them; they have no reason to replace it with something cheaper for a long time.
- I think about the smallest laptop they'd make would use the existing keyboard size (maybe scrunched up a bit, but not by much), big(ish) trackpad, and an edge-to-edge screen. Probably in fact still a 13" or so screen (certainly not smaller than 12" widescreen), but with a lot less bezel gap around it.
- There's been a rumor recently that they'd be using NVidia's ION platform for the mac mini. I could see them using it in the AppleTV as it fits that product perfectly, but speaking as someone owning a netbook with Leopard on it I don't think that Atom (even dual-core) will run their apps the way they want it to. Now, maybe Apple's seen a next-generation Atom that will do what they want it to, but I think it's more likely that the next Mini (if it's ever released) will have a 9400M and MacBook-grade guts.
AppleInsider had a MacBook Air carbon fiber rumor not long ago. Maybe it's for the 15" MacBook Air too?
I would say that a properly done 7"~9" iPhone OS mini-tablet would have better usability than a Mac OS X netbook.
It might cost even more because Apple would want to make it as thin as possible, giving it worse components for higher prices.
I have a G4 and Keynote runs slow at times. If that's how an Atom Mac will be like, then I completely agree with you.
To me a product like that combines the worst of both worlds: painfully small for real work, and too awkward and bulky to carry easily.
That's true. Like combining the worst parts of a niche product and widely used one.
Not to mention the price that it would be.
What on earth..?
The MacBook Air is an ultra portable laptop. Make it a 15" and you are carrying a big foot print but really underpowered for what you could get for a little bit more thickness of the 15" MBP.
It isn't a "why would anyone want an LCD screen" question, don't know what your smoking to think that is relevant, it just is pointless.
Make it 15" and it isn't an ultra portable laptop.
Thin isn't that good a thing..