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Apple Announces MacBook Air

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I was hoping to see an enclosure update to the ageing Pros as well. The iPod tapered look was expected elsewhere in Apple´s product portfolio and it´s a welcome form in my eyes, although I´d prefer it if it was the same underneath as on the lid.

Despite it´s shortcomings, I´d buy if it didn´t feature the one thing I dislike the most; a glossy screen.
 
rhett7660 said:
Hell compared to the sony,,, it is a freaking steal!

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...Id=8198552921644507782&parentCategoryId=16154
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Not exactly:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...io+tz&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1179877038490

At $1850 with an optical drive, better battery life, and 100GB HDD (though missing some neat-o Air features), they're both quite comparable, depending on your needs. Though people seem to be forgetting the Toshiba Portege R500 ( http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?seg=HHO&poid=385257&coid=-33781 ) among others.

I really like the apple design and the price-point makes sense, but the large screen bezel, lack of at least one more USB 2.0, lack of ethernet without adapter, lack of mic in, black keyboard instead of white, and questionable iPod HDD have me thinking twice.

-Ado
 
Macbook Air

I hate the keyboard (the chiclet keys!) and the color of the keys should be either white or silver. The black keys look a bit out of sync with the overall appearance of the notebook itself (okay, contrast people).

The specs are fine for such a thin notebook.

Oh well, I will keep my 15 inch MBP :)
 
Niche product, mostly for people who do most of their computing on the road & feel a MacBook has a little too much weight. Most people, including many students, will be far better off buying a MacBook.

Disappointing overall, but much in keeping with recent designs being swept along by one man's vision & obsession to make things ever thinner or smaller.

Form & function, a difficult balance to get right. IMO, too many of Apple's designs are now becoming a triumph of form over function.
 
Whoa67 said:
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I started out with a beloved 12" Powerbook. When that died i bought a 13" MacBook. Gave that away, because I hated it. Now i'm on a 15" MacBook Pro. Real nice machine, but way to big.

I really looked forward to a small and sexy new portable series of macs. But what did we get?? A silver colored overpriced Mac book...
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This is what's funny. I had a 12"PB, and the reality was that it was an overpriced iBook. You didn't get much more than what the IBook offered and what you did get was heavier, ran way hotter, and had awful wifi range compared to the iBook.
 
Brat85 said:
Oh yeah, by not spending 1800 bucks i still got firewire so i can import my footage of Miami. The Macbook is awsome!
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It's Apple's new marketing strategy. Make people appreciate what they have by releasing something that's crappier. Just two more steps to profit. Unfortunately their next step is still ????.
 
No ethernet?


A couple of days ago i was in marriot times square on a business trip.
Was trying to use their wireless internet but it was so unreliable could not get things done. Luckily for me my t61 have a ethernet built in and wired saved the day.

While on the same trip i was in wall street and thanks to the built in 3g option i was able to browse the internet but i was using it so much that after 6 hrs my battery was about to die lucky me i had a spare and continued to do my work without worrying about where there is an outlet plug.

Apple really killed it here. While sexy looking you can see apple is not in it for productivity at all.

What does apple think road warrior mean? A 15 year old who travels and spends his money on itunes?

1 usb?

So that means that if your using a usb wwan plug and while your on the internet you have to disconnect it to get to your external drive to get that file you backed up because you dont want to risk loosing it. WOW


target market-starbuck visitors and the shallow fashionista
 
what a JOKE!

Ha hahahaha....what........a..........JOKE! MBA is such a disappointment.

Thank the Lord I have a HD 17", 2.4, 4GB, 250MB MBP....with an optical drive and tons of USB/firewire ports.

Macbook Air........what a JOKE! :rolleyes:
 
I see this computer's main purpose as being a huge step into "diskless" world. (CD's and DVD's, not necessarily HD's).

This computer is not so much about specs., as it is about "entire computing lifestyle changes."

less is more in a big brother kind of world.

All wireless-all the time. I guess no one cares about Wi-Fi radiation potentiates. (Just us .5% freaks out there)
 
I would never ever sale my wife for Air, but I'm more than happy to exchange my ex (sexy spanish bird from the north) -- any takers?
 
Underpowered and overpriced.
Don't care how thin it is, 13.3" is to big to fit the sub-notebook segment imo. Fits in an envelope...ha ha...that depends on the size of the envelope. Even a 17" MBP can fit in an envelope, it's just a bigger envelope. How often do you need the envelope feat.
Standard HDD is 4200rpm, that is so slow I can't belive Apple would even say it out loud. Yes we can switch it with the 64GB SSD, but it's price is to high atm.
 
Titanium PowerBook reborn. Awesome.


Looks fragile though, not sure i'd want to carry it around without some sort of padding 24/7
 
love the everything about the macbook air BUT the 'integrated' battery is a deal breaker for me and i think will be for a lot of people.

spending my 1800 bucks on a new 40" LCD tv for the living room.
 
As a person with a MacBook with a combo drive, I wondered if the MacBook Air Superdrive would work with my MacBook (why not, right?). Apple sells it separtly for $99.

My conversation with the Apple Store Expert:

You are chatting with Gregory, an Apple Expert
Hi, my name is Gregory. Welcome to Apple!

Gregory: Good morning.

You: will the MacBook Air external Superdrive work with my MacBook?

Gregory: It will not.

Gregory: That is specifically for the MacBook Air.
 
Dissapointed keynote

Don't give a **** about Tv's and Ipods, online renting of movies......so ****ing what!!

MacBook Air - really nice piece of design that is super expensive and looks like it could break whenever you accidently stepped on it or dropped it.
- couldn't either give a **** about this newly addition.

New MacPro I think looks really good, but where is the new displays?

Had also really hoped for some kind of new Macbook Pro upgrade (other than the recent processor upgrade).

Boring keynote,

Might just not turn to Apple anyway, since the whole fruitshop looks more about design and less about cutting edge performance these days,

**** em'

Cervin
 
Sorry to be a "hater", but

I've been excited about the idea of an Apple "sub-notebook" ever since it started looking like the rumors were true. Getting rid of the drive and some of the connectors is a GREAT idea in my book. That said...

Has anybody ever grabbed a MacBook on their way out the door and said to themselves, "if only this goddamn thing could be a little bit thinner, it would really make my life simpler"???

The whole point of going small is to make it easier to tote around. A 9" screen with a smaller (but still usable) keyboard would have had me doing cartwheels. I want a mac that can fit in a purse. An keyboard-laden "iPod Touch on steroids", as it were.

Yeah, it's thinner, and SLIGHTLY smaller in other dimensions, but not enough to really make it much more portable than my trusty old MacBook, which is both faster and cheaper.

Don't get me wrong, if I had no laptop and was shopping for a Mac today, it would be a tough call between this thing and the MacBook... But nothing about the Air has me whipping out my credit card and putting my MacBook on Craigslist today. It's not the Life-Changing Appliance, just a relatively well-designed, relatively small-ish, relatively expensive laptop.

Frankly, the Apple TV update & price cut got me more excited than this thing did.
 
Sure it might be the thinnest laptop on the market but it's far from the smallest and most portable. 13.3 is a lot bigger than what I expected, that's not really ultra portable, footprint is too big for it to fit into any small bag.

Not only that but the frame around the screen is too big making it look like an ibook, the look is quite dated. Overall I'm not phasedand found it to be quite a bad deal. It's just a stipped macbook at a signifigantly higher price with weaker specs.

Macbook owners looking for something more portable will have very little to gain from buying it.

I prefer the Sony TZ but far and expected something better from Apple.

sony_vaio_tz.jpg
 
currentinterest said:
Four executives at my company just ordered the SSD version and are dumping their Thinkpads, most are new to Mac. If this is any indication, this thing will be huge.
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in terms of reliablity the thinkpads have been tested and proven, I wouldn't toss those thinkpads away just yet. If they put mac os on the z series I would buy it in a heartbeat.
 
macsrsocool said:
The MBA is going to have some serious problems.

1) Warping.

2) Bending

3) Cracks

Macrumors will be flooded. Run now:(
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I'm curious - do you have a degree in Material Science and Engineering? Because I know for a fact that Apple has a number of them and I can tell you that the design of the MBA and the anodized aluminum will have no problems standing up to the rigors of everyday use. In fact it's far sturdier than the plastic MB. And dear Lord people, this is a very nice machine. I own a 12" PB so all you people saying no one buys things like this, umm. Apple sold A TON of 12" PB so obviously there's a market for small. Personally I'd say the thinness of this laptop makes it just as portable as my 12" considering it weighs over a 1.5lb LESS. And those complaining about speed or power. Umm, I'm still running a 1.25GHz G4, to me this thing is blazing fast...

One more thing - for those b!tching about the price. Umm, stay in your lovely land where R&D cost nothing and you don't ever expect a company to recoup ANY costs from the process of pushing the limits of form factor...
 
Plumbstone said:
It's called duty and VAT, which works out at around 30% in all, which works out at $2338. or £1194, so it seems we get shipping to the UK for only £5 a pretty good deal really. Don't blame apple, blame Brown.
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A pretty poor deal, actually. There is no duty payable on imports of computer hardware or software into the UK, unless the primary purpose of the hardware is that of a calculator. In other words, 17.5% VAT has transmogrified into 30% by the power of Cupertino.

And you have the nerve to call Britons whiners? People chucked tea into the sea for less.
 
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