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Apple Announces MacBook Air
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I'll be passing on the Air.
With the 1.8" standard drive, I don't care how fast the processor is, the thing is going to be uselessly slow for ANYTHING. I would have rather had a ULV processor and a 2.5" drive.
And an extra $1000 for the SSD, that just places the price too high for a machine that I can't even use for recording because it lacks a firewire port.
Also, it isn't as thin as the pictures on Apple's site would lead you to belive.
Based on the picture I attached, it looks like the entire laptop is about .7" thick untill the last inch before the front, where it tapers to .17".
So for ~1/4" of an inch in thickness, they cut most of the functionality out of the machine.
With the 1.8" standard drive, I don't care how fast the processor is, the thing is going to be uselessly slow for ANYTHING. I would have rather had a ULV processor and a 2.5" drive.
And an extra $1000 for the SSD, that just places the price too high for a machine that I can't even use for recording because it lacks a firewire port.
Also, it isn't as thin as the pictures on Apple's site would lead you to belive.
Based on the picture I attached, it looks like the entire laptop is about .7" thick untill the last inch before the front, where it tapers to .17".
So for ~1/4" of an inch in thickness, they cut most of the functionality out of the machine.
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It is an amazing laptop but just not for me. The size isn't worth the price for me. I don't travel with a Mac for work and don't travel enough personally to justify. It would be great in a large city where there are lots of hot spots though or for someone who is always on the road for work. This would shed quite a bit of bulk and weight.
It is an amazing laptop but just not for me. The size isn't worth the price for me. I don't travel with a Mac for work and don't travel enough personally to justify. It would be great in a large city where there are lots of hot spots though or for someone who is always on the road for work. This would shed quite a bit of bulk and weight.
Also a 7 inch screen, 2-8GB of HD space, a mobile OS, a single core 900mhz Celeron-M, half the battery life.
Oh, and it weighs 0.5 pounds less, for all that lost hardware.
So...2x the screen measurement, 10x the HD space, a full-powered Core 2 Duo processor (with each core running at nearly twice the speed of the Eee's single Celeron), 2GB of RAM, and 2x the battery life is not worth the extra money?
Arrighty then. Keep on smokin'.
The only people who are calling it an ultramobile PC are in this forum. It's a smaller, lighter MacBook for those customers who desire that. If they don't won't it, they won't buy it.
Also, it's not overpriced. Instead of complaining, offer what you think it should cost.
LOL It's $300 and it has an SSD (or flash ram) instead of a garbage 1.8" harddrive. HAHAHA There is no way you can convince me that this Macbook Air garbage is worth a price premium of 9 times. Wake up Mac sheep.
I concur, it's priced on the high side... Even more than when the 12" PowerBook was in the market a few years ago! I think it should have been priced at $1499 (or lower?). And $3098 for the Air with the 64GB solid state drive? WOW! That's way more than my 2.6GHz MacBook Pro! 
Come on guys, we all knew that this was never gunna be a competitor to the standard MB in terms of price and power, but, isn't this what people have been saying they wanted since the 12" PB was killed?
Admittedly, the 13" screen is a little too big to be truly ultra portable, 12 would have been preferable.
Admittedly, the 13" screen is a little too big to be truly ultra portable, 12 would have been preferable.
Please dont even try and compare the two... What a joke? 2-8gb? Cmon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
That doesn't bother me as much as that it's 4200 rpm... but oh well, it still looks like a beautiful machine that will fit the business traveller.
This is a niche product, guys. This computer would make a great companion to an iMac or Mac Pro. I don't think it's designed to be someone's only system. I'll happily lose the optical drive for slim factor. Same goes for the 80GB HD. I don't need much storage when pairing this with my Mac Pro.
We'll see if it's overpriced or not based on how much it sells.
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This is absolutely pathetic. If I wanted a 13" machine, I'd buy a MacBook. It would be cheaper, it would have a bigger HDD, it would have a built in optical drive, and as far as I can see, the battery life wouldn't be much different. Worse, this machine only looks thin because of the tapered edges. I don't care if it's the thinnest notebook in the world, it's only 1/4 inch thinner than a macbook, which frankly, is intangible.
Where's the REAL ultra-portable, Apple?
Where's the REAL ultra-portable, Apple?
Am I the only one who thinks 5 hours of battery is pretty low considering other thin laptops can get like 8-10 hours.
What do you mean real ultra portable are you looking for something that has a 10 or 11 inch screen?
Okay, we're not taking anything away from the design. It's the most beautifully designed machine per usual with Apple products. Even if I'm not the target audience, find me a target audience that will pay the premium for this. I don't think it's wrong to be put off by this product. I think it would do Apple and this forum a great disservice just to fall in line and not question it. $3000 for nothing but a smaller solid state drive makes me scratch my head.
No doubt, I'm sure as time goes on, Apple will perfect this machine and we'll see something that will make it worth it's pricetag. But for right now, I don't see it. And I honestly haven't seen a decent argument in favor of this besides "it's beautiful".
Scarlett Johanssen is "beautiful", but she's still a bit out of my price range.
The lack of FW leaves me scratching my head...
I think you hit the nail on the head here - is it onboard RAM? All 2GB?! Thats going to be a weak point of this unit.
Still think my 12PB has a great deal of life - Leopard runs very nicely indeed on it.
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I think you hit the nail on the head here - is it onboard RAM? All 2GB?! Thats going to be a weak point of this unit.
Still think my 12PB has a great deal of life - Leopard runs very nicely indeed on it.
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That is the quote of the day. What the hell was Jobs thinking? If you're going to make a UMPC, make a frickin UMPC. Don't make a thinner, modernized 13.3" standard laptop and act like it's a ultra-portable.
Damn. I really was hoping for a 11-12" laptop. Thinness is a useless quality, small footprint would have been much better.
There is no reason for anybody to buy it. Not one single reason. Because of form factor/weight...please.
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