Why do you keep repeating the same mistakes, you keep writing the same stuff over and over again. Lastly, when did Apple have 50 million iphone contracts about to expire?
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Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
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Why do you keep repeating the same mistakes, you keep writing the same stuff over and over again. Lastly, when did Apple have 50 million iphone contracts about to expire?
but they haven't really denied the netbook issue. they have said they have no plans 'at this time' to release one, that they don't view the current trend (cramped keyboards etc) as something that fits with Apple's style and so on. but they also note that they are watching the market and if they come up with a 'worthy' idea they may pursue it.
that's not a deny, but merely a 'don't expect something tomorrow cause it ain't coming'.
which is typical Apple. they don't like what's about to happen to get out there in time for someone to come up with another version and beat them to the punch.
Well,
I have never seen a budget BMW or a budget Mercedes, may be teh smart... but that wasn't really budget aswell.
I do understand there position.
However, I think when Apple do make a 'netBook' (they wont call it a netBook though) it should rock, that is what current expectations are from People.
Apple just isn't ready yet.
Ries
But you have seen the 1 series BMW and the A Class Mercedes...
My pick - the Apple iNet...a sleek 10 inch screen same thickness as Air with glass keyboard and touch screen, 64GB SDD and the usual connectivity.
Jesus mate, you need to get out more buddy. All I did was post what the Apple guy said. It in no way portrays what I think, I added that at the end of the post thus stating in one line all the crap you've just said! Read my post first if your going to use it for quoting please?
The real apple netbook is this one...
Of course if you really want an Apple netbook you could do what I did, spend 300 on a Dell mini and install OS X - it works great.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook
Of course if you really want an Apple netbook you could do what I did, spend 300 on a Dell mini and install OS X - it works great.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook
Jesus mate, you need to get out more buddy. All I did was post what the Apple guy said. It in no way portrays what I think, I added that at the end of the post thus stating in one line all the crap you've just said! Read my post first if your going to use it for quoting please?
So this wasn't you?
Alright then, I apologize. If that wasn't you.
Netbook
I don't know. There seems to be so much excitement for a really big iphone or iPod Touch, but without a keyboard, I don't see it having a big audience. I know that if that's what shows up, I'm going to be really disappointed.
I've been following the Mac netbook news closely not because I want a cheap slow, tiny computer, but because I want a mac with a hyper portable form factor that I could carry with me everyday without even thinking about it and travel with without it weighing me down or creating a bulge in my bag or having to carry a larger bag to accommodate it. I love the Air, but don't want to travel with a 13-inch screen. If I'm in another city and am carrying photo equipment, the current Air wouldn't fit in my photo bag. If I'm just out with a daypack, the current Air wouldn't fit in my daypack.
What I'd love to see is a macbook nano that was basically the macbook with a 10-inch touch/click screen and no trackpad or disk drive (in an aluminum unibody if that's not too much to ask). If it costs over $1,000, so be it. Alternately, if they want to put out a 10-inch version of the Air that's fine too. Call it the Airbook Nano or something.
Or maybe they come out with a tablet and a 10-inch Air and satisfy the tablet people AND the small form-factor notebook people. This would leave the cheap mac netbook people out in the cold, but they were never going to get a cheap mac netbook anyway. Apple has been saying they don't do cheap for about 6 months. They've never said that they don't do small.
I don't know. There seems to be so much excitement for a really big iphone or iPod Touch, but without a keyboard, I don't see it having a big audience. I know that if that's what shows up, I'm going to be really disappointed.
I've been following the Mac netbook news closely not because I want a cheap slow, tiny computer, but because I want a mac with a hyper portable form factor that I could carry with me everyday without even thinking about it and travel with without it weighing me down or creating a bulge in my bag or having to carry a larger bag to accommodate it. I love the Air, but don't want to travel with a 13-inch screen. If I'm in another city and am carrying photo equipment, the current Air wouldn't fit in my photo bag. If I'm just out with a daypack, the current Air wouldn't fit in my daypack.
What I'd love to see is a macbook nano that was basically the macbook with a 10-inch touch/click screen and no trackpad or disk drive (in an aluminum unibody if that's not too much to ask). If it costs over $1,000, so be it. Alternately, if they want to put out a 10-inch version of the Air that's fine too. Call it the Airbook Nano or something.
Or maybe they come out with a tablet and a 10-inch Air and satisfy the tablet people AND the small form-factor notebook people. This would leave the cheap mac netbook people out in the cold, but they were never going to get a cheap mac netbook anyway. Apple has been saying they don't do cheap for about 6 months. They've never said that they don't do small.
Performance != value.
You apparently never met anybody who on a whim bought a netbook.
The netbooks are bought generally for their size. In past half year, I have seen on a road more netbooks than notebooks. And don't get it wrong: people didn't trade their notebooks for netbooks, but absolutely new category of people whom you'd never even imagined traveling with a laptop. The damm things fit some not-so-oversized pockets.
The markets are adjacent, but not the same. Netbook market is definitely larger than that of notebooks: the people who want to have a computer on the road as an bonus, not as luggage. (Anybody who lugged his 15-17" with whole gear for a day would understand the sentiment.)