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Apple to Host 'Back to the Mac' Media Event on October 20th

Someone jumped the gun at Apple this morning!
 

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Eidorian said:
I'm still waiting for ASUS to deploy more notebooks without optical drives. That alone is enough weight saved.
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Indeed. It also takes way too much space, that space could be used for other innards such as dual HDs, SSD+HD combo, discrete GPU, bigger battery....
 
My Apple event prediction:
-Updated 13 inch MacBook air
-New 11 inch MacBook air (with a touch screen and maybe higher resolution display)
-iLife 11
-iWork 11
-Mac OS X 10.7 preview
-Updated MacBook and MacBook Pros
-One more thing... Either white iPhone 4 or 11 inch MacBook air (MacBook touch? MacPad?
:apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple:
 
CWallace said:
And yet it is a fact that the MBA is thinner and lighter than the MBP-13, even if that thinness and lightness are the two primary marketing points for the MBA.

I have an MBP-15 and it's a PitA to take with me anywhere because of it's size and weight and the fact that I do not require the performance nor do I need the optical drive nor all of the connectivity ports. An MBP-13 would be smaller and lighter, but it still offers components and connectivity I do not need "in the field" and there is a thickness and weight penalty therein.

I'm leaning hard towards the iPad, but if the MBA was less expensive and/or smaller, I would likely lean towards it because in the end it can produce content as well as present it and it offers more flexibility in said content presentation.

So my decision process is driven by weight, followed by dimensions and then price. It is also driven by marketing, but in as much as I am only looking at Apple products. ;)
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The iPad isn't practical for any sort of real work so up to now the only choice has been a 13" machine for maximum portability. The 11.6" fixes that and rightly brings down the dimensions to where they should be: no wider than a full sized keyboard. Hopefully it will be thin and light too, but I think the point is that people looking for portability want all the dimensions to shrink as much as is practical.
 
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