Unless they have huge stockpiles are there going to be any Core 2 Duos left to put in it by the end of the year?
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Apple to Introduce 11.6-Inch MacBook Air With 'SSD Card' Integrated Storage Next Week?
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Unless they have huge stockpiles are there going to be any Core 2 Duos left to put in it by the end of the year?
He said only if the quality and user experience were good not price this thing can be $199 if it just works to their standerds I bet $899 $1099 very high end.
With all due respect, from the point of usability and consistency, such a design decision would be an utter crock of crap and a sure way to disaster. It will make _everyone_ unhappy, believe me.
From the marketing point of view, this is a piece o'crap no less. Why make a Joe Schmoe buy just one device when we can convince him to open up his pockets for two?
I don't mind a 11'' MacBook Air, so long as the current resolution is either maintained or upgraded. Also, I'd like to see the buttonless glass trackpad on these new models.
Considering that Steve Jobs went on and on in 2008 about how sub-notebooks don't have full-sized keyboards and displays, I'd imagine it'd be a bit hypocritical if Apple's 11'' MBA lacked a full-sized keyboard.
I think so, given that their standalone aluminum keyboard is a bit narrower than my HP Mini 311 which is 11.6".
Of course you won't get a numpad with that.
When the original Air launched it had a design and features that were passed down into the MBPs. I wonder if this one will give us any ideas of whats to come next for Apples other notebooks.
That was great!
Don't worry, they can turn it into a feature and outsell MSI, Acer and Asus, at least in the US and maybe Old Europe.
If anyone asks, they'll tell that undersized keyboards were crap *as implemented by every vendor in the world which is not Apple. Apple, of course, does everything right...
I'm sorry that I can't share your enthusiasm. And yes I am very glad that my personal crystal ball seemed to be right and that is why I quickly bought a MBA last week, fearing the whole line would go down the toilet. It did, if the first reports are correct.
13" is a neat form factor, and so is 128 SSD. The 2GB RAM is the only limiting factor, but my first experience is that I can work around it. It's bearable even with Parallels. With CoolBook it's quiet, fast and lightweight. Yes it's faster than my 2007 MBP15 thanks to the SSD!
I'm quite scared about Apple's direction. Everything is taking this multitouch, ios, gamecenter-enabled, ping-always-on path. That may be a healthy business decision for Apple because that is where the money is. For me that means that Apple and I will eventually separate at some point, and this MBA may be the last pro machine I bought from them. Luckily Windows got a lot better so in 2, 3 years we may have real options.
Congratulations on the old MBA, Apple, and for the rest... you can keep it.
13" is a neat form factor, and so is 128 SSD. The 2GB RAM is the only limiting factor, but my first experience is that I can work around it. It's bearable even with Parallels. With CoolBook it's quiet, fast and lightweight. Yes it's faster than my 2007 MBP15 thanks to the SSD!
I'm quite scared about Apple's direction. Everything is taking this multitouch, ios, gamecenter-enabled, ping-always-on path. That may be a healthy business decision for Apple because that is where the money is. For me that means that Apple and I will eventually separate at some point, and this MBA may be the last pro machine I bought from them. Luckily Windows got a lot better so in 2, 3 years we may have real options.
Congratulations on the old MBA, Apple, and for the rest... you can keep it.
Proprietary ≠ cheap for the consumer.
Even if manufacturing costs are lowered for Apple, I very much doubt this will represent real value to the consumer. Particularly when one wants to upgrade the internal storage.
I'm also wary of the word "embedded". Smacks of hard soldered NAND chips imho, which if that's the case, means a whole new logic board to increase capacity.
I guess we'll see next Wednesday.
And when the flash chips wear out, you will have to replace the whole 'book because of such a brillant design. Given how thin those things are, you will be able to just crumple the old one like a sheet of paper before throwing it into the rubbish bin.
Right on! They could even shrink the width of the tab, caps lock, shift, return and delete keys. Lots of room for a Macbook keyboard on a MBA with 11.6" diagonal screen. Love it. No optical disk, no hard drive, 4GB RAM & 128GB SSD on motherboard. Nothing updatable or replaceable. This could be super thin. Extra wide glass trackpad with more gestures. Comes with 10.6.5. Under $999. Bring it on!