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I think some are getting a little too touchy about this....

The name is far from perfect but good grief, it isn't as bad as some are making it out to be.

Hell, just as long as the product is actually GOOD :D

Are you trying to insinuate that comparing Macbook Air with MacHitler and MacNAMBLA is an unreasonable comparison? Heretic!


;)
 
The Macbook Air Name - It's Official

Steve confirmed the name of the new portable is "Macbook Air".

States it is the world's thinnest notebook.
 
Macbook Air Specs

Competitive baseline was the Sony TZ series.

.16" to .76" thickness. You could mail it in a large envelope.

13.3" widescreen display with LED backlight. Magnetic latch. iSight included.

Macbook-style keyboard with ambient light sensor (if this is what I have seen on Panasonic Toughbooks - it is slick).

Multi-touch trackpad.

80Gb 1.8" HDD or 64GB SSD.

1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo.
 
FAIL

It's a slow thin macbook with NO features for $500 more.

1 USB, no firewire?, ****** proprietary dvi thing

not an ultraportable because the screen is huge


This is the Cube in laptop form.

They compromised every feature imaginable just to make it a little bit thinner
 
- Apple asked Intel to shrink the Core 2 Duo. Intel shrunk the processor by 60%.

- The processor is as thick as a nickel and as wide as a dime.

Wow.
 
"Environmental highlights: fully aluminum case (good for recycling), first fully mercury and lead free display, circuit boards are BFR free, retail packaging are 56% less volume than MacBook."

Apple's being bullied by Greenpeace... :p
 
It's a little beauty. Purely an indulgance thing for those with the cash to splash, and in no way supposed to be your primary computer. If I was its target audience I'd snap one up in a second. However, as it is it has no appeal to me as I find my Macbook just portable enough thankyouverymuch.
 
Yup, I can't see spending $1799 on essentially a thinner, lighter replacement for my MacBook, with the same processor speed, less disk space, no Firewire or Ethernet or optical drive. The keyboard backlight is the only thing it's got that I don't have. Well, that and 802.11n, but to make use of that I'd have to spend even more. And the multi-touch trackpad, but I have a Bluetooth mouse, so it's not that important.

However, there's a silver lining in this cloud... the $99 USB powered Superdrive! A comparable Plextor burner is like $170. Since my MacBook only has a combo drive, I'm actually interested in that.
 
While it is a impressive product, I fear that this will go down the route of the ill-fated G4 Cube. The price is simply too much, and you gain no new features apart from form factor.

Lower the price Apple!
 
While it is a impressive product, I fear that this will go down the route of the ill-fated G4 Cube. The price is simply too much, and you gain no new features apart from form factor.

Lower the price Apple!

The iPod gained no features over the competition apart from form factor. It was limited in expandability, you were forced to use iTunes, it was much more expensive than the competition.

But it worked. It worked well. People liked the way it looked.

Who cares if it flops? More choices is a good thing. If it doesn't work they'll try something else. If it works, they'll keep making them.
 
Well the price may be expensive, but you have to realize that:
1. This isn't some competitor for the Asus EEE PC. This is a competitor for the Sony SZ series, which isn't exactly cheap either.
2. Apple contracted Intel to make them a custom CPU. That in of itself costs a little something we'd like to call "money".

i'm not buying one, however.
 
Slim laptop with no DVD means no way to do OS installs (among other things) without hooking up to a DVD drive. What if Airport could be used in a -bootable- way. Yes, that would take some serious low-level tricks (which is likely why it hasn't been done yet), but would be really cool. Wouldn't be particularly fast, but 802.11n might make it doable.

Woo Hoo! I called this one, huh? :)
 
Does Apple have something like Window's RIS (Remote Installation Service) technology that would allow you to install the OS via the network?

Until today, not as far as I know.

That's what makes this so great. I don't know how easy RIS is to use, but Apple's solution looks just about perfect if it works as advertised.
 
For the lack of other features, I think that slicing the size of the screen and keyboard down by 33% would have been doable. Or even a *real* UMPC, where the keyboard and screen are on the same unit, like a pepperpad.

One Day my Prince will come :(
 
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