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Introducing the MacBook Air?
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Microsoft Air
If it were Microsoft it would be called the "Microsoft X-Air 380V Business Edition Pro" or something and come in five artificially created price ranges.
It would also weigh in at ten kilos, be made of thin black plastic, and burn a hole in your desk when you use it.
Nah.
If it were Microsoft it would be called the "Microsoft X-Air 380V Business Edition Pro" or something and come in five artificially created price ranges.
It would also weigh in at ten kilos, be made of thin black plastic, and burn a hole in your desk when you use it.
AppleTVs can easily be hacked to run OSX proper. RackMac is the code name for the Xserve. The rest of the weird crap on that list appears to be hackintoshes.
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Except for ADP. That's the old Intel developer preview machines. No idea what ACPI is in this context.
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Can you explain how to type using an Apple TV ? hacked or not.
Perhaps I'm missing something.
Sorry but I do not think Apple would call a laptop a MacBookAir or anything like that.
It would have to be very unique and very "AIR" specialized well above and beyond other laptops to give it such moniker.
I find it hard to believe the AIR is any part of a laptop formal name.
It would have to be very unique and very "AIR" specialized well above and beyond other laptops to give it such moniker.
I find it hard to believe the AIR is any part of a laptop formal name.
It seems likely to me that the existence of the possible "MacBook Air" and the banner "Something in the Air" are being needlessly confabulated.
"Something in the Air" could easily refer to the fact that *all* the announcements at the show have something to do with Wireless technology.
So, MacBook Air, but also, the WiMax possibility, the sharing your router thingie, the iTunes rental possibility, purchasing and renting movies over the air, etc. etc.
It's possible that if the next iPhone has a better camera and iChat that we could be seeing video conferencing over the air as well as Wireless YouTube uploads and so on.
This would be huge, like putting a video-camera in everyone's pocket. It would also go a long way towards solving the video content problem.
I would look for Jobs to use "air" as a theme for several announcements.
Yeah I clicked on it too.
It opened like mail and iChat and tried to email stuff and send messages.
I do not think it sent anything but it is still interesting how it can do all that stuff with just one click.
Macbook Cloud
Not sure if this has already been posted, as I can't read the whole thread, but could Air be a reference to the Cloud? ie Cloud computing?
Wireless portable device, low onboard storage (NAND?) and ongoing association with google and .Mac suggest an Apple cloud computing device, a device one step up from the iPhone?
Can't use Macbook cloud, Everex already took the "cloudbook" name
Not sure if this has already been posted, as I can't read the whole thread, but could Air be a reference to the Cloud? ie Cloud computing?
Wireless portable device, low onboard storage (NAND?) and ongoing association with google and .Mac suggest an Apple cloud computing device, a device one step up from the iPhone?
Can't use Macbook cloud, Everex already took the "cloudbook" name
it sounds stupid? yes, but the name will catch on. it comes off easy on the tongue, it's catchy, it's unique and memorable. people used to call MacBook Pro as a stupid sounding name, but not anymore.
Not to mention the irony of a computer company that has built it's reputation on classy chic designs selling software in packages with leopard spots all over.
Leopard or animal prints of any kind has always been synonymous with extreme tacky-ness since at least 1979. So why does the coolest computer company in the world use something that would make any graphic artist cringe for packaging and product ID?
Answer: They just do, and it makes no sense. Maybe Steve likes cats; who knows.
And also because they wanted to emphasise that each computer made by Apple was a Mac. Previously people got confused and started calling the company 'Mac' and the computer an 'Apple' and so on. Still happens, mind... really pisses me off.
lol.I wonder if Apple will follow Micro$oft's lead and release a brown Air...
Instead they will release the Microsoft "Error"
Sheesh. I hope this turns out to be a lot of hot air. For the love of God, Apple, give us the new MBP!!!