Live Coverage of Apple's 'Back to the Mac' Media Event

[Tower-Union]

Looks like I will be putting my iPad up for sell. Great price on 11.6.

Wut...

 

[dnaida]

TODAY??? WHAT?/
maaana i wannttt thiss 11 incher!!!!

 

[Eddyisgreat]

lol when steve said the MBAs would be available today some guy in the audience said:

"Wow"

 

[jonnysods]

Wow, blazing.

1.4gbz and 2gb of RAM.

 

[rareflares]

Available Today

 

[smoked]

Anyone notice there was no mention of the ram in there?

RAM not such a big deal with flash storage, the SSD air can do things with 2GB RAM that others need 4GB for.

 

[PowerGamerX]

First response

YES 11.6" MBA!!!!

Final feeling

disappointment.


Really, a 1.4ghz processor?

I guess I'll stick with my iPad...

 

[voicegy]

Ram?!?

2 Gig Ram?!?! Major Fail!

 

[jaykk]

$999

Terrible crowd

Indeed ..

 

[trekkie604]

2GB Ram... hahaha.

 

[nefan65]

I bought an HP Envy 14 with 1600x900 screen, aluminum body, backlit keyboard, core i5, 160gb ssd, 1gb ATI 5650, switchable graphics for $1100 instead

Good for you! Another post of "My Hardware is better than yours"...

Don't tell me...it runs Windows 7, 64Bit, and it's WAY Faster and BETTER than ANY Apple system running OSX!!!! Right???

 

[MacSA]

That will be £850 then.... hugs my £180 netbook

 

[JSmoove05]

256GB ain't bad.

its not bad if u wanna pay 1600 for it...The ram is just a joke 2gb ram u dont be able to do much with this.

 

[zacman]

The real question is:

Does it run Flash?

 

[briansanderson]

So has iLife 11 finally gone 64 bit yet? Was wondering if this has been found out anywhere.

 

[Small White Car]

Not for our Mac users. Our business Mac users are power users

Then they shouldn't buy Macbook Airs.

I'm a video editor and won't buy one either. They're not for people like us. Does EVERY product need to be exactly for you and me? No.

 

[spazzcat]

I am a little suprised they didn't put 3G in it...

 

[nickspohn]

Why does everyone expect this thing to have blazing fast performance?

If you need performance, you shouldn't be using an 11 inch in the first place. Get a desktop, or MacBook Pro.

 

[wilycoder]

So basically apple created a netbook - an expensive netbook

Exactly.

At the iPad launch Steve was bashing netbooks. 6 months later he reveals.....an apple netbook.

Lamest keynote ever!

 

[Riemann Zeta]

- There is no saying you can't go and download and install stuff the old fashioned way

I do worry that eventually a number of programs will become App Store exclusive. I suppose this depends upon how restrictive Apple is--if Mac OS App Store programs have to run in a crippled sandbox and therefore cannot access the entire file system, cannot install drivers or frameworks, cannot run in su mode, cannot use programming or scripting methods other than Apple's approved Objective C APIs, etc... then the App Store probably won't come to dominate the desktop.

 

[sishaw]

And the netbook market...

Just lost half it's potential share to the 11.6" MBA. I can hear the stocks falling, while AAPL heads to the stratosphere.

 

[someone28624]

I might have to get a MBA, that pricing is quite aggressive.

 

[RebootD]

YES! A long video with talking heads on white backgrounds! I knew they wouldn't let me down.

 

[salesguy]

Jony is back over-hyping electronics as if they can cure cancer.

 

[0092762]

RAM not such a big deal with flash storage, the SSD air can do things with 2GB RAM that others need 4GB for.

SSD is no replacement for 2 more GB of RAM, there's an order of magnitude speed difference between the 2.