MacBook Airs in Stores Tuesday or Wednesday?

[phoxrenvatio]

macbook air is the product name, unless you say it's the same thing as a macbook/macbook pro, in that case ALL macs are the same and "i", "book", "pro", and "air" are all modifiers.
therefore, according to some, the plural should be macsbook, macsbook pro, imacs (no change), macs pro, and the classic macsbook air....
or, in accordance to everyone else's argument, the entire name is the name, keeping eack product separate: macbooks, macbook pros, imacs, mac pros, macbook airs.

clearly the second example is more accurate.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Guess 10.5.2 will be coming within the next couple days then.

Was thinking the same thing.
All signs point towards Tuesday.

 

[illian]

But Jobs did say, and in fact, reiterated "available in 2 weeks", and it will be 2 weeks exactly tomorrow.

well actually he said 2-3 weeks...but the sooner the better

 

[clayj]

Just spoke to my local Apple Store's inventory manager. He says he has seen nothing on his transit docs yet, but he may get updates every day from here on out.

So basically, no one seems to really know yet.

 

[tothelimit]

About a week and a half ago, arn made a post in the macworld section about the MacBook Air and its appeal to women. I wasn't too sure about that statement until this past week/weekend. My girlfriend, who is typically less-than-enthusiastic about new Apple products, has asked be 2 of 3 times if the "new skinny macbooks" are in stores yet so she can "go play around on one".

I can hear it now... "It's my birthday soon!"

 

[happydude]

While its great that stores are getting availability so soon, I hope Apple honors the Pre-Orders many of us put in and ships before general store availability. Whats the point of pre-ordering if the stores get stock before the pre-orders?

you'll still get it as fast as possible given shipping times. i.e. you won't have to drive to the store (not sure how long of a drive that is for you specifically, but for me pre-ordering saves a 2 hour round trip, 100 miles on my car, $48 depreciation/gas/maintenance to my car . . . so when i pre-order and it doesn't come THE DAY it is available in store, still worth it.).

 

[sanford]

Based on the BS logic then the plural for MacBook should be MacsBook as Book is the terminal modifier MacBook.

Look, man, an eye-opener is one thing, but this much drinking in the a.m., just not good for you.

First: 1 adam 12, 1 adam 12, see the man about "Trade names are, ahem, other matters entire; almost certainly, Apple will refer to more than one MacBook Air as MacBook Airs."

Second: MacsBook versus MacBooks, we could just throw the above-reference trade name exception at that, but as you are obviously an ESL student, why not take the opportunity to further your studies? Forget "MacBook" is a trade name. Forget Mac is a proper noun -- well, an abbreviation of a proper noun (It's not an adjective describing an apple, by the way; I don't know what Jobs and the early Mac team intended, but they named their computer after a *raincoat*, a variant spelling, but definitely not an orchard fruit.) MacBook is a compound noun. Compound nouns are made plural with the terminal S.

Anyway, for what does "BS" stand? I figure, "bright and sophisticated".

You'd take the cake for the day, my friend who is so absolutely sure that at least *he* exists -- most of us call that hubris, you know -- save this bit from, ahem, "inkhead":

"Otherwise I'll have my MacBook Air at 7am Tuesday thanks to Apple Store friends...

Probably won't use it till my next business trip since I have 2 MacBook Pros already."

I get it. No, really I do. When the global supply infrastructure collapses, we're gonna need *spares*, man, *spares*.

 

[jouster]

Based on the BS logic then the plural for MacBook should be MacsBook as Book is the terminal modifier MacBook.

Touche. Sanford was wrong anyway - what s/he claimed with respect to noun-noun compounds is far from a hard-and-fast rule. *Generally* the noun that is not the modifier stays singular, but there are many counterexamples. Let's face it: MacBooks Air sounds ridiculous.

 

[sanford]

Touche. Sanford was wrong anyway - what s/he claimed with respect to noun-noun compounds is far from a hard-and-fast rule. *Generally* the noun that is not the modifier stays singular, but there are many counterexamples. Let's face it: MacBooks Air sounds ridiculous.

You're a flipping lunatic. Really. You misspelled "touché". You used a hyphen when I assume you were after a dash, although in that position you really want a colon or, imperfectly but acceptably, a semicolon.*

It's freaking English. There are always exceptions to rules, in any language; English is chockfull of them. But compound nouns -- what the hell is a noun-noun compound? As opposed to what? A verb-noun compound, along the lines of bad "Injun" dialogue in a 1930s Western? -- are in vast, overwhelming majority made plural with the terminal S.

Of course it will be MacBook Airs, no matter the grammatical rule underpinning common nouns with terminal modifiers. It's a proper noun, a trade name. One does as one wishes with trade names, as I already have freaking twice stated.

The horrifying thing here is almost no one can still properly speak or write their own native language.

*As for your spelling and grammar, I'll gladly ignore casual and/or incorrect usage of both in bloody forum posts and such -- even I do it sometimes. But if you're going to publicly state I'm wrong on a point of English grammar -- as if you have any kind of clue -- forum post or no, you damn well better use correct spelling and grammar when you do it.

 

[PieMac]

well actually he said 2-3 weeks...but the sooner the better

I just watched the part of the keynote where Steve says this and he says "will be shipping in two weeks" and emphasizes again, "Two weeks".

For what it's worth, anyway....

 

[tofupancake]

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[AidenShaw]

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Guess 10.5.2 will be coming within the next couple days then.

I'd say so. The last two builds of 10.5.2 had no unesolved issues and the last one was released on Thursday. We will definitely see it this week.

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I've seen this a few times. Does it automatically paste this from anyone using an iPhone to show how many people are using this site with iPhones?

It also works with full-featured smartphones and PDAs, not just Iphones.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

I'm looking forward to the MBA arriving in stores. That can only mean we are that much closer to Apple announcing the Penryn MBP w/ Multi-Touch.

 

[snberk103]

Plural of MacBook Air

Actually, I'm pretty sure that the plural form is going to follow the example of "fish". One fish, two fish, a school of fish. Or, in the case of the Air, One MacBook Air, two MacBook Air, a balloon of MacBook Air.

Think about it. If you have several professional people in a room, it makes sense to say "Look at that room of pros." If you had an empty room (but not a vacuum) you wouldn't say "Look, there are several airs in that room." You would say "Look I have a room full of air."

However, to follow the logic further, you wouldn't actually be able to carry around a room full of air. It is fixed in it's location - like a mainframe from IBM. If you wanted to carry around a 'plural' of air you would put it (them?) into a balloon.

Please forgive any grammatical errors. English is my native tongue, so don't rite it so good. Now I wish what a participle was, so I could dangle it.

 

[sanford]

Okay, well, nice try, and it works out well, but fishes is acceptable usage.

And then you completely fall apart. You breathe air from an air tank. First use, noun, second use, adjective modifying noun.

They'll be called MacBook Airs, simply making plural the trade name by tacking on the terminal S.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that the plural form is going to follow the example of "fish". One fish, two fish, a school of fish. Or, in the case of the Air, One MacBook Air, two MacBook Air, a balloon of MacBook Air.

Think about it. If you have several professional people in a room, it makes sense to say "Look at that room of pros." If you had an empty room (but not a vacuum) you wouldn't say "Look, there are several airs in that room." You would say "Look I have a room full of air."

However, to follow the logic further, you wouldn't actually be able to carry around a room full of air. It is fixed in it's location - like a mainframe from IBM. If you wanted to carry around a 'plural' of air you would put it (them?) into a balloon.

Please forgive any grammatical errors. English is my native tongue, so don't rite it so good. Now I wish what a participle was, so I could dangle it.

 

[snberk103]

99 Luft Ballloons

"Humour: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter."

A skill which, apparently, I am lacking as I detect not bit of laughter from your reply.

You have to admit, a "Balloon of MacBook Air" does sound incongruous, eh?

Okay, well, nice try, and it works out well, but fishes is acceptable usage.

And then you completely fall apart. You breathe air from an air tank. First use, noun, second use, adjective modifying noun.

They'll be called MacBook Airs, simply making plural the trade name by tacking on the terminal S.

 

[MikeAnd]

I wonder when Amazon will roll out rebates on the MacBook Air (just like they have on virtually every other Mac). That is the point at which I'll pull the trigger.

 

[mongo1919]

MBA shipping

I bought b4 Jobs was done with the keynote, the store had just come online, I ordered. Ship date of 2/6, delivery 2/12, just checked the apple store, was prepared for shipment this afternoon. won't be long now.....

 

[Nenita]

Visual Change schedule for sunday.

Looks like the Visual change at my Apple store should be this sunday, that means MBA will at least be on display monday morning. so far as some one else mentioned b4 there are no MBA in stores yet, and the back of house personnel don't have an "in transit" day as of yet. we will see if they do the change this weekend.

 

[AidenShaw]

why b4 ?

I bought b4 Jobs was done with the keynote, the store had just come online, I ordered. Ship date of 2/6, delivery 2/12, just checked the apple store, was prepared for shipment this afternoon. won't be long now.....

Looks like the Visual change at my Apple store should be this sunday, that means MBA will at least be on display monday morning. so far as some one else mentioned b4 there are no MBA in stores yet, and the back of house personnel don't have an "in transit" day as of yet. we will see if they do the change this weekend.

Two back to back odd posts.

In paragraphs that are otherwise mostly English, this strange hieroglyph "b4" appears....

What could the number "180" mean to the shipping of Apple Airs? Oh, 180 is half of 360 - and 360 is the radius of the cube. Could it mean that the MacBook Cube Air will be half as successful as the Apple Cube? Or is it half of an Xbox 360 - and pray tell in which dimension?

As if some alien force momentarily took over their minds, and caused gibberish to come out of their fingertips. Or, (he types ominously), perhaps it is a portent to evil or harm.