I use the credit card for points, then pay it off with my positive balance savings account.
We're not all poor and living paycheck to paycheck. Some of us do make a very decent living indeed.
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I use the credit card for points, then pay it off with my positive balance savings account.
We're not all poor and living paycheck to paycheck. Some of us do make a very decent living indeed.
I use the credit card for points, then pay it off with my positive balance savings account.
We're not all poor and living paycheck to paycheck. Some of us do make a very decent living indeed.
What do points make?
Sorry... couldn't resist, Brucie
Not just London, but the rest of the UK aswell. There's more to the UK than just London.
MBA Question
Question for any current MBA owners:
How well does the MBA work with an external monitor; either open or in clamshell? Curious about heat, noise, etc;.
Looking for a replacement laptop that would occasionally need to double as a desktop; use for lots of writing. MBA would be ideal for travel and also for the "wow" factor with clients. Business is buying, not me
Thanks.
Question for any current MBA owners:
How well does the MBA work with an external monitor; either open or in clamshell? Curious about heat, noise, etc;.
Looking for a replacement laptop that would occasionally need to double as a desktop; use for lots of writing. MBA would be ideal for travel and also for the "wow" factor with clients. Business is buying, not me
Thanks.
I use the credit card for points, then pay it off with my positive balance savings account.
We're not all poor and living paycheck to paycheck. Some of us do make a very decent living indeed.
Spot on, sir. Use the credit card companies, don't let them use you.
I would buy this, this is like the revival of the 12" powerbook, which is my favorite apple laptop.
My only concern is bezel thickness (thin = good) and whether the rest of the keyboard will be standard bezeless.
i imagine my wireless keyboard,extendend slightly to fit a trackpad, with a widescreen ipad screen 2 inches larger.
want!!
My only concern is bezel thickness (thin = good) and whether the rest of the keyboard will be standard bezeless.
i imagine my wireless keyboard,extendend slightly to fit a trackpad, with a widescreen ipad screen 2 inches larger.
want!!
In my case, points go to paying capital on the mortgage. It's not much, but every bit helps.
No we don't... The rest of europe is not afraid of their government and pays with debit and credit cards. Welcome to the future..
Not even my grandmother would buy a laptop with cash.
If you aren't afraid of the government you aren't paying enough attention to it.
11.5 inch screen on the new Air would be a deal breaker to me. Far too small to be useful.
I am sure it will be a top seller. Apple learned from Apple TV to make more mainstream products.
God I hope not, If it's any good, I don't want to wait months for them to actually start ramping up production following a controlled shortage in order to make it seem like the demand is overwhelming.
Don't lie, Apple does this every time. You think by now they'd know to make a few extras... "we swear, we can't make them fast enough!"
Funny how they managed to make 14 million new iPhones, but struggled to make 4 million iPads...
Black Power key would be way cool!
Worlds away from the subversive Red Switch of the original so-called PCs.
Worlds away from the subversive Red Switch of the original so-called PCs.
Apple has to get this one right.
The MBA is not a bad machine, it's just expensive compared to the rest of the line.
An 11.6" inch MBA must be whittled down, if necessary, to get it under the $999 price point if it is to make any difference in the market and among any Apple product. The Macbook and Macbook Pro are so much more appropriate for the masses.
Also, for thin and light and what many do with that, the iPad can do most tasks that crowd wants. If you want a full OS, and have MS office, how is a Macbook or 13" inch Macbook Pro too heavy or too thick?
Now a small MBA with tiny screen that has a full OS that can fit into a large pocket or purse may have a market outside of the iPad, but only time will tell.
The MBA is not a bad machine, it's just expensive compared to the rest of the line.
An 11.6" inch MBA must be whittled down, if necessary, to get it under the $999 price point if it is to make any difference in the market and among any Apple product. The Macbook and Macbook Pro are so much more appropriate for the masses.
Also, for thin and light and what many do with that, the iPad can do most tasks that crowd wants. If you want a full OS, and have MS office, how is a Macbook or 13" inch Macbook Pro too heavy or too thick?
Now a small MBA with tiny screen that has a full OS that can fit into a large pocket or purse may have a market outside of the iPad, but only time will tell.
Not just London, but the rest of the UK aswell. There's more to the UK than just London.
i'll be ready with a large glass of pinotage red wine @ 18h00 south african time! dinner can wait!
enjoy you all (itoyboys included!)
remember it's about MAC
Hey wow! The last 9 replies (as I write this) include 14 smiley/winky faces and no angry faces! What's up with this place lately
give it 4h 40m...
then you'll see 
I think you all forget Rosetta.
I don't see the A4 coming to Mac though, but I also don't see an 11" Mac notebook either, not in the same year as the iPad release. Steve has already told us he's not interested in the format. 13.3" is as small as he will go. And you will not see the Air pricepoint drop below that of the MacBook, anything lower will cannibalize Mini sales.
By mainstream I'm guessing you mean price? Apple has high margins on all their products and could lower their prices. They won't because it's not how their branding works. The only time the price lowers is when the technology to make the product gets cheaper.
Marketing 101: More expensive/never on sale = Better.
Under Armour employs the same mode of thinking...
Unless they threw in a ARM emulator in their PPC emulator, no, I'm not forgetting about Rosetta.
You could also have mentionned the SDK's iPhone simulator while you were at it.
If you want iOS, get a iOS device, don't dirty up our Macs with that crap.
It's still too early to identify anything learned from the AppleTV.
If anything it reaffirms that they make alot from cheaper devices with a large margin.
If only that would filter to the Mac Mini, which used to be cheap.
Unless they threw in a ARM emulator in their PPC emulator, no, I'm not forgetting about Rosetta.
You could also have mentionned the SDK's iPhone simulator while you were at it.
If you want iOS, get a iOS device, don't dirty up our Macs with that crap.
I'm so sorry for you that you feel need to be so inflammatory to anyone offering something useful to the discussion.
Rosetta is an instruction translator, not an emulator and not a simulator.
At the bottom line, Apple can easily take the experience with Rosetta and introduce an Arm version of OS X that translates Intel instructions or the reverse with an Arm translator for the existing OS X (which I suspect is more likely).
Like it or not, Apple is quickly on the move to making iOS blend with OS X. I'm willing to bet you'll see it introduced into or replacing the Dashboard, first (though maybe not today's announcement, more likely 10.8).
I agree. People who need maximum portability don't need a lot of horsepower and certainly wouldn't like to pay extra for it.
Well, it just is.
My briefcase is not that big. I don't care much about footprint, but thickness is an issue for me.Well, I agree with you that within the current line-up, a $999 MBA would probably damage white MB sales. But who says that the lineup stays as it is? Maybe the MB is dropped or its price gets cut.
And Steve Jobs never said anything about screen size as far as I know. He said something about screen quality and keyboard size. I think Apple is capable of putting a quality 11,6" display in a notebook and with 16:9 aspect ratio, a full-sized keyboard is totally doable (Although trackpad size might be difficult).
God I hope not, If it's any good, I don't want to wait months for them to actually start ramping up production following a controlled shortage in order to make it seem like the demand is overwhelming.
Don't lie, Apple does this every time. You think by now they'd know to make a few extras... "we swear, we can't make them fast enough!"
Funny how they managed to make 14 million new iPhones, but struggled to make 4 million iPads...
Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but an untrained chimp could have predicted that the iPhone 4 would have been huge, but the iPad was a big question mark. They had no idea how well it was going to do and making millions more than they needed would have been a huge blunder if it had not done well.