Totally agree with you that I'm definitely not the target market, though I just think that the lack of hard disk space would prevent a large market segment from even considering the device.
Ultraportables as general are not for "large market segments".
They are specialiced products for professionals that crave the benefits of UPs. Or wealthy affecionados that have the neccessary funds.
They are or wont be (for the foreseeable future) a massmarket product.
Macbook is that.
Those who need the product are not in need for huge amounts of HDD space either. The UPs are catered,say, for businessmen doing their presentations to clients (PDFs,powerpoints,small amounts of low-res pics,small videoclips etc..) ,musicians using the comp for very,very light setups, photographers using it for proofing on outdoor location shootings etc..
The heavy duty users,videographers and stage musicians would have the larger MBPs for their stuff with their benefits.
I'm with you on this, actually.
Me too. Sensible prediction.
I like.
i ahve a question about the hard drive
if they can fit 80 gigs in an iPod, why can't they just use one of those in the "ultra portable"?
Those HDDs are slow (spinning/transfer speeds) and are made for "sometimes read,almost never write" type of stuff that the ipods need.
They would be next to abysmal in performance in the laptops.
TThese are just more of the wild fantasies, such as the SSD drive.
And to the poster above who wrote a price tag of $2499 with only 1gb of ram? That must be a joke right. High price for less than 60gb of storage will not happen in a mass produced consumer computer by Apple EVER.
As stated above,it will
not be a "mass produced consumer computer", it will be a prosumer/pro-puter and will be placed in the MacBookPro category. And the SSD drive suddenly makes sense.
i really hope apple will come out with something lighter and thinner!!
and, MORE AFFORDABLE!!
Lighter,thinner and MORE affordable are almost never in the same sentence.
The lighter/tinner is a market area where the companies charge
extra because it is a speciality product and harder to manufacture. Be it in sports clothing or sailboats.
The only place what I can think of where Light is cheaper is in beers.
I've always wanted a mac with out a cd/dvd drive, but I just can't imagine not having a hard drive. Basically I need my full music library on me and having just 32 to 64 sd ram blows.
Well,you have a hard drive. Not as spacious as before,but with other great benefits. You obviously are the least optimal client for the MBP Nano.
You propably are searching for a efficient,dedicated GPU laptop that can store your personal life.
A "all-eggs-in-the-same-basket" kind of guy,to put it.
For you there is MB and MBP.
The people that MBP Nano is aimed at allready has
several computers. They are powerusers that buy that Nano for their special purpose.
For me it will be photography.
I allready have 4 other macs, all for different purposes.
My present 12" iBook has travelled around the world for few times and it is getting a bit too banged up. Tried the new macbook but that just didnt cut it because of the large size.
Now i am dire need of a UP. Pity that apple hasnt bothered to release one,let alone a successor for the 12" iBook/power book lineup.
The popularity is obvious.
On this side of the pond, you have to pay allmost the same for old 12" powerbooks that you have to pay for macbooks...
The people who need the portability,are willing to pay it.
Imagine.
