Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened. (AP)
Posted on 01/15/2008 1:33:15 PM PST by Cagey
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened. (AP)
That, I like very much.
The machine doesn't come with a built-in optical drive for reading CDs and DVDs, ...
That, I don't like.
You can get an external *wireless* drive for $100.
I haven’t use the optical drive in my current laptop in over a year.
bttt
G*ddammit. I just bought a new Sony because it was thinner than the Apple I was looking at.
Red Delicious ping
I wonder how many people will snap this in half?
Hope you kept the receipt...
With a titanium frame? Not likely.
Only $1799... Wow.
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Hey, but at least you got a free rootkit with your Sony.
Invariably at these things you will learn about a very cool new gadget or about price reductions in existing cool gadgets.
The expo is always a few weeks after Christmas for a reason.
Very sweet, but I don’t have a need for one.
But here shows why Apple always has the best designs. Every other manufacturer tries to shoehorn existing chips into their notebooks, while Apple actually got Intel to design a smaller one.
No optical drive doesn’t bother me given the market for these. Use a USB key if you need detachable storage, they hold more than a dual-layer DVD anyway. And a Mac can boot from them.
One USB port is not great, but I don’t see much other option given that a USB port is pretty big. The only other answer would be to sacrifice a lot of compatibility by using a smaller port and requiring an adapter. I can see that for the video, but not for the ubiquitous USB.
No Firewire isn’t great, but then this isn’t a machine to be doing your high-speed video editing on anyway.
No Ethernet, again port size problems. It has N, so network transfers won’t be too bad. But again we come to the market for this, probably not people who will be shipping tens of gigabytes around all the time anyway.
In the end, Apple packed more power and usability in such a small space than anyone else has ever managed. It’s not missing too much compared to machines that are two to three times its volume.
Another glossy screen, eh?
The update to the iPod Touch makes it a feasible replacement for my laptop for 90% of the time I spend on my laptop. I’m going to get one as soon as they expand the memory on it.
Apple is selling a USB-to-Ethernet adapter for 10/100BASE-T for $29.
Milspec version no doubt. Works in any oilfield in the world or on the moon: count on it.
This may be the machine that brings Apple back into the corporate world.
As someone who used to travel a lot on business, this is the right computer to have. All of your presentations come with you and get shown on a digital projector that everyone has these days.
You can edit and write new stuff in Powerpoint right up to the last minute.
Enough oomph to run spreadsheets and do all the financials you will ever need.
And, it fits easily in your carry-on.
Plus, it is elegant.
Hats off to Steve again. Liberal or not he does computers right. Heck, I’ve had keyboards that weighed more than this baby.
Suspect many people would want a CD/DVD drive in their laptop and would be willing to have a slightly thicker and heavier one.
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