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)
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.
G*ddammit. I just bought a new Sony because it was thinner than the Apple I was looking at.
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I wonder how many people will snap this in half?
Only $1799... Wow.
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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.
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.
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.
Gonna get this for my wife. She wants an ultralite laptop and this is the one.
I have no need for such a beast, but I can drool nonetheless!
I can see situations where I’d love to have it, but I can’t justify it.
Hats off to Apple!
I wish they would get the logic board issue in the MacBook Pro and MacBook squared away before coming out with something new. I bought a MacBook Pro last summer and had trouble with random shutdowns...took it in....finally it was the logic board. Had the Apple care so it was fixed but did not want to chance it so I traded it for a different MacBook PRo. and the other day..you guessed it a random shutdown after having it only a month. Not sure I would go Apple again though I do like many things about Apple.
I can remember when it took two men to carry a 10 Megabyte drive.
I know, I'm old.
That is a nice computer. Everything you need (Bluetooth, camera, Wi-Fi, etc.) and nothing you don’t, in a really tiny package.
I don’t even like or own any Apple stuff, but that is a really nice piece of technology. If it can run Windows like I’m told other Macs can....nah.
Wow, d@%%, that’s thin. Full-sized keyboard is an attractive idea. I’d also pop in a USB mouse, as I find those scratch pad things loathsome and difficult to use.
Not to rain on the parade (and i do own a few apple products)
BUT No user replaceable battery?!?!....I’ve replaced mine in two of my ipods myself as its not real hard , but a laptop that you have to send in for a reported 130 dollar battery replacement...course there may eventually be a user option to do it like ipods and such but the thought again of a laptop that i cant hot swap batteries in when needed on the go seems odd to me.
Plus that solid state drive is a 1000.00 dollar option?...ouch!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/leaked-dell-laptop-brings-the-sexy/
"with an aluminum extrusion and carbon-fiber chassis"
Bitchin!