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Apple Announces MacBook Air
Apple made four announcements at MacWorld Expo: the new MacBook Air, new features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and movie rentals via iTunes from a TV without a computer involved. The new portable gets most of the attention. It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16". It weighs 3 pounds and has a 13.3" screen and full-size, backlit keyboard. Its Intel chip is the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel. The MacBook Air will cost $1799 and up. Its storage is either 80 GB disk or 64 GB solid-state drive. 2 GB of memory. It has no optical drive (an external one is available for $99) and features a way to wirelessly use the optical drive of any nearby Mac or PC with the proper software installed.
Not sure I'd trust one of those just now. No one is really talking about MTBF and I've heard that eventually they turn into a Read Only device.
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Wow... the ability to rent movies and TV in HD and watch them without a computer... sounds like apple tv is almost where the xbox 360 is.
It's funny, but also a troll! Touché!
If renting is too scary (the 24 hour lock-in!!), you could buy the intended optical drive for $99 -- or save a couple hundred bucks and carry around a two-pound-heavier, faster, thicker Macbook. Sheesh.
Of course I know you're being facetious, as you undoubtably rip and transcode your DVDs for travel because you're too lazy to carry around all that extra plastic. You might even be one of those types that 'backs up' movies you rent from Blockbuster and/or Netflix, you know to prevent the lock-in of needing a membership.
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
Someone mod parent up...hilarious!
Have fun: Join D.N.A. (National Dyslexics Association)
Not sure why you're being moderated as Troll. Oh wait, Apple is popular now.
It's expensive. For a little tiny thing like that, STARTING at $1800, is very expensive. I don't care if the competition is more expensive, that's got nothing to do with it. It's way too much money for a computer these days.
The cost of electronics doesn't go up, so the cost of these small machines shouldn't be sky high. But, as long as the lemmings keep on buying them, they'll keep on setting the prices that high so you can make the CEO's richer and richer.
It looks like a really awesome device. Just not worth $1800 unless it's going to blow me while it downloads movies from the iTunes store.
- It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
Good god you are an idiot. I can definitely see you purchase exclusively low-end Dell notebooks. You know, there is a reason people buy premium hardware. It's not built out of cheap black plastic covered with cheap silver paint, it might actually last longer than 6 months, and you don't have to wait on hold for hours just to speak to Indian tech support with no fucking clue what's going on. Not to mention, Apple laptops might actually be able to play an MP3 file without skipping every 5 seconds and connect to wireless networks reliably (unlike every recent Dell notebook I've used). It might have to do with, say, hiring American engineers who have a clue instead of letting the Chinese OEMs design stuff. Or maybe it's that whole thing about not cutting corners. Not sure.
Just so you know, I'm not a Mac fanboy. I just had enough of Dell's shittiness one day and sold my piece of shit Inspiron to some poor SOB on eBay. He probably thought he was getting a deal.
Still a far better deal than retail. But good luck with the Apple bashing for no other reason than it's not for you. I think the SSD is not for me, but I can certainly see the benifits. Just not the price ones when an iPod can have a larger drive.
The standard macbook could easily be pronounced as "just as ultra mobile as the Sir" since, in fact, the only thing different about the size is a marginal difference in thickness at ONE END. Other than the thickness, the X-Y footprint is the same, the weight difference is basically negligible in a backpack, and you get a 100% better feature set at 50% the price. I'm not seeing how ANYONE can defend this thing anymore. I'd buy a standard macbook over this thing at the SAME price, let alone the ridiculous price they have the AIR set at.
They should have revamped the Macbook to be "a bit thinner with the a couple more features and NO less," refreshed the Macbook Pro, Waited until the keynote to talk about the Mac Pro refresh, come out with a matte screen iMac, and people would have thrown a party. Not this drivel though.