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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.
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But how am I going to watch movies?
What's that? I can rent them from Apple, you say? What a coincidence!
Remember, kids, it's not lock-in, it's Steve Jobs holding you nice and safe in his loving arms...
You think that's bad? Wait till you see the price difference when they offer it in black.
Running Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSX and Linux in the home. (I don't have time for Solitaire any more.)
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It better include a iHandjob!
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
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As opposed to those videos you saw where someone walked up and pulled out their exploding battery after it caught fire?
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Apple removed many of the parts from a normal laptop computer and are now going to charge more for it. Genius I tell you!
Wait, we ARE talking about Macs, right?
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Apple is using the lingerie model : pay more for a lot less, but it looks sexier.
Dude, stop thinking of the battery as a consumable and start thinking of the whole the mac book air is a disposable item, like a disposable razor. When the battery is fried, just toss the MBA in the trash at the airport and buy another one from the vending machine just past gate 5 next to the first class lounge.
Look, you heard it from the guy from Fox: "we always wanted rental movies online and consumers did too." You aren't a user any more, you're a "consumer" so start consuming!
Replacable battery jeez. Get with the modern world! Next you'll want to install your own apps!
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(I love that it's called an "MBA" -- that's the target market!)
Hmmm... I think you're the worst person I've encountered on the internet in several days.
It's 0.1 inches thick, can be folded up to fit in a standard envelope, sports a 2 terabyte SSD and 8 cores, all while sipping only 3.5 Watts of juice. As a nod to Greenpeace, it is not only biodegradable, it is also edible. Early beta testers describe it as having a "cool mint" flavor, and there are reports of a "zesty orange" version in the works.
To enhance morale, at Apple there are gigantic posters of Steve Jobs fixing employees with what can only be described as a "level stare".
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
Or buy two 32GB drives from the same store for $400 each. Plus you lose the hard drive.
Nice, you can even duct tape the second one to the macbook air and pretend you have a 64GB SSD inside... pure genius!