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In-Depth Review of the MacBook Air With Photos
Engadget has the first really in-depth review of the MacBook Air that I have seen with plenty of great photos and specifics. They do a great job of highlighting the highs and the lows with plenty of concrete examples to back their claims up. It seems that while the MacBook Air is a great step towards ultra-portable computing, overall the pricepoint is just too high. Which is not surprising from a new Apple gadget I guess.
If you think a shiny laptop is going to help you score with the ladies, then you really need to get out of your mom's basement and taste the real world for a change...
I have been a personal computer user for 28 years. I have been writing software for 20 of those. I learned about 15 years ago not to buy the first of anything. Hell I even waited for the second version of the Honda CRF450 motocross bike (first one ended up with some issues) and honda is just about the best R & D house in the world. Why would you, I'm guessing at least a slightly intelligent person (slashdot user and all), assume something as uterly complex as an operating system would have zero bugs on its first release? Or do you just like to bitch?
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Odd, I've been running Leopard since it was leaked to TPB and I've never had my wireless drop out. I've had nothing but a good experience with Leo so far.
Maybe you have a PEBKAC problem?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Most certainly not. Leopard has been causing a lot of networking problems for many users, including myself. My MacBook Pro regularly kernel panicked (especially when running BitTorrent) when connecting on WiFi, back in 10.5.0. Thankfully .1 fixed that for me, but I'm still hearing sporadic reports of it for some people.
10.5.1 still has one major bug for me - it seems to not play nice with my router (whereas Tiger did perfectly), by refusing to use the router's DNS. I've had to manually enter my ISP's DNS addresses into Leopard just to go to websites. The more frustrating part of this is that the driver seems to refuse connections for CERTAIN domains, but OK others, and this "blacklist" seems to change from time to time. For about 2 days I couldn't access Slashdot, but after then I was fine.
This baby has a long way to go before I will call it a success. It's not a debacle on the scale of Vista, but it ain't nothing to write home about either.