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Early Review of 11" Macbook Air
adeelarshad82 writes "Apple's latest entry into the ultraportable space is no netbook, even though it's the closest the company has come to making one. Its chassis is, amazingly, even thinner than the original MacBook Air, with a screen two sizes smaller. Moreover, the MacBook Air's 11.6-inch widescreen is not the only first for Apple; so is its 1,366-by-768 resolution. Although Apple found a way to squeeze in two USB ports and a speedy solid-state drive (SSD), the MacBook Air (11-inch) is not nearly as feature-packed or as fast as the rest of the MacBook family, primarily because its 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 Ultra-Low Voltage (ULV) processor is running on previous-generation Intel technology. Still, it will give the latest batch of Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) laptops a run for their money."
At least the screen bezel, why is that not black in keeping with the rest of Apple's current design scheme? For $1k, I'd expect perfection across the board, not halfassedness.
Before you tag this as flaimbait, it's just critique. I've had a Mac in some manner since 1988. But fanbois won't read this far down anyway.
You must have more time than money. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But not everybody is in the same boat. Plus not everybody even has the technical aptitude to get linux up and running (even with the latest improvements in Ubuntu and the likes)
For the rest of us, having to spend time configuring and cursing and getting our applications to run the way they should (or the way I think they should), not to mention feeling the pain of incompatibility with 95% of the electronic world is a waste we can not bear. I'd rather spend a few extra billable hours and just go out and buy something that works.
Disclaimer: I'm a former Linux Fanboi turned Hackintosh fanboi. Turning Apple Fanboi.
With Hackintosh you have to spend some time getting it running right but after that it's flawless, the apps just work, no compiling, plenty of open source app projects that actually don't suck. I hate to give Steve Jobs the satisfaction but this shit does really "just work"...
The only next logical step for me to take, if I can swallow it, is the move to Apple Hardware for the ultimate "Just Works" scenario. I just can't see myself wasting time with linux on old hardware for my primary or secondary desktop or laptop computer anymore.
The sad thing is, at the end of the day, I still find myself in Windows 25-50% of the time for one reason or another...