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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."
How can you guys say this is a netbook? It's WAY too expensive.
small, lightweight, and inexpensive. two out of three doesn't cut it.
Yes, good call. Including a recovery disk with a laptop that doesn't have a disk drive would certainly have been questionable.
I want you I need you But-there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you Now don't be sad 'Cause two out of three ain't bad
Am I going to buy one? Let me sleep on it, baby, baby Let me sleep on it... Let me sleep on it, I'll give ya my answer in the morning. Apple Clerk: "I gotta know right now!"
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Steve Jobs:
"Hey, remember when I said that netbooks aren't good at anything and that they're just cheap laptops?
Well... I fixed the cheap part!"
http://twitter.com/object404
It also had a lovely auto-play audio ad, which ironically says "It helps me focus out data I'm not interested in." I didn't know PcMag was such a shitty publication.
Because now you can shave with it.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
You laugh, but sometime in the late 90s, I took delivery of a new Sun workstation.
It had no OS installed, didn't come with a CD-ROM, and had a CD to install Solaris shipped with it. So, it wasn't actually possible to install the OS.
It took us six-months for the company to buy us a CD-ROM for it so we could install the OS. It got named "anchor" since it spent several months essentially being useful as just that.
What you describe isn't unprecedented.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Fuck everything, we're doing 1 big blade. (or maybe 2 when in the open setting - shhh don't complicate things)
Of course it's iCrap because it is made by Apple! Otherwise it would be Krap, GCrap or MS Crap.
But... the future refused to change.
The rest of us have kids and GFs (oh, this is /. those aren't supposed to exist, sorry honey. She just rolled her eyes and said "nerds")
Does she always read over your shoulder when you are on /.? I would inform her that doing so makes her a "nerd" as well.
Strange. In the computing world, Mac OS is known to perform all tasks given to it slower than any Linux distribution or NT based Windows OS.