We're talking about the MacBook Air, not a MB or MBP. yes, it's easy to get at those things on those guys, but I was using my PB12 as an example. Apple didn't make the HDD accessible on that and it was hellish getting in there and replacing the thing. I'm willing to bet that it'd be even HARDER on the MBA, and they have the battery in there, too.
First of all, $129 is the standard Apple price for batteries. Second, shipping your laptop in for a battery replacement is, in my own opinion, unreasonable.
I'm just saying, that's all Apple will claim it's good for. The battery on my PB12 did kinda die after about that long - it'll now hold charge for mayyybe 10 minutes. The new one I got, which I use correctly, has lasted much longer, but still. Just sayin' what Apple are sayin'.
The thing about glossy screens is that they really suck when you do a lot of photography stuff and you want to make sure the colours are correct. I dunno, it looks like I'm going to have to compromise and I'll probably get the way cheaper MB so that WHEN they come out with one I really want, it won't be such a big deal. Or not, I dunno. I had some big hopes for the product announcements today, my poor old PB12 is just dying.
> Ah, dude just get an Macbook and save $300 dollars.
I don't want a MacBook for two reasons: 1) The keyboard is pretty awful, and B) GLOSSY SCREEN. I just cannot handle glossy screens. For goodness sake, the people at the Apple store can't even set the things up to not glare all over the place.
I'm upgrading from a 12" Powerbook G4, not from an iBook. I don't want a toy, I want an actual computer.
An iPod is, what, $250, maybe $400 if you go overboard? This guy starts at $1800.
I'd have a much easier time cracking open an 18-month old iPod that I'd paid (lets say) $300 for, and worst case I'll get a newer one with over double the capacity, than cracking open an 18-month old laptop that, worst case, I have to spend another $1800.
I've been inside Apple laptops - I've upgraded the harddrive on my 12" Powerbook G4. It it NOT in any way a simple, easy procedure, and the only reason I did it is this thing's over 3 years old and I needed it to have a speed boost of SOME sort to still be usable.
Apple don't make it nice and simple to crack their computers open, and something tells me this'll be even LESS easy on one of these...
And you know what? It's not just the battery. This things are even more underpowered than the MacBooks. "thin" is cool and all, and I/want/ a small laptop, but honestly the 1" thickness of a MacBook is thin enough for me. And I'd get one if the keyboard wasn't made of chicklets and if the screen wasn't glossy.
At first I was psyched about the MacBook Air. I've been wanting a small MacBookPro for... well, since the MBP came out. I was goign to ask whether this thing has a glossy screen.
But really, a non-replaceable battery in a LAPTOP? Especially when Apple says that the batteries are rated for 18 months with "ideal usage"? That seems... a bit off to me. Also I'm betting the harddrives aren't that easy to replace/upgrade.
Come on, Apple! I'll take the same form-factor as a MacBook! Heck I'll take the same specs, just put a real keyboard on it and get rid of the glossy screen! I'll still pay $1,799!
The keyboard on the MacBook is one of the main reasons I don't have a new laptop yet. That and the glossy screen. The keyboard on my Powerbook, which I believe is the same thing as the MacBookPros have, is wonderful for a laptop keyboard (but I won't get a MBP because they're too big).
I have yet to see one game that works correctly on a Linux box with Xinerama. At least in full-screen more. Some of them won't even let you change resolution at all, let alone tell them to run in a window.
When they run in full-screen they tend to span the displays and have all the action right in the middle so the important stuff is split in two.
And quite a few games crash on the weird resolution.
I'm not saying I've seen Windows games work on dual-head or ever support two monitors, but at least they have the decency to just pick a screen and use that one.
I was at a conference one time where an HP guy gave a lecture, and during the Q&A people asked why HP hasn't moved to 64 bit yet, like DEC had, etc.
Guy got really mad and started pretty much yelling at people, saying that 64 bit has twice as many bits and is therefore half as fast as 32 bit computing.
People didn't even bother laughing at him. Everyone just looked at him like he was an idiot.
That explains a lot! Everytime I stare directly into a light source, the light goes away for a while! The stronger or more "pure" the light, the longer it is affected by me staring at it.
Why, a few years ago I stared directly into a laser pointer, and to this day whenever I point it back into that eye, it generates NO LIGHT AT ALL.
I/do/ get to telecommute a lot and therefore have company equipment at home, and potentially I could be an idiot and print out sensitive information and not shred it, but hey, trust me or don't allow me to work at home, right?
My company routinely provides me with new and updated agreements that make absolutely no sense to me and which "need to be signed by End Of Day Friday."
I used to take them seriously until the one where I grant the company the right to enter my home and go through my stuff whenever they want.
Ever since then I've either just outright ignored the thing, or edited out the parts I don't like, signed THAT and sent it in.
That was about 4 years ago and nobody seems to really care or notice. YMMV, of course.
...except that SD isn't 720. It's a lot less. I don't know if I can tell the difference between 720p and 1080i, since my TV doesn't do 720, but it upconverts SD signals so that you don't see any lines. I sit about 10' away and I could tell the difference the second I turned the thing on. So yeah, just the TV alone made SD look much much better.
But when I finally got HD programming on the thing, wow. Again, this is a widescreen 30" CRT and I can tell the difference, not only from 10' away, but from way the heck the other side of the room (35' or so).
> To this day, I still can't see much difference between HD and regular TV on my 50" LCD.
No offence, but you really need to get your eyes checked. I know it sounds mean, but the difference between a 30" SD CRT and a 30" HD CRT is/overwhelmingly/ noticeable, even for SD programming.
I have a 30" HD CRT, and I could tell the difference long before I had any HD programming (I got it specifically for DVDs and future development). My set can do 1080i, and believe me, the difference between even the junky overcompressed SciFi channel in SD and HD is very noticeable.
If you can't see it, I really do think you might have vision problems. And again, I know this sounds like I'm flaming/trolling, and I apologise for that, but I can't think of any other reason why you couldn't tell the difference.
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We're talking about the MacBook Air, not a MB or MBP. yes, it's easy to get at those things on those guys, but I was using my PB12 as an example. Apple didn't make the HDD accessible on that and it was hellish getting in there and replacing the thing. I'm willing to bet that it'd be even HARDER on the MBA, and they have the battery in there, too.
First of all, $129 is the standard Apple price for batteries. Second, shipping your laptop in for a battery replacement is, in my own opinion, unreasonable.
I know the harddrive is easy on the new MB and MBP, but I'm talking about getting into the parts they don't want you to get into.
That's true. Which is why I'll probably compromise on one of those. ):
I'm not saying it's not purty. I'm saying it's inaccurate when you have to have it look EXACTLY the same on the screen as when it's printed.
I'm just saying, that's all Apple will claim it's good for. The battery on my PB12 did kinda die after about that long - it'll now hold charge for mayyybe 10 minutes. The new one I got, which I use correctly, has lasted much longer, but still. Just sayin' what Apple are sayin'.
The thing about glossy screens is that they really suck when you do a lot of photography stuff and you want to make sure the colours are correct. I dunno, it looks like I'm going to have to compromise and I'll probably get the way cheaper MB so that WHEN they come out with one I really want, it won't be such a big deal. Or not, I dunno. I had some big hopes for the product announcements today, my poor old PB12 is just dying.
> Ah, dude just get an Macbook and save $300 dollars.
I don't want a MacBook for two reasons: 1) The keyboard is pretty awful, and B) GLOSSY SCREEN. I just cannot handle glossy screens. For goodness sake, the people at the Apple store can't even set the things up to not glare all over the place.
I'm upgrading from a 12" Powerbook G4, not from an iBook. I don't want a toy, I want an actual computer.
Kind of, but not exactly, no.
/want/ a small laptop, but honestly the 1" thickness of a MacBook is thin enough for me. And I'd get one if the keyboard wasn't made of chicklets and if the screen wasn't glossy.
An iPod is, what, $250, maybe $400 if you go overboard? This guy starts at $1800.
I'd have a much easier time cracking open an 18-month old iPod that I'd paid (lets say) $300 for, and worst case I'll get a newer one with over double the capacity, than cracking open an 18-month old laptop that, worst case, I have to spend another $1800.
I've been inside Apple laptops - I've upgraded the harddrive on my 12" Powerbook G4. It it NOT in any way a simple, easy procedure, and the only reason I did it is this thing's over 3 years old and I needed it to have a speed boost of SOME sort to still be usable.
Apple don't make it nice and simple to crack their computers open, and something tells me this'll be even LESS easy on one of these...
And you know what? It's not just the battery. This things are even more underpowered than the MacBooks. "thin" is cool and all, and I
At first I was psyched about the MacBook Air. I've been wanting a small MacBookPro for... well, since the MBP came out. I was goign to ask whether this thing has a glossy screen.
But really, a non-replaceable battery in a LAPTOP? Especially when Apple says that the batteries are rated for 18 months with "ideal usage"? That seems... a bit off to me. Also I'm betting the harddrives aren't that easy to replace/upgrade.
Come on, Apple! I'll take the same form-factor as a MacBook! Heck I'll take the same specs, just put a real keyboard on it and get rid of the glossy screen! I'll still pay $1,799!
The keyboard on the MacBook is one of the main reasons I don't have a new laptop yet. That and the glossy screen. The keyboard on my Powerbook, which I believe is the same thing as the MacBookPros have, is wonderful for a laptop keyboard (but I won't get a MBP because they're too big).
I have yet to see one game that works correctly on a Linux box with Xinerama. At least in full-screen more. Some of them won't even let you change resolution at all, let alone tell them to run in a window.
When they run in full-screen they tend to span the displays and have all the action right in the middle so the important stuff is split in two.
And quite a few games crash on the weird resolution.
I'm not saying I've seen Windows games work on dual-head or ever support two monitors, but at least they have the decency to just pick a screen and use that one.
These things have a way of getting around (:
I seem to have misspelled "because". Oops!
I was at a conference one time where an HP guy gave a lecture, and during the Q&A people asked why HP hasn't moved to 64 bit yet, like DEC had, etc.
Guy got really mad and started pretty much yelling at people, saying that 64 bit has twice as many bits and is therefore half as fast as 32 bit computing.
People didn't even bother laughing at him. Everyone just looked at him like he was an idiot.
I thought it was already well established that the aurora was caused by Santa's reindeer throwing up.
They'd have to catch him first!!!
Sounds like we has us a volunteer!
I have it plugged into a CAR BATTERY.
In the land of the blind, people aren't eally affected by staring into a laser pointer (:
That explains a lot! Everytime I stare directly into a light source, the light goes away for a while! The stronger or more "pure" the light, the longer it is affected by me staring at it.
Why, a few years ago I stared directly into a laser pointer, and to this day whenever I point it back into that eye, it generates NO LIGHT AT ALL.
I /do/ get to telecommute a lot and therefore have company equipment at home, and potentially I could be an idiot and print out sensitive information and not shred it, but hey, trust me or don't allow me to work at home, right?
My company routinely provides me with new and updated agreements that make absolutely no sense to me and which "need to be signed by End Of Day Friday."
I used to take them seriously until the one where I grant the company the right to enter my home and go through my stuff whenever they want.
Ever since then I've either just outright ignored the thing, or edited out the parts I don't like, signed THAT and sent it in.
That was about 4 years ago and nobody seems to really care or notice. YMMV, of course.
...except that SD isn't 720. It's a lot less. I don't know if I can tell the difference between 720p and 1080i, since my TV doesn't do 720, but it upconverts SD signals so that you don't see any lines. I sit about 10' away and I could tell the difference the second I turned the thing on. So yeah, just the TV alone made SD look much much better.
But when I finally got HD programming on the thing, wow. Again, this is a widescreen 30" CRT and I can tell the difference, not only from 10' away, but from way the heck the other side of the room (35' or so).
> To this day, I still can't see much difference between HD and regular TV on my 50" LCD.
/overwhelmingly/ noticeable, even for SD programming.
No offence, but you really need to get your eyes checked. I know it sounds mean, but the difference between a 30" SD CRT and a 30" HD CRT is
I have a 30" HD CRT, and I could tell the difference long before I had any HD programming (I got it specifically for DVDs and future development). My set can do 1080i, and believe me, the difference between even the junky overcompressed SciFi channel in SD and HD is very noticeable.
If you can't see it, I really do think you might have vision problems. And again, I know this sounds like I'm flaming/trolling, and I apologise for that, but I can't think of any other reason why you couldn't tell the difference.