The Apple thread

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:29 am 0

Ooh, I'm all excited.

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:47 am 0

Ooh I thought up another crazy idea!

Something in the air - oxygen - O2 - Apple are buying O2

sponge · Post by **sponge** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:54 am 0

I smell something like Apple partnering with another company to provide city-wide Wifi. Maybe part of .mac. That would also make the slowness of edge on the iPhone not really matter anymore.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:10 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:New font on that banner - this is definitely going to be big.

I'll be disappointed if Steve doesn't arrive onstage on a hover board.

Yogic.
Bloody.
Flying.

Namaste, man. Siooma. (I love Fake Steve.)

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:11 pm 0

Found this floating around the internets:

Take with an appropriate dose of iSalt, obviously....

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:31 pm 0

So what's a Macbook Air supposed to be then?

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:34 pm 0

HGFB wrote:So what's a Macbook Air supposed to be then?

Lighter and thinner.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:34 pm 0

It'll be movies on the wireless iTunes store or something equally boring. Steve lives to disappoint us.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:36 pm 0

skweek wrote:
HGFB wrote:So what's a Macbook Air supposed to be then?
Lighter and thinner.

Filled with hot air.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:23 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:Found this floating around the internets:

Take with an appropriate dose of iSalt, obviously....

Other people say it (just Air) is a Wifi only NAS box.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:26 pm 0

HGFB wrote:So what's a Macbook Air supposed to be then?

Depending upon the bullsh^H^H^H^H^H^Hinformation you prefer:

1) Solid state storage and an external optical drive.
2) WiMAX equipped subnotebook.
3) Laptop with induction power and no cables at all, not even USB!
4) A combination of the above options.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:45 pm 0

I think we're still a way off the "no cables at all" business being even vaguely practical. Nice idea though

Cheers

Bubba

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:11 pm 0

The NAS idea comes from this "leak"

http://www.beepboombop.com/?p=66

Now, as hilarious as "Kiss your NAS goodbye" may be, I can't personally see Apple using it

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:28 pm 0

Several sites are pointing to these logs dated from a few days ago, before the "Something in the Air" posters appeared. Under "Computer Model" there's a single user with a "MacBookAir". If that's the case then Air is the official name for the slim 'n' light laptop: but why?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:44 am 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:2) WiMAX equipped subnotebook.

WiMAX has, virtually, no penetration in the U.S. at the moment (IIRC). It could have built-in cell phone internet instead, perhaps...

Going on a tangent, but if that was the case, they could sell the laptop with a cell phone contract & 1 or 2 year agreement, much like the iPhone, except for internet access.

/end of tangent