Ely wrote:I don't see why that's an issue for this type of device, people are hardly crowing about the eeePC only having a 4Gb SSD.
The Eee doesn't really need much more. Do you think 4gig (Hell or even 16gig) would be suitable in a Mac?
My current Leopard install with no extra apps at all (Fresh install) is taking about 14 gig. The sort of people buying Mac laptops will tend to have very different usage patterns than the ones buying 4gig Asus laptops.
OSX in the iPhone/Touch is more comparable to the EEEEEEEEEEE and that's not very big at ~150MB.
I wonder if they've got the balls to do it? A fullsize notebook with a stripped but capable OS? I'd be tempted.
If I subtract the size of my iTunes and iPhoto folder, I don't even come to to half of my 160GB drive. If I kept only my most important apps I could be quite happy with 64GB or even 32GB when I am on the road.
When I am home, plugging in my master drive would give me all my luxuries. Of course I would be backing up to a second drive, using SuperDuper!, Carbon Copy Cloner or, maybe, Time Machine.
matt wrote:If I subtract the size of my iTunes and iPhoto folder, I don't even come to to half of my 160GB drive. If I kept only my most important apps I could be quite happy with 64GB or even 32GB when I am on the road.
Exactly my point. With the smaller drive sizes this would have to be marketed at either a different demographic or as the second "Away from home" machine. A lot of people's only machine is now a laptop. Taking 3/4s of their drive space away would presumably only make USB HDD manufacturers happy
Maybe that's Apple's idea though. Push people away from internal drives and towards external devices in order to keep the unit size down. Buy one of these and an Official Apple Data Drive (TM). Leave the OADD at home and carry the ultra thin and light laptop on the move. Maybe alongside an Official Apple Portable Data Drive (TM).
Maybe some people just want to browse the web and check their email?
Been round this road so many times
Feel like it's skin is part of mine
This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
Been wrong so many times before
But never quite like this
Heard all, in the rain
But the rain all turned to piss
skweek wrote:Maybe some people just want to browse the web and check their email?
Bit of an expensive way of doing that but who am I to argue with fashion
Coming from Mr Buy All The Toys!
Been round this road so many times
Feel like it's skin is part of mine
This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
Been wrong so many times before
But never quite like this
Heard all, in the rain
But the rain all turned to piss
I reckon "Da Future" will be home systems with masses of external storage and a big display, full keyboard and all that plugged into a very slimline laptop with a fair amount of solid-state storage itself, but not a vast amount - sort of like a super-duper docking station that, when docked, will look and behave exactly like a desktop machine. Only difference being that you can undock your laptop for on-the-move stuff with more limited storage and obviously laptop display and keyboard. I think thats sensible. Then actual desktops will be used simply for servers or summat.
Docking stations are shit; horrible, untidy, waste of time solutions to connectivity problems on the whole.
Scrap all that for ever, use fast wireless technology and you've got it made. If this is really about Air and solving all the historical problems of mobile computing and factoring Apple's entertainment and lifestyle future vision that's where my money is.
