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Much better pictures.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08 ... k_air.html
All the pics.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-ma ... -hands-on/
Check this one out.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-ma ... on/587231/
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I agree, it's a most definite return to an elitist high-end product. An LED display and SSD is pretty bleeding edge right now. The camera light, power cord and port flap are really rather wonderfully done. I'm really not sure about it myself although it's hard to deny that the technology involved is impressive. It's got the Jobs minimalist approach written all over it but at over $3k for the full-blown thing, it isn't very affordable. Can't help feeling though that it's an obvious pointer to a future OSX-based computing device that isn't strictly a laptop. We'll see. Still, it's a lappy to die for I reckon, I dare not use one in the flesh.Kemper_Boyd wrote:Great hardware but right now not mainstream at all
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If you just want to see the MacBook Air intro the BBC has it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7188849.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7188849.stm
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It's very very cute, and at a reasonable price I'd have been tempted at some point. I realise there's a price to pay for making things smaller/thinner (which is why I don't mind my iMac with its laptop hardware) but this is a bit much!
Even if you go for the bottom end MacBook you pay £500 LESS (plus the cost of a 1GB RAM upgrade from a third party) for a better machine! Sorry but I'm not willing to pay £500 more plus the other "costs" (no optical drive, non-replaceable battery and other missing features) just to shave off half an inch or so of thickness. It's quite big in the other dimensions too.
Impressive sure, but I don't really know who it's good for other than posers or people with too much money. Still, there's a massive market of trend/brand whores out there so I guess they might as well milk it
I grudgingly coughed up the £12 for the iTouch update, but I think it's very cheeky for features that should've been included in the first place. I guess it's helping to subsidise the free ATV updates and whatnot.
The NAS sounds nice, I have to admit. I guess there was some truth to the "kiss your NAS goodbye" fake ad someone did
Even if you go for the bottom end MacBook you pay £500 LESS (plus the cost of a 1GB RAM upgrade from a third party) for a better machine! Sorry but I'm not willing to pay £500 more plus the other "costs" (no optical drive, non-replaceable battery and other missing features) just to shave off half an inch or so of thickness. It's quite big in the other dimensions too.
Impressive sure, but I don't really know who it's good for other than posers or people with too much money. Still, there's a massive market of trend/brand whores out there so I guess they might as well milk it
I grudgingly coughed up the £12 for the iTouch update, but I think it's very cheeky for features that should've been included in the first place. I guess it's helping to subsidise the free ATV updates and whatnot.
The NAS sounds nice, I have to admit. I guess there was some truth to the "kiss your NAS goodbye" fake ad someone did
Yeeesssss... I had a rather panicky external HD buy last week, when my old man's HD died, and I realised I hadn't enough space to Time Machine my iMac. Now I've got a 500GB hard drive when I'm lusting for a Time Capsule.Cloudane wrote:The NAS sounds nice, I have to admit. I guess there was some truth to the "kiss your NAS goodbye" fake ad someone did
Maybe I could flog the new HD to the old man...
Simon
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Oh, they did that for sure in the past.Kemper_Boyd wrote:I do agree but the sort of person who buys the thinnest most expensive
notebook won't care, it'll be somebody else's problem. People with work
to do will still be buying Thinkpads and MacBook Pros. Apple just wants
their share of a very lucrative niche.
There was this nice little desktop, which was quite expensive compared to the more powerful towers, but looked great at some executive's desk.
This machine was the G4 Cube and it was a huge smashing hit.
Not.
Maybe it's different with notebooks this time, but this thing is definitely in a very niche market due to it being so expensive for so little power. If you really wanted to work with it on the road, you'd need so many different things (an actiual port or two would be nice, one USB port is a cruel joke, non-fucking-glossy display, replaceable battery...), it won't work.
Desktop replacement? No way. Don't even think about it. Only thing they included for that purpose was the DVI-out, the rest is pathetic. Again, one bleeding USB port, this thing is as expandable as an original iMac. And with a whooping 1.6GHz probably just as fast
It's an expensive toy for people who have too much money to burn and just want to watch DVDs on the plane in style. Oh, wait...
Ah well, actually I don't care, if people buy it, good for Apple. I also thought the iPod would be far too expensive and Apple would only sell to a small enthusiast crowd.
What's this whole "subnotebook" talk about, though? This thing's thin, but not actually small. The Eee thing is small. Even my 12" PB is small compared to that one. And yet I don't need a fucking dongle to connect to my home network
yeah, I was expecting "7 inches that are nearly all screen, and super thin". Super thin but 13 inches is still a bit flappy for my taste and anyway it's only for rich macwankers at the moment, clearly.
As for the iTouch update - is there really any compelling reason at all to do it to an already jailbroken touch? Because from where I sit it looks like I'd be paying twelve quid for the few iPhone apps I am already running thanks to jailbreak, and doubtless deactivating all the other cool stuff I have installed on there too, and that'd be like paying to kick myself in the arse, and the RDF isn't strong enough to make me do that.
As for the iTouch update - is there really any compelling reason at all to do it to an already jailbroken touch? Because from where I sit it looks like I'd be paying twelve quid for the few iPhone apps I am already running thanks to jailbreak, and doubtless deactivating all the other cool stuff I have installed on there too, and that'd be like paying to kick myself in the arse, and the RDF isn't strong enough to make me do that.
Justified and Ancient.