Author Topic: macbook air... ye flipping gods (Read 1914 times)

eagl · « **on:** January 15, 2008, 09:50:41 PM »

Anyone else see the coverage of the macbook air announcement?

Damn. Sweet design. The basic specs are pretty snazzy too. 1.6 or 1.8 ghz, 2 gig ram, decent size monitor, and best of all it has a full size keyboard. Yea the keys don't press down more than a couple milimeters, but who cares when the entire thing is about as thick as a typical sports illustrated magazine?

They are taking pre-orders now and they start shipping in 2 weeks.

The main weakness of the design seems to be the hard drive. The base model uses a 4200 rpm 80 gig 1.8" drive, which is probably going to be really slow. They offer a 64 gig SSD drive which should help performance, battery life, and prevent heat buildup, but... it's a $999 option (coupled with a slightly faster cpu.

I priced one of the nice ones out, complete with all the options I'd want... Just a tick under $4000. I won't be buying one but still... It's a very sweet looking machine.

Wolfala · « **Reply #1 on:** January 15, 2008, 10:18:50 PM »

Sexy yes, but there are a few players out there with similar capabilities. Off the top of my head, the Toshiba Portege r500. It has a 64 Gig SSD, same processor, sunlight readable LCD, and is $3000 out the door, weighs 1.7 lbs, and is as thin if not thinner.

Yr paying for the cheese factor with the Apple.

Nilsen · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2008, 01:56:55 AM »

Its a cool gadget that will be very useful for some, but completly useless for others. It will sell as hell, but i think ill stay away. If it had been abit more square in some places and had a user replacable battery, disk and ram I would prolly have ordered one already.

Gixer · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2008, 04:14:27 AM »

I haven't even got a IPod let alone spend 4k on the latest accessory item from Apple. Must be good for the share price though.

4k I could quit work and travel around Australia for a few months.

~~...-Gixer~~

RTHolmes · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:09:24 AM »

drool

been waiting for my G4 powerbook to die for years now so I could get an intel macbook. unfortunately the bastid is so reliable and still runs current software at decent speed I may have to chuck it out of a window just to get a replacement

john9001 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:16:41 AM »

if it's made by apple, it's over priced.

RTHolmes · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:32:47 AM »

explain?

Shuffler · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:48:03 AM »

Will it be PC based too..... that is the only thing that is going to keep apple solvent. Would hate to see them for M$ to pony up more money to help Mac.

LePaul · « **Reply #8 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:49:01 AM »

I bet it runs XP better than a PC

Nilsen · « **Reply #9 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:50:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Shuffler
Will it be PC based too..... that is the only thing that is going to keep apple solvent. Would hate to see them for M$ to pony up more money to help Mac.

keep apple solvent?
pc based?
ms to poney up money?

that needs some explaining

lmao

REP0MAN · « **Reply #10 on:** January 16, 2008, 09:26:33 AM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
that needs some explaining

Agreed...

Seeing any version of WinBlows is a cheap, non-functional knock-off of Apple's OS anyway....

I own 4, nothing better.

(And, yes, LePaul, they run XP MUCH better than any PC I've ever had/built)

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #11 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:05:40 AM »

I'm typing this on a macbook pro and each day I use it another hair drops off my head.. permanently.

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:10:53 AM »

so now old age can be blamed on apple too?

68Wooley · « **Reply #13 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:48:26 AM »

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Originally posted by REP0MAN
And, yes, LePaul, they run XP MUCH better than any PC I've ever had/built

Macs are - essentially - PCs these days.

Nilsen · « **Reply #14 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:50:14 AM »

and have always been