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Robo
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New MacBook
#7883567 - 01/15/08 01:58 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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Mac Book Air
"MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable screen and keyboard compromises.
The incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of numerous size- and weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard drive to strategically hidden I/O ports to a lower-profile battery, everything has been considered and reconsidered with thinness in mind.
MacBook Air is designed and engineered to take full advantage of the wireless world. A world in which 802.11n Wi-Fi is now so fast and so available, people are truly living untethered — buying and renting movies online, downloading software, and sharing and storing files on the web."
Pretty cool.
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badchad
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883602 - 01/15/08 02:08 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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Definetly cool.
Unfortunately, I'm a windows person.
Fortunately, after this sells millions of copies, there will be plenty of attempts at a PC rival. Kudos to apple for leading more PC innovation.
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883604 - 01/15/08 02:09 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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It has no CD drive. That makes it useless for a lot of people.
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robbyberto said: It has no CD drive. That makes it useless for a lot of people.
I think useless is an overstatement, but Apple better introduce a very cheap peripheral CD/DVD drive.
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Robo
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robbyberto said: It has no CD drive. That makes it useless for a lot of people.
Yeah I know they sell it separate and it hooks up via USB, it was shown in the tour
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883627 - 01/15/08 02:15 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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What's in the Box
* • MacBook Air * • 45W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord * • Micro-DVI to DVI adapter * • Micro-DVI to VGA adapter * • Display polishing cloth * • Install/restore DVDs * • Printed and electronic documentation
It damn well better be cheap, otherwise those DVDs will be pretty useless.
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883628 - 01/15/08 02:15 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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It's really a computer for people who have a desktop station as well. You'll be able to install programs wirelessly off your desktop station apparently.
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Re: New MacBook [Re: badchad]
#7883633 - 01/15/08 02:16 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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badchad said: Definetly cool.
Unfortunately, I'm a windows person.
You can run windows on a mac now  You can run both windows and OSX with bootcamp so you can switch back and forth for when you need to use a windows application or a mac one.
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883675 - 01/15/08 02:26 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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With a $1799 cost for the "low-end" model and over 3k for the higher-end I think I'll wait for a bit.
I bet they add on a separate online "storage service" for a monthly fee. This was alluded to in the video: "You'll have no need to carry DVD's, simply download your favorite moive".
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Robo]
#7883678 - 01/15/08 02:27 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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$1799 was the price quoted on slashdot. Ouch.
I'm going to buy me an acer laptop for about $800 which will indefinitely be more powerful than that overhyped, branded, piece of junk.
However, as innovations go.. it is pretty sweet
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Re: New MacBook [Re: Cepheus]
#7883783 - 01/15/08 02:49 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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According to engadget:
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We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we're suddenly a lot less in love. We're digging for details on how much it'll cost to swap out -- and what Apple expects road warriors to do when their slick new ultraportable dies on the go, stick with us.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-doesnt-have-a-user-replaceable-battery/ ---------------------
I'm a Mac user, and generally into apple products, but this seems pretty over-priced and under-equipped, despite how thin & light it may be. Apple won't be getting any of my Federal Reserve Notes for this neat toy.
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