Comments on: MacBook Air

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:31:40 +0000

Or if they basicaly made it the same deapth all over like carrying a thin note pad. that whole wedge shape cause’s loads of problems. as well as making it structurally unsound at it’s thinest point.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:25:03 +0000

“If I wasn’t a mac gamer and didn’t have this burning desire to have a laptop that goes Mach 10 with my hair on fire”

Err are you actually talking about Macs? there more like burn a hole in your lap than set your hair on fire

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:22:40 +0000

Take MacBook. Replace HD with SSD. At the 32Gb level its still cheaper than the MacBook Air. Does that bother anyone else?

By: Karl Moebius

Karl Moebius — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:20:57 +0000

Meh. I have a new macbook pro, and I’d rather it had an SSD (although something around 100gigs+), and the multi touch touchpad, but other than that, I think it’s a great design for a laptop. Really I hang on the lack of DVDrom, since every install disk I have now isn’t 3.5 floppys anymore, they’re all DVD’s, and I guess this laptop assumes you have a home computer or something to use on the occasion that you do use the dvd rom (which, other than installing stuff really isn’t often for me, honestly). I love my macbook pro, and coming from the PC camp (but only for laptops), I think it’s the best laptop that I’ve ever had, or really seen.

But really, the air just is… meh. I mean it’s cool piece of technology, but I would really want the rest of the lineup to be updated with the same options as an extra, at least.

By: sr

sr — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:39:55 +0000

I just got back from macworld, they didn’t have a working model there, but they did have non-working displays hanging from the ceiling mobile style. The air is sweet, and it’s bomber, as for no optical drive, whatever, cds and dvds are like 8tracks and vinyl, you’ll load everything via remote disc, if you need an op drive 99 bucks and its slick. I was hoping for a tablet too, axiotron? had the mod book there, it’s nice, but bulky and expensive.

By: Jeff Bender

Jeff Bender — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:54:13 +0000

When I found out that it had no optical drive, that pretty much killed my excitement for this beautiful MacBook. Honestly I’m on the go alot, but sometimes I like to take some DVDs to a hotel room with me, bringing my MacBook along so that I can watch them. However if I had the air, this would mean that I’d have to have movies already loaded onto my comp, or bring my current MacBook with me.

While I love Apple, I can’t be hauling two MacBooks with me everytime I go to a hotel, just so I can watch movies. Especially since I don’t have WiFi in my home to transfer data between comps.

It’s a gorgeous computer, just a couple hundred more bucks than the MacBook Black, but still, without that optical drive, it seems to be reserved for a very small group of people

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:21:43 +0000

“Mac gamer”? What’s that?

By: Bungy

Bungy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:21:15 +0000

i’m a tech in the Oz defence force & we’re forced to use PC’s & MS products but after struggling with them for years i lashed out the lovelies & bought a MacBook Pro two years ago & have been completely converted.
a big part of my job has me flying all over Oz & OS so i have a Seagate USB external drive to augment to 80G on board so I’m ok with idea of external drives.
I bought my daughter a MacBook last month for her to use at Uni (she’s gunna pay me back … one day) & I was impressed that it was better than my two year old Pro & the 13” size was actually better for me as the 15” Pro can get cumbersome on board planes unless I spring to upgrade to business class … the RAAF sends us all cattle class.
So now the Air is out & the size & weight is a very good thing for what I want.
So I’m thinking that my wife might inherit my Pro next year when the warranty runs out.
I can get another laptop & write it off on tax over three years again. I’ll add the external optical drive & a 1TB Time Capsule & that will do me till I retire in about 5 or 6 years & then I can get an iMac & be a happy old AppleGeek.

… & leaving it till Feb 09 will mean they will have been here in Oz for 7 or 8 months & any bugs will be sorted … & hopefully the SSD model will be a less costly option

By: Mona

Mona — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:18:21 +0000

Eh…I’d smash it and I know it. Not worth the cash, and I’d rather have something bigger. However, I already know a string of people who want it and will likely get it. In context, I go to private school with lots of super rich kids, and they all want their parents to buy them new laptops next year (I’m going to make my IBM last another year or so while I save up money for a Powerbook). So, basically all I’m trying to say with this is that the entire Yale freshman class will probably have one. It shouldn’t do too poorly in the market.

By: StillInBeta

StillInBeta — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:05:49 +0000

You… Leave… Now…