My thoughts on…the MacBook Air
Apple is known for their ultra sexy products. One only has to look at the iPod and the iPhone. Well now Apple has released another revolutionary product: the MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest laptop. So thin that it can fit in a manila envelope. It has a full size keyboard, a LED-backlit 13.3 inch display and a larger trackpad. Needless to say, it had my mouth watering! It’s so insanely sexy that even a pathological liar couldn’t deny its sex appeal.
Bit of a problem though. I don’t think a laptop that thin is very durable. It looks like you’d dent it if you type too hard. So if you’re accident prone, you’d better think twice about buying this. It has one USB port, no external battery, no CD/DVD drive and no Firewire port. Ok fine. Obviously some sacrifices had to be made to make it thin. No problem. But wait. It costs US$1799, US$500 more than a MacBook Pro, which has all the above features. Lemme get this straight. You get less yet pay more? Yet it somehow feels like a bargain. Behold the power of the reality distortion field!
Talk about sleek..I luv the look but fat finger people like myself would prolly wreck it:)
sorry, not very feature rich…it’s like a slim, dumb, expensive blonde…I’m sorry, I like my
women..um..I mean “notebooks” with a little meat on their bones. Please feel free to surprise me with an alienware notebook…thanks in advanceWhat no CD/DVD drive. Well, not willing to make that sacrifice. Sometimes when I travel, my laptop serves as my DVD player on those long layovers or my musical relief (Cd’s)
Hey, but it look pretty though,but I am a Klutz..and would probably break it
you’re paying for the sexiness my yout
I like it but I’m not gonna buy one even if I had the money. I’d spend it on a MacBook Pro.
Simply awesome!
… and so is the price ^_^
TPAM is right, you are paying for the sexiness.
I saw it online too! Yes it is thin ans ’sexy’, but it sacrifices practicality! So to me it isn’t worth the money.
You’re paying for the extra money it tacks to slim the technology down to get it into such a thin case. I don’t know how durable it could be but it is cool.
If I were me, I wouldn’t get one. Purely because of the fact that it only has one USB port. Ok, chances are that it has integrated WLAN and Bluetooth - but still, if they could fit one port in, surely they could fit a few more?
Nah. If I had the money, it would be a Macbook pro for me.
~ Wogan
Sweet….its so puuurety!
My teammate showed me this online 2 days ago and I was initially impressed. However, after learning that it has no cd/dvd and only one usb port its not that special to me anymore. Basically you would need an external cd/dvd drive plus a usb jack to get all the features of a regular notebook. I don’t care if its sleek, its not a notebook without th core features - and it has been found very lacking. Plus, after the ipod nano, iphone, macbook pro et cetera, this seems like a bit of a rip off to me. I hope no one buys it. LOL.
Over priced macs.. EWWW