apple stop making new stuff so quickly!
Apple Launches 13-Inch Ultralight MacBook Air
Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:43PM EST
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Steve Jobs took the stage to kick off the annual Macworld Expo today. As usual, he brought with him a crushing amount of buzz and a pile of new product announcements. Here's what we'll be seeing from Apple, starting today!
Apple Launches 13-Inch Ultralight MacBook Air
Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:43PM EST
See Comments (2)
Steve Jobs took the stage to kick off the annual Macworld Expo today. As usual, he brought with him a crushing amount of buzz and a pile of new product announcements. Here's what we'll be seeing from Apple, starting today!
MacBook Air
As
widely expected, Apple is launching an ultra-thin notebook called the
MacBook Air. At 0.76" thick at its widest point, the three-pound Air
has a wedgelike shape that tapers down to 0.16" thick at the front
base. LED backlighting on its 13.3-inch screen, multi-touch trackpad
(which offers some nifty features like rotating photos, all in the
touchpad), and a backlit keyboard. Specs are decent: 1.6 or 1.8GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo (on a cleverly shrunken socket), 2GB of RAM, and an
80GB hard drive (or 64GB SSD option). No optical drive (of course), and
just one USB port. It'll set you back $1,799, which is on the
inexpensive side for ultralight notebooks with specs like this. Ships
in two weeks.
(By the way, as great as the MacBook Air sounds, calling this the "world's thinnest notebook" is hyperbole: The Sony X505 was 0.75" thick... and it was released in 2003.)
MacBook Air
As
widely expected, Apple is launching an ultra-thin notebook called the
MacBook Air. At 0.76" thick at its widest point, the three-pound Air
has a wedgelike shape that tapers down to 0.16" thick at the front
base. LED backlighting on its 13.3-inch screen, multi-touch trackpad
(which offers some nifty features like rotating photos, all in the
touchpad), and a backlit keyboard. Specs are decent: 1.6 or 1.8GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo (on a cleverly shrunken socket), 2GB of RAM, and an
80GB hard drive (or 64GB SSD option). No optical drive (of course), and
just one USB port. It'll set you back $1,799, which is on the
inexpensive side for ultralight notebooks with specs like this. Ships
in two weeks.
(By the way, as great as the MacBook Air sounds, calling this the "world's thinnest notebook" is hyperbole: The Sony X505 w
Apple Launches 13-Inch Ultralight MacBook Air
Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:43PM EST
See Comments (2)
Steve Jobs took the stage to kick off the annual Macworld Expo today. As usual, he brought with him a crushing amount of buzz and a pile of new product announcements. Here's what we'll be seeing from Apple, starting today!
MacBook Air
As
widely expected, Apple is launching an ultra-thin notebook called the
MacBook Air. At 0.76" thick at its widest point, the three-pound Air
has a wedgelike shape that tapers down to 0.16" thick at the front
base. LED backlighting on its 13.3-inch screen, multi-touch trackpad
(which offers some nifty features like rotating photos, all in the
touchpad), and a backlit keyboard. Specs are decent: 1.6 or 1.8GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo (on a cleverly shrunken socket), 2GB of RAM, and an
80GB hard drive (or 64GB SSD option). No optical drive (of course), and
just one USB port. It'll set you back $1,799, which is on the
inexpensive side for ultralight notebooks with specs like this. Ships
in two weeks.
(By the way, as great as the MacBook Air sounds, calling this the "world's thinnest notebook" is hyperbole: The Sony X505 was 0.75" thick... and it was released in 2003.)
Comments
As in... no watching your DVD's or ripping your CD's on your computer so you're forced basically to pirate your music and movies, or buy them on iTunes, or hog your sole USB port with an external drive if you want to fill up your iPod legitimately?
I'm not a PC fanboy at all, but frankly, I think Apple has lost their minds. Either that or the people who would actually buy this thing have.
Still, it looks cool. I'm sure the college kids will love it. To their credit, though, the portability on that thing has gotta be top notch. And it looks like it would actually run nice and fast with those specs.
Really, my biggest concerns are the lack of an optical drive and the number of USB ports. But it definitely has enough horsepower to run pretty much anything most users will throw at it for the next couple years.
I'm not going to get it or anything, though; that would be insanity.
It's not a machine made for computing power, it's for sheer portability alone, and for that, it's an amazing piece of work. I watched the Keynote, and it was impressive. But yeah, given the opportunity (translated: the cash to purchase such an extravagance) I'd spring for the optional SuperDrive; it would totally be worth it.
Meanwhile, i'm more interested in the new AppleTV and the Time Capsule.
So why they didn't include it is basically so they can further gouge the people who want it.
That's getting pretty typical of Apple, lately.
I guess it keeps the size down, but I definitely wouldn't want one as my only computer, and I don't see the need to own more than one computer, so... I guess I'm just not a part of that market.