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- yobboninja, on 01/18/2008, -6/+297Look! It fits inside a Manila Envelope! Hi five!
- junkstore, on 01/18/2008, -20/+300On the plus side it's easier to mail it back to Apple when you find out it sucks.
- chkdg8, on 01/18/2008, -10/+229wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki, wikaaa!
- mandypamby, on 01/18/2008, -31/+211coming soon, the macbook atom. I can pitcture it now... Jobs wheels an electron microscope onto the stage and carefully removes the macbook atom from between two hydrogen atoms to the applause of apple fanboys everywhere...
- kaynesan, on 01/18/2008, -10/+188"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the ability to put their notebook in an envelope."
- quomen, on 01/18/2008, -36/+211Bury me up..
- Thud, on 01/18/2008, -3/+150You know, I haven't actually tried yet, but I think my regular macbook might fit in a manila envelope. If it does, that would be awesome. If the Macbook Air owner stuffs his into the envelope and thinks he's awesome, I'll stuff mine in a similar envelope, then pull it back out, then eject the DVD in my drive and plug the system into the nearest gigabit ethernet port.
NOW WHO'S AWESOME? - Walt65, on 01/18/2008, -12/+108No floppy drive...
What's the dvd thing? - MonsterChaOS, on 01/18/2008, -7/+99But what about games... oh wait, never mind.
- Awspire, on 01/18/2008, -11/+88Call Guinness, we have the Worlds most expensive web browser.
- JonMcL, on 01/18/2008, -50/+116I love how people complain about this computer like it is somehow personally attacking them.
If you watch DVDs on a laptop, this is not the computer for you.
If you need to hookup multiple USB devices, this is not the computer for you.
If you frequently restart your computer (instead of using instant wake from sleep) or process very large files that would take a while to load on a slower drive, then this is not the computer for you.
If you think you need to swap out batteries all the time, or if you are the type that can't stand to pay someone else to solder in a new battery, then this is not the computer for you.
For many people, this is the perfect computer for them. It is very light weight. Fairly powerful and yes, fairly stylish. Relatively inexpensive compared to similar ones. (It's only $1800.. ignore the $3000 comments!!) It doesn't need to be the end-all be-all of notebook computers. It's simply another option for those people who prefer the Mac OS X experience and the fit and finish the Apple provides. Why rip a product that other people are perfectly happy with? What's the point? Are you that insecure about your own computer purchases and decisions that you have to berate others? Seriously, just get over yourself.
(By the way, I have no intentions of buying one. I have more than 10 Macs from over the years, but for right now my old clamshell iBook is fine for couch surfing. Otherwise I personally prefer a desktop.) - pxa270, on 01/18/2008, -7/+59The funny thing is that my three year old Thinkpad X40 does easily fit in a manilla envelope. It bulges a little more, being 0.81 - 1.06 inch rather than 0.16 - 0.76 inch, but it's much smaller in the other dimensions, so it's still very easy to fit in the same size envelope. All that manilla envelope advertising strikes me pretty inane.
- mrtrik, on 01/18/2008, -24/+67Not bad.
As for the DVD drive thing... aren't we approaching an era where software is just downloadable? I for one hate having to order and waith 2 days or go out and find and buy actual software on hard media and installing it. If I want something, I purchase, download, install (as available). Hell - Even MS Office is available that way (at least on PC). - RomulusX86, on 01/18/2008, -4/+45I hope someone writes a DJ application that supports the new trackpad.
- linaman2, on 01/18/2008, -6/+45but there is a $3000 version.... that is the only thing fanboy's can say about this parody to insult it? I was expecting more lively comments. I am dissapointed...
- diggelicious71, on 01/18/2008, -9/+43- "Why the hell not?"
- "Daddy, PULEEZ, gimme three thousand!" - pjmalone, on 01/18/2008, -3/+34My new Air Guitar is the thinnest guitar in the world ... easily worth the money!
- junkstore, on 01/18/2008, -0/+29You don't need the $1800 version at all.
- Murdats, on 01/18/2008, -1/+29the needs of fans who must have more apple products, fans who will change their needs to suit the product, not get the product to suit their needs.
- jlawson1, on 01/18/2008, -7/+34"I install all my games from CDs and DVDs.."...how many games are you really going to play on a Mac?
- foolonthehill, on 01/18/2008, -3/+29The optical drive, hard drive, memory, CPU, GPU, display, keyboard and trackpad will all be 'external peripherals' available at extra cost.
- epilonious, on 01/18/2008, -6/+31It's odd how polarizing the MacBook Air is. What's even more odd is how so few of the opponents seem to pay lip service to the fact this is the exact sort of thing Apple has done before, and quite successfully.
It reminds me of the original iMac back in the day. Apple didn't really do anything particularly fancy, they just released a new form factor (the boob), and removed an extra drive they felt wasn't used that much to save space. Sooooo many people bitched about how they could never buy a computer without a floppy drive or how they thought it was underpowered and hobbled since it wasn't going to get upgraded beyond maybe ram or a hard drive.... and for each of those outspoken opponents about 10 people bought one because they thought it was sort of cute, it was in their price range, it performed adequately enough, and it was quiet.
The Macbook Air gives me the same feeling. It's a very thin at the edges pretty thing that is light and will perform adequately. I look at it and go "I don't really need one right now" but I also know of some people who would like it and it would suit their needs perfectly. They aren't even pretentious apple snobs or super rich or anything, they just travel a lot and need to have a computer with them for work connectivity or writing.
All that being said... the video was hilarious. I particularly liked the image of having a break in a party and then someone saying "hey, let's try and fit our laptops into a manila envelope!" - P5ycHo, on 01/18/2008, -3/+25why not.
- adooga, on 01/18/2008, -6/+27We're not beyond CDs yet. I've got heaps of them and I use them all the time. (And if I had an 80 gig hard drive - ha ha ha - I'd be using even more of them).
This is worthless to me. - wild, on 01/18/2008, -11/+32"but how often do you load software from CD's anymore?"
I still buy CDs for my music. And I buy DVDs every week. And using a second computer to get that stuff on my $1800 laptop is insane. - digitalarcanum, on 01/18/2008, -6/+27and what are you paying 1800 dollars for? no ethernet, no optical drive, no user-serviceable battery one usb port, and an apple-proprietary video connector (mini-DVI)
and why am I paying $1800 for less? for two more hours battery life? yeah.
my dell e1705 can last over three hours on a full battery. it has six usb ports, vga, dvi and s-video connections, a firewire port, expresscard port, wireless, ethernet, and an optical drive and not to mention: packs a 7900GS video card. I paid around 1,000.00 for it. with this new macbook I'd pay 800.00 more for less, when I could just buy a second battery. and, as steve jobs would say, "BOOM" problem is solved. - adventchild08, on 01/18/2008, -3/+24yes it was...being thin has no practical application....
- hiimcliff, on 01/18/2008, -2/+22I'm waiting for the ipod eon. i hear it comes in pill form. you swallow it and the music plays in your head.
- calon9, on 01/18/2008, -2/+21Just like the human heart has a few million beats in it which should not be wasted, I have a few hundred diggs in me which I swore I would never squander. I am a hoarder, but I will give you one. I hope you appreciate the sacrifice.
- digitalarcanum, on 01/18/2008, -4/+23sorry but optical media isn't dead yet. Have fun restoring OSX if it ever flakes out because of an update, upgrading to the newest iteration (dont deny this didn't happen, there was so much bitching here on digg from problems when people upgraded to leopard), or having to install another OS on your mac (bootcamp, VMware, parallels, etc.) software is downloadable these days, but a lot of software (and operating systems) still come on optical media.
- adventchild08, on 01/18/2008, -2/+21What needs does the air fulfill exactly?
- Chicken, on 01/18/2008, -3/+22I use DVDs to back up files and other things I don't want to store on hard drives. Its just a cheaper solution.
- MWeather, on 01/18/2008, -2/+20Those pills make the sounds taste funny, though.
- aclements, on 01/18/2008, -2/+20skipping the spam, we can go straight to youtube where the author put it originally...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ERgZ9dztk - MacGuy88, on 01/18/2008, -2/+20Correction:
Why the hell not? - inigomntoya, on 01/18/2008, -2/+20Gah - if only IBM had thought of putting their notebooks into manila envelopes before Steve Jobs and his cronies did. THEN who would be laughing, huh?!
- aliengoods, on 01/18/2008, -0/+18Smaller is better? Are we still talking about laptops?
- potisreallygood, on 01/18/2008, -0/+17The Microsoft Surface parody is funnier and it seems that was what he was going for...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
- WatchDogX, on 01/18/2008, -2/+19Theres already pills that make music play in your head..
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+16Uh. Where did you find a $200 Mac Mini?
- pathy, on 01/18/2008, -11/+27It isn't an ultraportable. Stop calling it one.
- JeffMaster, on 01/18/2008, -4/+20hahahah, and wiki wiki like your favorite dj, I can see the developers working already...
- pumacub, on 01/18/2008, -2/+18Great success.
- digitalarcanum, on 01/18/2008, -1/+16isn't that apple's target crowd? hipster artists who can't really afford *****, but want to look cool and hip to others?
- MonsterChaOS, on 01/18/2008, -0/+15Good luck installing windows without a disk drive.
- 5urr3al5am, on 01/18/2008, -6/+19that was awesome.. why?.. because it touched on several true flaws about the Mac Book Air
- PayneX, on 01/18/2008, -0/+13No. Expect to see the big OEMs make EEE replicas.
Apple can't compete with the EEE, because the EEE is low cost AND small.
Apple can only do small, uh, "thin", but not low cost. - BinaryFragger, on 01/18/2008, -1/+14Is that the only thing going for it? The thickness?
"Hey, let's play a DVD with your notebook."
"sorry, can't"
"Ok then, let's watch some videos online... I don't have a wireless router, though."
"No can do."
"Can I at least connect my digital camera to it?"
"The single USB port is already being used."
"What's the point of paying $1799 for this thing?"
"It's..... um... very thin!!" - digitalarcanum, on 01/18/2008, -8/+21If you watch DVDs on a laptop, this is not the computer for you.
If you need to hookup multiple USB devices, this is not the computer for you.
If you frequently restart your computer (instead of using instant wake from sleep) or process very large files that would take a while to load on a slower drive, then this is not the computer for you.
If you think you need to swap out batteries all the time, or if you are the type that can't stand to pay someone else to solder in a new battery, then this is not the computer for you.
Apple defeats the whole entire point of this laptop by doing all of these things:
The DVD drive would only enhance the mobility factor.
the multiple USB ports would again, enhance mobility as users would not have to dig up a usb hub.
the slower drive (4300 rpm) as if 5400 rpm wasn't slow enough, again defeats the mobility purpose of the device.
not having a user-servicable battery again, defeats the mobility purpose. what happens when that five hours of battery time starts to whittle away as you own it? you can't replace it, and by the time you need a new battery, Apple is into the 3rd or 4th generation of this laptop and will refuse to service it.
Apple's overall design for this laptop is more fashion than function just due to the fact that so many of the design choices are counterintuitive to having the option for mobility, it simple makes no sense. it wouldn't have taken that much space to add another couple of usb or at least a mini-firewire port. it wouldn't have taken that much more space to package in an ultra-slim optical drive. then maybe, just maybe this might have been worth the price, but as it is now, you're just paying more for less. - MWeather, on 01/18/2008, -1/+14A Mac with no graphics card at that.
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