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- DoctorC4, on 01/25/2008, -23/+128Dear Apple and the Apple Zealots. your truckload of fail is here. Can you please pick it up? It is stinking up the PC world.
Thanks! - razmandi, on 01/25/2008, -13/+91man -- the macbook air is really becoming less and less attractive everyday.
- jordn, on 01/25/2008, -12/+84Apple have failed hard on this one.
- adamrgolf, on 01/25/2008, -8/+77to quote one of the comments:
"Remote disc: cancel or allow?
(sigh) Allow..."
that is all. - davidrools, on 01/25/2008, -4/+56and after criticizing Vista via national commercial to no end...they go and do the same? arguably worse since it'll come up more frequently and at an even less opportune time and having to go between computers to confirm? ugh
- The_Wallbanger, on 01/25/2008, -11/+62That thing is crippled!
- zerodaysoon, on 01/25/2008, -6/+50"You can't even browse a music CD or listen to tracks. Don't even think about burning a disc remotely."
LMAO!!!
Yeah, im diggin this - nitsnipe, on 01/25/2008, -28/+64***** THE MACBOOK AIR
- whiteknives, on 01/25/2008, -5/+25Steve Jobs has gone off the deep end this time.
- tallonx, on 01/25/2008, -6/+25as an apple fanboy, i like to tell myself that this is a 1st gen product, and they'll un-***** it up.... eventually ..... I pray.
(goes into a quiet room and begins to cry) - chugger1992, on 01/25/2008, -3/+20you can set Vista to allow all, too ^^
- segiterrus, on 01/25/2008, -2/+19DUGG, for lack of apple support!
- inactive, on 01/25/2008, -20/+33Of course it is... it's made by Apple!
- iofthestorm, on 01/25/2008, -2/+14Please stay there. Fanboys of any kind are annoying, although I find that the people who call themselves fanboys are probably the least fanboyish of all the fanboys. In fact, since you're being honest about it, I suppose you're one of the more rational ones.
- rebotfc, on 01/25/2008, -7/+19No Movie or Music playback?
That is outrageous. What the hell are apple thiking ... - repick3, on 01/25/2008, -1/+10Not to mention that the AIR only has an 80 gig hard drive... Hopefully your library isn't very large...
- ferrariman60, on 01/25/2008, -2/+10I think you missed the point. you CAN'T play a movie through a shared drive, unless I'm missing what you're trying to say. And lots of people have movies on discs, moron.
- BarrettAnderson, on 01/25/2008, -3/+11Yes, it *IS* $3,000. It's both. Just because you can get a certain configuration for $1,799 does not mean that it does not also cost $3,000.
It's amazing that you can make a false statement and somehow get dugg up because it is pro-apple. - EustaceTilley, on 01/25/2008, -8/+16Remind me which macs have HD support right now? oh none? really, well then its absurd that this can't do it!
- supermanred, on 01/25/2008, -8/+16Do you even own an Apple made past the 80s?
I wouldn't call my macbook crippled in any way, of course I didnt choose a "ultra portable"... - davidrools, on 01/25/2008, -0/+8and you lose the same "security" in both cases. But with remote disc, anyone (neighbor, guy parked outside, etc.) can just read the contents of your drive whenever they please. Disabling UAC in Vista just prevents someone from making changes to your system IF they somehow gain access first.
- virtualball, on 01/25/2008, -0/+8Well, let's see. A CD can have anything from your favorite songs to wedding pictures to bank statements. So yes. A CD can have important info.
- supermanred, on 01/25/2008, -5/+12I don't know what all you idiots are talking about...
All you have to do is set up a STANDARD NETWORK SHARE of an optical drive and use that. This "feature" is just for retards who couldn't otherwise set up a home network. - louiedog, on 01/25/2008, -1/+8In Vista you can turn it off.
- sjbdallas, on 01/25/2008, -12/+19None of this will keep all the Apple Emos with too much disposable income from purchasing that thing anyway because it LOOKS cool.
- BarrettAnderson, on 01/25/2008, -3/+9Seriously. Remote disc is not innovative at all (even though Jobs labeled it as such in his keynote). You have been able to do this for years. I suppose the only innovation is that you can't play music or [commercial] DVDs through it.
- RyeBrye, on 01/25/2008, -1/+7802.11n should play back movies just fine - since it obviously plays back iMovie and non-commercial disks. It just doesn't decrypt CSS stuff.
- aresef, on 01/25/2008, -4/+10Man, I'm starting to wonder what Steve Jobs has been smoking.
- starkruzr, on 01/25/2008, -0/+6Hey, there are plenty of us Apple fans who think the MBA is as ***** as you do.
- chaosdude78, on 01/25/2008, -3/+8Yeah, he even used the example of the iTunes store to show that a drive wasn't needed.
- tomato3017, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5Some kind of key/hash system should work.
- mdaize, on 01/25/2008, -5/+10you mean people actually liked the macbook for its huge price, lack of functionality, and lack of features to try and get a super small, and less durable unit?
- chicagospur, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6That's useful if you don't mind waiting 10 mins on 802.11G
Windows has had remote disk sharing since Windows 98, if not earlier. - fuzzynyanko, on 01/25/2008, -2/+6Wow... kinda annoying. Too bad you can't register a NIC MAC address, or some sort of computer identifier
- vawksel, on 01/25/2008, -4/+8I thought the same thing until I read you can boot off a remote disc. This is slightly an innovation, sure BIOS can do network boot etc, but this is a more polished approach to have a machine boot off a remote CD or DVD.
Basically, the did the work in the boot-firmware (dare I say BIOS when its not) and thus enabling remote booting. - milkmage, on 01/25/2008, -1/+5thank the MPAA for this one - FTA: You can browse the file contents of DVD discs, but you cannot actually play that media back over the network. Apple let us know that this only applies to commercial DVD media, and you should be able to play back home-burned iDVD movies via Remote Disc.
- geekyforlife, on 01/25/2008, -1/+5I think it is a great idea however Apple is always trying to jump ahead of the industry, which is great but in cases like these it not. When Apple introduced the first Bondy Blue Slot Loading iMac which didn't have a floppy drive people flipped. This turned out great. Apple killed the floppy. However I think this is going over the line. Like the article said it takes 10 minutes to transfer the data on a restore CD over a g network. N would be better but still you can't beat a straight connection to the MBA w/ a SATA drive.
- axcess99, on 01/25/2008, -1/+5Well a MAC address is 100% spoof-able with no trouble.. so try again :-)
- houndeyex, on 01/25/2008, -7/+11$3,000 laptop w/ no optical drive != good deal
- diggymow, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4I love that people think that no one uses optical media anymore... work retail for five minutes and realize you aren't the only person in the world using a computer to see how un-true that really is.
- emehrkay, on 01/25/2008, -2/+6I dont own a mac, but with windows all I had to do was right click and share an optical drive and it was available on the network. I could install stuff, do whatever. I know macs can see windows shares, can it not read a cd from a windows shared optical drive like a windows pc can?
- starkruzr, on 01/25/2008, -0/+3Define "use for research." You're not going to be wanting to run simulations on this machine with a 4200RPM hard drive, 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM.
- bjornski, on 01/25/2008, -0/+3And it'll all be DRM free, right? Unlike that "horrible evil Windows"?
LOL
The DRM on that will be just as tight as anything Windows has. And probably wont' be broken as quickly. Or as elegantly.
Paying extra to play catch-up. (but look good doing it!)
LOL - britishrob, on 01/25/2008, -0/+3This isnt "trade offs" this is outright castration
- Ev3nt372, on 01/25/2008, -3/+6At least Microsoft doesn't have this ***** monopoly on the hardware their software runs on.
- RyeBrye, on 01/25/2008, -1/+4You just realized wrong. I think everyone here knows exactly what they are talking about.
The diss on that overpriced optical drive is that it only works with MacBook Air and isn't an all-around USB 2.0 DVD drive. That's what sucks about the portable optical drive... - chugger1992, on 01/25/2008, -0/+3the floppy is still alive... right here! *points to floppy drive*
- drunkwally, on 01/25/2008, -1/+4Have you checked out the regular macbooks or the macbook pro's. They were already quite small and light machines. You can't put them in an envelope but the macbooks are tiny compared to most laptops.
If you have to buy an apple, buying one of those will not lead to as much regret... - rebotfc, on 01/25/2008, -1/+4I don't think you get it apple are conciously preventing you do something perfectly legal. i.e. play a DVD or CD.
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