MacBook Air after the reality distortion field
It’s about time things had settled down with MacBook Air. Here is a view of the MacBook Air after the reality distortion field effect had wear off.
I’m putting my hater cap for this post about Apple’s new very thin super model. Although I did write a lengthy rant about Apple’s wireless world on my blog, here are some points that I find less appealing. What not to like about the MacBook Air.
- 80GB hard disk space is just too little of a disk space these days. There are iPods that have larger capacity. Apple claims that they solved this issue with their new Time Capsule, which is somewhat like a network attached storage.
- Non-replaceable battery makes the MacBook Air just like an iPod. The time will come when the battery will not receive anymore charge. You can’t just buy anther battery and replace it. Then AppleInsider claims that changing the MacBook Air battery is not that difficult task.
- No ethernet port. I have to say that most of the time I’m wifi, but there are those rare occasion where I do need an ethernet port. You know the times when your wireless router acts up and need a wired connection. There a ethernet USB attachment for the MacBook Air, sold separately.
- No optical drive. The lack of an optical drive out of the box makes the ultra-thin MacBook Air less appealing. The fact is I do use the optical drive for a lot of things, I rip music CDs, DVDs, because I can’t buy any Music from iTunes Store. Got that Apple? When will iTunes Store available worldwide?
- Only one USB port. You can’t connect many devices at the same time. You can’t get files from an external hard drive to burn on a DVD with the external MacBook Air Super Drive.
Or may be you can?
Apple are pushing the MacBook Air wireless capabilities, so you might just be able to grab files from a remote disc and burn in on a super drive on some other Macs.
No matter how hard I try, but it still shines through. You can tell that I like the MacBook Air. Will I buy one with the given price? I don’t think so.
Will I buy one if I don’t have rent to pay, monthly car payment to worried about, phone bills and an extra RM 7k or so? Yeah sure.
Will I buy one if the price includes Time Capsule, external super drive and a USB ethernet? May be.
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Hmm…I had a similar post on this in pending.
Still waiting for blogjunkie to review it and then post it up. Oh well.
I’d consider buying one if the price included a Time Capsule, E-Superdrive and a multi-port USB. But I’m too much of a techy to touch an MBA.
But truth-be-told, it’s not a laptop for techy’s (which disappointed a lot of my mates who were eager to hear of a brand new spec’d out laptop), it’s designed for people who only use Office:Mac or Pages or something similar.
If Apple go the path of Style over performance, this will end up putting them in the same position they were in with the original iMac series. Where PC manufacturers were selling computers with 10GB of memory, and Apple were boasting it’s 1.5-2GB and that it was amazing (when it was actually really shit, and OS9 was rubbish), and it the computer came in lots of colours and styles and look: No Floppy Disk Drive!
Sounding familiar?
The Air is meant for when you already have a desktop or another mac, and you just want an ultra light to bring around to complement the other. (and if you’re really rich and have money to burn).
It’s basically a demonstrator to show how thin they can get and hint on future designs.
did i drop by a anti-apple product website?
Maybe u should put on a thinking cap instead of a hater cap for a better post than this. afterall, this site is not to promote hatred to Apple products… or is it?
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1 USB port?….i guess its too thin and compact……maybe im sticking to the new macbook though….but still ure rite bout the 80gb thing…..after buying the new macbook,i only got 40-50gb left….thinking of buying an external….any suggestions?
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well they were right somehow with the iMac series… floppy disk drives became obsolete soon after… but the hard disk space is another story altogether…
and yes i agree that MBA is for a niche market but it does show what they are capable of and like always the technology and stuff will be integrated to a more consumer friendly products
Can you tell me where I can pay monthly for a mac air book by credit card
Christine you can pay interest-free monthly instalments at Machines. They don’t even charge extra for credit cards. Epicentre may also have an interest free instalment plan.
Damn, I’m still gonna get one.
Ian is right MBA is meant for people who travel a lot and may have an existing computer to work on.
This machine coupled with the envelope-looking case = awesomeness to high heavens.
If you think that the communication device you have is the best then you are yet to see this . Its great and amazing the features and functions are outstanding , it is better seen and than ANY . the New MacBook Air & New MacBook Pros is Apple’s newest 13.3″ ultra-thin notebook, World
The macbook air unlike a comment up higher IS EXACTLY for techies and there is some work to be done.
It pushes the enveloppe and uses the network to act as the extention for the laptop which is not novel because it has been that way for decades in datacenters but it is somewhat novel in the home environment.
Real techies have no problem sharing storage (that’s what NFS is for), they backup over the network. Maybe wifi is not fast enough yet but the truth is that the network is definately becoming the computer and 99% of the content most of us use come over that local network or the Internet.
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@benny
I understand your point, that distributed storage and processing are becoming more and more popular in our modern world, and that our computers almost act as a portal into these systems. However, that does not justify charging >$2000 for parts that are commonly found in a $500 netbook. Great engineering or not, you’re still getting ripped off.
Perhaps I used the term ‘techies’ too loosely, I refer to people who do heavy processing on computers. Programmers, graphic designers, etc. People who need processing power on their local client machine. This machine is not made for those types of people. Maybe in a few years, when ATI or NVDIA allow people to use their rendering farms for faster rendering results, or when apple allows their servers to be used for heavy compilation.
Until then, I stand by my previous statement. This machine is not for techies. This machine is used for people who do simple tasks (such as word processing) and need access to the internet. However, I was glad to see them get an upgrade in the last laptop update.
Still doesn’t convince me to get one.
there’s a pre-owned macbook air ( so quickly, you ask? let’s just assume it’s a genuine case) going for 5.3k & includes the superdrive. Is that a fair price to pay for a pre-owned unit, you think?
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