New MacBook Air

alanrowell

Stopped drooling - given Apple's record with batteries I wouldn't want to have to replace the whole laptop every year - and I don't want to lose the data either

And a CD drive is extra - the suggestion is that you borrow one on another machine by linking to it wirelessly

chuckley

ringo_24601 wrote: »

No one should ever consider buying this... very simply for one reason: No removable battery.

I can accept it on an Ipod, but i know the way laptop batteries go.. they're just not great at all long term. Would you splosh that kind of money away without being able to replace the most likely component that will fail after a year or two?

It does look pretty, but wait till you can swap batteries

hmmm good point! but depends if ud use the battery or mains? if u primarily use the mains it shouldnt b a problem...

chuckley

im not a fan of the size... why have they done away their 'box' size? and whats with the .3?

lovin the look tho

isofa

alanrowell wrote: »

Stopped drooling - given Apple's record with batteries I wouldn't want to have to replace the whole laptop every year - and I don't want to lose the data either

And a CD drive is extra - the suggestion is that you borrow one on another machine by linking to it wirelessly

I have a 7 year old Mac PowerBook, that still holds it's charge well, the battery has never failed, and I get a good 2-3 hours out of it if I take it somewhere to write an article or comp up an image. I don't use it very often, even though it can run virtually the latest operating system, so often I let it go completely flat, to no ill affects.

As for the CD drive (optical drive). No sub-notebook computer comes with a built in optical drive, to keep the size and weight down, most offer it as an option of a docking station or USB version - so Apple isn't bucking any trends here. To be able to use another system's optical drive for installation wirelessly, straight out of the box with the required set-up software for Mac or PC included in a very neat idea for non-techies. You can also buy an USB optical drive as an extra, either from Apple, or the many companies that make similar devices for Macs and PCs...

k18dan

been reading about this for that few days.. looks amazzzzing.. but not really a mac fan.. i work with them all day.. but im still a PC boy at heart... grrrr why does all the good design have to come from apple... design wise they never seam to put a step wrong..

isofa

k18dan wrote: »

been reading about this for that few days.. looks amazzzzing.. but not really a mac fan.. i work with them all day.. but im still a PC boy at heart... grrrr why does all the good design have to come from apple... design wise they never seam to put a step wrong..

It's because they actually think about the whole experience, they make both the hardware and software, and spend a lot on design and R+D, employee fantastic industrial designers like Jonathan Ive, etc. You are never going to get that attention to detail or design from a box shifter like Dell, it's a different market. Sony I suppose are the PC equivalent, but have lost it in my opinion in recent years.

You could always set it up as a Windows XP or Vista machine, and not ever use Mac OS X if you don't want to, dead easy under Leopard

brazilianwax

isofa wrote: »

It's because they actually think about the whole experience, they make both the hardware and software, and spend a lot on design and R+D, employee fantastic industrial designers like Jonathan Ive, etc.

:T :T :T :T

isofa wrote: »

You could always set it up as a Windows XP or Vista machine, and not ever use Mac OS X if you don't want to, dead easy under Leopard

Why, oh why, oh why would you do that???

isofa

brazilianwax wrote: »

:T :T :T :T

:beer:

brazilianwax wrote: »

Why, oh why, oh why would you do that???

To have the choice :rolleyes: They get the benefits of the Apple hardware, but the OS they might need for work, or they want to use. It means Apple hardware has got a larger available market too. Personally I'd always use OS X on my Macs, but running Parallels for XP software virtualisation for the odd package I need to run when I'm not near a PC.

Magazines like PC Pro often review MacBooks just installed from scratch with XP or Vista, and often, they come top in the speed tests, in fact only a few months ago, one mag rated a MacBook Pro the fastest laptop available... to run Vista (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html)

chuckley

brazilianwax wrote: »

:T :T :T :T





Why, oh why, oh why would you do that???

i agree... y would u ruin and go backwards?!

brazilianwax

isofa wrote: »

:beer:



To have the choice :rolleyes: They get the benefits of the Apple hardware, but the OS they might need for work, or they want to use. It means Apple hardware has got a larger available market too. Personally I'd always use OS X on my Macs, but running Parallels for XP software virtualisation for the odd package I need to run when I'm not near a PC.

Magazines like PC Pro often review MacBooks just installed from scratch with XP or Vista, and often, they come top in the speed tests, in fact only a few months ago, one mag rated a MacBook Pro the fastest laptop available... to run Vista (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html)

Extremely expensive way to do it though!!!

IMO if you're that much of a slave to Microsoft, you deserve the ugly boxes that run it!!!