MacBook Air is Palm's Foleo in Apple disguise..... .....and Engadget seems to be having lots of fun today driving nails into MacBookAir's coffin... Anyone reading Engadget today will probably cancel their plans to buy one...
Wow... someone went to all that trouble to figure out that a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo is slower than 2Ghz+ Core 2 Duos processors. How about battery life tests?
well, it's not supposed to be a blazing fast machine. i am not getting one, but if i was traveling, doing lots of presentation, i probably would. it's a marketing machine for business users. i am sticking with plans to purchase a macbook pro after its next upgrade, when gestures are added to the trackpad.
Hey, it's ultra thin, but I hope Ryan would do some drop tests and tell us if the MBA would still work after a drop from waist high, chest high, and about eye-level high. For such a device, speed does not matter, but durability.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bassir @ Jan 24th 2008 5:47PM
But hey, uh it's thin. Doesn't that make up for every one of its disadvantages?
ThePengwin @ Jan 24th 2008 5:58PM
Maybe everything but the price tag
Bassir @ Jan 24th 2008 6:04PM
why the hell did you take that seriously
tekdroid @ Jan 24th 2008 6:09PM
lol
Rob @ Jan 24th 2008 8:03PM
oh, and its sexy. again, that must make up for all the shortcomings, right?
Satish @ Jan 24th 2008 6:36PM
MacBook Air is Palm's Foleo in Apple disguise.....
.....and Engadget seems to be having lots of fun today driving nails into MacBookAir's coffin...
Anyone reading Engadget today will probably cancel their plans to buy one...
Ron @ Jan 24th 2008 6:57PM
well, look at the bright side
its the one day engadget goes all anti-apple fanboy on apple
vcx @ Jan 24th 2008 7:16PM
Wow... someone went to all that trouble to figure out that a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo is slower than 2Ghz+ Core 2 Duos processors. How about battery life tests?
David @ Jan 24th 2008 7:40PM
Thats a STUPID test.. the slowest compared mac had a 500mhz faster processor.. its ~25% faster to begin with!
ark_v2 @ Jan 24th 2008 7:48PM
@Satish
Too good to be true. People are dumber than you might think.
AlexP @ Jan 24th 2008 9:18PM
I reckon you forgot to benchmark the Mac Mini and tell us whether or not it was faster than the Air.
Hung @ Jan 24th 2008 9:25PM
@ vcx & David
The clock isn't what's important. Even the MIPS is that important. Only performance comparison yields accurate results of power and speed.
The 2.66 GHz Pentium D 805 is half as fast as the 2.4 GHz C2D E6600. It's because of other factors, such as FSB, CPU Cache, and memory timings. http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2869&Itemid=40&limit=1&limitstart=2
Yes, all the processors in Mac's test are C2D, but the sockets, motherboards, and RAM are all different.
I don't mean to make you look like n00bz, but you aren't helping.
Hung @ Jan 24th 2008 9:30PM
"Even the MIPS is that important."
Even the MIPS isn't that important.
eyebob @ Jan 24th 2008 10:12PM
well, it's not supposed to be a blazing fast machine. i am not getting one, but if i was traveling, doing lots of presentation, i probably would. it's a marketing machine for business users. i am sticking with plans to purchase a macbook pro after its next upgrade, when gestures are added to the trackpad.
KC @ Jan 24th 2008 10:27PM
Hey, it's ultra thin, but I hope Ryan would do some drop tests and tell us if the MBA would still work after a drop from waist high, chest high, and about eye-level high. For such a device, speed does not matter, but durability.