Apple's refreshed MacBook Air now shipping to giddy buyers
By Darren Murph 
posted October 29th 2008 10:56AM
posted October 29th 2008 10:56AM
posted October 29th 2008 10:56AM
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Fine if you want to spend the money, don't care about not having an optical drive, only need one USB, and must have OSX, but the Air is expensive and I don't see 13" as much of an ultraportable. So you fit the target market, good on you. But I'd like to see the sales figures because I don't expect the Air to last much longer.
It should have been smaller or it should have been the Macbook, that's the way I see it.
I didn't say I got the Air. I actually bought Vaio Z which has none of those drawbacks and is amongst the fastest notebooks available regardless of weight. But the new Air which is faster and has a longer battery life and display port is a considerably better buy than the old one.
I didn't say you bought it either, Andrew. I said you fit the target market. ;)
Yes the new Air is a better value than the old Air. But FOR ME and for MY MONEY I can't see it as an option when I do eventually replace my old Powerbooks. At this point, I'm planning to go with the Macbook because I think the Air is too much for too little. And I hazard a guess that even many "mobile professionals" will agree and decide that the Air, as beautiful as it is, just isn't worth it.
The thing is, if I was looking for ultra portability and utility and not looking at the OS itself, I would opt for one of the Lenovo offerings, or perhaps the Vaio Z as you did. At least then the battery is readily swappable.
I do agree that new MacBook is a very appealing yet reasonably priced laptop and in fact I probably would have bought that one instead of Vaio Z had I known it will be released (I wanted to get a Mac machine for quite a while now). And yes the Air even in the new addition still has a limited target audience. I am happy with my purchase, though. Especially once SSD prices fall and I replace HDD with Intel's SSD.
Beautiful product, and by the sounds of it rather powerful with the Nvidia chipset.
Wouldn't be of much use to me though unfortunately.
I need an optical drive and maybe 1 or 2 more usb ports. Plus it's a bit too expensive for me and for what it is.
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Hmm. The MacBook Air looks freaking awesome. Not awesome enough to buy, but good enough to gawk at a store.
Oh, I bet you would buy it if it was a little cheaper.
Oh yeah, it's just a little too rich for my blood.
the fanboui one cube over just blew something, im pretty sure it wasn't a cork though...
Hrrmm.. How about the new Apple In-Ear Headphones w/ Mic that was supposed to be released in 'October'? Still waiting on those :(
Why? There are about 50 earbuds that do the same thing out there already...
Since the original Air gets only 3.75 - 4 realistic working hours a charge (and the battery most certainly isn't replaceable 'by removing four screws') with *extremely* aggressive power saving, I'd be interested in seeing how a graphics chip with a notably higher TDP works in terms of real-life runtime when balanced with a lower-power CPU/chipset.
Apple don't have much to worry about from the fanboys since many were simply just lying about their runtimes (if they owned one, that is...?) in the 5-6 hour range, but for those of us who're actually used to less pretty but flat-out-better machines from Sony et al, it'd be nice to have real facts.
And I wonder if they've solved the ten-hour charging time from nearly flat (which it is every time I take the Air out due to the pathetic runtime), overheating, etc etc etc that makes my Crapbook Air... well, crap. Very pretty crap, but crap nevertheless.
Oh well, waiting on Centrino 2 Voodoo Envy...
oh oh oh oh. i just popped a cork.
things go well i'll be showing her my O face.
HAHA phanbouy!!
You ain't right.
:D
Still no kensington slot. I'll pass thank you.
I wonder if these are the kinds of notebooks that a responsible American computer company should come up with during an economic slowdown. What bothers me is that tons of people actually are drooling over a 1700 dollar notebook when for the most part they could do the same with a 1000 dollar basic macbook or better still, pick up one of the netbooks that are cheaper but do the job for the most part. Admitted that the sleekness, design and so on are appealing, but these can't be the only features that people find attractive in notebooks.
holy fucking shit people need to shut up about the god damn recession every time there's a post about something that costs money
A fortnight ago I lusted for that new Air on Apple's website and now it has really arrived in stores? I think I'm gonna pop a bottle of Champagne in a cube of even in Cuba or whatever...
The new Macbook refresh is nearly the same dimensions as the Air, it's actually pretty cool. I used to kind of want an Air, but why settle when the full product weighs only a little more?
The only reason is if that weight difference is really important, and for some people it is. That said, you'd have to be very weight conscious to select the Air over the new MacBook so I am expecting sales of the Air to drop.