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MacBook Air
Posted:
Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:13 pmby unriggable
Check out this shit.
Just to give you an idea, it's about three quarters of an inch thick, has less memory than the cheaper MacBook, has no CD drive, has a smaller screen...and is 2000 bucks. Worth it?
Re: MacBook Air
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:35 pmby WidowMakers
unriggable wrote:....has less memory than the cheaper MacBook, has no CD drive, has a smaller screen...and is 2000 bucks. Worth it?
Nope
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:42 pmby sfhbballnut
its a mac, of course not
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:39 pmby got tonkaed
this guy in my capstone class wet himself when he saw the ad they did for the thing. It is pretty neat how it fits in a manilla envelope though.
Re: MacBook Air
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:39 pmby dustn64
WidowMakers wrote:unriggable wrote:....has less memory than the cheaper MacBook, has no CD drive, has a smaller screen...and is 2000 bucks. Worth it?
Nope
looks cool, but not worth it.
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:40 pmby dustn64
sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
MACs Pwn PC...
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Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:53 pmby dsmsc1991
I love MACS for video editing, seeing as i do quite alot, and that is not worth it. I quite like the 2006 MacBook, they are nice, but the sucky thing with the one's our school had, was it didn't burn DVD's. so we would have to copy it onto an external hard drive and burn it on one of the iMacs, blah.. but i don't go to that school now, its the senior college for me =D
That is really not worth it, if i were going to buy a MAC, i'd go one of the 2006 models, best ones out, by far, and i think, by the sounds of what Apple are going to come out with in the near future(next 2-3 yrs) they will still be then. =]
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:59 amby Fircoal
sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:22 amby Frigidus
dustn64 wrote:sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
MACs Pwn PC...
If you're into art maybe...
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:24 amby The Weird One
dustn64 wrote:sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
MACs Pwn PC...
this is a debate for another thread.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:28 amby AndrewLC
sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
Quote for Truth.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:54 amby Heimdall
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:32 amby dsmsc1991
I should actually say, you would probably find that, there would be a portable CD/DVD drive somewhere, probably some separately. They would probably be costly, seeing as Apple comps only usually work with Apple hardware, blah, apart from portible hard drives, but then again, im not too sure about cd roms and such. maybe you could just get any external CD/DVD drive?
Re: MacBook Air
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:19 amby heavycola
unriggable wrote:Check out this shit.
Just to give you an idea, it's about three quarters of an inch thick, has less memory than the cheaper MacBook, has no CD drive, has a smaller screen...and is 2000 bucks. Worth it?
No way. So it fits in an envelope - so what? How is that of any benefit to anyone?
It will not make girls want to sleep with you, it will not make you more productive, it will not let you watch DVDs or rip CDs. It
will make your arms sliiiiightly less tired when you lug it around. And it
will make you look like the sort of person who would shell out £1,000 for a pretty low-spec laptop merely because it fits inside an envelope, i.e an eejit.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:24 amby Fieryo
The Air is supposed to appeal to those who want an emphasis on ease of mobility.
a) I've never had a hard time moving my Macbook
b) It's gonna suck to have to move not only your computer but also your external DVD player/CD rom
c) I want to bend it like Beckham and see how long it takes to snap in half
d) Why would I pay $400 MORE for the above things?
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:35 amby TheBro
AndrewLC wrote:sfhbballnut wrote:its a mac, of course not
Quote for Truth.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:10 pmby unriggable
It's funny that the stock of Apple went down a bunch when it was released...
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:16 pmby Harijan
Great a $2,000 calculator.
Thank you for another wonderful invention Apple. No doubt this will be the tech advancement of the year like the Iphone was last year.
Apple is the equivalent of the naked emporer for consumer electronics.
Build shit then market the crap out of it.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:39 pmby dsmsc1991
Fieryo wrote:The Air is supposed to appeal to those who want an emphasis on ease of mobility.
a) I've never had a hard time moving my Macbook
b) It's gonna suck to have to move not only your computer but also your external DVD player/CD rom
c) I want to bend it like Beckham and see how long it takes to snap in half
d) Why would I pay $400 MORE for the above things?
E) The 2006 books are better and will be for a few years to come unless Apple shape up and change their design's
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:42 pmby dsmsc1991
Harijan wrote:Great a $2,000 calculator.
Thank you for another wonderful invention Apple. No doubt this will be the tech advancement of the year like the Iphone was last year.
Apple is the equivalent of the naked emporer for consumer electronics.
Build shit then market the crap out of it.
The iMac G4's and the 2006 MacBooks are good, but the air, i'd like to smack the person over the head with a 2x4 afew times to get it through his head, that its a piece of shit.
Apple are good for two thing, and that is iPods, (mainly, though the battery goes in them after a year or 2) and the G4's... Thats it
Re: MacBook Air
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:50 pmby Snorri1234
heavycola wrote:No way. So it fits in an envelope - so what? How is that of any benefit to anyone?
It will not make girls want to sleep with you, it will not make you more productive, it will not let you watch DVDs or rip CDs. It will make your arms sliiiiightly less tired when you lug it around. And it will make you look like the sort of person who would shell out £1,000 for a pretty low-spec laptop merely because it fits inside an envelope, i.e an eejit.
Yeah, it's pretty much for those people who sit in public spaces with their laptop to work on their writing.
Now
this is something awesome. If I had 380$ spare it would be great.