MacBook Air - Geek content

iainf72

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html

Dribble.

Curse you Steven Jobs.

lateralus

Nice

I just hope the even thinner design doesn't replicate or worsen the "inferno in your lap" MacBook Pro battery....

grimpeur

Three words...

Non-user replaceable battery

That really is a bit of a joke and renders it useless for any sort of real work.

TheGreatGatsby

again apple have succeeded in making an object of desire but I agree the battery issue is a big no no. Much like the first 4 generations of iPods that all miraculously failed at just about the same time as the warrantee ran out and all to do with naff battery life.

I'd stil have one though (if it comes in black in the future!) Stay tuned to Apple for the release of their new pocket laptop and also the return of the newton - their version of a pda.

Gats

gkerr4

it's well sweet - but I think I will be keeping my macbook pro for a little while longer.
I was at a tech show last week (the education one) and the guys on the apple stand were very tight lipped but thought we should keep a close eye on apple.com over the next couple of weeks.

rumour has it that they are using the "touch" technology as per the ipod touch and iphone to create a 13" mac-tablet type thing - how cool does that sound!!!

fidbod

yep, they were putting barriers outside the apple store on regent street when I left.

but for a rumoured £1200 I will have an EEE and a new bike thanks

alcooker

Obviously I'm well chuffed I bought a new macbook 3 weeks ago after my old macbook broke after 7 years. Still, the external drive on the new skinny thing is a bit of a pain or maybe not with an 80 gig hard drive, no not a pain at all in fact.
Good job my macbook will still blow most pc's away for ages yet.
Nobody in the world is on it like Apple.

Rob Sallnow

I like the Time Capsule idea!!

I wonder how long it will be before Nike joins Apple's long list of lawsuits for calling it 'Air'.

pedylan

Having owned an iMac for all of 3 days and only ever having used PC's at home and work I can't believe how good it is (sorry this will be no news to afficionados).

The style, the interface the apps, the screen. I'm practically dribbling as I type - not pretty.

It also fired up and organised my non Ipod music, loaded MS office docs straight from an external drive into iWorks so its got compatability I never expected.

So yes, I'll have a macbook as well please.

jpembroke

and now movie rentals from iTunes directly on to one of those Apple TV boxes (apparently connects to your existing wireless network and plugs in to your TV). I'd definitely like to have that. Unfortunately that service won't be available here until end of the year probably.

pedylan

Anyone using any of the Elgato TV devices or Airport Express to transmit and play music to Hi Fi?

I thought either of these might be good purchaes to turn the study into a media den. As I'm still new to Apple are they reliable?

Cheers

jpembroke

I use an Airport Express for music streaming to hifi and wireless printing, too. Great little gadget Sort of configured itself really: you just need to tell it to either join an existing wireless network (if you have one) or start a new one. Pretty easy really.

Ed Moses

TheGreatGatsby wrote:

the return of the newton - their version of a pda.
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That would be the iPhone or iTouch then,,,,,,,,,,,,

Nice collection of announcements, I look forward to playing with an Air in the next few weeks,

meesterbond

Looks gorgeous, but have you seen the prices!!!

Sorry, but £1200 for the standard version and another £900 for the 64Gb solid state one is frankly silly money.

I'm out...

Mark Alexander

It looks great

Sadly though as mentiond previously, it's expensive. I have a macbook with 2gb core duo and 80gb HD 2GB of ram. It's 2 years old and better spec'd than that in some ways. It doesn't seem to know wher it wants to fit in. It's the same screen size as the MacBook but priced the same as the Pro. That is specked out of the market.

Home/family users will still go for the Macbook, Pro photographers/designers etc will go for the larger screen and prformance of the Pro. If it is thr to eventually replace th Macbook, Apple have a history and tradition of not discounting so they are raising the cost of the home market. In other words, it's over priced, under powered, and it's only identifyable selling point is it's cool. 8)

It'll fly off the shelves

giant_man

Apple does it again, further proof it makes the best computers you can buy.

Can't wait to get one!

simon_e

giant mancp wrote:

Apple does it again, further proof it makes the best computers you can buy.

Certainly the nicest.

I've grown to appreciate the difference after using Macs at work for over two years, so can understand the enthusiasm they elicit. The interface, layout and organisation are just... nicer. If shopping for a desktop again I'd run out and get a Mini.

meesterbond, if Apple can sell a load of iPhones* - a mobile phone/web toy - for nearly £300 then flogging a very stylish laptop, one with serious cachet among those who care, won't be a problem at £1300. For those of us with more sense than money/pride/vanity/whatever the standard MacBooks are more than adequate.

But yeah, of course I'd like one

Can anyone suggest a bike brand that is the equivalent of Apple Mac? Not that I'm trying to start a war or anything!

* Orange France has sold 70,000 iPhones in the first month.

Mark Alexander

Simon E wrote:

giant mancp wrote:

Apple does it again, further proof it makes the best computers you can buy.

Certainly the nicest.

I've grown to appreciate the difference after using Macs at work for over two years, so can understand the enthusiasm they elicit. The interface, layout and organisation are just... nicer. If shopping for a desktop again I'd run out and get a Mini.

meesterbond, if Apple can sell a load of iPhones* - a mobile phone/web toy - for nearly £300 then flogging a very stylish laptop, one with serious cachet among those who care, won't be a problem at £1300. For those of us with more sense than money/pride/vanity/whatever the standard MacBooks are more than adequate.

But yeah, of course I'd like one

Can anyone suggest a bike brand that is the equivalent of Apple Mac? Not that I'm trying to start a war or anything!

* Orange France has sold 70,000 iPhones in the first month.

those with class want one, those without......
I envy you using them at work.

The equivalent in bikes? it'd have to be Italian, with campag

Richrd2205

Can anyone suggest a bike brand that is the equivalent of Apple Mac? Not that I'm trying to start a war or anything!

So a better-performing, easier to use bike that's still out-sold by its not-really-as-efficient equivalent that keeps selling cos it's what people are used to?
Easy, a recumbent!


*ducks*


(Actually, I seem to be one of the very few PC using 'bent riders, but this may change since my partner has recently got her first Mac & I'll be setting the thing up)

pedylan

Richrd2205 wrote:

(Actually, I seem to be one of the very few PC using 'bent riders, but this may change since my partner has recently got her first Mac & I'll be setting the thing up)

No you won't. If my experience last week is anything to go by it'll be setting itself up.

Plugged it in, it detected my wireless network, printer, external drive, music player, bluetooth phone and for all I know it's logged what make of toaster we have.

Anyway all of our computing connections..................just.......... work............. 8)

Mark Alexander

if it takes more than 5 mins, including opening the package, then you must be drinking tea at the same time. just pres the on button. they do say don't change the computer name by the way

Richrd2205

Anyway all of our computing connections..................just.......... work............. 8)

If only it was the same for the Speedtouch 330 modem I'm using just now :evil:

cee

fanboi's

I get a little concerned about the Apple's new products. Yes the devices are very attractive, beautiful things, but then just don't deliver on functionality.

Take the iPhone.

Looks slick and has what at first glance appears to be an awesome user interface. You slide things about and its great. except when you try and type anything...then you just start swearing. Next.. how do you send a text message to more than one recipient....oh you can't. and lastly and for me this is the unforgivable thing, they release it for nearly 300 quids and it doesn't even have do 3G. Poor show.

Then theres the other thing.

Ask people what the first word that pops into their heads when they see someone using an iPhone, and that word will be a variation on the them w**ker etc. Thats enough for me thanks.

rant over

il_principe

It looks fantastic, especially given this is their first attempt. Looking forward to the next generation. I love my iPhone btw, easily the best phone I have ever owned. The lack of 3g isn't actually that annoying, I live in London so can find WiFi all over the place, and the edge network seems fast enough for my purposes. You can send multiple texts now and when the official developer kit is released it won't be long before there are plenty of 3rd party apps available. My girlfriend bought an N95 th other day, which everyone says is as good as the iPhone if not better, but after the iPhone it is horrible to use; clunky and counter-intuitive. Say whay you like about Apple but they know how to design their hardware.

pedylan

Richrd2205 wrote:

Anyway all of our computing connections..................just.......... work............. 8)

If only it was the same for the Speedtouch 330 modem I'm using just now :evil:

Know the feeling. The wireless network that the iMac connected effortlessly to is run by a wireless router supplied by Talk Talk. I set this up fine on tehe ethernet cable to my old PC but could I get wireless to work? A b*ll ache. And when I did I could not password protect it. The error messages all said - phone the Geek squad. When i did they said no problem we'll talk you through it, that'll be £25. There is no way to do it from the system CD or supplied software.

I refused to pay and found a forum which gave the web site and password for the router's homepage and changed the settings in there - took two minutes..

Talk Talk coudl easily have supplied this info, tehy just wanted to bleed another £25 from their subscribers.

And it's another example of Plug and Pray!!

Mark Alexander

Richrd2205 wrote:

Anyway all of our computing connections..................just.......... work............. 8)

If only it was the same for the Speedtouch 330 modem I'm using just now :evil:

Well, my 330 was bulletproof until I went w.less. maybe i was lucky now i'm getting 5-6mb with a voyager2091 and th mac's loving it

synchronicity

That's not the only thin laptop. I saw this in mid-2005 in Tokyo:
http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Spe ... ain_01.jpg

0.8", and it's 3 years older than the apple.

andyp

Simon E wrote:

meesterbond, if Apple can sell a load of iPhones* - a mobile phone/web toy - for nearly £300 then flogging a very stylish laptop, one with serious cachet among those who care, won't be a problem at £1300. For those of us with more sense than money/pride/vanity/whatever the standard MacBooks are more than adequate.

* Orange France has sold 70,000 iPhones in the first month.

The expected global market of mobile phones this year is in excess of one billion. Apple's market share will be no more than 1.5 per cent. Nokia will have close to 40 per cent of that market, so are selling over 33,000,000 phones a month.

I'm not sure what my point is but I thought it an interesting observation.

iainf72

synchronicity wrote:

That's not the only thin laptop. I saw this in mid-2005 in Tokyo:
http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Spe ... ain_01.jpg

0.8", and it's 3 years older than the apple.

It's also a Sony which means it's got limited chances of working proper :P

Mark Alexander

and it's windows

synchronicity

Mark Alexander wrote:

and it's windows

Is that a good or a bad thing? :?