MacWorld 08 Thoughts
I was underwhelmed by the MacBook Air. I think it is geared to the business traveler who doesn’t need an actual optical hard drive or any serious storage space because they will only us it to write letters and such. I don’t want a laptop I have to buy a separate hard drive for to store photos, movies, files, etc on. I think they should have kept this in development until someone made a ultra slim hard drive to put in it. Because the MacBook Air with a massive slim hard drive of 160GB or more PLUS the Ram and Flash is has already would have truly been stunning. I’m guessing some gadget heads will buy the air out of a need to have the latest thing right out of the starting gate. I keep seeing comments around the net from people who don’t get that it only has a flash drive and RAM who think the 500GB is plenty of space for a computer, but trust me, it isn’t that kind of memory, folks.
As for the rest of it? The iTunes movie subscriptions and the improvements on the AppleTV and such? That was better than the MacBook Air, frankly. I still wish the AppleTV was also a true DVR, but this is a step in the right direction. Too bad Time Warner countered the innovation with an announcement of a crippling price hike based on bandwidth. Sometimes the entertainment and technology sector can’t win for shooting itself in the foot all the time.
I was also concerned with Apple’s recent Bad Apple legal tactics against bloggers and other fans, and had high hopes they would do something to rectify the situation a bit, but this reaction to a fan tells me I shouldn’t hold my breathe. I had a press pass to this even this year, and no way to go. Now I’m a bit glad I didn’t try harder to find the money for airfare. I would have enjoyed seeing my friends in California, but I would have been disappointed with the overall Keynote. I probably would have had fun wandering around after though – maybe next year.
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January 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am
MacBook Air would never have enough space for me. I already FILLED my entire MacBook hard drive and a LaCie drive with 260GB’s….
My next ‘big purchase’ is the iMac DESKTOP. I will still use and love and have and take my macbook EVERYWHERE I go, but with the iMac desktop I will be able to work with more space in iMovie and iPhoto (both applications I tend to abuse!).
MacBook Air just wont cut it for me. But it is a HOT laptop.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I was so bummed out when I heard about the Air. I mean Im excited that it came out but I just bought the shoulder-heavy MacBook Pro. For a 5 foot 4 frame, I would have preferred the Air although I need the processing power of a MacBook Pro. Is there any way we can ever find out what Apple products will be released so we don’t make a wasted purchase?