MacBook Air

[Grudge]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/appl ... -hands-on/

nice

[bitWISE]

I'd hit it

[+JuggerNaut+]

Job's keynote:

New MacBooks!

- What would MacWorld be without a new Mac? (sorry about last year)

- Completely redesigned MacBook

- Completely aluminum body like MacBook Pro

- 13″ screen at 1440×900

- Two colors: Black and Silver

- Looks gorgeous at 0.8″ thin

- A major feat of engineering - patents abound

- DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed

- New on all notebooks and iMac: iSight HD (720p)

- New backlit keyboard based on recent Apple Keyboard revisions (keys slightly lighter than that of laptop casing, colorwise)

- New matching MagSafe cable (Aluminum ends, cord color matches that of keyboard)

- New matching Apple Remote (slightly smaller with larger overall buttons)

- Intel GMA X3100 graphics

- 3 models

- Completely phasing out the combo drive on all product lines today

- BTO models can upgrade all the way to 2.6GHz/4GB Memory/320GB hard drive

- 4.5 hours of battery life

- Starting at $1199

Product Refreshes

- Refreshing Mac Pro and Mac mini today

- Mac Pro now with Penryn!

- Base model 2×2.8GHz dual-core/1GB/NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB/250GB(1×250GB)/1×16x double-layer SuperDrive

- Upgradeable to 2×3.2GHz quad-core/16GB/NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB/4TB(4×1TB)/2×16x double-layer SuperDrives

- Starting at $2,499

- Mac mini gets slight speed bumps and double-layer SuperDrive in all models

- Base model 2.0GHz IC2D/1GB/100GB

- BTO Upgradeable to 2.4GHz IC2D/4GB/320GB

- Starting at $599

One More Thing

- Been brewing for a while

- YouTube’s been in Apple TV and iPhone/iPod touch: now it’s in iTunes

- Download YouTube videos straight to iTunes or from iPhone/iPod Touch for later offline viewing (sync back to computer)

- Coming in iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch 1.3 updates

[Grudge]

shit, that's thin:

[plained]

theyre looking a bit better now that they look closer to th old sonys

they still have a way to go to catch up the sonys tho


i mean come on ffs
- New matching MagSafe cable (Aluminum ends, cord color matches that of keyboard

farking what a larf!

[werldhed]

That reminds me of something I meant to ask a while ago:

What do you folks think about sold state laptops? I think samsung has one out. Maybe others?

[Grudge]

great idea, still too expensive though

[Foo]

"- DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed"

Who owns a laptop with a CD drive where that doesn't happen?

Macfags lol.

[werldhed]

Werd. Slot-loading drives are retaaaaarded.
The one on this macbook is a piece of shit. The eject button does nothing, it sounds like it is eating my disc, and I don't know how many times I had to wedge a credit card in there to get my disc out because there's no force eject button.

[obsidian]

and not big enough capacities

[Grandpa Stu]

awesome i'll be in the market for a mac book pro around march and was hoping for an update before i splurged on one.

[obsidian]

Hrmmm... wait, so the Macbook Air doesn't have a built in optical drive? So if I want something slim and light to take with me on a trip so I can watch DVD's I have to also lug around the external DVD? And I suppose I have to buy the external DVD separately? Slim is nice, but I'd rather have it slightly thicker but with a built-in drive.

One USB port? Which will be used up by the external DVD?

Screen, keyboard and touchpad are nice, though.

[Foo]

Gotta get hold of that cd drive that ejects when you press the button.

That's some feature right there.

[Grudge]

You're supposed to buy/rent your movies via iTunes, not watch them on CD or DVD.

[R00k]

no removable battery in a laptop

[+JuggerNaut+]

[Geebs]

In 3 years, I took the battery out of my Powerbook exactly twice. I wouldn't buy an Air, but the nice features are very nice. The concept of having to have another mac to install stuff is pretty stupid, though.

[Dave]

I never take mine out either, but they do go bad... For something like an iPod, I could care less really, but an $1800 laptop should have a user serviceable battery

[R00k]

Yea you're right. Who needs to be able to swap or replace the battery in a laptop?

God forbid someone wants to carry an extra.

[Wizard .3]

Love the look of the whole piece. Really grea style, and the size is incredible.

But the price is waaay too much. And it lacks too many features that have become standard on every other laptop out there. At least this pushes the innovation barrier higher.

[werldhed]

Yea you're right. Who needs to be able to swap or replace the battery in a laptop?

God forbid someone wants to carry an extra.

I just go about w/o the battery sometimes. Makes it lighter to carry back and forth from the lab.

[Doombrain]

looks easy to break

[Chupacabra]

[Foo]

I just go about w/o the battery sometimes. Makes it lighter to carry back and forth from the lab.

Hey you're right. It's a feature.

looks easy to break

It's a feature.

[Doombrain]

I'm not joking. My MBP is on its last legs because I dropped it in my bag, now it's all bent and wobbles on the desk.

Something like that wouldn't last a year if it has to travel.