Goober
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Re: Growing Pains
A redesign eventually, yes. For now, the USB extension cable.
I don't know. I would like to have it for my traveling. The company I'm at now presently gives us Dell Latitude D420s, if they think we'll travel some. I'd prefer the Air. It'll never happen since we're a PC shop. But you know what I mean.
Edit: But you're right. Aesthetics took a front seat to usability with the engineers. They certainly should have foreseen this. |
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djrobx
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| I've had problems fitting "fat" USB devices into ports on even desktop computers for a variety of reasons on several things. Annoying, yes, but that's not really a unique issue to Macbook Air. Many "fat" devices I have purchased (usually bluetooth adapters) have come with a small extension cable or an "L" adapter included. |
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Tikker_LoS
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said by Goober  : I would like to have it for my traveling. I'm the opposite, this look like it'll get snapped easily while travelling =\
it was a ton of WOW appeal, but I just can't imagine being comfortable with my big meaty paws on it |
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Dogfather
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| said by Tikker_LoS :but I just can't imagine being comfortable with my big meaty paws on it One of the features most others in the class don't have is a full size keyboard. |
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poolek
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I travel a lot - at least twice a week. While I've often complained that my laptop was too heavy or too big, I can't ever recall thinking it was too thick.
In most travel situations I encounter (airplane, train), a 12.1" form factor or smaller machine will be easier to use than a 13.3" machine regardless of how thick it is. I can easily live without the optical drive - but I'd have to carry the ethernet adapter for hotel & closed corporate network connectivity. The lack of a built-in wireless broadband option is truly stunning on such a machine - and the excuse that they didn't want to 'lock you into any carrier' is lame. By the time you add the usb ethernet, usb wireless broadband and usb hub so you can use flash drives while using the before-mentioned items, you may as well just carry a 'normal' 13.3 Macbook or M1330 or the like and get the benefit of more ports and an optical drive.
I personally think the Macbook Air is an incredibly nice looking machine, but I just don't understand exactly who it's marketed to. As a road warrior, I want something smaller footprint wise, with built-in ethernet and wireless broadband. For home use, I'm not willing to accept the trade-offs in functionality. I'm sure they'll sell a lot, and it'll probably make the next laptop I buy better - so I won't knock it - I just can't see myself buying it. |
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GlobalMind
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Before my ThinkPad T61 I had the X40. Sexy little tiny thing...and it sucked. The screen was so small that you couldn't use it for long, and I travel a good bit. Like this Mac I had to have external everything. It sucked bigtime.
I would rather have the larger more usable machine, although I don't really want one of those honker 17" deals.
This isn't the first time someone designed an ultralight PC/device with clearly no clue as to how it gets used in the field. Frankly the thing looks too fragile.
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Goober
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Naperville, IL | reply to Tikker_LoS
I suppose it depends on what you really need it for. I mainly do light emails when I travel and don't have to use it very much. |
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kyler13
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Arnold, MD | In that case, you should have a blackberry rather than lugging around a clunky laptop for just email. |
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