 bbarreraPremium,MVM
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Sacramento, CA
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Re: Why the MacBook Air is "misunderstood" said by RadioDoc:Considering some of the blind defense of this thing in here, by comparison I may be. Compared to other topics I'm surprised by the almost complete lack of blind defense of the MBA, therefore I'm a bit bewildered by this comment you've repeated in several posts.
Yesterday my 8 year old had a Build a Bear birthday party at the mall. I briefly snuck out and went upstairs to the Apple store. I spent about a few minutes with the MBA and a few minutes watching others. Half the folks wanted more ports and weren't interested, and the other half planned on buying (myself included). I found it quite snappy compared to my Mac mini with 4200rpm drive. The size and weight are perfect in my opinion. I've traveled for business since 1988 and only briefly carried an extra battery before realizing I didn't need it. As mentioned earlier I only use a single USB and DVI cable to connect my MBP to a Dell 24" LCD so the limited ports aren't an issue for me. For several years now I travel with a pocket sized wireless router for use in hotels with Ethernet in the room, so the lack of an Ethernet port is not an issue for me. However it would be nice to have GigE port for use in the office when dealing with large files (>8GB because I have an 8GB usb flash drive). Firewire is not usually an issue as I hook up our Camcorder to an iMac, but if I did want to use FW it should be possible using my miniStack v3 (USB to MBA, then FW400, FW800 and eSATA devices are available to MBA).
I'll definitely buy a MBA at some point. My short-term plan is to sell the MBP and buy a Mac Pro for use as a serious engineering workstation and server. |
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 MaranelloPremium,MVM
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| said by bbarrera: I found it quite snappy compared to my Mac mini with 4200rpm drive. . Snappy, but quite a bit slower....
»www.macworld.com/article/131864/···ml?t=201
said by Authority:said by NOCMan:I have not misunderstood it. It's a toy. I think you have. The people who would buy this don't want to "open it up" or know/care what a PATA hard drive is. They do on he other hand thing an extra $500 is a small price to pay for something that looks cool and saves them a few ounces in their travel bag.
You've really proven my point, people who don't "get" what it's for will hate it.
I agree that some people will actually find the Air useful and that it does have a place, but you can't deny that a good many are going to buy this just because they think it's cool. |
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1 edit | said by Maranello: but you can't deny that a good many are going to buy this just because they think it's cool. And that is a problem because...?
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MaranelloPremium,MVM
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| said by Mauricio9:said by Maranello: but you can't deny that a good many are going to buy this just because they think it's cool. And that is a problem because...? It isn't. It's just every time someone has referred to it as a toy a great chorus of voices rises from the valley and simultaneously shouts "you don't get it".
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bbarreraPremium,MVM
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I read that review before going to the mall and expected the MBA to be slow compared to my MBP. But after launching a few apps it seemed fine. Just re-read the Macworld review and noticed this:
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"But for general uses, I rarely noticed that the system was slower than my MacBook."
Source: Macworld review of MBA
»www.macworld.com/article/131864/···air.html
There is no doubt the compromises made on the MBA will limit the appeal and market.
For the stuff I do on a daily basis every notebook is 'a toy' which is why I'm selling my MBP and buying a Mac Pro. And the MBA will be the perfect traveling computer for my needs as I'm not attempting to make it a desktop replacement. |
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