Gigantopithecus
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Wow... Apple is STILL releasing new products with Core 2 Duo processors?!? Somebody slap Steve upside the head and remind him that it's not 2008 anymore.
I would gladly pay the Apple tax for the 11.6" Air chassis but its specs are laughable.
i totally agree with you - i wouldnt even consider a laptop thats $999 and over if it didnt have todays technology (core i3/i5/i7, 8GB of ram, modern gpu)...but for the mba dont know if they had room to put an i3 + 320m in that tiny thing. they probably will update it with sandy bridge because the intel gpu will be 2x faster (supposedly).
Laughable why?
What is the Airs target market?
Mobile professionals and students.
What do mobile professionals/students generally need?
Word?
Excel?
Web based applications?
Email?
What?
It will run all of those perfectly fine. It is clear (as with every ultraportable) that it is NOT targeted at those who want to
Run AutoCAD
Run 3D application
Run high end games
while on the go.
It clearly does what it was intended to do.
You don't need i3 to do these things.
You don't need 16GB of RAM to do these things.
What does the target consumer need?
BATTERY LIFE
Also, jobs is a lier http://www.macstories.net/news/steve-jobs-no-mac-app-store/
Which is fine, except for if you don't want a flash hard disk, you can spend way less than 50% the price for a similarly equipped netbook. I'd buy a macbook air if it was 599. I'd buy an ipad if it was 250 or less.
Note: Just installed the beta facetime. Requires iSight, so it seems like those hackintoshers amongst us -- cough, cough -- are SOL. iChatUSB doesn't support Snow Leopard, so I'm not sure of any other way of getting it to work.
Too bad.
It's weird, people spend months trying to hack Dell laptops that came out 10 years ago to work with 10.4 kernels, but no one has spent much time doing something that'll make usb webcams be recognized as iSights. Hrmph.
Also, jobs is a lier http://www.macstories.net/news/steve-jobs-no-mac-app-store/
Whatcha using Firewire for these days? Audio equipment?
You using that Dynex webcam?
I have a prediction to make for next year though.
15" and 17" MacBook Pro. 128GB SSD standard with optional 2.5" mechanical drive. It shouldn't take up any room at all for that new SSD stick they're using so the bay for the hard drive should be available.
If Apple wants to really innovate in this space, they'll find a way where a small 30GB SSD can store and run your OS where a bigger mechanical drive stores your applications and documents and make it seamless so the user doesn't even know they have multiple drives. That would be nice.
This, or I think Apple will refresh and promote the Time Capsule to sync and back-up photos, music, storage etc. Apple will probably embed a standard of 256GB flash across all MBPs.
The USB restore stick is paving the way for Apple to make the Super Drive obsolete. It's possible that it will work on all Macs, just like the Retail DVD. Without the 2.5" drive and Super Drive all together leaves space for the battery and better cooling.
Death of 13" MBP?
By the Super Drive being obsolete you better mean they will be putting in blu-ray.
If Apple wants to really innovate in this space, they'll find a way where a small 30GB SSD can store and run your OS where a bigger mechanical drive stores your applications and documents and make it seamless so the user doesn't even know they have multiple drives. That would be nice.
Given what Jobs has said about BR in the past I'd venture to guess that Apple will never certify a BR player/drive and will try to push 20GB 1080p24 "rentals" from iTunes for $5.99. Just another in a long line of Apple giving you what they tell you to want.
I think it's possible that Apple *MAY release a Blu-Ray RW drive it becomes cost effective to implement, and this will probably end up in the Mac Pro only.
Given what Jobs has said about BR in the past I'd venture to guess that Apple will never certify a BR player/drive and will try to push 20GB 1080p24 "rentals" from iTunes for $5.99. Just another in a long line of Apple giving you what they tell you to want.
