Just played with a MacBook Air! Some impressions...

Ugh, thats going to suck. IDK about you, but I rather like not having to worry about batteries and charges on mice, or drives. That's why, given the choice, I'd prefer to have something wired, than wireless. Unless they find a way around this, I'll be really unhappy

 

I have seen technology where mobile devices can be charges without wires. It was a metal pad that you set the device on (who knows, maybe future desks will charge all of your devices wirelessly).

 

Yes, I saw that too, but then the object needs to be really close, or in contact with the device it's charging from anyway, and that charger has to be plugged in SOMEWHERE. The desk idea is nice, but unless you're always near one of those, it's very inconvenient. I'm hoping for something along the lines of the laptop itself having a larger range and being able to power devices using it's own battery, without plugging anything in. It seems a long way off, or impossible, but than again laptops themselves being this powerful, small, or having a battery lasting so long seemed far off or an impossibility not too long ago.

 

Hmm. So what happens when you run out of battery life? I guess you could just replace the... oh wait I forgot. Or how about if you are in a hotel and they don't have wireless, only Ethernet service, forgot about that too. Or how about if your MBA doesn't "like" your hotels wireless internet...

Yea... its a bad design. MBP is a great laptop, the MBA sucks.

Toshiba Protege + Sony TZ > MBA

 

MacBook Air = useless.
Genuinely.

I cannot envisage a time where somebody would need this.
I'm not even sure people *want* it.

Would I take one? If I could sell it on and get another notebook, absolutely.

 

Classic Macbook for life

 

You forgot this comic strip.

 

L M A O

 

Way funny!!!

 

LOL that pic wins.

 

Agreed, Apple always starts it first. 5 short years from now every PC company will have the entire line with barely one USB port or any other ports for that matter. Then we will all be saying, "Remember the old Macbook AIR that started all of this and we thought it would fail?"

 

I think MBA will fail... then everything will start losing ports.

 

I just played around with it and it really is a fantastic machine. however, I don't think it will be as practical for college or as a primary machine for that matter.

 

Or maybe "Remember the old Macbook AIR that started all of this failness?"

 

So far talking about the mac book air it is thin.
not only thin but light weight, and pretty easy to carry around. By apple producing this laptop i think some other companys are gonna try to invent one also.

 

Probably.
And if the MBA is successful, more companies will jump on the ultra-thin bandwagon.
But I still think it will be a minority market. The majority of notebook users cannot afford something like that, have no need for something like that, or actually need damn USB ports!

 

Well, sort of. Some people try to claim that Apple started the trend of loosing floppy drives, but Apple had nothing to do with it. And Apple seriously jumped the gun there... but it was bound to happen, as is loosing many of the ports in consumer line laptops. But I think it will still be a while before that happens, and it will happen when either BT because a better technology or we get our wireless USB.

 

There really isnt much innovative about the CPU ?
It is the same chip on a propreitory imbedded die ..... not new engineering but YES new to the apple product line.

 

Why is losing ports a necessity? I have no desire to lose any ports on my MBP. I want all of them on every laptop i buy for a long time. Unless wireless usb or something catches on.

 

Never said it was a necessity. Did I? I just said it was something bound to happen, because it will be likely we are going to have wireless peripherals.

And I meant long term, as in 5 years down the road. And MBP isn't really considered consumer level (in my opinion). What I mean by consumer laptop... is the $600-$1200 laptops or something. The ones where they will skimp on options.