Apple announcement recap

[Adam Bridge]

Clearly YOU are not in the market. Personally I could live/work on a
PORTABLE basis in 80 GB just fine. Add a USB thumb drive for stuff I
don't want to carry. Same is true for 2 GB of RAM.

It's not a replacement for the MacBook Pro. Why can't people
differentiate? What fantasy do you have?

It's small and thin and easy to carry. It connects wirelessly by
design, over ethernet with a dongle.

I NEVER change out the battery in my MacBook Pro.

Do you edit video in this machine? NOPE. It's not a high-horsepower machine.

I keep thinking there are so many people who have never made an
engineering/design tradeoff in their lives.

What limits this machine is a design problem in iTunes that keeps you
from playing iPod stored songs on the non-paired machine. But I'm not
a guy who needs to carry his whole iTunes library along with him in
case the need to play some random song strikes him. Or watch some odd
movie/show. But it seems to me that you could use a 160 GB iPod as a
tool to enhance storage on the MBA.

It's an inspired design - just not a do-everything machine. But it
does a whole lot. You do have to think differently about how to use it
is all.

Adam Bridge

On Jan 17, 2008 11:44 AM, R.L. Grigg <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Maybe I'm a bit dim here but what is the intended market for the Mac
> Book "Air"? Okay so its thin and weighs 3lbs. Well woop-dee-woo. So
> what? Its really pricy and has the same footprint, and you cant
> change the battery or the RAM or the hard drive. You cant do much
> with a piddling 80GB drive anyway. And its' to big to embed into
> other devices like you can with the mini. I suppose I was hoping for
> a 9" screen or a MacPDA or something innovative. I really cant figure
> what I'd do with this thing over a MacBook, so I must be
> misunderstanding what the intended market is for it.
> Russ
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