Apple announcement recap

[Patrick Coskren]

I fail to understand this idea (in general, I'm not picking on you) that you can't do much work on this machine.

With 2 Gig of RAM and a 1.6 GHz dual-core processor, it's got plenty of power for all sorts of tasks.  It's true, the hard drive speed is a drag, but it's hardly enough to render the thing unusable.  I wouldn't use it to rip DVDs or perform long simulations.  But if I'm using it to work on a paper I'm writing while updating some figures, browsing the web for references, updating some calculations in Numbers and using XCode to tweak the code that runs on the cluster, I expect it to do just fine.

This is a machine for people who spend a lot of time commuting, have a relatively modest number of media files, and don't need to perform many gaming, media, or high-performance computing tasks.  I'm seriously thinking about getting one, and I assure you, I'm no PHB.  
 
Still, I'd have been super-duper extra happy if the thing had been the size of the 12-inch iBook.  But who knows, maybe it wasn't possible in a case so thin; they might have had to spread things out a little.

On Thursday, January 17, 2008, at 05:59PM, "R.L. Grigg" <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
>
>> On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:44 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:
>>> Maybe I'm a bit dim here but what is the intended market for the  
>>> Mac Book "Air"?
>>
>> Just look at the initials: MBA.  Obviously it's aimed at business  
>> types!
>
>Ahah! So *thats* the target market: Management!
>
>Them Powerpoint'n email'n coffee slurpin' deadwooders all over the  
>world are salivating over this thing as the next 'must have' gizmo,  
>the latest hot toy. Cant really do much work on it, after all! "Order  
>me a couple, will ya Bob? I'll look sharp at my next meeting..."
>
>Russ
>  
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