theducks: (Apple Geek)
theducks ([personal profile] theducks) wrote2008-01-16 06:24 am
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Thanks Steve..

.. for a US$19.95 upgrade for my iPod Touch so I can have the same features I've already hacked into it from an iPhone
.. for a US$1999 thin Macbook with a non-replaceable battery and an 80Gb hard drive (seriously, you couldn't fit a 160Gb from an iPod? that would have actually made it a useful product, but no, the only other option is a AU*$1700* "upgrade" to a 64GB SSD drive)
.. for dropping the price of the Apple TV in the US but not in Australia
.. for the Time Capsule WLAN AP with a 1TB hard drive that costs AU$199 than buying an Airport Extreme base station and a USB 1TB hard drive to plug into it

So sure, last night was no iPod-hiFi and leather iPod cases, but it sure was crap.
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[identity profile] velvetbutter.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
The Air looks cool and great for the work traveller, but the price tag is a massive ouch. For less you get a higher specced Macbook, which has more features such as an optical drive and more HDD space. You are really just buying the weight difference, which it totally personal. I love my macbook, it's has more grunt than the current MacBookPro.

Making the Air come standard with 2gig RAM shows that it's going to really need it to run the OS X and apps at a 1.6gig processor.

The 64gig SSD is interesting indeed and I like where they are going with it.

The Air is cool, and you'll see lots of people have it that need it just for emails and word processing. Great for the traveling exec in many ways.

[identity profile] theducks.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I think some people will buy the air and love it, but I think they've missed the mark. Steve made big things of how tiny screens and keyboards are on other sub-notebooks were, and how this was better because it was a huge screen. Erm, I think more than a few people actually *want* a small screen and keyboard.

SSD is a cool technology, but 64GB seems a tad low for my liking, and a $1200 sticker-shock to upgrade to it makes it something for extreme hardcore users only.

And yes, 2GB is what I recommend people get in new Macs. It's just unfortunate that you can't upgrade past 2GB on the Macbook Air, cause it ain't got no slots ;)

[identity profile] hipikat.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Making the Air come standard with 2gig RAM shows that it's going to really need it to run the OS X and apps at a 1.6gig processor.

I admire your conclusions' jumping ability =O.o= But I'm running OS X and many apps including photoshop, synergy and three different browsers on a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 (with only a single core, obviously), with only 1 GB of ram, and doing fine.

[identity profile] theducks.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but Intel Macs are worse memory hogs :/
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