While the sleek design tempts me and the user interface advances, including an iPhone/iTouch style touch pad mouse and keyboard backlight during low-light conditions, are alluring I will probably put off purchasing a MACBOOK AIR one off for a while. Apple has sacrificed higher-powered options for thinness.
Supposedly designed for the often mobile, it lacks a DVD/CD-ROM drive. The solid-state drive is also a curiosity, but is a hefty add-on at $999 and only gets you 64gb. My 74gb Macbook is perpetually almost full. The external DVD-ROM drive is an additional option at $99. This should be included. Even an ethernet adapter is additional at $29.
The non-existant DVD-ROM may kill this product. Apple take much care in showing how easy it is to share a DVD/CD-ROM drive from another computer, even a PC, however, I can imagine so many instances where another computer is just not available.
By the time I've added just a few options that I would personally consider necessary: the external DVD-ROM, the ethernet adapter, and modem I am already at $2000.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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If an optical disc and a hardwire port are that important to you, you're probably not in the target demographic ...
Remember, too, the flack The Turtlenecked One took in 1998 when the iMac shipped ... GASP! ... without a floppy drive. He was called crazy at the time, but he was just ahead of the curve.
I wouldn't bet against him this time either.
You may be right about my demographic, but I am highly mobile and would wonder what demographic are they going for?
Ones that never need an optical disc and are never near an Ethernet port ... Non-IT people, certainly. College kids or younger.
IOW, not you or me. :-)
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