More MacBook Air Details and Notes

[bearwise]

Another possibility for the bezel/screen size/edge issue may be strenght/robustness. I've already gone through on Sony TX by snapping the very thin screen in two. The bezel and moving the edge of the screen away from the edge of of the lid may both add mechanical strength to what is essentially wide, long and relatively very thin.

 

[bearwise]

Another possibility for the bezel/screen size/edge issue may be strenght/robustness. I've already gone through on Sony TX by snapping the very thin screen in two. The bezel and moving the edge of the screen away from the edge of of the lid may both add mechanical strength to what is essentially wide, long and relatively very thin.

 

[sunfast]

Very funny.

And, by the way, did you know that the Dell Latitude X1 also easily fits inside a manila envelope - even with the larger extended lifetime battery?

Apple has caught up with what Dell was able to do 3 years ago....

ps: and before you think "OMG that X1 is tiny" - those are 45cm floor tiles, not the more common 30cm

The pictures apple didn't want you to see! Thanks for putting a bit of reality back into the overexcitement

 

[akm3]

Apple is missing two huge markets right now. The video gamer ( a multi-trillion dollar industry) and the mini tower mac market, between the mini and the mac pro. The imac is really a different animal altogether.

The PC video-gamer market is a declining market. No sense for Apple to go into a market that is declining. There is no place for it there.
Second, Apple's business model will never satisfy the PC Gamer market anyway, because they are always constantly demanding upgrades, the newest/latest/greatest hardware. Apple doesn't do constant upgrades and certainly is never on the bleeding edge of hardware (Specifically graphics cards, a major requirement for the PC Gamer).

Basically, if Apple tried for this market, they would get their butts whooped by the PC makers and their tiny margins, so they don't even try.

The xBox 360, Wii, and PS3 are the future of gaming. The PC is a relic for gaming. This makes me sad, but it is true. Add to the fact that so much of the game software gets stolen in the PC world, and you wonder why anyone releases PC games at all.

-Allen

 

[akm3]

3. Too much space around the screen (they could easily have fitted a 14" widescreen in there).

I don't think anyone supplies 14" LED Widescreens.

There are supplier parts realities Apple is constrained by. It can't go with a custom solution for everything ala the Intel repackaging and expect to keep prices reasonable. They aren't walmart.

-Allen

 

[PointCube]

Have you owned a dell?

X1 or not, have you owned a dell? how long does your battery last ? 20 minutes? have you run vista lately? apple is pretty much more about the experience you have with your computer and the wow effect. Your "equipment" says a lot about you, kinda like your car. If you drive a pento, hmm..

Granted the Macbook Air looks a lot like a macbook in an aluminium shell, it still has OSX on it and a great design. Everyone's buying Macbooks and Macbook pros for a reason. why drive a hyundai when you can drive a benz?

if you love windows vista so much, what are you doing on macrumors?
go get a virus or something

APPLE already assured to everyone that the battery is easily replaceable. Apple does its job on market research and they know who buys what. They have that down to an art. So why not dazzle us with products that are smart?

Be unique and get a macbook, or a macbook pro or a macbook air.

 

[PointCube]

Ps

PS, i went to the dell site, and it doesnt even sell the X1 anymore

 

[ctt1wbw]

That's the point, what market are they aiming at?

The poweruser? No
The student? No
The working business man? No.
The commuter? No.
The rich computer illiterate exec? Yes
The fashion conscious elite? Yes

Just how big are those markets? Big enough to create a first wave splash but not big enough to sustain a profitable longterm product.

This whole "marketing" thing I keep reading about is killing me. Are we all professional market analysts here?

I'm a student and I am planning on buying it. Am I not supposed to because all of us "professional" market analysts say it doesn't "target" students?

 

[ctt1wbw]

That's a pretty hilarious comment coming from someone whose sole criteria for whether or not the MBA is targeted at corporate clients appears to be "I like it".



And since I've clearly been too subtle, I'll spell it out. A very large proportion of corporate customers consider a docking station to be a major part of a business laptop's featureset.



Which is true (and uncontested), but utterly irrelevant to the discussion at hand.



Ooh, a non-sequitur. How surprising.



Sure. That time is right now when the only appropriately comparable Apple laptop is 3 years old.



It also has a noticably smaller footprint and substantially greater feature set.

OMG, the footprint excuse again! This is great! I'm getting HOURS and HOURS of entertainment from these forums with users posting "excuses" like this. Footprint!!!!

 

[ctt1wbw]

I found this at msn.com.

http://tech.msn.com/products/Top5UltraportableLaptops.aspx

I think the price/specs/size/feature set of the Macbook Air is on par or better than every single one of these laptops. Notice the number one, it doesn't have an optical drive in, either. I have not ever heard one word mentioned about how this is a "crippled" or "underpowered" laptop because of it.

Now what "target" market are these geared to? What "niche" would buy a laptop like these?

 

[kyleen66]

This whole "marketing" thing I keep reading about is killing me. Are we all professional market analysts here?

I'm a student and I am planning on buying it. Am I not supposed to because all of us "professional" market analysts say it doesn't "target" students?

It probably depends on what you are a student of. I mean if you are going to be using the computer to do digital graphics, it would probably be better to go with a MBP for the money. If you are an average liberal arts student, I think it's a great computer.

I know for what I want, it's perfect.

And I'm hardly computer illiterate.