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My Disappointments in the Macbook Air
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Must you do that in the MBA forum? You do know there are places on the forum for this.
Are you serious....please think before posting. Remote disk....do you know how to share a DVD drive on a network right...which then can be accessed by any computer (laptop/desktop). And it is not exactly a wireless feature when you have to install the software on a 3rd party computer everywhere you go.
The "AIR" cannot refer to the MBA's wireless capabilities, cause it lacks behind the rest of the market without integrated 3G. And that is a fact. Whithout a Wifi hotspot or a near bye computer running your remote disk software...not a very Wireless solution is it???? That is when you have to bring out all your accessories....but then its not ultra porable anymore...
Anyway back to my initial point, The MBA is not an All wireless solution without integrated 3G. The iphone is more of an All wireless integrated solution.
So what about those of us without 3G capability who always happen to be around WiFi? I, for one, lag behind everyone's phones because I just get whatever I get free with my phone plan, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have 3G, because I didn't even know what that was until everyone started complaining about it. However, I can always find WiFi, because it's pretty much everywhere. And I don't know why I would need remote disk while I'm on-the-go. I install software at home. So no accessories for me. Maybe I'm just not as hip as some of the people here, but it seems pretty wireless to me.
The MBA Air is ultraportable???
Dman you Sony!!! You sold me an vaio VGN-TX3XP 11" and told me that it was ultraportable!!!! LIES!!! Off to Apple to get a true 13" ultraportable.
What is the point of this thread??? The MacAir rocks and is definitely a man's laptop..that tidbit was hysterical...what can be more manly than an expensive laptop that rocks!! I assume a cheap 10lb laptop for the original poster..lol
This man is a member of the 'easily pleased by shiny objects club'.
Yes, it's an ultraportable. I don't understand it with you people who claim nothing bigger than 12" is an ultraportable, because frankly, I can never recall a situation where footprint saved my life. I definitely know that thinness and weight make a lot of different when it's in my bag, though, and considering I've got papers and folders to bring around, any footprint bigger than pocket-sized and smaller than my bag isn't really going to make a difference. But the weight and thickness sure will. It's definitely an ultraportable. Just because it's a different kind of ultraportable is no reason to condemn it, and just because it goes about the idea in a different way doesn't make it or any other ultraportable more or less right in their interpretation. So I understand your situation may be different, but that doesn't make it any less of an ultraportable to many of us. Unless you can explain to me how a smaller footprint will save me the same amount of room in my bag that the Air's slender waistline will.
I belong to that club, but that's not why I like the Air
The Vaios and Dells are a lot shinier with all those ugly stickers and all. Their screens are a lot shinier, too. And that silver plastic on some of them? Very shiny. Much shinier, yes, but all-in-all harder to look at.
Everyone is entitled to thier opinion.
Looks like the AIR is not for you. So be it. I too cannot find a place for it, though i hope that some of its features will arrive in the upcoming MBA Pro update. That is what i am hanging out for. I need to replace my old Powerbook.
You must not leave the city much, or travel abroad. In that case you would not care about 3G, but once you do, you will realise how useful 3G is. Though as a whole without 3G, the AIR is behind the rest of the market as a True wireless laptop, in other words the other manafacures have laptops that are better wireless machines.
And given that you stated that you would not need remore dish while on-the-go, how is the MBA air an ALL wireless solution again? On-the-go, it is not more wireless then any other laptop on the market, and lacking behind laptops with 3G. (most places you can get a phone signal).
I've travelled all over in the last two years and have been able to find wifi everywhere I've gone in Europe and Asia.
As for 3g, its also a hit and miss along with the exhorbitant data charges involved. In Manila, 3g is very cheap though at about 25cents per 30 minutes of use. In this scenario, I just use my 3g Phone as a bluetooth modem.
Sure built in 3g would be nice but I don't know if I want to get locked in. In the US, Sprint and Verizon have better broadband coverage than ATT's GSM.
Sorry you feel that way. I just got mine today and I can tell you this is by far the best laptop I have ever owned. Build quality is superb, keyboard is outstanding, screen is gorgeous. It even crushes my MBP at things that are important to me, such as opening large files and applications. The machine is incredibly snappy to me. It runs my film library over my airport extreme network without any problems.
I would never go back to a 'fully featured' laptop again after this. I used to have a Toshiba when I was on the PC many moons ago which was almost as small, and before the MBA that was still my favorite form factor laptop. Slow as hell with an external 'floppy!, but a joy to carry.
I can't see this notebook aging any worse than any of the aluminum notebooks to be honest. Build quality is fantastic...
The beauty of people is that we are all so very different which I find a real asset to our species!
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C
That depends on the individual, for you ultraportable is how thin a laptop is (though would a 15" MBA just as thin as the AIR be considered ultraportable?), for me is about how compact it is. Each to their own, personal preference.
In regards to a bag, I can put a 11" laptop in a bad that is only 11.5"
, but if you always have a big bag, thinner can be better as it takes up less width, and fits better between books etc. I think ultraportable refers more to the smallest screen you are prepared to have in a laptop. For some 11" is just too small, for some 13" is the perfect size, again personal perference. Also weight is a huge factor. its nice to put a laptop in a bag and not feel like u jsut put in a brick in it....
Actually, I live in a fairly small town. When I do leave it or the city, it's usually somewhere that actually doesn't have any kind of phone signal either (southwest, mountains), so to me it wouldn't really make a difference.
That depends on the individual, for you ultraportable is how thin a laptop is (though would a 15" MBA just as thin as the AIR be considered ultraportable?), for me is about how compact it is. Each to their own, personal preference.
In regards to a bag, I can put a 11" laptop in a bad that is only 11.5"
I think ultraportable refers more to the smallest screen you are prepared to have in a laptop. For some 11" is just too small, for some 13" is the perfect size, again personal perference. Also weight is a huge factor. its nice to put a laptop in a bag and not feel like u jsut put in a brick in it....
Like I said, all up to what you need. If I can fit a comfortable 13" in the bag I'm carrying anyway, I don't see why I'd need to settle for something smaller and less practical. A 15" may be too big to fit in many bag, though, so it's not like any size is just as practical. If I had no need to carry anything other than my laptop and wanted it as small as I could, then I might care about footprint, but I'd likely still want to be carry folders and notebooks, etc., should I need. But really, I figure ultraportable just refers to being very, very portable, and that just depends on a person's needs.
The track pad button was the first thing I noticed when I first saw the Air in the store. Since I've taken mine out of it's box it's no longer a bother to me and I must say it's only taken me a few hours to retrain my thumb.
Other than that I think you need to go and buy a Panasonic Toughbook and complain about why it's not portable.
I don't think you can expect to see many radical changes with the new MacBook Pro. If you figure the margins for Apple are in the Air they aren't going to canabolize sales by making the Pro more attractive my making it lighter, smaller. I think all you can expect to see in the Pro is the new touch pad technology and the keyboard. If they do that then for me there's no reason to buy an MBP over the Air and I'd say that will be the case for a lot of people. Plus I believe the Air is selling quite well at the moment.
Other than that I think you need to go and buy a Panasonic Toughbook and complain about why it's not portable.
I don't think you can expect to see many radical changes with the new MacBook Pro. If you figure the margins for Apple are in the Air they aren't going to canabolize sales by making the Pro more attractive my making it lighter, smaller. I think all you can expect to see in the Pro is the new touch pad technology and the keyboard. If they do that then for me there's no reason to buy an MBP over the Air and I'd say that will be the case for a lot of people. Plus I believe the Air is selling quite well at the moment.
Is the trackpad button anything like the macbook or more like the macbook pro. I have the pro and my sister-in-law just got a macbook and I have to say I could not get used to the trackpad button on the macbook. It seemed to stiff and not as responsive as the macbook pro. It was harder to click.
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Its more like the MBP to me and softer. But again, I'm using the trackpad for clicking so I don't really use the button.
I get what you mean about not being blown away. I had posted a thread about my impression and got shot down as well. Nobody can accept someone just stating their opinion. Yet, they can start a thread saying how much they love it, why can't someone post why they don't? Although IMO it isn't worth the money right now, i still love the idea of it. I think it is the start of something better.
Yeah I find it the same as my MBP as well. As the poster above, I am using the trackpad to click. I only started doing it this way while waiting for the MBA, and now I am wondering why I didn't do it this way all along. It really is a great way to use the trackpad.
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I don't have a MBA and I'm not ordering one as of now so I'm going to address your concern about others shooting down your "Opinion".
It's not that certain forum members that actually love the MBA and bought one have a problem with your "Opinion" it's the fact that you are not really stating an opinion, you are really putting the product down and are calling people stupid if they were to buy it.
Example your "Opinion" up above, " Although IMO it isn't worth the money right now".
What does that say? You are telling people on the forum they wasted their money. That's not an opinion, that's a direct shot at the MBA owners on the forum.
A better way to state an opinion would be to say, "I saw the MBA in the Apple store and it doesn't offer what I need so it's not for me". You can even go as far as to say that it doesn't have what you need or it's too rich for your blood. At this point you are just stating your opinion but your not putting people down.
I think the people who make the purchase of the MBA can see for themselves how the product is designed, they don't need naysayers to tell them how horrible it is.
The MBA isn't the first all-wireless solution. Where's the Wireless USB?
As for the lack of 3G, that's reasonable. The Verizon/Sprint lovers would hate it if the MBA only offered an HSDPA chip, and the AT&T lovers would hate it if the MBA offered only an EV-DO chip. And we all know Apple loves to give people choices (not).
As for the lack of 3G, that's reasonable. The Verizon/Sprint lovers would hate it if the MBA only offered an HSDPA chip, and the AT&T lovers would hate it if the MBA offered only an EV-DO chip. And we all know Apple loves to give people choices (not).
You can bet if they do put 3g in the next version it will be ATT since Apple appears to be sleeping with them. I carry around a little sierra wireless 875 usb that works great when I need it.
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