Every major player is talking about the newly unveiled MacBook Air today.
This makes sense since the MacBook Air is completely and utterly awesome. It’s basically everything I’ve ever wanted in a laptop with good looks smacked right on it. I’m always saying that wireless is the way to go, especially in a city like New York where open wireless networks are so rampant and freely available.
The wireless capabilities are the main reason why this laptop is so thin. It does away with most wired ports that most laptops still retain despite the gradual embrace of wireless technologies. I mean, honestly, if you had to choose between wired and wireless, wouldn’t you go wireless too?
And unlike most laptops, the MacBook Air doesn’t come with an optical drive, meaning you’ll have to install any CD-ROM or DVD-ROM applications through a wireless network via another computer (see the illustration below).
I’m in the market for a new laptop and this MacBook Air fits my required specs quite perfectly. It’s unfortunate that I’ll have to wait until at least July to get it, but I think I can do it. Check out the video demonstration of the real multi-touch on the new MacBook Air.
Anyway, enough about it. You can check out some more photos inside.
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It would cool if it also floated. But anyway one of the downsides is the hard drive, battery, and memory are sealed like an ipod. Still it looks cool.
the one thing i would raise a flag about is the hard drive. the 1/8″ hardrive is 4200 rpm. and that’s really slow. the lag on the ipod classic or ipod videos would be seen a lot more because of the hard drive. i would wait till they upgrade that, because the ssd’s ridiculously expensive. maybe by july there would be an upgrade. but this is going to change the whole idea of a laptop, because now people are going to be expected to have a desktop computer where their main base station is, and a laptop will only be a satellite.
everything is changing!