Comments on: Apple MacBook Air: Are you getting one?

By: Limma

Limma — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:25:45 +0000

Well, I’ve got a Mcanook Air and I find it fantastic! There are some drawbacks, but it’s amazing design covers them all
http://www.maconair.com really helped me to make this choice. people, stop hating. the air is wonderful!

By: David Arno

David Arno — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:20:47 +0000

The battery is (sort of) user-replaceable after all…

http://www.davidarno.org/149

By: Steve-O

Steve-O — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:02:33 +0000

I’ll be buying one. I only surf the net, watch a movie, balance my checkbook, while on my 1 hour commute on the train. I’m sure the battery can handle an hour a day!

I’ll buy the SuperDrive since USA Today, WSJ, and NewsWeek say Remote Disc is “quirky”, I’ll store programs & music on the laptop and data (like my vast movie library) on the 1TB Time Capsule I also plan to buy.

The only downside is internet access while commuting, but isn’t there a usb broadband card for that?

Don’t get me wrong…I won’t be taking all the peripherils (sp?) with me. The Superdrive, time capsule will stay at home.

By: Free Macbook Air

Free Macbook Air — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:51:27 +0000

I HAVE TO GET ONE!

even if it’s just to impress myself, haha

By: vudutu

vudutu — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:58:36 +0000

I agree totally,
“only one USB port, no LAN port, no swapable battery, too expensive and only one year warranty makes it a no for me”
Bad idea, just like the last Keynote iPhone price drop. I want the job of previewing Job’s Keynotes and throwing red flags when they pull this dumb. What I would love to see is the revival of the old Duo Dock concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo
If you could take the Air add a lan port, drop the price yet be able to take it home and Dock it in an Imac looking monitor that would interest me.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:18:52 +0000

It seems that the battery might not be that difficult to replace according to Apple Insider

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/18/sources_macbook_air_battery_replacements_take_only_minutes.html

Personally, I would like a longer battery life, but right now, this seems pretty well suited as a companion laptop to your workstation.

By: John Hattan

John Hattan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:13:52 +0000

I bought an Acer for $348 at a Black Friday sale in November (a very good shopping day in the states). It’s not very thin and shiny, and it impresses nobody when I use it at a Starbucks, but it has a replaceable battery and a network port and it plays DVD’s without an external drive.

It doesn’t fit in a manilla envelope, but with the money I have left over I can buy a really nice bag

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:10:47 +0000

Why dont you wait till they mention how much a battery replacement costs? I bet its not that expensive.
You guys are not the target group anyway. The compiling times with that kind of hard ware isnt gonna be great obviously.

Aside that, i did enjoy this blog post:
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/01/macbook-air-haters-suck-my-dick.html

By: paul

paul — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:21:16 +0000

i think regardless of the lack of features and the lack of user battery replacement, I think this will do well. A lot of people seem to love this thing in spite of the lack of x,y, and z. plus it just looks really cool.

By: Ronny

Ronny — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:36:02 +0000

Surely nothing for me. I was looking forward to buying a new Macbook (not MBP) since it is portable (13,3″ is pretty tiny), it’s cheap, and it’s powerfull. Why bother paying another 600$ for a machine that isn’t really that better OR lighter.
Not to mention the deal-breaking differences:
-no user-replaceable battery
-shared video memory
-mono sound (like wtf? 1990?)
-1 usb port (might not be necessary for everyone, but i need at least 2 or 3 to be comfortable).
-no CD drive (somehow it feels weird: how to upgrade you OSX if it is broken (see Aral’s leopard problems)

Still must admit: pretty fine piece of engineering getting so much stuff in a tiny machine like that.