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The new Macbook Air looks sweet as hell.

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:22 pm    Post subject: The new Macbook Air looks sweet as hell.    Reply with quote

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

Summarizing the guided tour:

It's incredibly thin, light and durable, with a full-size LED backlit keyboard and screen, and a larger trackpad with enhanced multitouch gestures such as zooming and back/forward navigation. It's got this apparently proprietary micro DVI video connector which also supports VGA, composite, and S-video. It's got a built-in iSight camera and microphone, and speakers I guess. Yay. Hardware specs include an Intel core 2 duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and an 80GB HD, with an option for an additional 64GB of solid state hard drive sexiness. It has no optical drives but you can purchase a USB powered "Super Drive." You can also wirelessly access the optical drive on another mac or PC, which is pretty cool I guess.

I need to get myself a new laptop, and I want one of these.

edit: Price tag of $1800, pretty steep. ASUS eee runs you about $300-500. http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm I'll probably buy myself one of those instead. :)
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bleak
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Joined: 31 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:50 am        Reply with quote

Felix wrote:
i'm honestly really impressed at their leaving out an optical drive. it.. severely limits data backup or recovery options, obviously, but optical media is definitely starting to lag behind in terms of form factor, and this is a pretty progressive move.
They tried to make up for that with the wireless functionality they built into the thing, though.
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