Why the new MacBook Air sucks

Subject: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 16th 2008, 8:01 pm

I think the new MacBook is a COMPLETE waste of money. It's only 2 pounds lighter, and look at all the things you lose (ethernet, speed, usb ports, DISC DRIVE...) It's also $800 more than a macbook, redicolous.

http://www.four77.com/air.html

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 16th 2008, 8:41 pm

holy crap, thats like, sucky compared to the 80 gig macbook. where is the extra $700 going towards? taking things OUT?

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 16th 2008, 9:52 pm

exuberance wrote:: holy crap, thats like, sucky compared to the 80 gig macbook. where is the extra $700 going towards? taking things OUT?

EXACTLY. by the way, the macbook air uses the SAME harddrive as the ipod classic does, lol. They couldn't even put in the 160GB one :nervous:

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 16th 2008, 11:19 pm

hahahahahahaha, is it solid state? that might explain like, 100-200 bucks...

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 16th 2008, 11:46 pm

exuberance wrote:: hahahahahahaha, is it solid state? that might explain like, 100-200 bucks...

nope. The $1799 has an 80GB iPod Classic Parallel ATA Harddrive. The $3,098 one has a 64GB Solid State Hard drive

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 17th 2008, 12:45 am

ohh, ok. so the 700 reamains unexplained.... and 1300 bucks for less hard drive but solid state and 2 Ghz more of prosecing power, whats with that?

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

and then theres nonreplaceable battery(w/ shorter life...WTF), slower processor, and MONO speakers(not even stereo? Come on apple) :xp: there are def reasons you should go buy this wink

i think Steve is getting old and stupid now

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 30th 2008, 5:03 pm

broskee wrote:: and then theres nonreplaceable battery(w/ shorter life...WTF), slower processor, and MONO speakers(not even stereo? Come on apple) :xp: there are def reasons you should go buy this i think Steve is getting old and stupid now

I know, the mono speakers is just stupid lol, its also way too thin, if you drop it gently on a table it can break :biggrin:

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 31st 2008, 12:28 am

lol, John Mayer has one O.o anyway, i was looking around, and found this XD

http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2008/01/the-true-reason.html

thought that was pretty nice tongue

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 31st 2008, 1:04 am

exuberance wrote:: lol, John Mayer has one O.o anyway, i was looking around, and found this XD

http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2008/01/the-true-reason.html

thought that was pretty nice

lol, accessory for MacBook Air, patented Apple Travel/Mail Envelope :biggrin:

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alxz310 wrote:: I think the new MacBook is a COMPLETE waste of money. It's only 2 pounds lighter, and look at all the things you lose (ethernet, speed, usb ports, DISC DRIVE...) It's also $800 more than a macbook, redicolous.

http://www.four77.com/air.html

I concur! I mean, your sacrificing size for features and that is not the best move for this product. I'm sure v2 of it will hopefully bring back some of this 'important' aspects to a standard MacBook.

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks January 31st 2008, 2:27 pm

godfather wrote:

alxz310 wrote:: I think the new MacBook is a COMPLETE waste of money. It's only 2 pounds lighter, and look at all the things you lose (ethernet, speed, usb ports, DISC DRIVE...) It's also $800 more than a macbook, redicolous.

http://www.four77.com/air.html

I concur! I mean, your sacrificing size for features and that is not the best move for this product. I'm sure v2 of it will hopefully bring back some of this 'important' aspects to a standard MacBook.

hopefully apple won't go crazy and make it even thinner lol wink

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It's being touted as a secondary computer, not something that you might own singly. But many people will have it as just that... if it had an optical drive and at least two USB ports, I might be tempted to consider it in the future.

Regular Visitor OS : XP

its not that bad, it is pretty sexy even though it has less features
plus its supposed to be for people who are rich and only like ultraportables

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 25th 2008, 7:08 pm

haha, yeah i agree with manufn619.

but if they wanted more ppl to consider it, it should have had a optical drive and 2 usb ports. whats the deal with the extreme thinness??? look at some other ultraportables, they dont need a $99 external drive :l

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

4 real, a CD is still thinner so they could def put 1 in w/ how advanced tech is now

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 25th 2008, 11:03 pm

panasonics ultra portable is almost as small and has an AWESOME CD drive imo

Why the new MacBook Air sucks Cf-y5_toughbook_main_one

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 25th 2008, 11:07 pm

exuberance wrote:: panasonics ultra portable is almost as small and has an AWESOME CD drive imo

that looks like a built in cd player Lol.

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

lmao thats so funny looking, but a bad idea for pop up on a laptop lik that, the mac style no tray eject seems WAY SMARTER

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 25th 2008, 11:27 pm

broskee wrote:: lmao thats so funny looking, but a bad idea for pop up on a laptop lik that, the mac style no tray eject seems WAY SMARTER

I kinda like that happy

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 26th 2008, 12:05 am

lol it does! i like it, my friends dad has that for his work, its pretty aweome. hes running Gentoo Linux on it. runs like a miracle wink

Member OS : XP :(

The MBA is a piece of useless crap.
Why do you not need a DISC DRIVE?
Even tough I am a Mac Fan... Go get the X300

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 27th 2008, 8:26 am

i need a disk drive cause you cant install Fedora from an SD card yet. infact u cant install any linux from an SD card... and no i wouldnt use Wubi... unless i replaced the so it downloads with a fedora iso... that would be cool.

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks February 27th 2008, 12:25 pm

exuberance wrote:: i need a disk drive cause you cant install Fedora from an SD card yet. infact u cant install any linux from an SD card... and no i wouldnt use Wubi... unless i replaced the so it downloads with a fedora iso... that would be cool.

lmao i just realized.. you cant really install windows on macbook air (without $99 external optical drive)

Subject: Re: Why the new MacBook Air sucks March 1st 2008, 1:12 pm

nope sure cant tongue