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2月23日

Recently Apple released a new ultra-portable computer called MacBook Air, which is supposed to become the new object of desire of billions of apple enthusiast all around the world.
MBA's killing feature is its 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) height, which made it look more like a sheet of paper than a laptop computer. Unfortunately, to achieve this thinness, the optical drive and ports have needed to be sacrificed; MBA has, in fact, just one USB port, a mini-DVI video exit and a audio jack plug. No ethernet, not more than a USB port, nothing more than this, which is honestly a bit depressing.
All of the network connectivity is supposed to pass trought the 802.11 a/b/g/n wi-fi adapter; doesn't mattere here I personally think cables are still the better way to transmit datas, the point is that not everybody has always got a wi-fi connection available (i.e. at home) all the time; what if, while you're connected to the internet trought the USB ethernet adapter given in bundle with your brand new MBA, a friend of yours asks you to send him a thing you have on a USB drive? "Sorry, mate, I have to disconnect for a while because Apple is becoming kind of racist against people without a wi-fi connection at home."?

This is the stupid feature #1. Number two is the built-in battery: no way of changing it, as well as iPods and about which I won't spend one more word.
It is noticeable that, for instance, Dell Inspiron's height is 0.8 inches (2 cm), just a bit more than MBA and it includes an optical drive and loads of ports (ethernet, 2 USB, IEEE 1394a, ExpressCard reader, VGA, HDMI, card reader), it has a removable battery, a larger HDD and so on. All of this costs about 1350$. On the other hand, MBA costs 1799$. This just to underline how this sounds like another of Apple's trick to gain in popularity among all of those wankers searching for good-looking computers, instead of good-working ones.

(Oh, yeah, everybody is free to choose whatever he wants. Obvious. But I can't stand all of those Apple zealots telling me "there's no such thing than MacBook Air!")

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Simone 发表:

TOGETHERNESS!!!!

Let's be seriuos!!This is a "sex machine", cool for who goes around browsering web pages, writing texts or making powerpoint presentations..and obviously knows that a laptop like this is actually seductive... BUT, it's better for him to forget everything else!!
In fact, there is a really big limit...although all the fundamental components fairly abaited to riduce its size, the MBA is still too big!!!
I mean, not for the thickness but for the "patch"!When you are embedded in a plane, in a train or just in your car..with its 32x23 it's quiet a lot bigger than a A4 sheet, with all the problems this causes (whatever Uncle Steve suggested to dip it in a cover during the keynote!!)
Bynow a new generation of airy-fairy and handy subnotebooks is circulating: one for all the ASUS Eee, which costs 330 euros (the MAB..1700!!!!!!!!!), sizes half, weighs 920 gr less, and it's equipped with 3 USB ports, an integrated Webcam and furthermore it is politically correct, working up with Linux as preinstalled, doing the same things of MBA with a less powerful processor.
Certainly, the Eee hasn't got the multitouch, that is a developed and natural way to interact with your machine at all...and again, the hard disk of the Eee is much less capacious and the screen is just a 7 inches against the 13,3's of the MBA..But, how many times who writes or makes spreadsheet with a computer will use the multitouch??
How often have you availed your laptop screen??I'm writing this in the editing window of "Blogger" that takes less than a quarter of my Ibook g4 screen. And i CANNOT enlarge it!!!
I spend my life writing on an appalling portion of the monitor. So, for what the 13,3 inches of the Mba???Well, i could watch movies during a trip, you'll say..exactly..that's it!!!..this is how you can PRODUCE with your MBA!!!
Sigh...

3 月 16 日

nglllbrt发表:

There's love in the Air!
Between Microsoft and Ian............

2 月 25 日

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