Re: Once again, Intel builds a CPU just for Apple
- From: -hh <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:04:17 -0800 (PST)
George Graves <gmgrav...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jerry McBride wrote:
The Mac Air ... does it even have a USB slot?
Yes.
How about changing out the battery when it finally
dies... ahhh...
The battery is internalized, but reasonably servicable. In any event,
despite having a 'spare' battery for my Thinkpad, the original is now
~4 years old and still doing fine ... how much longer does it really
need to last?
it's over priced, just like all the crap apple makes...
Spoken like a true bigot, thankyouverymuch.
It's a very niche product, that I will give it. I don't know
what the niche is that is supposed to buy the thing, ...
One niche are the more-senior level managers who can drop a couple
grand out of their department's IT budget...because they're the boss.
These are some of the same guys who 2-3 years ago had $5000 42"
Plasma TVs being used as a computer monitor in their office.
Personally, having been a Road Warrior carrying around a laptop a lot,
I know the value of a pound here or there shaved off the briefcase.
For example, even though I own a spare battery pack, it almost never
goes on trips with me...that saves a quick ~2lbs. For a notebook
whose capabilities are "good enough" for the sorts of tasks that I
normally need to do on the road, I'd really prefer to cut from a 5.5lb
machine down to ~3lbs.
The question in the end is what the trade-offs are and how they fit
within one's needs...there is never any clearcut answer to that,
because we're all (however slightly) different.
We'll know what a success it is when some Winbox
maker copies it, complete with missing optical drive.
They already have; it is really Apple that is re-engaging with the
small form factor laptop market since the discontinuation of the 12"
G4s. What's interesting is the change in approach on the optical
drive, but there's already Windows mini's out there without them, such
as IIRC the VAIO (at least the VAIO that I used to have didn't have
one).
Me? I think the base model is real expensive by twice
and the solid-state drive model is off the charts. I wouldn't
buy one, but then I'm not hip and with-it. Who
knows what that crowd will buy.
Personally, I don't see the base model as being "too" expensive, as
the older G4-based 12" Powerbook was IIRC in the $1500 price range.
The simple reality is that making things lighter costs money and is an
area of diminishing returns. From an engineering perspective, they
probably could have brought in this sort of design at 10% more weight
for 15% lower cost, but could have decided that from a marketing point
of view that this extra margin carried certain prestigue points with
it that added value to the company in some other way (such as "World's
Thinnest" claims). For example, what is clear is that regardless of
how good the product may (or may not!) be, they've certainly gotten a
lot of buzz from it...so how much is all of this "free advertising"
worth?
-hh
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