Presenting, The Apple Macbook Air….

17th January 2008

Posted in Gadgets, Humour, News |

Day before yesterday, Apple announced their new Macbook Air, which is supposedly the thinnest laptop ever made, and I must add, one of the most incompetent too. Although it looks quite sleek and fancy, it hasn’t got much power under the hood and as a result, is quite useless for the average daily user. And the price is another shocker, retailing at $1,799, which isnt exactly anyone’s cup of tea. Honestly, I could get a much better laptop for a much cheaper price. And along with the extreme portability, you also get extreme fragility, meaning you have to take much better care of it. I don’t know who their target market is, and who they exactly aim to sell this to, but I also know that it will sell, simply because its from Apple and its claimed to be the worlds thinnest laptop.

Picture this, you’re sitting in a cafe with your Macbook Air, browsing the web, using its wifi and a friend pops up next to you. This is the conversation that I think would happen -

Friend - “Hey man, long time, whats up with you?”

You - “Duuude, Check out my new laptop.”

F - “Wow, that looks pretty sleek.”

Y - “Yea, its the worlds thinnest laptop and it’s from Apple.”

F - “Sounds pretty impressive, what can it do?”

Y - “Well, for starters, its got a battery life of 5 hours with everything running.”

F - “Thats amazing, now I can watch 2 entire DVDs without needing to recharge.”

Y - “Ahem, it hasn’t got a DVD drive, so you cannot play any discs.”

F - “Maybe I can plug in my external drive and watch movies”

Y - “You can, but it only has a mono speaker so you wont have the best sound.”

F - “That sucks, so what else does it have?”

Y - “Its got a solid 2Gigs of RAM and 1.6Ghz Dual Core processor!”

F - “Neat! That means I can do a great deal of video encoding on it.”

Y - “That might be a possibility, but its only got 144MB of shared video RAM.”

F - “Oh, well, atleast I can browse the internet all over my university now, without needing to lug around my heavy laptop.”

Y - “I hope your university has Wifi all over because this does not have a Ethernet port.”

F - “What the hell? No Ethernet port? Anyways, I guess I can atleast use it to transfer pictures from my camera to my external Hard disk”

Y - “It only has one USB port, so you cannot attach more than a single device at a time.”

F - “I suppose I could run Photoshop on it, to edit my photos.”

Y - “Yea, this baby can run photoshop like a breeze, but the display is only 6-bit so you wont have the best colors.”

F - “Ah, hope you got a good deal on it”

Y - “Actually, I paid $1,799 for it”

F - “Thats a freaking ripoff, anyways, I’ll catch you later, have *cough* fun with your new laptop”

Y - “Wait, it has a built-in camera and multi touch pad and…and……”

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1 On January 17th, 2008, SadPanda said:

Makes me sound like a nerd, but only 6-bit display? Is that confirmed?

posted on January 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

2 On January 17th, 2008, Kishor said:

Yea, its confirmed, atleast according to Wikipedia.

posted on January 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

3 On January 18th, 2008, dharh said:

I saw it on Wikipedia so it must be true!

1. I haven’t used the ethernet port in my computer in over 3 years.
2. You can transfer your files to your computer, then make a copy to the external drive. You should back up stuff anyway. Only fools dont backup.
3. I doubt it has mono-speakers. Where is your proof? Even if it did, wear your bloody headphones.
4. 6-bit display. Where is your proof?
5. Your complaining of 144MB shared memory?

It’s a portable laptop. It’s not supposed to be tethered to antiquated ethernet ports and usb devices. Learn to use wifi for crying out loud.

posted on January 18th, 2008 at 4:16 am

4 On January 18th, 2008, you are poopy said:

I am not mac fan, but it is a Core 2 Duo, not a Dual Core. And who the fuck uses video ram to do encoding? No one, because it doesn’t help….multi-threaded processing helps, which the Core2Duo does.

posted on January 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am

5 On January 18th, 2008, Kishor said:

Alright, calm down guys, its just an article for your amusement, your not supposed to think so much about it.

posted on January 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am

6 On January 19th, 2008, lol said:

A pretty product with crippled functionality? Surely not from Apple!

posted on January 19th, 2008 at 1:18 am

7 On January 20th, 2008, Esakkymuthu k said:

Apple users will not leave you for your mockery, though it looks professional.

Nice commenting skill for your age.

posted on January 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

8 On January 21st, 2008, Paul Kennedy said:

So PC person and Apple basher, I have one word for you; “Vista”.

posted on January 21st, 2008 at 2:18 am

9 On January 25th, 2008, almostinfamous said:

the macbook air is not a primary computer. it’s a travel laptop that you use mostly in airports and business lounges. i thought they made that clear enough? plus you can leech an optical drive off of any computer on the wifi network, PC or Mac. it’s sort of a hack, but whatever works.

it’s expensive no doubt, but have you looked at any of the sony ultra-portables? those things arent cheap either. and they’re all fatter than a thanksgiving turkey.

posted on January 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

10 On January 25th, 2008, Kishor said:

Yes, I realize that Aditya, but it hasnt made that much of a impression on people, as you might have noticed.

Anyways, this article is just for my fun.

posted on January 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm