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i cant afford it and like me and reaper both pointed your being a fanboy its nothng to be ashamed about im a sony fanboy, i have every console. but i also like other consoles too. i have a feeling half the people at most schools dont know much more about computer in colleges then enter key makes line skip. sry for bad grammer but i know many people with laptops, are in college and everyone of them has no idea how to get into to control panel even. and seriously stop saying im inexperienced every single comp since i was in elementary school has been a mac except when i go home. I know more then most people on the comps doing repair work at the school. and dont use a random example with a noob online, it like apples and oranges my friend. I'm actually in the target market too since i love video editing, music creating, and most media stuff, but if you know anything about computers you will not get a mac, unless your rich i guess, or could run windows, but still its a waste of money, buy a cheaper machine with same capabilities and use a program to emulate OSX.can we take this debate to another thread though since its interrupting fufa.and id say go to one of those sites where you can make your own laptop.
the macbook air has a 5 hour battery lifebutthey are not meant for everyone. macs in general arnt meant for everyone as they have a higher price but if everyone bought them then prices would fall. but i suggest not getting into this debate
**Takes deep breath and cracks fingers**The macbook air is NOT for the hardcore market, and for one main reason. The battery, Apple in all their wisdom decided that beauty is better than functionality and when your batter is running low on the road/air/anywhere not near a power supply you can't just swap the battery out with a fresh one. Other things which don't mean so much that are wrong with it are the little things such as lack of optical drive. I know a lot of people who do actually travel around a lot and they store slide shows/videos on dvd's and cd's. Yeah you could technically put them on thumbdrives, but now you have to go out and buy 20-30 thumb drives for each individual thing, or even just a few large ones, although that's quite expensive as well. Apples solution to the lack of optical drive is the fact that you can use "remote drive" Yet again, the person on the road doesn't have a full desktop computer to use this with, making it impractical for someone on the road.The actual speed of this thing is quite low. Yeah it is a C2D, but it's amongst the slowest ones they make. The hard drive on the thing is also slow as hell . The base model comes with a 1.8″ hard drive. As most computer enthusiasts know, 1.8″ hard drives top out at 4,200rpm. Compared to regular 2.5″ notebook hard drives that are at least 5400rpm (or even up to 7,200rpm), the Macbook Air hard drive is slow, making simple things such as the booting up excruciatingly slow. You could argue the premium model has a SSD and a (slightly) faster processor, but you have to fork out another ~1300 bucks for it.My last worry about the air is something apple could have easily implemented but didn't. The Air, I hate to say, has mono speakers... even the little plug for my ipod so I can listen to it without headphones broadcasts in stereo, and that cost me ~10 bucks... I love good sound and that kind of makes me a bit sad.You could argue all these points, but yet again saying some of these things wouldn't matter to the "market" this is for only narrows the market down. Your average joe who sees this small ass laptop on tv and decides to make the jump is going to immediately have issues with the little things. You see, I do look into things. Yeah OSX may be a great operating system, but IMHO, I could spend 1700 bucks on 2 great PC's way before I jump to something that is easier.
MAC IS TEH SUXXORSSee what you made me do!Also, alienware is teh expenisivezBut seriously, do you think that Apple will ever drop their prices... the ipod is one of the largest phenomenons in the MP3 business, yet they still make over 200-300 percent profit on them
Im really hoping the Air touch features are either hardware added, or software upgraded, as thats the single best part off the Air!
i knew all these facts which is why i said its crap. i've read in on already. I've heard the battery time is way less if you have anything running in non optimal conditions. I do hate apple and all your right I think I've made that clear but I wouldve went on my marry way if someone hadnt mention that computer. I think it sux I'm entitled to my opinion, and whether you like it or not 9999 outta 10000 peeps who know anything about comps wil think they suck. well at least if theyre thrifty.
that is the dumbest thing ive heard in a long, long timeagain, you have no ground to make that claim, nor ground to say the computers suck when they are as good as any other computer brand, because you are not a mac userand those facts do not make it crap, it makes it innovative. the multi touch hasnt been used on a laptop like this before
you obviously arent reading what your writing thenI thought we were talking about the air right. and i do have to use macs i dont like them when i do use them.now your just trying to save a dieing argument and pass off things that make something crap as not crap. from what im reading you'd buy a box of crap if it had apple on it. not saying your that bad but seriously admit when a company does something wrong. I'll admit vista sux as of now, im still rocking xp.
i have extensive use of mac like ive repeatedly said half my life doesnt count i guess. and i dont have to be in the target audience of something to tell its crap. and no complaining just solid arguments which u seem to be lacking atm.
then you've wasted half your life on a computer, that in itself is sad, even if you are exaggerating. plus the fact that adaptation allows us to easly become used to a computer system so easy to use and yes, you do. if the product isnt geared towards you, then it is not meant for you, and telling off somthing as crap without even taking a good look at it isnt valid at all. and yes, it is all complaining 'its crap, macs are crap' thats complianing, not very solid and its obvious if you have 'extensive use' which i highly doubt, then dont use it and quit complaining about it and writing it off as crap