Jan 23
A voice of reason speaks re: MacBook Air
I’ve been talked down off the MacBook Air “ledge” by my well-informed and technologically über-savvy brother.
His reasons and logic were compelling; the only thing I could do when he was done with his solid list was issue forth a feeble, “But it’s so slick-looking…”
For around or less than half the price, I could buy a comparably-sized, equally lightweight notebook computer that would have a built-in optical drive (CD/DVD), memory expansion, a bigger/better hard drive, more than one USB port, and a replaceable battery (rather, a user replaceable battery).
MacBook Air, while slick, has these shortcomings. CrunchGear has a good (and entertaining) summary entitled, “MacBook AirHead: why Apple’s new laptop is basically useless“:
And the inputs. One USB, one Franken-DVI. Hope you like plugging and unplugging things! It says it’s built for the wireless world - yeah, okay, but that world is make-believe right now. Sure, you could bring a hub along, but this goes along with the earlier complaint: what’s the point of a mega-portable laptop if you have to bring along a whole support team? It’s like a ditzy model-actress’s entourage: you just want to take the girl out, but she has to have her make-up guy, her photographer, her PA, and she’s totally incapable of doing anything on her own.
See? Entertaining. And informative.
Maybe I’ll just focus my energy on cell phone/smartphone/Blackberry research. That decision will have to be made in May, and there might be new stuff on the market by then, but I’d best get myself up to speed ‘afore then.
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