4. Apparently most Air buyers are finding battery life falls way short of the claimed 5 hours - more like 2.5 hours. That is a real killer for a ultra portable notebook.
The Air is sexy enough, but compared to the 11-inch Sony TZ which is smaller, if not thinner, has a higher res screen, an optical drive and genuine 7-8 hour battery life, well, it's not much of a contest.
Shaving a quarter of an inch off the thickness of the TZ but adding a fair bit of width and depth hardly makes the Air more portable. I think this is one product with which Apple has probably made too many sacrifies in the name of trying to get that superficial wow factor.
I was really looking forward to apple producing a great ultra portable. The Air is extremely disappointing.
3. Find it hard to take the MacBook Air seriously. Smacks a little of Apple's Cube (if you can remember that) - all aesthetics with no real functional benefit. Seems more like a tech testbed for something else.
2. Cat, your comparing Apples to Oranges (pardon the pun). Sub-notebooks will appeal to consumer that are primarily concerned with value for money.
The MacBook Air on the other had appears to be aimed at Technophiles. Although in my opinion Apple have missed a trick by not including an optical drive. A slot loading dive would have kept a thin profile.
1. Maybe the still rather exotic Mac Tablets provided by a 3rd party could for some, but most of the rather bulky and ugly looking Sub Notebooks probably even powered by a propriatory OS (or is gOS a Linux distro?) are hardly a match for the MacBook Air.
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painwithjain
February 7th
4. Apparently most Air buyers are finding battery life falls way short of the claimed 5 hours - more like 2.5 hours. That is a real killer for a ultra portable notebook.
The Air is sexy enough, but compared to the 11-inch Sony TZ which is smaller, if not thinner, has a higher res screen, an optical drive and genuine 7-8 hour battery life, well, it's not much of a contest.
Shaving a quarter of an inch off the thickness of the TZ but adding a fair bit of width and depth hardly makes the Air more portable. I think this is one product with which Apple has probably made too many sacrifies in the name of trying to get that superficial wow factor.
I was really looking forward to apple producing a great ultra portable. The Air is extremely disappointing.
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nicolasmerritt
January 21st
3. Find it hard to take the MacBook Air seriously. Smacks a little of Apple's Cube (if you can remember that) - all aesthetics with no real functional benefit. Seems more like a tech testbed for something else.
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January 17th
2. Cat, your comparing Apples to Oranges (pardon the pun). Sub-notebooks will appeal to consumer that are primarily concerned with value for money.
The MacBook Air on the other had appears to be aimed at Technophiles. Although in my opinion Apple have missed a trick by not including an optical drive. A slot loading dive would have kept a thin profile.
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cat
January 17th
1. Maybe the still rather exotic Mac Tablets provided by a 3rd party could for some, but most of the rather bulky and ugly looking Sub Notebooks probably even powered by a propriatory OS (or is gOS a Linux distro?) are hardly a match for the MacBook Air.
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