***Official MacBook Air Thread***

Jihad said:
So will most Laptops? and a Macbook Pro or standard is hardly big.

As for the post after, Mac for gaming = fail, get a PC with a 8800GT, Core2Duo and 2Gb ram. Sorted and no Mac £2000 or more is going to better it. (about £650 or so for the whole PC minus monitor I'd say roughly)
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Actually, I have a dell laptop I carry about which work gave me. I want to take my Mac to work too and it currently doesn't fit in the bag with the dell. The Air would.

I understand your point about gaming, to be honest I probably will go the PC route, I do miss building them, a Mac Pro looks so pretty though!
 
I want one but only because I think it looks cool.

Had my iBook (first mac) for 26 months now and it's never failed me, still running on the original install fine and does everything I need.

My iMac is happily running along too!

But, it's the apple bug! So tempting to just fork out some cash for one so I can watch tv and use it (about the only thing I'd use it for).
 
Being a MBP user, i really don't see why i would need to get a MBA as my MBP does everything i need it to do, it is just the cool factor of the MBA that makes me want one, i have to keep telling myself you don't need one :)
 
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another apple flop.........apple are depending to much on there image, which they know -was- good on the street, but iphone sales have flopped, and so will this,

seems to be all chat with no substance lately from apple, if you want sales apple make awesome products at fair prices, dont rip us off, thanks.
 
2nd most popular smartphone in the US a year after launch, it's selling very well indeed. People forget that the UK is a tiny market and doesn't really matter.
 
Anewbe4u said:
I thought the Iphone was selling really well?
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According to Apple. Not doing very well over here allegedly.

I know a good 10 people who own Macs and iPods and like flash mobile phones/Smartphones. Only one bought an iPhone and he's regretting it! Unscientific but significant.
 
I will never know why people buy apple hardware when there are always alternatives that are 2x better and usually 1/2 the price.

good job on marketing i guess.
 
bigredshark said:
2nd most popular smartphone in the US a year after launch, it's selling very well indeed. People forget that the UK is a tiny market and doesn't really matter.
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What are you on about, the UK is one of the biggest gadget markets in the world, its flopped in the UK for sure, which is what I was refeering to and what matters to us, and the people on this forum, after all 99% of people here are in the uk.
 
The iPhone is the single most used SmartPhone handset in the US. Someone should look deeper into Apple's research; exactly what have the included and excluded?
 
We said the iPhone what a flop in the UK?
Don't just make statement like that without posting links to the articles.

Could this be another story from a mate down the pub :p
 
Combat squirrel said:
What are you on about, the UK is one of the biggest gadget markets in the world, its flopped in the UK for sure, which is what I was refeering to and what matters to us, and the people on this forum, after all 99% of people here are in the uk.
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Don't be ridiculous, we're a tiny island accounting for less than 1% of the worlds population and a very small part of apple's revenues. Whatever we'd like to think we hardly matter, the US is an important market, the far east is an important market. We are not.

What does it matter if we're in the UK? The argument is that the macbook air will flop like the iphone. Which is patently rubbish as globally the iphone hasn't flopped and the macbook air wasn't ever aimed at the UK particularly. They could just not bother selling it here and it'd still be a huge success.

Though that said, strangely the argument for an ultra portable laptop is arguably stronger in the UK than the US (where everyone drives virtually everywhere)
 
i live in the uk and have an iphone

but the only reason for that is that it can be hacked so i dont have to use that stupid iphone contract that is very over priced the uk contract phone market is very competitive and the price of the iphone contracts is far to high for it to sell.

in the uk i can walk in to a phone store see some like i dont know the new n95 or something and say to the guy i will have that but i will only pay £20 a month and i want it for free and most times they will give it to you.

the iphone you cant do this and i think this is one of the main reasons its not selling

as who in the uk wants to spend £269 on a phone then £30+ a month on a contract and not get any thing good out the contract.

sorry but if they want the iphone to sell here they need to change it a lot.
 
I could put up with the lack of Optical drive. I could maybe even put up with the farcical battery situation. Hell, I might even look past the Soldered on memory situation. But no wired Ethernet connection? What the hell?
I was really looking forward to the Macbook Air. It was going to be my first Mac after seeing colleagues using Macbook Pros.
In reality it is just a massive disapointment. Far too many compromises and too little gain.

Sexy as hell though aint it ;)
 
Rich said:
I could put up with the lack of Optical drive. I could maybe even put up with the farcical battery situation. Hell, I might even look past the Soldered on memory situation. But no wired Ethernet connection? What the hell?
I was really looking forward to the Macbook Air. It was going to be my first Mac after seeing colleagues using Macbook Pros.
In reality it is just a massive disapointment. Far too many compromises and too little gain.

Sexy as hell though aint it ;)
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The battery situation isn't a problem, at all, apparently.
Despite early concerns that the MacBook Air battery is unaccessible to end users, Appleinsider claims that there are no special tools or knowledge required to swap out the MacBook Air's battery.

A standard size-0 type philips is all that's required to open the MacBook Air. The replacement process is described:
Once flipped upside down, the MacBook Air's bottom cover is easily unscrewed and removed, providing immediate access to the battery cavity. From there, the battery can be unscrewed from the chassis with the same screwdriver and unplugged from the circuit board with a simple tug -- it's not soldered to the board.

Given the history of iPod battery replacements, there was some concern that users would be unable to easily replace the MacBook Air battery. Apple has said that a $129 replacement will be available but will require the MacBook Air to be sent in from Apple. If the battery replacement is this easy, however, 3rd party batteries will certainly also be available.
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And I don't need an ethernet 99% of the time, but bought the usb-ethernet dongle just in case.
 
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