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...I'll stick with my Sony. Don't see anything that would lure me and the price! I'll be content with my 7x10" 3/4"...2.7# Sony subcompact. Maybe there will be something next time with the MacPro that will lure me and then I'll give my present Pro to my daughter.
Gee, think of the money I'm going to save!
All the TV hookups are a non starter for me,iTunes, movie downloads.....guess I'll go clean my mini blinds. The party is over.......
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Join the club. I really wanted one before I heard everything its missing. Another SJ Form over Function product. Sigh.
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I am going to buy sooner or later a MacBook but not this book. The airbook has nothing new of peculiar interest for me and the lack of ports and optical drive and replaceable battery are big no's . Is super thin and light that big a plus for many?
Financially challenged people were probably not the market they were aiming at with this though.
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Is it a certainty the battery can't be replaced?
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I think they might have found a bigger market with a 12" or smaller screen.
Making the screen the same size as the regular MacBook makes the size difference seem less important, since you don't really save on width.
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It's for an upscale business traveller market.
Me, I'm going in for the Macbook 2.2Ghz. Maybe an iMac 2.4 24", too. That Macbook 2.2Ghz is THE sweet spot for power versus performance. I crunched a bunch of numbers, and it is the one. Just with it had FW800 or eSata.....
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"Is super thin and light that big a plus for many?"
Yep.
It's aimed at a niche that will eat it up.
I predict it'll sell very well.
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The built in battery is the no-go issue for me.
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What guitarist said.
Most people who frequent this forum are bargain hunters. Steve Jobs can channel Frank N Furter on this one: "I didn't make him for you."
The niche that this is aimed at will love it. I've had about a dozen emails already from CEO level friends/clients who are asking me about it...
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I don't understand how they could offer a notebook without a way to replace the battery, or swap a spare in when you need one. Maybe I have limited imagination, but I can't see anyone buying one. Picture the travelling exec, working on a five-hour flight, and rushing in to a meeting, opening his Air and finding. . . a dead battery.
Also the lack of an Ethernet port seems foolish. Some people do not like to use wireless Internet access, for security reasons, and it is not available in many places that wired access to an office network is. An optional USB-Ethernet dongle is, I suppose an acceptable substitute, but it's one more piece of junk to carry around with your 'ultra-portable' notebook.
No optical drive I can understand; our Fujitsu PC tablets don't have them, for weight and space reasons. But the tablets have PC-card slots. No Express-card slot?
Not for me, thanks.
/Mr Lynn
