01-16-2008, 07:59 AM
[quote guitarist]LIke I said, Apple isn't selling these to you guys. If you got your hopes up, you weren't even reading the rumors right. While the Business-class WiFi-on-the-fly Jetsetters will be eating it up, the weighed-down cable-and-gear jockeys in the cheap seats are taking a pass.
For people who want to have disc-mastering capabilities built in, and carry CDs and DVDS around, this Bud's not for you.
(I've had my MacBook Pro for a year, and I went over six months without touching the optical drive, but I'm connected wirelessly almost 24 hours a day. WiFi I can't live without. The optical drive, who cares)
For people who need to plug a bunch of cables and wires into their laptop this Bud's not for you.
For people who want to manually replace their battery, this Bud's not for you.
(90 % of laptop owners never even THINK about changing a battery in their laptop, and 90% is a pretty good-sized "niche")
MacResource regulars are not the intended customer for this Apple product.
It's DOOMED! DOOOOMED!
When I compare it to the iMac and the iPod, the above is exactly what I mean in a nutshell, broken down point by point, not as a product in itself but a concept to alter the way we think about computing like the iPod did and like the All in One concept of the iMac did.
We think it kinda sucks but to the "upscale joe", "college kid" with money, or the suburban soccer mom and her kids, i think it will be a hit and eventually become some what of a standard of change (wireless hard drives and the wireless/remote access to other devices thing).
It is also targeted at us except not in this revision. Steve wants us to buy a remote compact extension of our powerful upgradable Macs and other laptops - think a two computer home. When the price drops to about $999 or less and it becomes big USB Flash drive that is really a computer with a screen (think iPod Nano .vs iPod), I think it will pick up.
I spend a lot of time now on a digital DJ forum and over there it is a miss also. We needed 2 USB ports and/or Firewire for it to work with our software/hardware. (Hardware dongle & maybe an external drive). It also looks to fragile to be in a club environment. I'm telling those guys that the wireless hard drives may make it a non issue in the future if the connection can be secure and stable, but a second port was the answer.
Again, it has a very slim target market - the general public...
: )
For people who want to have disc-mastering capabilities built in, and carry CDs and DVDS around, this Bud's not for you.
(I've had my MacBook Pro for a year, and I went over six months without touching the optical drive, but I'm connected wirelessly almost 24 hours a day. WiFi I can't live without. The optical drive, who cares)
For people who need to plug a bunch of cables and wires into their laptop this Bud's not for you.
For people who want to manually replace their battery, this Bud's not for you.
(90 % of laptop owners never even THINK about changing a battery in their laptop, and 90% is a pretty good-sized "niche")
MacResource regulars are not the intended customer for this Apple product.
It's DOOMED! DOOOOMED!
When I compare it to the iMac and the iPod, the above is exactly what I mean in a nutshell, broken down point by point, not as a product in itself but a concept to alter the way we think about computing like the iPod did and like the All in One concept of the iMac did.
We think it kinda sucks but to the "upscale joe", "college kid" with money, or the suburban soccer mom and her kids, i think it will be a hit and eventually become some what of a standard of change (wireless hard drives and the wireless/remote access to other devices thing).
It is also targeted at us except not in this revision. Steve wants us to buy a remote compact extension of our powerful upgradable Macs and other laptops - think a two computer home. When the price drops to about $999 or less and it becomes big USB Flash drive that is really a computer with a screen (think iPod Nano .vs iPod), I think it will pick up.
I spend a lot of time now on a digital DJ forum and over there it is a miss also. We needed 2 USB ports and/or Firewire for it to work with our software/hardware. (Hardware dongle & maybe an external drive). It also looks to fragile to be in a club environment. I'm telling those guys that the wireless hard drives may make it a non issue in the future if the connection can be secure and stable, but a second port was the answer.
Again, it has a very slim target market - the general public...
: )