Members vwizz Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 http://www.macrumorslive.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vwizz Posted January 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 http://www.apple.com/ Looks great! Maybe I'd need more USB/Firewire plugs though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kooki_sf Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 MULTITOUCH FTW!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vwizz Posted January 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 These guys are really the Kings of the ergonomics ... They wen't further than the iPhone/IPodTouch concept... just great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MartinHines Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 That MacBook Air notebook IS really, really thin. Size and Weight Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm) Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm) Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg) I notice it has an optional 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vwizz Posted January 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Damn it, i didn't see the price: 1800 USD with 80Gb 4200rpm HD, but.... more than 3000 USD with the SSD 64Gb drive! That's...insane!!!! Let's wait one more year :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kooki_sf Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Damn it, i didn't see the price: 1800 USD with 80Gb 4200rpm HD, but.... more than 3000 USD with the SSD 64Gb drive! That's...insane!!!! Let's wait one more year :-) yea.. but a SSD is a bajillion times faster than a crappy 4200 rpm drive. the latter cant handle video editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Price: $1800 base, $3100 with the SSD. Processors are on the slow side (1.6 or 1.8 MHz) and 2 GB of memory installed is probably not expandable. One USB port is all you get for I/O Best news is that this should result in some very interesting laptops over the next few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I saved a few bucks and just got an Asus Eee PC for $300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kooki_sf Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 i wonder how long it is until the other laptops get the trackpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vwizz Posted January 15, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Price: $1800 base, $3100 with the SSD. Processors are on the slow side (1.6 or 1.8 MHz) and 2 GB of memory installed is probably not expandable. 1.8GHz on a core 2 Duo is already super fast! On my 2GHz iMac with 2Gb RAM I can record/mix run Cubase and all without ANY problem, and I tend to record MANY tracks (Film music) so that would be fine for me.. But 3000USD for 64Gb...no way! I could use and external drive..but then i would need an additional USB/Firewire port for the audio card... But you are right, the next generation should be awesome.. i just hope the price of these SSD drives goes down very fast... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Damn it, i didn't see the price: 1800 USD with 80Gb 4200rpm HD, but.... more than 3000 USD with the SSD 64Gb drive! That's...insane!!!! Let's wait one more year :-) How quickly we forget the iPhone pricing. Just wait a couple months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Awake77 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I saved a few bucks and just got an Asus Eee PC for $300. +1, and Mod the hell out of it, of course:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tonyrobbins Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 2 gigs of ram only need 4 gigs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LameAim Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 The battery cannot be swapped/replaced by the end user, that would be a concern of mine. I wonder if the 64 gig SSD drive is being retardedly priced like Apple's RAM upgrades. If it is, is it possible to upgrade drives after the fact? I guess we'll know more in a couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 +1, and Mod the hell out of it, of course:) Now that looks like fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P321 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 yea.. but a SSD is a bajillion times faster than a crappy 4200 rpm drive. the latter cant handle video editing.You think. Solid state has its own problems. Depending on the drive used the write speeds may well be much slower than even a 4200 drive, though (certain) read speeds are likely better. I'll assume, for that sort of money, they're using one with half decent write speeds. The big downer about SSD is currently that the drives have a limited amount of times you can write to them. If you use them regularly for something like heavy video editing then the chances are high that you won't be able to write to them within a few short years. They have a pretty limited life, much more so than ordinary HD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Swami Digital Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 You think. Solid state has its own problems. Depending on the drive used the write speeds may well be much slower than even a 4200 drive, though (certain) read speeds are likely better. I'll assume, for that sort of money, they're using one with half decent write speeds.The big downer about SSD is currently that the drives have a limited amount of times you can write to them. If you use them regularly for something like heavy video editing then the chances are high that you won't be able to write to them within a few short years. They have a pretty limited life, much more so than ordinary HD's. You're talking about old technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 omg! you mean a new product from apple is expensive????? WTF?!?!?!? someone call batman!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 2 gigs of ram only need 4 gigs you just accidentally stumbled on to some new math on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I'd like one of those trackpads. Only bigger and standalone. Without a Wacom-like pen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 +1, and Mod the hell out of it, of course:) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khazul Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 The big downer about SSD is currently that the drives have a limited amount of times you can write to them. If you use them regularly for something like heavy video editing then the chances are high that you won't be able to write to them within a few short years. They have a pretty limited life, much more so than ordinary HD's. There is an article (I think on toms hardware) that suggests that if you were to write to one of these at the maximum possible theortical I/O speed of the device, churning the entire hard drive, then you get about 17 years out of it... This was referring to one of the more recent 64GB models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members synthetica Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Wow what a joke this thing is. Lets see only 1 USB Port, no internal CD/DVD drive, no RJ45 Ethernet port, no removable or end user replaceable battery, Only 80GB Hard Drive, Mono Speaker all for $1800. Sure its thin but when you have to carry a USB to RJ45 cable to plug in a network where no Wifi is available, an External DVD Drive, USB Hub so you can use more than 1 device at a time, Dual Speakers, or Headphones to hear stereo, and whatever else gets carried around with it, what's the point. Oh and if my battery dies I have to send it in to Apple along with $129 to get the battery replaced ? No Thanks Apple.... Geez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 No Thanks Apple.... Geez retarded emo apple fanboys will see things differently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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