Once again, Intel builds a CPU just for Apple

[Tom Lake]

************* The MacBook Air is easily the thinnest, most
powerful laptop in the world, and will be for several years to come.
**********************

okay, then show us a more powerful Intel chip in a thinner laptop.

The statement directly above is a totally different claim than the original.
The asterisks surround the original assertions.
There are two:
1. The MacBook Air is the thinnest laptop in the world.
2. The MacBook Air is the most powerful laptop in the world.

Now, #1 is almost certainly true. # 2 is certainly NOT true.
Perhaps you meant to say that the MacBook Air it the most powerful
laptop in the world FOR ITS SIZE. Since it's the thinnest, that IS true
but that's not what was originally claimed.

Tom Lake

 

[Peter Köhlmann]

Learn the difference between "its" and "it's."
The correct spelling is "its."

The last resort of people who have lost the debate: Spelling flames

In short: OxRetard, that typical Mac user in his total idiocy, claimed
bullshit. He got corrected. And another typical Mac user does a spelling
flame. How incredibly lame

 

[Mitch]

<chuckle>
You really are a fool for marketing, LOL. This "major innovation" is
nothing more than a convenient button for n00bs, like you! I have been
using CDs and DVDs wirelessly like that FOR YEARS!!! Thinkpad X-Series have
no optical drive unless you connect the Ultrabase, so I do this very often.
All you need to do is to Share an optical drive and its there on the network
to be used by any other computer on the network, wirelessly or wired. It
makes no difference. I haven't done this with a Mac, but I'm pretty sure you
can even do it within a Mac network.

Even? Yes, of course you can do that -- but only on a machine that is
already running an OS. See the difference?
And yes, you can netboot on other systems, even wirelessly, but that
isn't the benefit, either. The point was the simple tool Apple is
providing to make it happen.

It wasn't something as insanely obvious and normal as sharing a network
drive.

 

[Mitch]

Ultraportables have been around for many years, and most of them do not
compromise on functionality as much as this Macbook Air seems to. It has a
lot of disadvantages, and the main selling point of it being thin, is has no
appeal to me. It is still large. My Thinkpad X-Series laptops are much
smaller, if a bit thicker. They are more portable and have very long
battery life, and you can use them on airline seats, which they were
essentially designed for.

Yup; it's all about a different set of features. This one is clearly
very different from other laptops, and that is not a bad thing.
Most of what is above is correct, except you say it compromises
'functionality.' It doesn't; it makes different trade-offs.
The biggest is the screen. Just as with the iPhone, the screen
dominates the size and price issues. Sure, there are smaller and
cheaper laptops -- usually because they sacrifice this factor.

I'm not saying this is the only factor that characterizes the laptop or
the trade-offs. I'm saying comparisons that don't consider this are
almost meaningless; like the cell-pone arguments that compare a phone
with nearly none of iPhone's viewing abilities being compared because
it offers a function iPhone didn't -- it only shows how wrong it is to
compare them, not how bad a choice the iPhone is.

 

[Mitch]

okay, then show us a more powerful Intel chip in a thinner laptop.

bet you can't!

thus my facts stand.

(you might want to learn about the industry before you post again) your
post are so darn laughable!

You might be more careful about your claims.
What you claimed above can be read as one claim or three separate
claims.

Thinnest/most powerful/for years to come
or
Thinnest laptop, most powerful laptop, one of those for years to come.

See? It can be properly read as claiming MBA is the most powerful
laptop ever, and will be for years. Obviously, it is not.

 

[Mitch]

Wow, you have no clue!

fastest, thinnest, least weight slip laptop

what is weight slip?
This isn't fastest, isn't lowest in weight.

longest battery life

In this kind of category, maybe -- but it isn't yet tested, fool!

each individual key lights up upon ambient light / no pc has this

Now you include the ambient controller, at least.

full keyboard / no slim pc laptop has this

Sure they have.

full iphone level control on trackpad / no pc has this

Neither has this one -- not even close. It's not on the screen, for
one. It's not fully multi-touch, either.

full quality camera / no pc laptop has this

what is 'full quality,' idiot?

full integration with Time Capsule / no pc has this

There are solutions to do all those functions, sure. Differently, and
with a different hardware component.

 

[Mitch]

Dorks are everywhere, and you can find examples sitting in front
of, or carrying any gadget you can think of. Watching a bunch
of them in a restaurant together, not speaking to each other,
but spending the entire meal punching bullshit into their
blackberries simultaneously as the stuff food into their mouth
between thumbstrokes is hilarious and sad at the same time.

I'll have to disagree with you; it's always pitiable.
Same as people who wait to make a call until they are driving, who talk
loudly over their headsets in public places, who stay on a call when
other people are trying to speak to them, who sing rude lyrics while
listening to headphones.

I can't get over how many people think typing a short message, waiting
a few minutes, and getting a reply that they can again type a reply, is
a better system than talking over the same device to the same person.
Or better than talking in person to people!

 

[chrisv]

And pathetically bad Mac advocates can't stop trying to play
amateur psychologist in an attempt to find cause to cover up the
underlying insults when they stereotype PC users.

And fools feed obvious trolls, as if that's going to make the troll go
away.

 

[chrisv]

And the fact that you think that that an ultraportable like the Macbook Air
is especially powerful, is even more laughable.

You've been trolled. Duh.

 

[Peter Köhlmann]

Wow, you have no clue!

what is weight slip?
This isn't fastest, isn't lowest in weight.

Only "thinnest" has some resemblance of the truth
It isn't the fastest one, and it isn't the one with the least weight

In this kind of category, maybe -- but it isn't yet tested, fool!

OxRetard will claim that apple ads are the sacred truth

Now you include the ambient controller, at least.

It is not the only one with lighted keyboards. And that "feature" is easily
the most retarded one.

Sure they have.

A lot do. OxRetard as clueless as usual. A true Mac user

Neither has this one -- not even close. It's not on the screen, for
one. It's not fully multi-touch, either.

What good does it do? Except for apple?

what is 'full quality,' idiot?

He seems to0 think that that 3rd rate camera is "quality". And yes, most PC
laptops now sold actually do have a camera built in. OxRetard showing his
being a Mac user again. Totally clueless

There are solutions to do all those functions, sure. Differently, and
with a different hardware component.

As if having that is a must. There are better backup solutions, and they are
all not from apple

What OxRetard keeps forgetting is that this laptops most
prominent "features" are those it is just simply *lacking*

Only Mac users would be dumb enough to buy such a crippled machine

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

You've been trolled. Duh.

No, this technoretard probably really believes that.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

why have to use a CIFS share?

a massive kludge

<chuckle>
This dopey n00b doesn't see what a clown he is. He things that basic
networking is a "major innovation to the industry"!

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Even? Yes, of course you can do that -- but only on a machine that is
already running an OS. See the difference?
And yes, you can netboot on other systems, even wirelessly, but that
isn't the benefit, either. The point was the simple tool Apple is
providing to make it happen.

It wasn't something as insanely obvious and normal as sharing a network
drive.

Exactly. It just makes it easier. Hardly a "major innovation to the
industry".

ss.

 

[Spinner]

actually they have not.

Actually they have. As confirmed by other posters to this thread.

Apple has a patent on the technology, so no other computer vendor
can light each "key". much less use light sensors to do so. that's
owned by apple for many years to come.

We now see that "Gene" (alias Oxtard, I suppose?) hasn't the slightest
idea what he's talking about:

<http://www.amazon.com/Saitek-Eclips...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1201621121&sr=8-1>

<http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-967929-0403-G11-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B000GP844S>

<http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Rec...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1201620767&sr=1-1>

 

[Moshe Goldfarb]

yes, and now the iPhone has gone on to be one of the best selling Cell
Phones of all time, and the BEST selling SmartPhone of all time.

gosh, they don't even have a clue about what a quality product can do!

things like skyhook now in the iPhone completely change the game for all
cell carriers!

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/

It's true.
The Linux people have no clue about what average people want and will buy.
Maybe that's why they have 1000+ different Linux distributions and more
arriving every day. The problem is each one is flawed in the same way as
the one before it.

 

[Maverick]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripher...oard-wireless-rechargeable-backlit-184418.php

You are so full of it. Microsoft has a motion sensor on it's desktop
keyboard to sense the approach of a user.

LOL! I suppose some of the M$ engineers needed to have these to let
them know when sweaty Ballmer stalks up from behind. ))))

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

So you discount any of the really tiny portable computers. For
example, I saw an incredibly small HP computer almost 10 years
ago, it had a very small display, maybe 320x200 resolution, and
an incredibly small mouse that popped out of the side of it, and
a little miniature keyboard. It was smaller. You could put it
on your lap. It was 10 years earlier. Yes, it's not an
equivalent comparison. Given a decade of time in between, how
could it be?

MacBook Air: Not the thinnest notebook ever
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9850943-7.html

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[Gene Jones]

MacBook Air: Not the thinnest notebook ever
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9850943-7.html

nobody said "ever" was, but it IS the world's most thinnest laptop
today.... and likely to be for years to come since Apple is the only
company left that actually designs their entire machines.

the MacBook Air rocks!

nobody in the industry works at this level.

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/design.html

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[Gene Jones]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/microsoft-ultimate-keyboard-wireless-re
chargeable-backlit-184418.php

You are so full of it. Microsoft has a motion sensor on it's desktop
keyboard to sense the approach of a user.

it's just too bad the keys don't light up, nor is it a shipping product.

but if you want to limp along with a "mac wantabee" that's fine

 

[Gene Jones]

You lying jackass. Apple says it's backlit.
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/design.html HP has this feature also.
Microsoft Desktop PC keyboards have this features, I'm sure other companies
make these. You are chock full of bullshit. Do yourself a favor and take a
strong laxative.

but again you are talking about the full cap being "lit" underneath not
the actual letter ON the "key", only apple can do this for the next 14
years or so. they OWN the patent. MS can't do anything about it but
cheat their users into thinking they might be close to owning an Apple
level product.

you once again fell into MS's trap.

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