<p>Anyone here watched the Macworld Keynote introducing this new product?
I have to say it looks very cool, but don't see how the price justifies the features (or lack thereof).</p>
<p>if you’ve read any articles on it, you would’ve noticed that it’s on the cheap side of ultralight laptops. the price premium is for portability, not features, otherwise no one would buy tablets, let alone ultralight/thin/portable laptops like the macbook air.</p>
<p>yeah, i wouldnt buy it. It’s a joke for so many reasons.</p>
<p>For the same price, you could get a MacBook Pro with a CD/DVD player, an ethernet port, more HD space, a better processor, and a bucketload less pretension. Yeah. It’s a really difficult choice for me.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s really super-portable when you need to use up your one USB port for an external optical drive :p</p>
<p>The Macbook Air is for an entirely different market than normal laptop users. The Macbook Air cannot replace a full fledged laptop and you shouldn’t try to make it work. If the Air is going to be your only computer at college I wouldn’t even think about it but if you’re just going to take it to class to take notes on and have a desktop that you use in your dorm, it might be worth the portability. If the Macbook Air was your only computer say goodbye to burning or importing any music into iTunes due to the lack of an optical drive and the small and slow hard drive.</p>
<p>the only attractive feature is it’s appearance and weight
totallly not worth the money</p>
<p>definitely not made for uni students. price point is too ridiculous-even a macbook has the same screen size and will fulfill your needs much better than the MBA</p>
<p>It DOES look so awesome though! Yeah, but it’s really unpractical.</p>
<p>I wonder when they’ll come out with a new macbook and powerbook.</p>
<p>It’s not in the cheaper end of ultraportable laptops as someone said once you consider the 64gb solid state hard drive add-on (which the competitors all have…for cheaper).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want one simply for the fact that there’s no included ethernet port and the specs are quite low. A 4200rpm HDD is a bit ridiculous, and, while you can use USB ethernet adapters, cd-roms, etc., all the while carrying around a usb hub to plug it all in to, you negate the space and weight savings.</p>
<p>While not in the same category, if you are looking for a really small laptop to just do basic tasks on while having a full pc elsewhere, I’d look into the ASUS eeepc. It’s lighter and has a significantly smaller footprint than the macbook air, while costing $400. However again, the eeepc, and the macbook air to a lesser extent, are not good primary computers.</p>
<p>if u had the money u could ditch that 4200rpm HDD and go for the state of the art solid state drive.
However, i hope the price drops in the next 6 months.(wish it is a 40% drop :D)</p>
<p>The Macbook Air is marketed as an ultra portable great looking computer.
It isn’t suppose to be a main computer (it lacks the features).
Even with looks and portability it can’t compare with the MB or MBP-esp on price!</p>
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<p>I don’t know, then we’ll have to put up with all the whining from Apple fanboys who were early adopters and who feel that they got screwed over oh-so-badly (when a few weeks ago they were proud to be seen in the papers thrusting up their iPhones like they won the lottery). Then Steve Jobs will have to give them a $100 gift card to the Apple Store so they can buy more overpriced stuff from Apple -_-</p>
<p>And regarding the Macbook Air, it does look like a joke. Non-removable battery, no optical drive, etc etc. And 1 USB port (in 2008, come on!). Not to mention the price, that $1800 could buy you both a pretty decent desktop and notebook.</p>
<p>I think some people are missing the point of the Air a bit. I mean, it’s not a completely stupid idea, and for a limited segment of the population, it’s a good solution. However, for college students, it isn’t.</p>
<p>It’s not really overpriced relative to the ultraportable market, and certain people can get along perfectly with no ethernet and one usb port. The problem lies in that you have to sacrifice expandability just to make the computer thinner.</p>
<p>[ASUS</a> Eee PC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeepc]ASUS”>Asus Eee PC - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I’d like to know why if someone is willing to sacrifice performance for portability…why not an Eeepc for a ton cheaper? If you want power, get a regular laptop.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to me how many people see a product, decide that they’re not the market, and then say “THAT’S STOOPID!.”</p>
<p>I mean, I may not be the market for Cuisinarts, but they’re sure not stupid.</p>
<p>The Macbook Air is not being sold to the college-aged crowd. You are not its demographic. For what it is, it’s very well done. For you, however, it is not.</p>
<p>That doesn’t make it a poor product or a stupid move on Apple’s part, however. It’s probably a very good idea, actually-- especially if they can market it (and they can) properly.</p>
<p>What -is- the demographic? Who is this being marketed for?</p>
<p>Higher income users who want an ultraportable and are willing to pay for it. Not college students who want a balance between cost and performance.</p>
<p>To be fair, I don’t see how road warriors will respond to this, as the inability to swap batteries will be killer for them.</p>