Comments on: MacBook Air

By: johnbiehler.com » Nokia N810 tablet + full Linux KDE desktop

johnbiehler.com » Nokia N810 tablet + full Linux KDE desktop — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:42:18 +0000

[...] while this IS pretty cool, I think I’ve spent my gadget money for awhile. Maybe Nokia’s Blogger Relations can hook me as I’d love to check one [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:21:33 +0000

I hope you get this before Northern Voice so I can see it in action while I’m out there :) I’ve been thinking mac lately, and this is a nice looking little option they’ve just announced :P

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:49:13 +0000

Chico: come by my desk and we can do a deal ;)

By: chico

chico — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:45:53 +0000

so how much for the eeepc? :)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:49:04 +0000

As the friend who was suckered into spending the extra $23 I guess we’ll see. Hmm… expedited shipping: $23. The chance of getting it a day or two before you and actually being able to beat you to a blog post: priceless ;).

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:14:30 +0000

I agree with you Derek….but after having the eeePC for a few months now, I find myself missing OSX on my laptop. Linux and all it’s variants are really coming of age but they still aren’t OSX.

Believe me I considered getting a fully loaded MacBook or even going up to a MBP….the MBA falls in between those two in many ways….and falls short in others. I had to decide between size and performance mostly. The MBA has a number of different features that neither of the current laptops have that I’m excited to try out as well as being an acceptable weight.

When the MacBook came out, it just wasn’t that much better than my 12″ Powerbook - at least not enough to justify and the MBP was too big for me - I didn’t want to lug around a 15″ laptop.

Unlike many other MBP/MacBook users, the MBA won’t be my primary machine (neither was the eeePC) - having a fully loaded iMac and a G5 Powermac at home fills that need just fine.

This is also my first new Mac computer in a couple of years (Powerbook was 3 1/2 and the iMac is closing in on 2)…and the first time that I can remember being a rev 1.0 adopter of portable Apple computers (iPhone/iPods aside)…which did make me think about it for a bit due to previous issues friends have had with the initial aluminum Powerbooks and MacBooks.

I haven’t fully decided what I’m going to do with the eeePC yet…my wife may keep it or I’ll sell it. It’s price point *almost* makes it worth keeping just to play with….I did say almost.

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:38:59 +0000

It seems to me that the eeePC is still a very different beast — it is actually small, while the MacBook Air is (to oversimplify) a much thinner and lighter MacBook, having exactly the same footprint dimensions.

In other words, if you find the extra-small size of the eeePC, or really like your old 12″ PowerBook or iBook, the MacBook Air may not really offer a replacement. But if your laptop bag is always bulging (ahem), the Air can help slim it down.