“Never before has a keynote product announcement from Apple prompted such contrasts of praise and vitriol: with road-warriors on one side singing praises for a pared down chassis with still usable keyboard and display, while critics bay for blood over absent ports and sealed batteries. Is the MacBook Air going to please everybody? No, not at all; but then again, it really didn’t set out to,” Vincent Nguyen reports for SlashGear.
LED-backlighting “really is the next-generation of screen technology due to its thinner design tolerance, meager power demands, and image vibrancy boost, and the Air could easily be this new screen technology’s poster-child. Another ambient light sensor balances backlight against your environment, and the screen’s size – although forcing a relatively broad footprint for an ultraportable – offers useful extra real estate over the competition,” Nguyen reports.
Nguyen reports, “Right now, the MacBook Air meets my needs. I don’t need more storage, I don’t need a massively powerful CPU and yes, I can live with the slower hard-drive. What I need is a lean, mean and yet powerful enough machine for writing, timely processing of videos and images – but as a journalist on the road, I need it to be feather-light.”
“Perhaps that’s what makes the Air particularly special: it ticks my boxes, yes; but it might not tick yours. I admire Apple for building a laptop with such purity of purpose, rather than attempting to cater to everyone’s needs, and in the process satisfying no one,” Nguyen reports.
Nguyen reports, “If you’re looking for a replacement for your desktop, or a machine that’ll readily chew through heavy-duty video or music processing, then you should look elsewhere. But if you measure your days in miles traveled, in conferences visited and in the weight of your hand luggage, I’ll see you at the Apple Store.”
Full review here.
Nguyen unboxing Apple MacBook Air and SuperDrive:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGH_wS1JOQU
MacDailyNews Take: Whoa, Vince, lay off the espresso!
I don’t know why you appear to be infatuated by my every word, but I’m sure it’s not healthy.
Then why do you respond to my threads? Is yer infatuation with my threads healthy? Please explain. I would like to know the difference as you imagine it.
Work on holding your hostilities in check and controlling your antagonistic behavior.
You mean like yer very own statements, LorD1776, and I quote,
You may not pay for dog shit sandwiches, but I’ll bet you wolf them down with great gusto. Is that a dingleberry on the corner of your mouth?
See what I mean? Another Big Mouth takes the bait!
This is entertaining!
You need to forget your lame attempt at similes and go back to sucking on your Similac.
Yeah, that little devil is like having herpes. Ya never know when he’s gonna break out.
Perhaps you should follow yer advice first, fanboi. It seems that you are the one who (seems) to have a hard time relating to others.
I really enjoy pointing out the blatant contradictions in yer threads. Yer consistently inconsistent, fanboi.
Why not try staying away from your PC for awhile…
Why? Are you tired of getting yer butt kicked? You seem to begging Phred to stop. Go ahead, ask nice and maybe Phred will stop.
OK.
Phred, will you please stop?
As you threaded, Lord1776:
Join the fun… Whatever you do, don’t take it seriously.
What’s the matter now? Are you taking all this too seriously now? Is gettin’ yer figurative ass whupped in literary repartee no longer fun?
You can change yer alias if you like, but that won’t protect your threads from being challenged in the future. Remember these are yer rules, you might as well learn to live by them.
Phred,
Well, I tried. Thanks for confirming the type of person you are. Oops, I said thanks. Do I need to explain that?
“Is gettin’ yer figurative ass whupped in literary repartee no longer fun?”
Literary repartee. Is that what you have been endowing us with?
I guess I am slow, Phred. I totally missed that. I guess I should be documenting all of your words so I can go back at any time and bask in the brilliance of your “literary repartee”. Now I really have something to thank you for.
Fun. Hmm. Well, I guess everything in life can’t be fun. So what is your idea of ‘fun’ Phred? I mean other than being here. Do you enjoy ripping the wings off of flies? Torturing small animals like puppies and kittens. Or have you progressed on to bigger things now. Young children, maybe. Hey that’s a thought. Do you have any kids Phred? Just wondered.
OK Phred, it’s your turn. You and your Army of One. Let ‘er rip with your Amazing “literary repartee”. I await your every word.
He, he.