Martha Stewart blogs for The Martha Blog, “I was so excited when my new MacBook Air arrived the other day. When I opened the box and examined this laptop, I was amazed by how razor thin and how light it is – just .76 of an inch and only 3 pounds. It has a full-size illuminated keyboard, which is terrific for working in a dimly lit car or on an airplane. And I really love the trackpad, which works in much the same way as the Apple iPhone, giving you many more options by simply moving your fingers.”
Martha, perhaps not comprehending that her beautiful new Mac can also slum it with Windows (natively via Boot Camp (included in Mac OS X Leopard) or via fast virtualization from Parallels and VMWare), also writes, “I also use an HP laptop on a regular basis because I like to be well versed on both platforms. Both computers sit side by side on my desk in my kitchen and having them right there together is very convenient for me.”
MacDailyNews Take: Again, it’d be much more convenient to have one Mac on your desk that runs everything. Martha, turn in that poor, ugly, retarded HP (it’s got to have a nasty inferiority complex plopped there right next to a MacBook Air) to the recycler for proper disposal.
Martha continues, “It’s a little difficult to photograph just how thin this MacBook Air is, but you can see for yourself by stopping at an Apple store or checking it out online at Apple.com. The MacBook Air is truly a technological thing of beauty. When it’s not traveling on the road with me, it looks great on my desk…”
See the photos of Martha’s new MacBook Air, along with her dog Sharkey, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jamie” for the heads up.]
Isn’t she Rush Limbaugh in drag?
Enter the insider trading jokes……..now….
Nah… Rush is her showing off her manergy
Ah. Air for air. I see the MBA is finding its niche.
This is a good thing?
@Airhead Martha
Re: Running OS X and Windows on the MBA
Is 80 GB (the maximum) enough HD space for OS X and Windows on the MBA (also considering that you’ll need room for other apps and data files)?
Apple should have a new tag line. It’s what most of us have said already.
“One Mac To Rule Them All”
Fsck Martha Stewart. Martha’s polishing the brass on the Titanic!
Thin enough to slip through the bars!
Do you really think she gives a damn about being “well versed on both platforms”?
@Ampar: Is 80 GB (the maximum) enough HD space for OS X and Windows on the MBA (also considering that you’ll need room for other apps and data files)?
I’ve got 80GB on my Macbook running both Leopard and XP, and though I’d love a bit more room, it’s fine for Bootcamp.
Now, Martha’s recipe collection WOULD pose problems…
It’s Martha, she only needs recipes, right? What, you say she also needs her stock daytrading software? And, a VOIP app to call her lawyers? Ok, maybe 80GB isn’t enough.
Holy Boredom Batman! As if it weren’t obvious with a post about IT people and who they’d vote for… Like anyone seriously could care what IT people think… all the politically opinionated morons and their brother will show up there…
Here, we have a post about an aging ex-con who can cook and decorate and can possibly spell “Air”…
Jesus fscking christ on a cracker! MDN is seriously trolling for hits!
Thanks, Grigori.
I’m guessing that the 64 GB SSD would really be pushing it.
“MDN is seriously trolling for hits!”
I’m pretty sure that’s the point!
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That little sissy girly MAC Book Air must pretty stupid and wimpy next to Martha’s HP powerhouse. I wonder at what moment she felt buyer’s remorse for her overpriced MAC after seeing the MAC’s crash-prone underpowered little toy OS next to the mighty Microsoft Windows.
With all this lady’s supposed good taste why she would even get near a MAC is beyond me.
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That is a nice pic of Martha in the second photo.
Wow! Looks like the MBA is pwning in the Narcissistic A$$hole demographic.
Just my $0.02
Isn’t it totally obvious that this is paid product placement? She’s listing out features like writing a pamphlet about the thing. Martha stewart makes me sick
Thing I can’t figure out:
If she has a chubby and feels she NEEDS Windows running side-by-side, why doesn’t she just buy another MBA and use Bootcamp.
Duh.
While Adam Jackson doesn’t quite like Martha, there are millions of people, in the US and overseas, who seem to like her very much (despite here brief residence in the big house). If this is indeed a product placement, Apple did a clever thing, since Martha’s following is quite devoted. If you looked at her blog, you could have seen the gushing comments for this story, many of them vowing to check out the MBA, now that Martha told them about it.
Oh, and incidentally, MDN, she quickly updated the story with a statement about parallels (something like “I knew about parallels and all that; I like to multi-task, so I have my e-mail and schedule on one, while browsing the web on the other”). Apparently, she isn’t quite ready yet to dump that HP.
Product placement or not, this will get Apple a lot of additional mileage for the product that is already out of stock at many stores. And to think many here were (and some still are) convinced that MBA would be a flop of the ‘Cube’ magnitude…
From her site:
“UPDATE:
Many of you have wrote in that you think I should use Parallels for my new Mac to run Windows as well, I actually DID know about that! I just like having the two computers side by side, sometimes I need to have my email and schedule up on one while browsing the web on the other one. As you can imagine, I multitask all of the time. But thank you for your suggestions!”
“Have wrote in”?
Forget Parallels. Try looking up “run-on sentence”.
Stick to decorating, cooking and insider trading, Martha.
Two in a row! (comma-split, both of them!).
How ‘orribly poor English of her! (Thanks, Ampar, for catching that)
Love her or hate her, she does have a huge fan base. People definitely will check out MBA. She has consistently featured Apple products in her magazine – organizing photos in iPhoto, backing up files for organizing and reducing clutter, all the computers featured on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” were Macs and the bulk of her computers in her offices are Macs. Give her a break already!
MSLO has a marketing deal with HP that does not prevent Martha herself from talking about any other PC. My personal experience with Martha is that she has an average knowledge of both Mac and Windows although I’ve heard her say she’s a Mac user in casual conversation.