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belgavionWhat fits inside a A4 Inter-Office Memo envelope . . .
with room to spare
By XboxOZ360:
Let’s try a 0.18 to 0.76 thick 13.3″ Widescreen, Fully functional keyboard equipt Duo-Core MacBook, that’s what. And it comes withsome great new innovatiuons which Apple are always so proud to make inroads with.
The Specs for the two available configurations are brilliant, and the entire electronics circuitry for the MacBook Air are ever so slightly longer than a lead pencil, and much thinner. The “thickest” part of the new MacBook Air is just 0.76″ thin, with the opening end being a mere 0.18″. A thinness never heard of before in the Notebook industry – ever.
How can Apple do this. How can they make a super powerful 1.6/1.8 ghz Intel Core Duo2 processor equipped laptop fit inside an inter-office envelope, with room to spare. Simple, by getting Intel to redesign their Duo2 processors and reduce them by a huge 60% in size, while at the same time, not loosing one once of power, and yet still keep the heat within the requirements set down by Apple.
• Typical of Apple, they have decided to do away with the Optical Drive. Yes, that’s right NO optical drive . . .
The whole idea of the MacBook Air, (MacBook and MacBook Pro are still available btw) is to do away with the optical drive, and be reliant on just one optical drive. Just like when the first iMac shipped without a 1.4mg Floopy Disc Drive. The PC people were up in arms. Claiming that Apple were leaving behind the majority of its users who needed the technology. Can we find a 1.4mg floppy drive these days. ? . . . No, certainly not. They were obsolete even before apple decided NOT to include them in their new range of new computers when the iMacs first hit the streets. As file sizes for many developers, artists and even office users were in excess of the small 1.4mg drives capacity.
So why keep them, get ride of them . . . and fast. Sure, they copped flack from the “general” market, but as always, Apple look years ahead, not just months ahead with their technology.
Within 12 months, PC manufactures were dropping the old 1.4mg drives like flies, stating that they were moving ahead in technology, and helping customers by reducing obsolete hardware . . . hmmmm . . . okay. That was 12 months or more later than Apple of course. Cough cough.
Watch the Apple Keynote aired early this morning:
For full details on todays release of the Apple MacBook Air . . .
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Ah . . . there you go . . . . . didn’t know that . . . . shame about that, but who knows, there could be a newer version out now . .be an idea to check . . . Not saying Boot camp isn’t good, it is . . I just heard youcould do more with Parallels than Boot Camp . . .??
but parallels disables features of windows, such as gaming etc, whereas bootcamp emulates it almost perfectly.
Well unless there is a newer version of parallels thats been out in the last 6 months?
I believe you can do that, as 3rd party items can be fitted . . . which include Ram and HDD’s and even optical drives. The one things that helps Apples machines, is that there’s less going on, an dthus less bottlenecks. Data flows a lot easier, hense the ability to have a machine run exceptionally fast, even with lower specs than their PC cousins.
The old aged battle of mine’s better because it has a higher number this-n-that has always be a contentious one with regards to Apple and PC’s . . . And when PC mags come out and say both the laptops (macBooks) and Mac Pros rank higher than most PC’s, then that’s saying something . . .
A better program to run Windows or other OS’s on is Parralels . . . (or something like that) and has received excellent reviews. I’ve seen it running Red Hat, Vista, XP on top of the Mac OS each having it’s own seamless operation, and flicking from one to the other, now that’s damn amazing really. Yet that’s from something with LESS specs than many powerhouse PC’s . . .
Most games are made for macs these days, we just don’t see them advertized as much – atm.
No not really, the best card they have is a 8800 GT thats a pretty good card at the moment, but generally it seems apple lag behind in their video cards.
that being said a 8800 GT is great and running boot camp would be a good gaming machine.
question: would you be able to open up the machine and put in a different video card? regardless of if you voided warranty or not?
32 gig of RAM!!!!!!!!! You could have every application running seamlessly at once.
If I had the money I would get a Mac pro (though obviously not with 32 Gig of Ram) I was wondering if the graphics card in the Mac pro is any good, is it comparable to the top of the line PC GC’s
As you can see via the Mac Centre links, Inigo can offer a lower price than from Apple direct, but you’ll also get a much better price on the Apple Care Warranty,and he usually does a great deal if you add in extra ram or larger HDD etc when you buy initially . . .
And that new Mac Pro . . . it can have – 32 gig of RAM . . . is basically a monster when fully fleshed out . . but it does have a hefty price-tag. But anyone wanting a monster like that will be able to afford it – $32k . . . Amanda said she had a guy come in the other day (she works at the Bayswater Road Next-Byte – ex Frequency) and asked for TWO of them for his music and graphics business . . . ;-(
That is incredibly thin. Though I myself wont be getting one (I already have a Macbook) I can see these selling really well, as OZ said, especially among business people and students.
Cant wait to get a new iMac myself
They will probably arrive in Aust in about 3 – 4 weeks, and they are aimed more at the traveler and business person who’s reliant on wireless more than anything else. Even the student for that matter . .
I’m not a fan of small screens, but that’s simply me, as I prefer to have some real estate in front of me when I buy a computer . . . As always, it’s apple’s way of introducing things into the mainstream, and getting the iTouch/iPhone touch sensitive screen system into the MacBook range, the wireless interconnectivity, and the new smaller internal HDD’s.
Yet still giving the options to the end user of having whatever they choose. MS Xbo-Div are following Apples guide really, in their 360 range, yet many don’t see it this way, as console, in the past, have been perceived as a one-off purchase, with no need to have various models etc.
Times have changed however, and the need to include various models for the ever expanding market and demographic is important. Not everyone that buys a 360 these days is a hardcore gamer, and that’s not the market MS Xbox-Div is after either.
I hopefully will have a new-ish 20-24″ iMac at some stage in the not too distant future, as even the base model is well priced, and far exceeds my present eMac which serves me well. So the upgrade to say a 20-24″ iMac with heaps more ram and power, certainly will be a treat.
One thing that is for certain, Apple (via Steve Jobs) certainly sets the benchmark for computing style and user-friendliness. PC mag recently voted the MacBook Pro as THE best portable computer on the market, and awarded it the best Operating System Award. Now that is something coming from a solid wintel based mag.
I’m also very surprised (in one sense) the number of Xboxer’s that use Macs . . .As I see the 360 as very ‘similar’ to the Apple Mac . . it’s a small fish fighting a huge foe that owns a significant share of the market . . and doing remarkably well at it to.
If it was a tad cheaper I would get one in a heartbeat. Although, $1,800 isn’t bad, it’s not on my necessity list right now
James, if you get a chance, do watch the Keynote, and you’ll see just how the MacBook Air works . . and how it will also work in with all the other wifi items going around, be they apple – or wintel.
From what my little birdy tells me, it could be really early in March when the iPhone, revised edition, l;ands on our shores . . . No news as to who will be the main carrier as yet either.
But there’s the distinct possibility that one carrier will have sole access to the iPhone for a few months, then other carriers will be allowed to offer it for ssle/contract etc.
NextByte will no doubt have the main contract for any service and or repairs, and if Telstra gets the initial rights, NextByte will most likely be carrying the iPhone as well.
I love the new features on the iPhone, Maps without GPS as does a new update for iTouch. at a click it can pin-point your location using various cell towers and wifi spot locators, and is now being mapped for the Asia Pacific Region . . .
Plus the iTune Movie rentals and straight to TV rentals is great . . .no one has managed to do it yet, until now. No running it through a media center, or using a PC/Mac in anyway, just straight through the net, to the TV, be it SD or HD. Theyn ow have all 12 major studios behind them with regards to movie access . . .
Yeah that is pretty cool. Insane, but cool. I think I will stick to getting an IMac tho.
Finally we can play Frisbee with a laptop!!
haha i checked this out today, i wouldn’t buy one, i would rather get a macbook (which I have lol) since they have more power.
But great for people with sore shoulders!
no announcement on Iphone Aus release date