It’s Official…
This year’s apple keynote was lame.
The only real announcement worth anything is about the MacBook Air (which was leaked by wired yesterday). It’s a neat toy, but here’s the downsides:
- No Ethernet port
- MacBook style keyboard
- Trackpad is ginormous
- 64GB SSD drive is $1000 extra!
- Superdrive is external and extra
- Only 1 USB port
- adapter needed for DVI (ie. Micro DVI)
- Processor is a 1.6
- Pimped out one (1.8ghz w/ SSD) = $3,100
I also just noticed that they’re selling a USB / Ethernet adapter for $30. Umm, but won’t that eat up the 1 USB Port?
It’s cool that it’s super thin, has a battery that will last forever, and is “Green” (i’ll rant about that new wave of b.s. later), but seriously. You’re going to have to keep it in a bag with your superdrive and all the various add-on adapters that you’ll need (sold separately of course).
Boo…
i must say, the macbook air not my favorite computer.
it seems mostly a good companion for a desktop, for business purposes…