Added: Aug 20, 2008
From: mdnvr
Duration: 4:0
I switched to Mac with the advent of the Mac Mini. We've followed thesame pattern from the beginning. We buy a desktop and then thenotebook most similar in specs and performance to the desktop. Afterthe Mac Mini, we added an iBook (currently on Ebay [1]). Before westarted GeekBrief.TV, we got an iMac G5. The notebook we paired withthe iMac was a MacBook. When we went pro with the podcast, we went prowith the Mac Pro. We added to that a MacBook Pro and then another. TheMacBook Air [2] was the first Mac that's come out that dosn't fit ourgrowth pattern. It's the first Mac since we switched that I can easilylive without, so I didn't plan to do a review. My friend, Mark Taylor (taylormark.com [3]) bought one anddedicated it to our Big Trip fundraising effort [4], so I've playedwith it for three days, reviewed it and put it on Ebay. Most people I'm around are always looking for more power in acomputer. We want fast hard drives, fast processors and fast RAM.We'll sacrifice our desire to have a notebook that runs cool, and I'lllive with the machine being heavy. Not everyone shares the mission ofa power user, and it is those people that will get the most out of aMacBook Air. It's the ultimate writer's computer. It's size doesn't compromiseit's quality. It's solid and well balanced. It doesn't want to fall orlean in any direction. It is perfect for online activity and reallyany job where the primary requirement is the production or consumptionof text and pictures. It isn't good for video and I really don'tbelieve Apple meant it to be. I could watch video in iTunes, some HDvideos I tried downloading to watch in Quicktime just gave me aspinning beach ball. I also wasn't able to watch a remote DVD inanother machine with out getting a beach ball. The MacBook Air is like a conceptual design brought to market.Apple made something that most companies would only design to suggestwhat a machine might be like sometime in the future. That's one of thereasons I'm such an Apple fan. The MacBook Air isn't for me or anyone who aims to produce video,but for anyone else looking for portability, it's definitely worth alook.OH!!! And we know we got the show number wrong!List of current items on eBay [5]Links:------[1]http://cgi.ebay.com/Newly-Updated-Apple-iBook-G4-Laptop_W0QQitemZ290210078108QQihZ019QQcategoryZ4602QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[2] http://www.apple.com/macbookair[3] http://www.taylormark.com[4] http://www.paidbypixels.com[5]http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQdfspZ1QQfrppZ25QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQsassZcalilewisQQsbrsrtZd
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