Comments on: …iWas blind but now iSee http://onemissingsock.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/iwas-blind-but-now-isee/ Leaves you feeling full, and ZERO calories! Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:23:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: onemissingsock http://onemissingsock.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/iwas-blind-but-now-isee/#comment-67 onemissingsock Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:55:51 +0000 http://onemissingsock.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-67 The specifications of the macbook air suggest its closer to the standard than those of the pro. The specifications of the macbook air suggest its closer to the standard than those of the pro.

]]> By: melfar http://onemissingsock.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/iwas-blind-but-now-isee/#comment-65 melfar Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:18:41 +0000 http://onemissingsock.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-65 Ian, I don't share your anger on the macbook air. There's always been two lines of mac — home and pro. Macbook air is clearly a pro version — display is probably the brightest of the apple notebooks, wider viewing angles, better colors — far superior to macbook, and I know display matters to a lot of people. Aluminum case, backlit keyboard — all those things are attributed to the pro macs. This is a good laptop, suitable for work on the go, and as everything new, it comes at a higher price, which I'm sure will settle down in a year or so (they've already dropped the senior model price from $3000 to some $2500), around the time they bring the 45nm processor to the table, then I'll consider getting one myself. As for the general pricing of Apple vs. any other brand — in my opinion, at least you get what you paid for. I used to have a 13.3" core duo Asus laptop couple of years ago when they just started shipping core duos, which cost around $2000 at that time — and it sucked in so many ways you wouldn't expect for a mid-to-high ranged notebook — really low quality builtin mic, noisy cooling system, blowing from the right edge of the notebook — right where your hand rests when holding the mouse, lowres webcam (losing in quality to the macbook which is half the price), 1.5 gigs RAM max (macbook had 2), dimensions bigger than those of a macbook, lousy touchpad and a lot of other little irritating details like keyboard layout etc. I love the Apple hardware, compact cases, nice trackpads with two finger scrolling etc. To me, the mac has always been about the speed, not about reliability/security etc., though. Windows has also 'just worked' for me and actually been more reliable (never tried Vista, though) to me than Mac OS, but having the OpenGL accelerated UIs and unix subsystem at the core, the latter has always performed better to me, and that's why I use the mac. Ian, I don’t share your anger on the macbook air. There’s always been two lines of mac — home and pro. Macbook air is clearly a pro version — display is probably the brightest of the apple notebooks, wider viewing angles, better colors — far superior to macbook, and I know display matters to a lot of people. Aluminum case, backlit keyboard — all those things are attributed to the pro macs. This is a good laptop, suitable for work on the go, and as everything new, it comes at a higher price, which I’m sure will settle down in a year or so (they’ve already dropped the senior model price from $3000 to some $2500), around the time they bring the 45nm processor to the table, then I’ll consider getting one myself.

As for the general pricing of Apple vs. any other brand — in my opinion, at least you get what you paid for. I used to have a 13.3″ core duo Asus laptop couple of years ago when they just started shipping core duos, which cost around $2000 at that time — and it sucked in so many ways you wouldn’t expect for a mid-to-high ranged notebook — really low quality builtin mic, noisy cooling system, blowing from the right edge of the notebook — right where your hand rests when holding the mouse, lowres webcam (losing in quality to the macbook which is half the price), 1.5 gigs RAM max (macbook had 2), dimensions bigger than those of a macbook, lousy touchpad and a lot of other little irritating details like keyboard layout etc. I love the Apple hardware, compact cases, nice trackpads with two finger scrolling etc.

To me, the mac has always been about the speed, not about reliability/security etc., though. Windows has also ‘just worked’ for me and actually been more reliable (never tried Vista, though) to me than Mac OS, but having the OpenGL accelerated UIs and unix subsystem at the core, the latter has always performed better to me, and that’s why I use the mac.

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