Posts Tagged ‘macbook air’
MacBook Air Size
Since the MacBook Air was announced I kept thinking it was just retarded. Sure the machine is thin, but that isn’t going to help you too much when you need something small that will fit on your lap. The footprint of the machine is what is going to help you use the machine in tight spaces (that and losing your gut). When we got a MBA in for testing I quickly had to take some pictures of it compared to our current small travel machine the Sory Vaio tx770p.
Here is a quick comparison of the two spec wise.
|
Macbook Air |
32.51 x 22.7 cm |
3.0 lbs |
13.3 (1280×800) |
5 hrs |
|
Vaio tx770p |
27.2 x 19.5cm |
2.9 lbs |
11.1 (1366×768) |
7.5 hrs |
Notice the Vaio is lighter, smaller, has better battery life, and better screen resolution. Oh lets not mention it is 3 years old! Apple engineers don’t look so smart after all. And just for a nail in the coffin the Vaio has a DVD burner built in and a replaceable battery.
And here are a couple of pictures so you can see my point.
I can hopefully have more on this issue when we get more small laptops in.
Funny how that works.
I am not really trying to mix things up too much but I do find it very interesting that the weeks prior to MacWorld everyone was saying how much they would love to see a Mac Tablet and how great it would be to finally catch up with what the PC world has, without paying $2k+ for the Modbook.
And ever since the MacBook Air was announced everyone just said how awesome it would be to have a incredibly thin and light notebook would be. No more word on the tablet or all the other things they had wished would be there.
I also found it funny with the more powerful processors in the Mac Pro’s and how that would just “get in the way” of all the other amazing things that were going to happen at MacWorld. But really most people, who don’t throw money at Apple, came away very disappointed in the whole thing. If you truly look back and see what Apple did announce, it was actually pretty sad. Updated hardware and movie rentals is all I really saw. That is something that every company does. No company would go on stage and announce a thicker and slower notebook, or a inferior desktop. Every time there is a press release it is because something is faster, thinner, lighter, or just plain better than its predecessor.
Apple is supposed to innovate beyond just making something slightly better. The fact that they don’t do that really just makes them another company.
I really look forward to the coming ~6 months when a couple companies follow suit and build thin driveless machines but they don’t sell well. The really smart companies will watch how the MacBook air does and see that it won’t sell incredibly well, especially at its current price, and they will continue to make thinner, lighter, faster notebooks at a cheaper price.