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Not for the serious developer and designer with these specs at the moment! I’m sticking with the MBP. From my perspective I’m not sure what the use of it is other than running demos for clients and it looking good.

Not for the serious developer and designer with these specs at the moment! I’m sticking with the MBP. From my perspective I’m not sure what the use of it is other than running demos for clients and it looking good.

I have a feeling that most people shopping for ultraportables aren’t necessarily looking for performance, but rather smallness and “cool” factor. Both of which the MacBook Air (still not sure how I feel about the name) has in spades, IMHO.

I’ll be honest, none of the announcements yesterday were anything that I personally got excited for, though I can see why Apple went down those roads. About the only thing that interests me is Time Capsule, though I still have yet to upgrade to Leopard.

Now those revamped Mac Pros, on the other hand… 😊

opuszine is right. The market for this is for those looking for ultimate portability - frequent travellers, students (with rich parents), etc. This is not an offering for 3-D animators, gamers and video producers or anyone else looking for top-notch performance or a desktop replacement.

The moment I saw this, I thought, “This should be my next work machine.”

As I am in sales, I need my computer for demos, presentations and communication. The MBA is *perfect* for this. Not to mention it looks wicked-hot, which *does* count.

It definitely makes a lot of compromises in exchange for its “thinnovation”. Non-user replaceable battery (!!) and 2GB of RAM soldered on the motherboard are the biggies. It’s thin, but it has about the same footprint as the MacBook doesn’t it - I’m surprised they didn’t try to go smaller in other dimensions. I haven’t seen it in person so I am probably out of bounds here, but I smell a Cube redux on Apple’s hands…

have you seen/experienced a cube? it was a great computer. amazing form factor. looked great. know a few people where it took pride of place in a corner of there pad. those who don’t necessary need to tinker and swap in/out stuff.

i think the same will apply to MBAir. it might not gain amazing traction, but it is a stepping stone. saying that, the environment for apple is very different now. it is bridging the gap between computers and devices. MBAir mark 1 might not hit the sweetspot, but it won’t be a disaster.

$999 with 2 gig of ram and only 32 gigs of “hard drive” RAM might do the trick for me. I think that we need to throw away the idea of keeping 20,000 songs and pics on a sub-notebook.

I use my G4 Powerbook about exactly how I would use this - in my lap for web and email access and very small doses of applications.

Well, my G4 PB will do for now, but I just unpacked my new Mac Pro today (heavy sucker!), so I am happy for now. Those 8 cores should do the job…...of course, I have to add more RAM.

have you seen/experienced a cube? it was a great computer. amazing form factor. looked great. know a few people where it took pride of place in a corner of there pad. those who don’t necessary need to tinker and swap in/out stuff.

i think the same will apply to MBAir. it might not gain amazing traction, but it is a stepping stone. saying that, the environment for apple is very different now. it is bridging the gap between computers and devices. MBAir mark 1 might not hit the sweetspot, but it won’t be a disaster.

If they made a Cube 2 I’d probably bite actually.  Most people who bought them love(d) them.  What I really want is the xMac. Headless, 4 RAM slots, desktop parts, room for 2 HDs, upgradable GPU. The computer Apple will never make :(

I guess the price is what is really throwing me on this thing - if they knocked off $300 bucks I think they’d make back in volume what they’re losing in margin… I’m as far from a CEO as someone can get though so it’s probably best to do the exact opposite of what I think 😉

The rumored pictures had a much nicer design, but the lack of optical drive, usb ports, ethernet and lack of hard drive space doesn’t do it for me.

I don’t see this product going far, as for an extra £100 you can go MacBook Pro. If the Air were say £899 I probably would be buying one, but Apple have set the price totally wrong, Steve needs to give the marketing and development team a kick up their backside.

I am totally thinking about buying this as a second computer. In fact, if you bought one of these, plus a headless mini, you would have a pretty nice set up.