Whipping up a fury
Jan 15th, 2008 by lavonardo
It’s mid-january, it’s time for Macworld, the regular parting of the reality distortion field, when Steve Jobs shows which products are going to line his pockets with cash.
The show did not disappoint this time around either.
This time the star of the show was the next-generation laptop, MacBook Air. Whose most remarkable feature is its positively anorectic depth - at its thickest the laptop is less than two centimeters thick, and correspondingly, its weight. Software-wise, the biggest innovation is probably the introduction of iPhone-originated multi-touch gestures via an over-sized trackpad.
The new features come surprisingly cheap, and the battery life (at five hours) isn’t anything to scoff at either.
As a recent buyer of a new laptop, the excuses not to utterly covet this baby are few, but not insignificant. It’s brand-new technology, and Apple has had serious release1.0-issues in the past, so stability might be an issue. The lack of software that’s aware of the multi-touch capabilities will take a while to arrive. The sales volumes will overwhelm production, and the availability will be an issue. On-board HD-capacity is really expensive. There, there. Feel better already. A little.
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It looks pretty and all, but it remains to be see, how well this new laptop handles things like cooling. How well it takes pressure from books, etc. in someones backpack. And there are probably long list of other things, where this new design has to prove to the market that it can take all kind of abuse and still work flawlessly.
I would personally wait six to twelve months to learn what they can and can’t take, before I would purchase one of these for personal use.
Fragility was one factor I forgot to mention - and it’s a significant one indeed to anybody who’d place the computer in a backpack with books and groceries.
I’ll definitely let Apple work out the kinks, and may come aboard with the next release.
And hope that the multi-touch capabilities are available to users of older laptops too (the extra-wide touchpad being just a convenience factor, not a pre-requisite).
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