Word is that the first round of shipments for the Macbook Air are touching down today (and some even yesterday). If you were one of the few who got an order off minutes after the announcement, expect your super-thin, super-breakable laptop to arrive sometime soon.
Flickr user nybras.rodrigo had the right idea for the people who want every last feature in their notebook when he designed the Macbook AirCraft.
Missing is the ability to pay your chiropractor, a HDMI port and any sort of audio, and oddly present is the floppy drive. Otherwise, this is (sadly) a summary of what the Mac community so vocally complained for.
Thin is in the details.
Everyone out there who has ever owned a VIA CPU is probably saying “what?”, but the folks over at [h]ardocp seem to have verified the fact that a new VIA Isaiah CPU running at 1.8ghz was able to successfully run Crysis. Did I mention: its tiny? The super-small CPU will be making rounds in ultraportable laptops and UMPC’s sometime in the near future, and perhaps bringing hardcore gaming to hand held devices (or maybe not).
Photo courtesy Russell Johnson
You can read HardOCP’s take here
One intrepid modder set out to build his tiny EEEpc into a mobile powerhouse by cramming it full of upgrades that would normally be found on much larger (and more expensive) laptops.
The contents of this mini-powerhouse are as follows:
For those of you looking to accomplish a similar mod, take note that the prices he paid were due to international part costs. To pick up the same parts in the United States would cost significantly less, around $200.
He also notes that possible future upgrades include:
I was excited for Macworld. I really was. I’m sad to say, I was disappointed. I was looking forward to the release of a new 12” Powerbook with the sexy Macbook Pro finish. No such luck. Instead, I was greeted by an oddly clamshell-esque ultra lightweight laptop that looks like little more then a child’s toy.
The guts are not bad for such a slender notebook, but the price isn’t cheap. A $3000 price tag nets you:
When the rumors got to flying, the Air name meant a whole lot more then weight. My Sony Vaio X505 weighs a whole lot less then this thing does and I find it quite a bit more attractive. I was looking for wireless power (a pipedream, I suppose) and at a bare minimum, integrated cellular internet. Not only was there no such luck there, it doesn’t even have an expansion slot for such a card! Aesthetically, I was a little surprised at Apple’s decision to use a set of black keys on a light silver notebook. That looks ugly and out of place, in my opinion. What is it, a TiBook?
All things considered, I’m disappointed. Apple could have done so much more with the Macbook Air but they scarified everything for thin.
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