MWSF08: MacBook Anorexic: Where Apple Went Wrong
Linked by Smith Johnson on Wed 16th Jan 2008 01:24 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Apple Like an anorexic fashion model, Apple's new super-thin MacBook Air has made too many compromises for the sake of being skinny. With such emaciated specs, many are asking: who would buy it?
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RE: Who needs slim anyway?
by sbergman27 on Sat 19th Jan 2008 18:18 UTC in reply to "Who needs slim anyway?"
sbergman27
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2005-07-24

As with much of Apple's mystique, it's an image thing. The young hip guy in the Mac commercials pretty well sums up what they're going for. Maybe the quality is good. But I'd as soon have 2 Compaqs as one of these. Maybe I'm just too old to be young and hip? ;-)

Agreed on the limited value of slim. By the time you pack it up well enough and with the rest of your gear, you'd likely never notice the difference.

Edited 2008-01-19 18:29 UTC

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RE[2]: Who needs slim anyway?
by Glynser on Sat 19th Jan 2008 18:34 in reply to "RE: Who needs slim anyway?"
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2007-11-29

Well, Apple seams to do stuff only because they CAN. They always want to do the smallest stuff (like MacMini and so on), only to prove they CAN. But not because it's highly desirable ;)

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