MacWorld 2008: MacBook Air the parade. Around, nothing.
Author: ildella on Wednesday, 16 of January, 2008 at 4:43 pm
The ESC was a little 'a disappointment and I was also convinced that only the MacWorld would have done much more noise. This was true in a sense, during the Speech of Steve Jobs has even come down Twitter.
Beyond that, however, is that not even the MacWorld have seen major announcements. Perhaps the thing that makes more news at this time is the lack of meat to the fire of a certain thickness. Apart from the MacBook Air of course that arouses sensation, emotion, admiration or contempt, depending on how it is seen.
My view is that it should be assessed in terms of "I'm creating a trend, I'm a road marking" something that no one better than Apple, in this field, can afford (and succeed) to do today.
Let's face it: $ 3000 for a machine that can not be used for real work, which is well ahead of the real world without the ethernet socket and the optical scanner are many .... A lot of course this kind of limitation can not go down. Already but the point is that it is not the "many" which is aimed Air today, in January 2008, but a few. Very few individuals who can spend that money in light (which is totally lack an actual value of the object.
Above all, the subject turns to the market in general and those few who know how to interpret the trend. The MacBook Air is there to say 'ok, it's 2008, we understand that we have to stop with scanners, a technology is outdated and unacceptable, BASTA! Enough magnetic discs, we want the solid state disks and who cares if you are 64 mega so few who still keeps its data on portable hard? External disk, storage networking, we are realistic and forward then SUFFICE WIRES, it does not want to know more. "
This is what the market or better than a slice of ever wanting to have more gadgets and tools all'avanguatrdia are asking for. Fortunately, Apple marks the street, pulls a line with the past and make sure that everyone else must inevitably keep pace.
Perhaps in the coming months we will see out versions less extreme and more suited to the realities of 2008 but no doubt this will shake out by the other because they are "back". I hope at least, is so bleak as they look horrible and old laptops that are around ...
For the rest, calm. No news on the MacBook Pro and patience. Something on the iPhone and iTouch in that area but the most interesting are the software developed by the famous "third parties" or add-ons (microphone and GPS) ever developed by the company. Talk about this in the next few days when I will have the opportunity to Collada some application in person.
In short, little new, considering that neither Apple TV, nor even the latest super proprietary content distribution system film can not even remotely incuriosisce, here's the best thing found in turn becomes the reduction to 60 seconds of speech for 90 minutes of Steve Jobs.
Comment by Philip
Made Wednesday, 16 of January, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I was just a little curious to see if Apple would extract something comparable all'eeepc.
If it is as it seems, if Asus is coming out with something interesting, and a hardware and software platform truly open and extensible (without the risk of being reported or "off").
Apple has responded, as other times, with very little smoke and roasted.
Comment by Folletto Malefico
Made Thursday, 17 of January, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I agree more or less throughout the article, however:
"$ 3000 for a machine that can not be used for real work"
I do not think properly correct:
1. Costa in 1699.
2. He inside a Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz base.
For point (1), well in 1699 are very different from 3000. This does not mean that much to sell, but it is a very different perspective. I have a 1699 we thought for a moment if he could do on my case, to 3000 there would not even try. 
For point (2), I do not exaggerate when I say that for 90% of the peak consumption of CPU is when watching a DivX. Even people who are active users with an excellent knowledge science often do not exceed 30% of CPU, with an average of around 5%. For this reason, a Core 2 Duo is more than enough in most cases.
Whether diciamola all: people not to change the computer CPU, except in the case of gamers.
Comment by ildella
Made Thursday, 17 of January, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Philip: EeePC is an interesting and admirable, but does not fall precisely in cagetoria Air. It 'a subnotebook. Air is not a machine work and then maybe the difference is only in name, but it is little more, also features several performances.
EeePC also marks a step forward, a new idea and decided ... Perhaps I am less interested in what is clearly too little, "as its technical characteristics, not so much as size. It 'a hybrid PDA-ultraportable that I do not know who might really like the type of product, beyond the specific object.
That said, yes, Air much smoke ... but it is precisely the kind of smoke which was intended, that of the large bridges. After all, is its reason to exist is not it? If we had wanted a more real ... we asked a Dell or someone else of that type
Comment by ildella
Made Thursday, 17 of January, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Elf: yes ok, but the version to $ 1600 with the disc from the 4200 ... is not even to consider. Oddio maybe so, however, much work still works there, and to do is cool enough that ... Well ... it is not so much that interests me, I know that soon I will have to start thinking of a laptop from work and to my great sorrow, I know that I will not have a SSD 
