>>> EEE-like MacBook Air? >>>
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The MacBook Air is beautiful, but too expensive for many (and, still, too big and heavy, for most mobile uses) so, following the Asus EEE trend, Apple could make a Smaller, Slimmer, Lighter and Cheaper MacBook Air with a 9" display, as explained in this article and shown in this image:
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The MacBook Air is beautiful, but too expensive for many (and, still, too big and heavy, for most mobile uses) so, following the Asus EEE trend, Apple could make a Smaller, Slimmer, Lighter and Cheaper MacBook Air with a 9" display, as explained in this article and shown in this image:
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How much smaller do you actually think a 16Gb SSD is from a 64GB SSD??!?
I would think they are still about the same size total overall package, and if there actually is any size difference, it would be so negligible as to make any 'extra' battery nearly useless.
Sorry dude, you fail?
I read your site (which, I am sorry to say, sucks?) and I just gotta say?
How much smaller do you actually think a 16Gb SSD is from a 64GB SSD??!?
I would think they are still about the same size total overall package, and if there actually is any size difference, it would be so negligible as to make any 'extra' battery nearly useless.
Sorry dude, you fail?
Go easy.
There's not really any more to your "article" than what you posted on here. An article, I expect, should contain multiple paragraphs. Also, the multi-color fonts is annoying when you're trying to read it.
that's (simply) since I've posted great part of my article (and the "eeeAir" image) here and (also) since the "eeeAir" is only a concept of a (possible) new Apple product (so, only Apple can give you more specs, when and if will make such product)
however, in my article there are the basic specs of this (possible) new "eeeAir" and they are very important to define the end-user PRICE of the "AirLight"
one point missed in my article (and here) is the advantage a low cost "eeeAir" may give to Apple to enlarge its notebooks' market share, that since, an economy's law, say that, when the price of a product "falls to half", it's seeling "more than doubles"
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I read your site (which, I am sorry to say, sucks?) and I just gotta say?
How much smaller do you actually think a 16Gb SSD is from a 64GB SSD??!?
I would think they are still about the same size total overall package, and if there actually is any size difference, it would be so negligible as to make any 'extra' battery nearly useless.
Sorry dude, you fail?
Actually, you can cram flash drives into just about any space. This is an 8GB mini-PCIe drive, you can get 16GB in the same size. Of course, it's slow, as the actual interface is USB. That is the actual drive the EEEPC 8G uses, by the way.
But I think that an even smaller Macbook is highly unlikely.
II would think they are still about the same size total overall package, and if there actually is any size difference, it would be so negligible as to make any 'extra' battery nearly useless.
probably, you're right talking of the suggested standard MBA add-on, but (surely) not for the "eeeAir" where the most important "cut" we can see from using a (standard) 16GB SSD is its PRICE
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...the actual interface is USB. That is the actual drive the EEEPC 8G uses...
not sure (I'll verify) but (IIRC) both EEEPCs' SSDs don't use the USB interface
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The philosophy of the MBA is to be lightweight without compromising the performance and screen size of a standard laptop.
Suffice to say, it won't necessarily be cheaper just by making it smaller and the battery would have to be smaller.
The Keys are about 1/2 an inch thick. You cant type on that.
if an EEE-like keyboard is too small... then, we should throw all Blackberry, Palm, etc. in a trash can...
however, the keyboard of the new "eeeAir" could be something like the old IBM ThinkPad 701 (that's the real EEE grandfather)
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Trouble with this idea is that having a small screen was one of the flaws Steve Jobs specifically mentioned about other ultra-mobile designs.
the EEE-like notebooks are a big success, then, it's the market that wants this kind of product
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or not... probably the real EEE "grandfather" was the Olivetti "Quaderno"
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Secondly, the rumoured and certainly inbound 'tablet' Mac is the closest we'll see to a ULC (Ultra Low-Cost) Mac, and will almost certainly not come at the same pricing structure as the likes of the Asus EEEPc, MSI Wind or HP Mini-Note. Apple will not jump on this bandwagon.
Though the idea of picking up a functional Mac sub-notebook for £250 is appealing, it's never going to happen. At least not for a very long time.
The concern shouldn't be the amount of physical space the storage volume will require, we live in an age of 32GB USB flash memory sticks people! Okay they're slow. But you see the potential...
the EEE-like notebooks are a big success, then, it's the market that wants this kind of product
You could say the same about mid-range towers - Apple don't give people what they want though, they tell them what they think is better and expect you to jump.
Apple say that a bigger screen and more performance at the expense of ports, replaceable battery etc is a better compromise. If they make a smaller one, they would be admitting that a small screen is not a flaw, which Jobs said it was.
The machine you really lust after isn't a cut down version of the macBook Air but the much rumoured MacBook Touch. Perhaps the best way to describe this is as fusion of the iPhone and and MBA into a machine with a footprint roughly inline with your suggestions. Since this is still very much in development, no one has any idea exactly how big, powerful and useful it will be. But Apple being Apple, I have every confidence that it will be the sub-notebook Newton replacement that everyone's gagging for. It could even arrive as soon as January 2009? let's hope so.
just add keyboard to the MB Touch... and you have an "eeeAir" the iPhone already is the true Newton, also, the rumored "iTouch" could be an Apple "eBook" like the Amazon's Kindle:
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...take a short web-design course...
I can do it better, but I've not the time (not even to write all ideas and proposals I think, so...) however (surely) its "pop-art" like catch the attention
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Apple don't give people what they want though, they tell them what they think is better and expect you to jump.
yes, but, I'm sure they can agree, that, sell a MBA that fits most pockets (both as "dimensions" and/or "available cash") is not a bad idea
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Trouble with this idea is that having a small screen was one of the flaws Steve Jobs specifically mentioned about other ultra-mobile designs.
The philosophy of the MBA is to be lightweight without compromising the performance and screen size of a standard laptop.
And because of that it's not that light either. It's just thin. I'm not really interested in performance or having a 13" screen or it being moderately light. It's the size of it that rules it out for me.
An Atom based 8.9" eeePC 900 style Apple laptop would be pretty much perfect for the light use I need a laptop for away from my desk. The MacBook Air is overkill and too expensive. The keyboard on the eeePC takes a little getting used to but it's perfectly adequate to peck out an email or a story on. It's not like you can't attach a full size keyboard either!
It wouldn't be the first time Jobs has out and out 'specifically mentioned' one of the features of the products Apple is selling you now whilst developing exactly what the other guys are doing. eg. flash based iPods...