Thoughts on Macbook Air

January 19th, 2008  |  Written by Andrew | 31,525 views | Published in Apple

I just think that Steve Jobs and Apple had a specific consumer in mind.  One that needed to have a super thin laptop that they can just stuff in their small brief case along with other papers and not need anything else.  Their main pitch was “Air” right?

But come on, comparing it to the Sony Vaio TZ, it beats in in size, processor (1.06ghz vs 1.6ghz Macbook Air Standard), screen estate (11.1in vs 13.3in Macbook Air), but loses with the 250gb HD that it comes with and an ethernet port.  I know that the place that I live in, I can find an open Wireless network point very easily especially when you go downtown.  But right now, scanning open networks, I see two that have about 3-4 signal strength that are not encrypted.  The Vaio TZ doesn’t even come with an optical drive, but at least it comes with it.  But for $2,399, that’s a premium Macbook Pro right there.

To go along with the Macbook Air, if you need more ports and also another display monitor, you can drive it with Kensington’s new Notebook Dock that they coincidentally released during Macworld.  You can connect a monitor and other peripherals with only one USB plug.  And it even got a CES innovative award.

http://us.kensington.com/html/13875.html

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