Apple revamps MacBook Air, adds new 11.6" model

I stand corrected. Although, it is an Apple part, at what I'm sure would be Apple pricing, should the need arise.

Well what we have here, a group of apple haters. To apple haters, Go back to your mama and tell them why they raised such close-minded people. You should make a company that make retard comments to new innovations so that your brains will not go to waste.

anyway, this laptop is magnificent, so thin. wish it has the option for windows 7. and replace the the mac keys to winkeys and this is a best seller. $999 is a good price. no competition since adamo is dead.

Oh look, what have we here, another Apple groupie, in a drive by exhibition of what it's like to suffer paranoid delusions of grandeur.

Finally, someone points out the obvious....

god damn why cant we customize. I want the lowest possible hd and the best processor and graphics. I dont want to spend a crapload of money for better graphics just to have 90% of the increase go to HD...

I'm not sure where you're going with this. This thread is about a laptop(s), an ultra-thin laptop at that. One would expect the "optional at extra charge", add-ons to be rather limited.
You get what's behind door number 1, 2, or 3, door 4 is at the Dell website.

Then Leeky, I'll tell you the same thing as I just told the guest. This is an ultrathin laptop, which by its very nature,wouldn't withstand the addition of a higher performance CPU, or graphics. It's been designed to the specs it has, partly because of heat and space issues. If you slap a Blu-ray drive, an Nvidia 460, and an extra storage HDD it, what's the likely hood it would remain about a 1/2 inch thick.

If you're looking for "clip and paste" hardware options in an Apple computer, then you need to look at their pro desktop line.

It is obvious captaincranky is the best haters here. A self-acclaimed genius knows everything. I always find him in every articles saying negative comments. Get a life, dont make techspot your world. Get out and made some real friends so that the negativity attitude of yours would disappear slowly. Life is good man.

^ you didnt misled him. It is obvious he always react to every comments, even positive comments. he always say something. he always say to have an argument. well it is his life. thats the way he lives to this world so nothing to expect good from him.

Posting as a "Guest", is that the same thing as applying grease paint?

What's the matter, you couldn't make it in Ringling Brothers Clown School, now you're going to come here and pretend to be a therapist. Nobody will take your opinion seriously if you you walk around smiling all the time, they'll think you're up to something. Life is good for me also! I enjoy talking to the stains in my underwear as much as I enjoy talking to you. That said, I choose not to mix these two pleasures further.

Let's call it a draw, I won't bill your health insurance for that bit of counseling, and don't even think about billing mine.


Act Two, How to deal with people that have English as 4th language....:rolleyes:

I've seen phishing Emails with way better English than this. What are you in real life, a Nigerian Prince?

Stand back, I'm going to come to Apple's defense, better grab a screen cap.

This really isn't the sole province of Apple. This topic came up the other night in this thread; http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic154927.html My stand is, bumping the CPU up a notch, really doesn't do all that much. I'm sure that statement could be argued at some length as well.

The fact remains that nobody here is an "average consumer". That being said, the process of step up selling has relied on multiple changes to the configuration and adapted itself to the needs of the average consumer, (as well as profit margin). This has been going on since analog TV was king. A more powerful receiver was sold with a step up pair of speakers, perhaps a better turntable and cartridge as well. Desktops follow this tradition, they surely didn't invent it. In the same way that a mechanic, charges list price for parts purchased at wholesale, as well as his labor. PC makers will follow the same business model. The only thing that remains is to fake an "actual retail value", so they can sell you upgrade parts at a "discounted" price, which in fact, IS the retail price. Or didn't I understand that post either?

So now, when I say that I agree that Apple does in fact limit packages more than some, I'll draw the "Aphole Corp" out to call me a "hater".

So. if you want a full litany of choices, buy a Dell. Or better still, convince Newegg to open up a warehouse in Great Britain.

IamBD went to the most expensive pc company to compare mac to pc. I find that disturbing in itself because I know when you googled those results you found 3-5 other pc companies that had the same specs but are 2-300 dollars cheaper.

To be quite frank, I'm fairly disappointed in Apple, especially of late. When they came onto the market they were ahead of the game technologically speaking, but over these past few years they have been committing suicide in their business practice. They axed Abode Flash on their phones, restricted devs from using their own tools, and have for quite a while been out of the price range of a good deal of people and lacked real functionality. Apple throwing HDDs to the dogs is just another thing to add to the ever growing list of why I will never use them again. Sure, they are great products for commercial marketing, video editing, things along that nature, but if you want raw power for cheap and a plethora of do it yourself software / hardware you gotta go Windows. I'm sure Apple has some sort of reason for doing as they are with limiting what their users can actually do, but I can't see it. Eliminating HHDs in their new Air machines is a way to save power yes, but to do it at the expense of space when things like marketing and video editing rely on large amounts of space for high res, I just don't get what they are doing....

We hit on this earlier, I thought the flash was on the main PCB, but as it turns out, it's a proprietary PCB flash assembly.

The fact that you had to post the "isn't a hi-res video editor", comment, is an indicator of the fact that people are adding the own misconceptions to the hype already swirling around the product. Perhaps Steve Jobs never actually said that the "Air" was useful for actual video editing, but I'd venture a guess that he thought it in public, and his followers picked up on the vibes. :rolleyes:

Apart from being a cheapskate, I would buy one of these. My plastic $500 laptop has parts basically falling off of it, and it isn't exactly running Crysis either.