Filed under: Macworld, MacBook Air
MacBook Air hands-on
After the keynote we naturally raced to the gigantic Apple booth to get our grubby hands on the MacBook Air. Watch Scott compare it to his now-beastly MacBook Pro. Also watch the nifty new multi-touch trackpad action.
UPDATE: Silly me, I ignored Apple's CamelCase naming scheme. All better.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
pb12 said 5:02PM on 1-23-2008
http://mbp12.com
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THEVIGODA said 3:29PM on 1-17-2008
I see Jim Louderback
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Mike said 3:24PM on 1-17-2008
That was great, I had no trouble hearing Scott at all.
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Russell said 3:25PM on 1-17-2008
Looks slow and choppy. Any word on whether the multi touch stuff will be coming to other laptops? Multi touch doesn't look nearly as cool on a track pad as it is on a touch screen, but I still wouldn't mind playing around with it. Probably still an improvement over having to click zoom buttons or whatever.
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guerro said 3:31PM on 1-17-2008
Its almost too thin and light. Why does it need to be so thin ? Anyway, will the multi touch stuff work in windows XP ?
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madwh said 3:39PM on 1-17-2008
check out the Air version of iPhone http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Air
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PINE said 3:50PM on 1-17-2008
I'll take a beastly MacBook Pro over a macbook air any day. I actually like to be able to do shit with my computers. Can't wait to order the newly refreshed MacBook Pro announced at MacWorld...oh yeah, they didn't refresh the MBP. I guess WWDC is ONLY 6 months away.
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david said 3:51PM on 1-17-2008
does anyone know what song that was which was playing around the mid way point? I really liked it. :D
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justin said 4:15PM on 1-17-2008
here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ods09iZCYxY
Marcos said 4:57PM on 1-17-2008
It's MacBook, not Macbook. It's not as bad as Ipod but being TUAW I would hope you'd get that right.
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Shawin said 4:21PM on 1-17-2008
shize the Air looks thinner than the pro's screen!
The macbook Air surely can't replace the Pro but, I'd definitely sell my macbook and get this if I could. I guess I'll try to put it in the local free news ads lol.
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Greg G said 4:52PM on 1-17-2008
I would love it if they put out a software update for the other macs, so we could get gestures like that.
But you know, product differentiation and all =(
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Xcorpi said 5:06PM on 1-17-2008
Cool... new multytouch is a realy cool! But! Standart MacBook have multytouch basic... hack for standart macbook dont exist?:D
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walkerjs said 5:24PM on 1-17-2008
It is stupidly thin, but still the same size as my Macbook. I'm cool with the size of my Macbook because it's about the size of a...book. All my bags are equipped to handle toting something of about that size, so while this is sexy, no need to be dropping $1.7K for that.
The Macbook Air should really be called something like the Macpamphlet or Macfolder because of it's ridiculous thinness.
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PatriciaP said 5:39PM on 1-17-2008
Woot! i know the bald man in the background... The Air is HELLA Sexy!! :)
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м6 said 5:44PM on 1-17-2008
Oh, and on the topic of NOT refreshing the MacBook Pro. January 7th marked 5 years since the first Macs in an aluminum enclosure were introduced. The MBP we have now is pretty much still the same 17" PowerBook from 2003!
I think this could warrant a post of its own. Why no celebration, Apple?
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TMM said 5:51PM on 1-17-2008
What about the screen? Could somebody tell me if the screen is better than the one on the MacBook?
I mean, of course, the LED makes it better, but is it of quality like the MacBook's:
Bad gradients
Color banding
Getting brighter from top to bottom.
The MacBook's screen is really bad, and the glossy coating is suspicous.
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miguel said 7:46PM on 1-17-2008
the macbook air looks too thin to me ... i wonder how durable it will be. I am still waiting for the macbook upgrade ..
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marc cardwell said 8:59PM on 1-17-2008
jesus christ. if the MBA f-ing screen were smaller, you pukes would be complaining, "it's too small!" if it were any heavier, you'd be whining "shee-it! this ain't no no differn't than my mac book!" the speed kicks ass out of my powerbook g4 i'm typing on and my tower g5 at work, so i THINK it is good for "doing shit." you're not supposed to edit VIDEO on the thing. as far as the drive capacity, i've got adobe cs2 apps, quark, 10 gig of music, etc. amount of space this takes up: 43.16.
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krye said 9:58AM on 1-18-2008
Well put.
This is an on-the-go machine, so it should only have your on-the-go apps, a little music, and a few pics. It IS NOT A DESKTOP REPLACEMENT! It is the perfect companion to your iMac or Mac Pro.