Filed under: Odds and ends, Flickr Find, MacBook Air
A MacBook Air and an XO walk into my office...
It may sound like the intro to a joke that would only be funny at WWDC, but for a few minutes this afternoon I had both a shiny new MacBook Air 1.8 SSD and a not-so-new but still cute as a button XO laptop hanging out at my desk. If they were high school kids in a '50s movie musical, one would be nicknamed "Peewee" and the other one would have to be called "Slim."The MBA is moving on to its permanent home soon (the owner will be getting it next week, once we've -- ahem -- done our due diligence in testing), and the XO is on loan from iTransmogrify developer Joe Maller. It seemed like the thing to do in the presence of these two pieces of 21st century tech, each desirable in its own way, was to take a few snapshots for posterity.
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Chris Ryland said 9:21AM on 2-20-2008
Perfect juxtaposition of the Jobsian design theory vs. the MIT freetard theory of hardware construction. (Just kidding.)
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Dripps said 9:44AM on 2-20-2008
Looks like a slick serious computer next to a toy.
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Poltras said 9:48AM on 2-20-2008
The MBA is a toy... :P
jln said 10:12AM on 2-20-2008
I wonder what their children will look like.
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iamdigitalman said 11:23AM on 2-20-2008
I'm guessing a clamshell iBook?
utterer said 10:16AM on 2-20-2008
Looks like this is the start of a slow newsday when posts suitable for private blogs make the front page of TUAW.
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BHendrix said 11:06AM on 2-20-2008
Um...TUAW is a blog.
mingistech said 11:08AM on 2-20-2008
Are these pics taken in your garage? Dirty cables thrown all over the place on some desk from Salvation Army...
This is no place for a Macbook Air.
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General Grant said 11:24AM on 2-20-2008
Worst possible photos ever! Like a garage sale of sorts. Photos of MacBook Air in the wild are better but way ridiculous. http://www.iphonesavior.com/2008/02/macbook-air-ven.html
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TheNB said 11:48AM on 2-20-2008
Why is there a lunchbox on the platter?
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tom b said 1:01PM on 2-20-2008
"Are these pics taken in your garage? Dirty cables thrown all over the place on some desk from Salvation Army...
This is no place for a Macbook Air."
MacBook Air Version 2: You have to promise Apple in writing you will hire an interior designer before you "unbox" it.
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Simon Arch said 1:25PM on 2-20-2008
In fact, before Apple will allow you to purchase one, you'll have to have a Lifestyle Image Consultant come and assess you, your living space, your work space AND your friends to see if you're hip and trendy enough to be allowed to buy one.
And it should go without saying that mingistech will have to personally vet any photos of the product you want to post online.
Apple has an image to maintain, after all. If they let just ANYONE buy/photograph the computer "for the rest of us" their hipster cachet would vanish overnight!
Genaro Rocha said 1:20PM on 2-20-2008
So.. what's the point of this? this is stupid
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Simon Arch said 1:25PM on 2-20-2008
Your comment or the post?
General Grant said 1:44PM on 2-20-2008
Yes! Design must be at the heart of anything Apple. These garage sale photos set the Air back pre Macworld. Maybe even further before it existed inside a manila folder.
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clmensch said 1:52PM on 2-20-2008
I bet that XO's wifi range is about ten times the MacBook air.
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Genaro said 1:37AM on 2-21-2008
Hey here is another interesting comparison:
http://genarorg.blogspot.com/
enjoy!
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chewbee said 8:19AM on 2-21-2008
How does Negroponte expect kids to get that thing into a manilla envelope!!!????
SSteve said 3:02AM on 2-22-2008
reminds me of this picture: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/mcnealy-spotted-again-for-this-weeks.html
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michael said 10:03AM on 2-24-2008
Thanks for the photos. The MBA is a good looking table top.
I am not sure about the other thing. I might be tempted to pick it up, take it some place that is feet or even miles from my home, and start using it.
We cannot expect companies to build computers that are so durable people will expect to carry them where ever they go and not worry about the damn thing falling apart.
Apple: Where Style Stomps on Substance since 2002.
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