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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2-20-2008 @ 9:21AM
Chris Ryland said...
Perfect juxtaposition of the Jobsian design theory vs. the MIT freetard theory of hardware construction. (Just kidding.)
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2-20-2008 @ 9:44AM
Dripps said...
Looks like a slick serious computer next to a toy.
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2-20-2008 @ 9:48AM
Poltras said...
The MBA is a toy... :P
2-20-2008 @ 10:12AM
jln said...
I wonder what their children will look like.
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2-20-2008 @ 11:23AM
iamdigitalman said...
I'm guessing a clamshell iBook?
2-20-2008 @ 10:16AM
utterer said...
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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2-20-2008 @ 11:06AM
BHendrix said...
Um...TUAW is a blog.
2-20-2008 @ 11:08AM
mingistech said...
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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2-20-2008 @ 11:24AM
General Grant said...
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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2-20-2008 @ 11:48AM
TheNB said...
Why is there a lunchbox on the platter?
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2-20-2008 @ 1:01PM
tom b said...
"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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2-20-2008 @ 1:25PM
Simon Arch said...
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!
2-20-2008 @ 1:20PM
Genaro Rocha said...
So.. what's the point of this? this is stupid
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2-20-2008 @ 1:25PM
Simon Arch said...
Your comment or the post?
2-20-2008 @ 1:44PM
General Grant said...
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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2-20-2008 @ 1:52PM
clmensch said...
I bet that XO's wifi range is about ten times the MacBook air.
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2-21-2008 @ 1:37AM
Genaro said...
Hey here is another interesting comparison:
http://genarorg.blogspot.com/
enjoy!
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2-21-2008 @ 8:19AM
chewbee said...
How does Negroponte expect kids to get that thing into a manilla envelope!!!????
2-22-2008 @ 3:02AM
SSteve said...
reminds me of this picture: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/mcnealy-spotted-again-for-this-weeks.html
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2-24-2008 @ 10:03AM
michael said...
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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