[alon99]

Imagine an alternate universe where Apple released the Macbook Air two years ago, and yesterday at Macworld they announced the standard Macbook? It would seem like the world’s biggest upgrade.

“We know that a lot of you have been frustrated by the fact that you need to haul around the optical drive accessory. That’s why the new Macbook has a BUILT IN OPTICAL DRIVE!”

“We know you’ve complained about the fact that there aren’t enough connections. That’s why we’ve DOUBLED the number of USB ports, and added firewire too! No more ethernet dongle - we’ve built that in, and upgraded it to gigabit!”

“You’ve all been complaining about the slow 80GB hard drive... and we hear you. We’ve more than TRIPLED the hard drive space, at 250GB! Plus, you can double the memory and expand it to 4GB!"

“Of course, we’ve added the latest, fastest Intel processors at 2.2GHz, and we’ve responded to your comments about the battery. Now it’s user replaceable! That’s right, you can buy an extra battery and change it yourself, WITHOUT going to the Apple store!”

“One more thing... the price. For all these new features, I bet you’d expect to pay a lot, right? Well we’ve cut the price by $700! Yes, the future is now. This is truly new, amazing technology.”

“All this, and it’s still only one inch thick!”

The crowd gives Steve a standing ovation.

[The Placid Casual]

Lol! You're right! They got it the wrong way around!

Although, this way we have to look at it as regression, and not progress

[Stizo99]

"There's a sucker born every minute" -P.T. Barnum
That sounds about right...to pay more for something with less features. Granted the MBA is not meant for power users, but I think this sets the footwork for what's to come in the future with Mac hardware.

[mduell]

And it's a whopping 67% heavier... oops.

[Cadaver]

Introducing the MacBook Air G5.

Smallest G5 notebook ever. Just 0.68" at the edges (and 4.2" at the center). Steve pulls it out of a shoe box

3.0 lbs light (not including the external power brick, which weighs 6.8 lbs).

Stays a relatively cool 212°F (well, what I mean is, cool for general relativity).

Runs a full 30 minutes with a fully charged battery. Battery charges rapidly in only 4 hours, and are easily replaceable at any authorized Macintosh service center.

There's truly something in the Air (and not just arsenic from the IBM plant).


Guess its a good thing Apple divorced IBM and married Intel.