No user replaceable battery, one button mouse, not small enough to justify the price - thin is nice, but thin combined with large other dimensions just doesn't cut it.
A 4200RPM drive for $1800? It's a nice looking machine, no doubt, and I'm sure people who get it will love it, but they'll also have paid a whole lot of money (more, in fact, than its list price, because you'd be insane to get that and not take the SSD upgrade).
It's also not as though I ever looked at my $1000 1st-gen MacBook and thought "you know, it's just too big," but then, I'm probably not the Air's target market; I don't have, or want, an iPhone either.
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It's Apple's newest Anatomical Compensator. It's target market are the folks who want the newest, shiniest thing available. I don't see the battery being an issue for the target market, as most the folks buying something like this will be replacing their laptop around the time they wear out the battery.
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Date: 2008-01-15 10:20 pm (UTC)And it's nearly twice the price of a Macbook?
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Date: 2008-01-16 12:07 am (UTC)It's also not as though I ever looked at my $1000 1st-gen MacBook and thought "you know, it's just too big," but then, I'm probably not the Air's target market; I don't have, or want, an iPhone either.
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