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Or sucks. Whichever word tickles your fancy. I like using Blows better. Simply because it’s the opposite of the word Suck but still means that something is damn awful. Yay for multiple meanings, right? What words do you use to say something blows beyond total belief yet people yearn for it like Jesus?
Apple revealed it’s new computer product at Macworld a little whiles back, the Macbook Air. Everyone and their moms were thinking up what good ol’ Steve Jobs would have in store for us. I talked it over with my friends too, of course. All of our main hopes seemed to be on an imaginary notebook that was cheaper than their current ridiculously-priced line of Macbooks.
A subnotebook, for the people. People who are too broke to purchase Apple’s normal hardware and want that wonderful OS X experience without having to saw an arm off and personally hand said arm to Steve Jobs through his bathroom window.
And after looking at the pile of arms he has in his tub collecting dust (because poor people aren’t human) Steve decided that sure, he’ll give us a subnotebook.
And wow, what a notebook.
One USB 2.0 port. No ethernet port. 80 gigabytes of space, 64 gigabytes if you want to “upgrade” to a solid state drive. No optical drive. For a whopping $1799.
“But it’s Apple!”, you say. Right. And if it were a Toshiba? An HP? Would you pay that much for a computer that has less features than the $500 desktop we bought for my brother last Christmas? “You’re not paying for the features, you’re paying for Apple!” What the Hell does that mean?
You don’t own Apple when you buy one of their products. Is it the thinness of it? I’m sure the thinness is down right charming, it even made me gasp a little “Wow!” when I saw it introduced.
And the sad part is I know people who want this notebook. Who want it bad. So bad they’d sell their current awesome setups just to have one. And maybe even give Steve their remaining arm so he can decorate his study with them.
I thank the idiots who drool over everything Apple for letting Steve get away with a crap notebook like this. And I have to thank Steve for assuming we’re all stupid.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Ahh, I agree. Apple needs to seriously re-consider their customer base, and fix their prices in order to fit better into NORMAL price ranges.
It’s a pretty notebook. But certainly not worth more than $1,000.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I don’t have a Macbook myself, nor a Macbook Air. But wow that’s pretty expensive. The thinness probably makes it more expensive though. I don’t mind having a thicker notebook though because it fits fine in my book bag when I want to carry it around, and that’s all that matters. My brother has one that’s too big to fit in a book bag because it’s too thick and too wide. It has a huge monitor and memory space though.