Comments on: Apple’s Next MacBook: An $800 Mac for the Masses

By: PRETHOUGHT

PRETHOUGHT — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:05:29 +0000

Much of what you said could be said about the iPad vs Netbook. You don’t actually see the benefit till you actually use it. The iPad like the Air is not meant to be your primary computing device.

By: PRETHOUGHT

PRETHOUGHT — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:51:18 +0000

Apple allows Microcenter to cull the stock of both MB and MBP 13″ for 200 instant rebate every year around this time. Still the best place to buy a 15″ or larger is Best Buy because their accidental damage warranty plan is far superior to any other offering. And you can get as much as 15% off iPads/iPods if you open a Target charge account. And yes most average consumers are ignorant to the fact that you can get better deals outside of Apples retail store because the average Apple store customer is either an Apple newbie or tech illiterate. Lets face it what is branded as a Mac genius is typically a high school / college kids part time job whose skill set slightly above the average customer. No one who enters the Apple store is familiar with timbuktu, rebuilding extensions or promises of Copeland during the Apple dark ages or BSCSJ time… The time before the second coming of Steve Jobs, before it was cool to buy Apple :)

By: B Hanson

B Hanson — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:12:28 +0000

Point by Point, correct me if I’m wrong…
As I understand it, Flash will not work on new MacBook Air at all, forget about installing?

FaceTime nothing. It cannot call regular telephone numbers, Skype come a lot closer…
We don’t have Netflix in New Zealand…
So Spotlight does a System wide search now? and allows searching on multiple criteria? e.g. Find me all of the documents created by program x, that are under 427 kb and were created before 1-1-2010. Now sort them alphabetically, or by date or by size. Can’t? Didn’t think so!

By: rezlam

rezlam — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:33:57 +0000

Macs optical drives don’t play blueray and I don’t see it coming, ever. I can’t remember the last time I used my notebook optical drive… so, I think it’s just a matter of time for Apple to drop them.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:30:55 +0000

If you find it prohibitive to have to install Adobe Flash yourself, you’ll really hate Windows or Linux. They are like I-T The Home Game.

All that old junk you like from the Performa is in the basic MacBook Air in modern digital versions: FaceTime obliterates an answering machine, Netflix and iTunes obliterate a TV card, and you can make Spotlight work like the classic search just by turning off most of the document types it finds, like email messages and contacts, so that it just shows you your files.

By: jonathanchi

jonathanchi — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:08:35 +0000

I like the macbook and I have a macbook. I think the macbook pros are nice but the white plastic macbook has a classic mac look to it. I really hope that Apple will continue that classic plastic look with a more powerful processor in the future macbooks.

By: Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:48:29 +0000

How long do you think it’ll be before this happens? I don’t see it getting wide traction until probably at least 2013.

By: Gustavo Domínguez

Gustavo Domínguez — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:39:08 +0000

Of course they’re gonna eventually adopt flash drives. People always criticizes when Apple, as usual, drops some old tech –like they didn’t include CD/DVD drives in the MBA, or the floppy disk in the original iMac– It’s gonna be in tech sites all over for a while and next you’re going to see everyone adopting Apple’s move, again, like the optical drives thing.

By: B Hanson

B Hanson — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:47 +0000

If Apple drop the MacBook and only offer a MacBook Pro and some deprecated offerings (Air without Flash) I’ll start looking at other platforms. I already feel as though Apple is playing me for chump. I’m not interested in toys (iPads and Apple TV’s) I need and want tools and would feel much happier if the market decided to install Flash or not. However it makes perfect sense to let OS X devices run iOS software. Back in the Nineties Apple had a machine (Performa Directors Edition black Mac) that had a TV card installed, could record and capture video, had a telephone answering machine with voice mailboxes and a Search tool that worked (unlike Spotlight). As a long time Mac user I do not consider most of the improvements we see these days as improvements at all.

By: Virtuous

Virtuous — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:49:15 +0000

Most people want to see a notebook in person before spending several hundred dollars. Apple Stores have been an essential element of the growing success of Macs.