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Originally Posted by Qion  Greg has a good point; myself and most of the people contributing to this forum are not in the target market of the MacBook Air. A traveling airplane-oriented executive type would buy it all day long I suppose; however, it's not something practical for a majority of we artists and IT people.
I'll admit I had my own idea of what the new MacBook would look like, and it was quite a bit more risqué than the Air. Touchscreen instead of a keyboard, what. |
The problem is, it doesn't compete with larger laptops for screen real estate, and it doesn't compete with smaller micro-laptops like the Sony Vaio either in it's 13" size. It has other drawbacks already mentioned due to the lack of space and physical hard drive. Seems like it's stuck between two worlds with this iteration. I think they would have been better served making a mini laptop on this go around and at least committing to the business traveller 100%.
As it is, what we have is a nice extension of the keyboard that was released earlier this year (see the similarity?!) that is trying to have a foot in both worlds for mass appeal. This worked for the ipod, but it doesn't work for a laptop in my opinion.
Maybe this is a foot in the door to an entire range of 'flash drive' based laptops?