Comments on: Steve Jobs drives me crazy

By: wypożyczalnia samochodów dostawczych

wypożyczalnia samochodów dostawczych — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:13:21 +0000

i know this is not exactly on topic, but i have a blog using the blogengine platform as well and i’m having issues with my comments displaying. is there a setting i am forgetting? maybe you could help me out? thank you.

By: Geoff Sowrey

Geoff Sowrey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:05:49 +0000

I sat back and thought about this a lot more over the last couple of days, and in a non-Experience Matters post on my own blog, wondered if anyone has actually gotten this right. So far, my thought is: No.

By: The Jolly Jetsetter

The Jolly Jetsetter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:30:45 +0000

I’m a frequent traveler and I find I have too many useless files sitting on my Macbook pro, eating up memory and forcing me to carry around a heavy, ungainly laptop. This air matched with a portable hard drive is perfect- you can open up quickly in the subway, on a flight, en route to a meeting– more importantly, you are forced to separate the important files from your storage files (that you keep on your HD). The limitations of the laptop will force me to be more efficient and to filter my work- something I would never have done otherwise.

Lets all wait till the second generation though, if there is one thing apple is good at, its making sure the first production set of its products are plagued with problems for the duration of their lifetime.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:17:58 +0000

Ah, yes – the eeePC Leopard hack. See here for details:

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12654/

Bear in mind, this violates Apple’s EULA, but that kind of supports my theory about “hackable” versus “unhackable”, doesn’t it?

Dave

By: Geoff Sowrey

Geoff Sowrey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:32:32 +0000

As Tyler mentioned earlier, it really depends on whom the Air is targeted at. Something tells me that it’s not really meant for the MacBook Pro users.

In some ways, I think the Air is meant to be a more professional version of the EeePC and the CloudBook. If it weren’t for the integrated battery, I’d be all over it. Mostly because the EeePC is too limited (yep, Leopard’s been hacked onto it, but even the highest end Eee has only 8 GB of “hard drive”).

The CloudBook’s not even out yet. Though very similar (it has an actual hard drive — a big bonus), it’s also all open source and I’m not sure if the hardware could support Leopard.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:23:46 +0000

The fact that you can’t replace the battery was the nail in the coffin for me. If you are making a computer that is all about portability why would you seal in the battery. If I am remote, on a long flight, in the middle of no where, anywhere where I can’t plug in, I want the ability to switch to a backup battery. This cannot be done with the air. We all know how hot the Mac Book Pros run, and how much battery juice they suck up when running video or any other processor heavy activity. Heck, even the XO has a hand crank and rip cord

By: Geoff Sowrey

Geoff Sowrey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:48:08 +0000

Same footprint with a smaller screen? Interesting. The specs they gave alluded otherwise.

Another nail in the coffin. Well, for me.

I also found out yesterday that Leopard’s been hacked to run on an EEEPC. Hello, $500 (including cost of Leopard) Mac!

By: Tyler C Hellard

Tyler C Hellard — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:53:00 +0000

Something I just realized (or at least just had pointed out to me) – despite being thinner and lighter, the 2D footprint of this machine is exactly the same as the MacBook.

By: Tyler C Hellard

Tyler C Hellard — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:35:52 +0000

Thus far I think the Ask A Ninja guy has best summed up my view of the Air. http://kentnichols.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-isnt-worth-it/

By: Geoff Sowrey

Geoff Sowrey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:14:39 +0000

Dunno. I’m already trying, but I’m feeling a bit of resistance on that…