Comments on: Coming Up For Air?

By: Bin Kroon

Bin Kroon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:48:39 +0000

what I miss the most in this notebook menat for the mobile traveller is a build in SIM card for cellular (UMTS/EDGE/GPRS) connections.
Using the single USB port for hooking up an external modem is not practical, especially when you are on the road. So I can use my cellphone you say. Well.. I don’t have speech on my T-mobile data cellular subscription. I have a data SIM only. The thought of having to carry a seperate bluetooth cellphone with me for just being able to connect my Air to a cellular network defies all purposes of buying this Macbook. (Mobility!) Apple really should have thought of this, it would have made the Macbook Air near perfect (harddisk should indeed have have been at least 120 to 160Gb)

COME ON APPLE GUYS: PLEASE BUILD IN CELLULAR with a SIM card holder !! The USB should be kept for other uses !!

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:18:14 +0000

Hahaha! Close… But I think it’s a bit more like
1) The Eyetop DVD player is way janky. http://www.livedigitally.com/2004/11/17/eyetop-dvd-review/
2) I like to set things on fire. http://www.livedigitally.com/2004/12/17/89/
3) I LOVE SONY VAIOS
4) I HATE SONY VAIOS
5) I REALLY HATE SONY VAIOS
6) I BOUGHT A MACBOOK

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:52:46 +0000

If one read your blog, it would give this chronology:

1) I LOVE SONY VAIOS
2) I HATE SONY VAIOS
3) I BOUGHT A MACBOOK

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:31:02 +0000

Britt - perhaps you didn’t actually read the entire article before commenting? You clearly missed the last paragraph: “As for will I buy one? Decent odds.”

Also, if you’ve read my blog at all, you’ll notice I (1) hate Sony Vaios and (2) own a MacBook.

By: Britt

Britt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:20:21 +0000

So, let me see, a new mac laptop is released and the pc aficionados all line up to denigrate it… A new Sony Vaio is released and it is same old same old… Listen up people, if this is not for you then it is not for you. No offense but, did you think Apple was trying to take over the world? Naw, that is Micro$ofts job.

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:00:43 +0000

I ordered one, got the 1.8Ghz with AppleCare, wasn’t too bad with my educational discount — yeah I can’t believe I’m not done with college either, 10 years and counting. Wish it had built in 3g and an extra USB port, $500 less would’ve been nice too. But it’s still the closest thing to a perfect laptop that I’ve never seen and will be worlds better than my old um32w (the laptop just before the MBP0. Speaking of which, why isn’t anyone calling Apple out on the size? Sure they did it with what they are calling a normal mobile CPU, but my 4 year old Sharp um32w was .8-inches and still managed to have a CF card slot, which was hot at the time.

By: jonathanpberger

jonathanpberger — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:13:30 +0000

> (for the record, I have a MacBook with an 80GB hard drive that is constantly full)

If you have a MB (not a pro) you should consider swapping in a bigger HD. It really is almost as easy as installing RAM. It took me less than 10m, and OWC has a 320g(!) drive for $200. It’s a no-brainer.

By: » What’s so great (and not so great) about MacBook Air? | Practical Gadgetry | TechRepublic.com

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:41:29 +0000

[...] friend Jeremy Toeman, who recently switched from a PC laptop to a Macbook, has posted a quick list of what’s good and what’s not so good about the new MacBook Air. Sure, the form factor and the look are pretty impressive (0.16 to 0.76 inch thick!); however, does [...]