{"id":2063,"date":"2008-03-01T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T00:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/macbook-air-and-i-dont-care\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T00:41:36","slug":"macbook-air-and-i-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/macbook-air-and-i-dont-care\/","title":{"rendered":"macbook air &#8211; and I don&#8217;t care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Apple store I had a quick look and hands on with the MacBook Air. And I am quiet underwhelmed. Yes, it is light. Yes it has thin edges. Thin edges are probably a great thing when you would like to put your computer into an inter office envelope. Funny thing is, I never had reason to do that. Since six years I have been pretty on various laptop models for the greater part of my waking hours. I have use the thing in various places in in rather unorthodox ways I think. But, never ever did I say to myself: &#8220;Darn, the laptop does not fit into this interoffice envelope!&#8221;. If the 15&#8243; was to big then I took the iBook aka Macbook. Works for me. If the 15&#8243; is to small then I hook up another screen or get on a real computer. Yesterday I used the big iMac for instance and it just worked great.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t see the point to spend allot of money for a machine that has allot of drawbacks, and whos only upside seems to be that it does fit into an envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad, would love to justify a new computer.<\/p>\n<p>BluRay would have been a better thing than this Air hocus-pocus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Apple store I had a quick look and hands on with the MacBook Air. And I am quiet underwhelmed. Yes, it is light. Yes it has thin edges. Thin edges are probably a great thing when you would like to put your computer into an inter office envelope. 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