New MacBook Air Makes Its Debut

The 'Back to Mac' event brought some interesting news to light. Mainly the refresh of the Macbook Air, which was only two years old to begin with. Apple introduced two new models at the event, and somehow made them both thinner than the original. But the biggest news about the new MacBook Air is its storage. Gone are the HDD's or the SSD's and replaced with Flash Memory, which gives it the ability to boot up almost instantaneously. Both can support either 2GB or 4GB of RAM but you can not upgrade from that. The 13 inch model has a normal sized keyboard that is standard for Macs, while the 11 incher has a smaller keyboard that might take some getting use to.

These are clearly an upgrade from the original, and certainly fits a niche market for people who need a little more power than a iPad. If they had build 3G into the thing, I might have considered grabbing one.

The 11 incher starts at $999 and the 13 incher at $1299.

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The Air Poo: The Greatest Dumper In The World

Man, sometimes the stories just write themselves.

At first when I saw this, I just knew it was a parody joke like all the rest of the ones I've seen about Apple stuff. And I'm still not sure if the Air Poo is real, but it has some interesting features that you don't find on ordinary toilets. The Air Poo comes with a docking station for your MacBook Air, ipod, heated seat, built-in surround sound, and my favorite part the multi-touch flusher.

What does a multi-touch flusher do?

Anyway, no word on how much taking a dump on this will run you.
But we'll keep an eye out for this one.

Product Page [via Crunchgear]

MacBook Air Parody

Ok, I had a good laugh at this one. And it does make a point at the end about the MacBook Air, one that I think is worth noting. Just because a notebook is thin and light, doesn’t make it a good choice to buy.

[YouTube via Gizmodo]

MacBook Air is the slowest Apple

The new MacBook air is the slowest Apple, but hopefully they'll initiate a national No Laptop Left Behind Program. No one should be surprised, but if you were looking for a speed freak of a laptop, you're going to want to glaze those lustful eyes over the MacBook Air. While the new hotness has a speedy memory bus, overall its performance is dramatically smushed by its integrated graphics, anemic 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and 1.8-inch hard drive. Yes, you can officially call the MacBook Air the slowest machine Apple makes -- but you already figured as much, right? No one buys an ultraportable for its real ultimate power.

[Thanks to Engadget]

UPDATE: And to add insult to injury, you can't use any of the 3G USB modems either, just in case there's no wi-fi where you are at.

MacBook Air Parody

Sometimes parody on a good product can still be funny, and you just knew someone had the MacBook Air in their crosshairs. It’s a sexy looking laptop for sure, but you can have a loaded Macbook for that price. And lets be honest, a regular damn MacBook isn’t so heavy that you would pay $1800 + for notebook and peripherals needed.

[Gizmodo]

MacBook Sealed Up AIR Tight: Like ipods

As some of the excitement dies down from the MacWorld convention, some interesting questions are coming up about the new MacBook Air. One of them is Apple’s decision to seal the notebook up like the ipods. This doesn’t allow you to change the battery out (when Apple says 5 hours is all you get, they mean it), upgrade the memory, replace the hard drive, and there’s no Ethernet port.

I imagine that Apple will have add on features to address these major issues, but for an $1,800 notebook, I think you should have the option to make some changes to it.

Not sure that I like that!

[Gizmodo]