Owen - don't get too excited by the hype. You could end up in the same position as this Apple fanboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4 -- R On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Owen > > I had hoped mightily for a full OSX notebook... so am disappointed by >>> that. >>> >> >> Well, that's sorta what the Air is all about, right? Irene has brought >> hers to the complex in the past, and it looks pretty good. No DVD in that >> either, however .. but you can plug one into it. >> > Flip the screen over and add multi-touch and yes... then the Air would be > perfect. There is a third-party that makes notebooks out of MacBook Pros > (or did a few years ago) but the plus-up is $1000 or more on an already > (acceptable but) expensive platform. > > The bigger picture is that we've all got an ecology, that just got one >> more member: >> - Laptop/Desktop >> - Phone >> - TV/TiVo/DVD >> - Web Hosting/Media >> - iPad & other 'tweeners like netbooks. >> Keeping them all in synch is non-trivial, and figuring out how they all >> fit into your life style ditto. The best example of this for me was >> watching the NFL playoffs in Italy using my MacBook via SlingBox. >> > My ecosystem is getting crowded. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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