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.
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