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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