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niggs0026 wrote:

frankly wrote:

Alien wrote:

NAG wrote:

The only thing the albook has over the MBA is a FireWire port.

And an ethernet port, and being able to use a mouse while downloading photo's, and having an external drive connected to put those photos on, and recording a narrative soundtrack to accompany those photos.

It's hyperbole, I know. The point being, the MBA is not equipped for many tasks that Apple themselves advertise as central to the whole Mac/digital hub experience.

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What the heck are you talking about??? What would stop a MBA from doing the things you mentioned above???

The MBA is equipped for everything in the digital hub experience except importing video from a Firewire dv cam. The fact is that Apple doesn't really push the whole burning to a DVD thing like they used to. Some people have seriously questioned Apple's commitment to iDVD with the latest release of iLife.

You are seriously reaching with your analysis. The MBA is limited but not in the ways you are suggesting and not anywhere near the extent to which you are saying.

Frank

I think he meant you can't do all those things at the same time or something, cause there's only one port?

But you could use a wireless mouse and/or a hub to solve some of that

Apple wants you to think wireless with this product, it's not meant to be the center of your WIRED digital hub. Think wireless. Apple TV, Time Capsule, etc.

I want to know exactly what he meant because if he meant what you said (which is what I suspect as well) then I guess he doesn't understand how USB works.

Frank

I just pre-ordered a Macbook Air. Ships on Feb. 12th!

this?

In b4 Jeremy Bentham?