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# So, let me get this straight:
No Optical Drive, No Ethernet, No way to upgrade RAM, $1,300 extra for a Solid State Drive, The slowest Processor in your entire range, and only one USB port?



apologies for TOAP-iness
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:28, archived)
# But look how THIN it is.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:29, archived)
# Don't buy into it, honey.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:30, archived)
# THIN!
My laptop's all broken anyway, the screen's hanging on by a thread. I got it back in the ay when you had to pay 2 grand for 30G of hard drive.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:31, archived)
# *cuffs the Cap'n*
It doesn't matter how thin it is - it's overpriced and underspecced.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:34, archived)
# Ah, I cannae afford it anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:38, archived)
# ^THIS^
i'd rather add extra money and get a decent macbook pro.

or a massivly spec'd PC
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:40, archived)
# Sir, verily you speak the truth.
:)

It's what I'm gonna do.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:46, archived)
# Get an Eee PC
(I helped save b3ta! Mr Gear the gay-maker, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:32, archived)
# Less processing power than an ipod
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:31, archived)
# so I take it you're not a fan then
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:31, archived)
# Lovely design, crap innards, imho
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:33, archived)
# Like everything they make
Anyone who buys this or an iPhone is a vapid, empty-headed, air-brained numpty who deserves to be bum raped up the bum by a bummer
(Super Jet Shoes, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:42, archived)
# The iPhone, possibly,
But the brace of Macs I run at home are very solid machines, never had any kind of problem with 'em performance (or anything else)-wise, to be honest.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:48, archived)
# ^ yep
I love working on Macs
I've been using this iMac for almost three years now and it has never crashed,
I fear this would not be the case had I been working on a PC.
(I helped save b3ta! Droog is too orangey for crows, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 12:05, archived)
# They're a cunt to repair
And they could all be so much better if they didn't stick a bloated swooshy-wooshy fancy-looking OS over it. Well, until they started building them on Intels that is...
(I helped save b3ta! crazygibbon all your monster munch are belong to us, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 12:25, archived)
# So to summarise your point,
girls are rubbish.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:32, archived)
# 0/10 - Fail
Not what I was saying.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:32, archived)
# Bitches ain't shit?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:35, archived)
# I'm really sorry, but I have no idea what that's actually meant to mean.
*genuine apology*
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:38, archived)
# It means ladies are not shit
*beams at Felix*
(I helped save b3ta! Droog is too orangey for crows, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:41, archived)
# Well, if that's what was meant,
Then I wholeheartedly agree.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:44, archived)
# \o/
(I helped save b3ta! Droog is too orangey for crows, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:59, archived)
# pffft!
(I helped save b3ta! Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:40, archived)
# There's a name for this
It's called Financial Domination (Just text, but possibly NSFW).

So, you see that little apple on it? That meas it is your mistress and you're it's little pay piggy. And it feels good.
(Jokel, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:32, archived)
# Financial Domination
Thats just another word for marriage isn't it?
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 19:13, archived)
# But it's so pretty!
*coos*


EDIT: Yes, I am a girl :D
(I helped save b3ta! Droog is too orangey for crows, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:39, archived)
# It does
I hope they come in pink.

Seriously though as pretty as they are just one USB port is pathetic. It's an extra $999 for the smallest of HDs too.

I think the entire thing comes under the heading "form over function"
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:52, archived)
# Indeed
As Thor said up there ^ I would rather spend a bit more and get a decently specced Macbook Pro.

It would make a very nice, though expensive, ornament however :D
(I helped save b3ta! Droog is too orangey for crows, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 12:10, archived)
# I got an eeePC instead for on-the-go
£180 in Hongkong. Win.
(I helped save b3ta! sinisterduck, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 11:59, archived)
# I don't get the squirming over no optical drive.
I think it's an astonishingly good idea. When was the last time you used the drive in your PC?
(Well I'm sure someone will pipe up about how they use it all the time) - so the last time *I* used the drive in my PC was to install drivers for a new graphics card.

Optical drives are things that are used intermittently, so why carry it around with you every day? That doesn't make sense. I think that's a very brave and astute move on Apple's behalf.
Plus the thing to use the CDrom on any other Mac or PC really easily over wireless for the few times you do need it is a stroke of genius.

It's a super-light, stylish, reasonably powerful machine. It's a heck of a lot more portable than those clunky 4cm thick things.

I hope they manage to find a way to make the whole screen a touch-screen like the iPhone, to replace the trackpad.
(I helped save b3ta! fross Read your email on, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 12:19, archived)