Submitted by Lilith (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 12:36.
As an AEBS 802.11n customer I was disappointed that the promised functionality in the AEBS "Gigabit" and Leopard (Time Machine) was cancelled. But instead of fixing this they have released a new product with the promised functionality.
We were mislead and ripped off as consumers. I call for class action.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 12:59.
Good for you. Go for it.
Well, I cannot say that I am all that surprised. It's really our fault for being ripped off. We all know how Steve Jobs makes money. Lies. That's exactly what he did to his buddy Woz to keep for himself a few hundred bucks which was rightfully Woz's. I don't expect he changes his habits which was acquired at 20s.
Submitted by Paul Walker (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 12:55.
iPhone, and iTunes Movies & TV shows in more countries. TV is mostly useless without iTunes video content. Other than that, not much. - maybe a 16gB iPhone, but 3G was obviously not going to happen
Submitted by Jonathan D'haene (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 13:33.
What we've been given...
A new Macbook with less capabilities for a larger price only because it's thinner. That's not the right direction, for what I expect a Laptop should be. Apple dropped FireWire? That's painful.
All devices and software upgrades are focussed around one thing. Getting us, end-users, to us Apple services more and more. Spendig more money on temperary data (like rented movies) instead on the hardware over time.
I agree it will help Apple to get bigger, but what about affordable solutions?
Everything has it's price. Apple hardware is mostly cheaper over time. But setting up a
community wich allows people to spend money with the click of a button is very dangerous.
Before they know, the bills are getting that big they can't pay them anymore.
It's a globa abuse if informatic technologies that is exploied by many big companies.
No longer computers are build to help people, they getting architected to convert people into online money spenders.
I am disapointed we have only seen product to support a digital world that cost us alot.
The MacBook Air is a great cool new laptop. But at the end, it isn't all that at all.
This is the first time ever I'm feeling disapointed by a direction made by Apple, but I knew for years this day was coming. Really, it isn't hard to predict Apple's Next Step.
Add Macbook Air + Apple TV + Time Slot + iTunes and you have a new hole in your wallet.
Parental control, what about putting a limit of purchases per month/year?
I'm sorry, but I haven't seen anything revolutionairy, at all... And I'm sad about it.
Submitted by Dino (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 17:17.
I agree with your comments about the MBA being a downgrade.
However, I feel that consumers should be allowed to make their own choices. if you want to throw all your money and more out the window to rent movies that's your choice, it should not be up to corporations to control my spending abilities.
I do agree with the child controls though, last thing you want is to get home and your kid has bought a new movie collection for you!
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 14:16.
I'm really surprised the standard Macbook didn't go silver and black like happened with the iPod Classic. That white iBook is starting to look like an anachronism.
Submitted by MoBurkhardt (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 14:28.
I wanted to see some mentioning of the iPhone SDK, for all I care the macbook air, sucks, I mean, yea, it looks awesome, and ssd rule, but a trade off machine, with no fire wire or audio in, I don't know. I am more interested in getting free upgrades for my iPhone then spending 28K SEK on a small laptop.
Where is the GPS and the awesome Games? I want iHalo!
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 15:07.
What a totally disappointing keynote esp. for iphone users who still cant even get the basic copy and paste which my 'noah's ark' palm pilot had 10 years ago.
Gimme a break. All that hype for what??? My macbook pro is feeling just as disappointed with software updates only making apple richer and us poorer.
Could this be a watershed moment for people to begin to say, 'look after the consumer or else!'.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 16:46.
As I thought about the keynote last night I realized that we pretty much should have seen the MacBook Air coming. A sub $1000 notebook from Apple? Please I've seen Apple faithful buy MacBook Pros who don't video edit or play games. The dear leader knew he could get $1,800 from us. A MacBook Tablet? Why steal any more thunder from the iPhone, the only reason in my mind iPhone is at 4mil instead of 5 or 6 is because iPod Touch was more appealing to that crowd who was waiting. I would have got the iPhone during the price break if they hadn't released the Touch. No worries we'll see a MacBook Tablet but it will be 2Gs and at least 6 months after they introduce the iPhone Nano.
Submitted by Dino (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 17:22.
Agreed,
I am still running my old faithful 12" PB G4, i thought i was going to upgrade to the "new MBP" but since one didn't come I am quite happy to stick with this little guy.
The MBA has zero computing power, it was made for people with too much money or seeking too much attention. oooo look I have a super pretty Laptop, but it can't do anything. in my mind the MBA is Apple's equivalent of Motorola's Razor - looks good, many will buy it, but really it's just a well marketed shit-piece.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 19:15.
Apple should have fit the current MB processor to this thing and put a better hard drive and the new multitouch pad..the whole thing would still be under 4 lbs...Nobody cares about thinness, PEOPLE care about LIGHTNESS. This would sell MILLIONS like the iphone.MBA is a 13' display and they call it ultraportable. This should have been the new MB with a little more heaviness and thickness. And then they should have done something like for MBP. Thay would draw a lot of windows customers..I would have personally buy 3 of them. This is way overpriced. Apple is a deceving company with their Thinnovation..Lightness and current MB performance with the new touchpad would be evolutionary and would sell like there is no tomorrow.
Submitted by brian6504 (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 19:26.
I was actually pleased with the announcements at Macworld. The first three: the iPhone, iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV Take 2 were nice improvements on their existing technologies. (Though I agree MMS should have been added to the iPhone.) We'll see how the market responds to the MacBook Air. As a power user, that's not my thing, but I can see a niche for it.
To everyone who has been complaining about the "underwhelming" announcements or have contributed to the plummeting stock price: get over yourselves. With Macworld and WWDC plus ad hoc special events every year, Apple can't be expected to change the world with each one. You'd know how impossible that was if you worked in the industry.
For the most part I think Apple is going in the right direction and all the idiots out there need to understand the term "incremental improvement." When a technology company introduces a revolutionary product, that event should be treated as an exception to the rule, not to be expected with every announcement.
Get used to the incremental improvement model and stop ranting when a company's announcements follow it. You're just embarrassing yourselves by exposing your complete ignorance.
Submitted by Aperture Fan (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 22:03.
WHERE IS AN UPDATE TO APERTURE ???
If Apple does not announce an update to Aperture this week I will be extremely disappointed. For a product that is suppose to be a key component in their professional apps line up they are leaving professional photographers out in the cold.
There have been major pro camera bodies released by Nikon and Canon and Aperture is unusable because it has not been updated to support these cameras.
Without an update my workflow has come to a halt or severely altered. I have had to resort to using Adobe Lightroom which I do not care for but with out Nikon support I have very little choice. The longer I have to use Lightroom the less likely I will bother going back to Aperture.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 22:56.
No firewire?So what?My wife have macbook and she never uses the firewire port the ethernet port the usb and the audio in JACK...NEVER.MBA is perfect for girls, for people who dont use external devices like audio cards, cameras etc.MBA is for the people who like to use internet Wireless and who surf and wach movies and stuff like that.Not for people who want to edit audio and video or play games.
About the price.
i have to rememer you guys that apple have a great resalling value.i mean if you buy a pc with 1000$ next day you will sell it with 600
in APPLE world if you buy a mac for 1000$ next day is 998$ and maybe in 2 years you will seel it with 600$ wright?
I really like it.
The design is beautifull.the thickness is very important for me.it is revolutionary IMO.
Submitted by Seth (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 23:23.
Why does everyone leave out the most popular Mac in the entire line-up? MACBOOK. It should have received an update at Macworld. The current design is over 2yrs old and far out-dated when compared to all other Apple products. The White and Black plastic has got to go. Time to move to an aluminum enclosure.
I know that all the apple fanboys love their Macbook Pros, but for the average consumer, they care more about the Macbook.
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As an AEBS 802.11n customer
As an AEBS 802.11n customer I was disappointed that the promised functionality in the AEBS "Gigabit" and Leopard (Time Machine) was cancelled. But instead of fixing this they have released a new product with the promised functionality.
We were mislead and ripped off as consumers. I call for class action.
Good for you. Go for it.
Good for you. Go for it.
Well, I cannot say that I am all that surprised. It's really our fault for being ripped off. We all know how Steve Jobs makes money. Lies. That's exactly what he did to his buddy Woz to keep for himself a few hundred bucks which was rightfully Woz's. I don't expect he changes his habits which was acquired at 20s.
You knew it wasn't there in
You knew it wasn't there in the final version - they didn't 'promise' anything. Apple is allowed to change their plans.
If you do want to use your Airport Extreme, you can use iTimeMachne to enable wireless backups. I suspect this wil also be a part of the 10.5.2 update
macbook, LED screen.
macbook, LED screen. admittedly not very exciting, so i'll accept a boring midweek update, Steve. thank you.
New Macbook Pro line ind the
New Macbook Pro line ind the new "AIR" desing - mmmmm
Also 10.5.2 to use Airport without Kernel Panic´s
A suitable heir to my 12"
A suitable heir to my 12" PB. The MBA is lacking too much like FW, HD size and speed.
iPhone, and iTunes Movies &
iPhone, and iTunes Movies & TV shows in more countries. TV is mostly useless without iTunes video content. Other than that, not much. - maybe a 16gB iPhone, but 3G was obviously not going to happen
+1 iTunes Movies & TV shows
+1 iTunes Movies & TV shows in more countries. Without movies/rentals the Apple TV is of no interest to me.
Multitouch trackpad across the whole MacBook range would have been nice.
Wireless SuperDrive for
Wireless SuperDrive for MacBook Air or all Macs ans Pcs
TV tuners for AppleTV. That
TV tuners for AppleTV. That is the only thing stopping me from getting one!
What we've been given... A
What we've been given...
A new Macbook with less capabilities for a larger price only because it's thinner. That's not the right direction, for what I expect a Laptop should be. Apple dropped FireWire? That's painful.
All devices and software upgrades are focussed around one thing. Getting us, end-users, to us Apple services more and more. Spendig more money on temperary data (like rented movies) instead on the hardware over time.
I agree it will help Apple to get bigger, but what about affordable solutions?
Everything has it's price. Apple hardware is mostly cheaper over time. But setting up a
community wich allows people to spend money with the click of a button is very dangerous.
Before they know, the bills are getting that big they can't pay them anymore.
It's a globa abuse if informatic technologies that is exploied by many big companies.
No longer computers are build to help people, they getting architected to convert people into online money spenders.
I am disapointed we have only seen product to support a digital world that cost us alot.
The MacBook Air is a great cool new laptop. But at the end, it isn't all that at all.
This is the first time ever I'm feeling disapointed by a direction made by Apple, but I knew for years this day was coming. Really, it isn't hard to predict Apple's Next Step.
Add Macbook Air + Apple TV + Time Slot + iTunes and you have a new hole in your wallet.
Parental control, what about putting a limit of purchases per month/year?
I'm sorry, but I haven't seen anything revolutionairy, at all... And I'm sad about it.
I agree with your comments
I agree with your comments about the MBA being a downgrade.
However, I feel that consumers should be allowed to make their own choices. if you want to throw all your money and more out the window to rent movies that's your choice, it should not be up to corporations to control my spending abilities.
I do agree with the child controls though, last thing you want is to get home and your kid has bought a new movie collection for you!
What I totally miss is Apple
What I totally miss is Apple home media centre, connect multiple itunes library's to one airport extreme
I'm really surprised the
I'm really surprised the standard Macbook didn't go silver and black like happened with the iPod Classic. That white iBook is starting to look like an anachronism.
I wanted to see some
I wanted to see some mentioning of the iPhone SDK, for all I care the macbook air, sucks, I mean, yea, it looks awesome, and ssd rule, but a trade off machine, with no fire wire or audio in, I don't know. I am more interested in getting free upgrades for my iPhone then spending 28K SEK on a small laptop.
Where is the GPS and the awesome Games? I want iHalo!
What a totally disappointing
What a totally disappointing keynote esp. for iphone users who still cant even get the basic copy and paste which my 'noah's ark' palm pilot had 10 years ago.
Gimme a break. All that hype for what??? My macbook pro is feeling just as disappointed with software updates only making apple richer and us poorer.
Could this be a watershed moment for people to begin to say, 'look after the consumer or else!'.
I missed "One more
I missed "One more thing..."
Didn't feel right without it.
As I thought about the
As I thought about the keynote last night I realized that we pretty much should have seen the MacBook Air coming. A sub $1000 notebook from Apple? Please I've seen Apple faithful buy MacBook Pros who don't video edit or play games. The dear leader knew he could get $1,800 from us. A MacBook Tablet? Why steal any more thunder from the iPhone, the only reason in my mind iPhone is at 4mil instead of 5 or 6 is because iPod Touch was more appealing to that crowd who was waiting. I would have got the iPhone during the price break if they hadn't released the Touch. No worries we'll see a MacBook Tablet but it will be 2Gs and at least 6 months after they introduce the iPhone Nano.
New Macbook Pro that is
New Macbook Pro that is between the size of the current 13.3" and the old (love it!) G4 12" Powerbook. THAT machine is the ultimate portable mac...
Agreed, I am still running
Agreed,
I am still running my old faithful 12" PB G4, i thought i was going to upgrade to the "new MBP" but since one didn't come I am quite happy to stick with this little guy.
The MBA has zero computing power, it was made for people with too much money or seeking too much attention. oooo look I have a super pretty Laptop, but it can't do anything. in my mind the MBA is Apple's equivalent of Motorola's Razor - looks good, many will buy it, but really it's just a well marketed shit-piece.
MMS, Goddammitttt!!!
MMS, Goddammitttt!!!
Apple should have fit the
Apple should have fit the current MB processor to this thing and put a better hard drive and the new multitouch pad..the whole thing would still be under 4 lbs...Nobody cares about thinness, PEOPLE care about LIGHTNESS. This would sell MILLIONS like the iphone.MBA is a 13' display and they call it ultraportable. This should have been the new MB with a little more heaviness and thickness. And then they should have done something like for MBP. Thay would draw a lot of windows customers..I would have personally buy 3 of them. This is way overpriced. Apple is a deceving company with their Thinnovation..Lightness and current MB performance with the new touchpad would be evolutionary and would sell like there is no tomorrow.
I was actually pleased with
I was actually pleased with the announcements at Macworld. The first three: the iPhone, iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV Take 2 were nice improvements on their existing technologies. (Though I agree MMS should have been added to the iPhone.) We'll see how the market responds to the MacBook Air. As a power user, that's not my thing, but I can see a niche for it.
To everyone who has been complaining about the "underwhelming" announcements or have contributed to the plummeting stock price: get over yourselves. With Macworld and WWDC plus ad hoc special events every year, Apple can't be expected to change the world with each one. You'd know how impossible that was if you worked in the industry.
For the most part I think Apple is going in the right direction and all the idiots out there need to understand the term "incremental improvement." When a technology company introduces a revolutionary product, that event should be treated as an exception to the rule, not to be expected with every announcement.
Get used to the incremental improvement model and stop ranting when a company's announcements follow it. You're just embarrassing yourselves by exposing your complete ignorance.
What every happend to the
What every happend to the MacBook Pro... same design for what ... the last four years? Same thing for the MacPros ...
WHERE IS AN UPDATE TO
WHERE IS AN UPDATE TO APERTURE ???
If Apple does not announce an update to Aperture this week I will be extremely disappointed. For a product that is suppose to be a key component in their professional apps line up they are leaving professional photographers out in the cold.
There have been major pro camera bodies released by Nikon and Canon and Aperture is unusable because it has not been updated to support these cameras.
Without an update my workflow has come to a halt or severely altered. I have had to resort to using Adobe Lightroom which I do not care for but with out Nikon support I have very little choice. The longer I have to use Lightroom the less likely I will bother going back to Aperture.
all I wanted was the 10.5.2
all I wanted was the 10.5.2 update. Disappointing that it wasn't even mentioned if it's supposed to be so significant.
New MacBook Pro with
New MacBook Pro with multi-touch screen would have done it for me.
TABLET TABLET TABLET but not
TABLET TABLET TABLET
but not in modbook style, in thinkpad one!
No firewire?So what?My wife
No firewire?So what?My wife have macbook and she never uses the firewire port the ethernet port the usb and the audio in JACK...NEVER.MBA is perfect for girls, for people who dont use external devices like audio cards, cameras etc.MBA is for the people who like to use internet Wireless and who surf and wach movies and stuff like that.Not for people who want to edit audio and video or play games.
About the price.
i have to rememer you guys that apple have a great resalling value.i mean if you buy a pc with 1000$ next day you will sell it with 600
in APPLE world if you buy a mac for 1000$ next day is 998$ and maybe in 2 years you will seel it with 600$ wright?
I really like it.
The design is beautifull.the thickness is very important for me.it is revolutionary IMO.
Why does everyone leave out
Why does everyone leave out the most popular Mac in the entire line-up? MACBOOK. It should have received an update at Macworld. The current design is over 2yrs old and far out-dated when compared to all other Apple products. The White and Black plastic has got to go. Time to move to an aluminum enclosure.
I know that all the apple fanboys love their Macbook Pros, but for the average consumer, they care more about the Macbook.
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