@Okech
The Macbook air when released 2007 was meant to Kill the optical Drive however, this was quite restrictive to a certain class of persons. The idea behind the macbook air was not to create a more networthy / netbook oriented computer. It was ideally the portable computer that functioned without the need of the Optical drive. Hence the creation of another Apple product called the Remote Disk. An installation interface working via Wireless networks that allows you to install either from Mac / Windows Desktop or laptop that has an optical drive.
Once again, the concept was to introduce a form of Cloud computing via MobileMe an apple product that had earlier been known as .Mac and provide stash of Disk space, backup space, webmail etc. This was then Synced via Mobileme to your mac, Pc, iPhone, iPad & iPod touch providing an all inclusive experience for your contacts, mails, calendars photo albums.. getting the picture?
Later on,
iwork.com was released to provide ( and i have to note that this was pre-Hotmail office and i think right after Google Docs ) a business interface for your Pages ( Word ) documents, Keynote ( PPT ) and Numbers ( Excel ) and leave documents online to work with.
It seems however that now we are viewing a much stronger approach to the death of optical with the iPad at it's side and the new Macbook air, Steve did announce if i'm not mistaken that this is the new Macbook Series. I think The Optical will become an option only on the highest spec of 15 and 17" MB Pro's in the next year or so. By my calculations, there will be a review by JAN on new Mac's.
For more information, please do not hesitate to email me ( on list is better. Skunks get a view of what's happening ).
PS: Server is still being worked on and i will be sure to keep all in the loop.
Watchman.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Glenn Sequeira
<gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote:
> No one has the MBA as their only machine, all the things you would buy a MBA
> for eg/ light, great for travel/sofa, coolness factor etc the iPad does and
> does it a lot better.
> Why would anyone buy a MBA when they can get an iPad?
Here's an excerpt from a blog post on the MBA that captures the
sentiment of a few of the people I follow on Twitter:
Air or iPad?
If forced to choose between bringing an Air and an iPad on a trip, to
a meeting, on a train, on a plane, or pretty much anywhere, I’d choose
the Air. (Even the 11”.)
Most of what I do on computing devices either can’t be done or would
take much longer on an iPad, and I’m impatient and demanding with my
hardware.
If you can say the same about yourself, an iPad probably won’t replace
a laptop for you.
[Full post @ http://www.marco.org/1361316116]
~glenn
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...and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light.