Comments on: MacBook Air Released http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/ Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Both are designers, Mark works in advertising while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dina http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-407081 Dina Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:01:16 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-407081 i personally dont see why everyone is so intent on that cd drive, i have a 15 inch MacBook Pro and i honestly *NEVER* used the cd drive, except once to copy South Park episodes off a dvd. lets face it; ppl today just exchange data thru their USBs or iPods. i personally dont see why everyone is so intent on that cd drive, i have a 15 inch MacBook Pro and i honestly *NEVER* used the cd drive, except once to copy South Park episodes off a dvd. lets face it; ppl today just exchange data thru their USBs or iPods.

]]> By: Bo-Bader http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406564 Bo-Bader Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:59:17 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406564 Check this out. A research by ChangeWave (Investment company) http://www.changewave.com/freecontent/viewarticle.html?source=/freecontent/2007/12/alliance-121107-AppleMacsDominantPCStoryOf_08.html Check this out. A research by ChangeWave (Investment company)

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]]> By: AQ http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406180 AQ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:01 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406180 Bo-Bader: I agree with you in that macs have more eye candy bits than windows os (but ubuntu surpass them both in that aspect) & that windows os is more prone to virus attacks, but that just because its soooo much more popular that people would actually sit and spend their time writing the virus codes or whatever, wait till mac's become some what popular (if ever :P) and more and more viruses will hit it. as for cusmtomization, programmers do go to linux mainly because its an open source code software, while windows on the other hand is a closed source code ( its so to prevent programmers to from altering it and then selling it under different name and that what happened with linux and red hat). and about windows registry, atleast you can brick your own machine if you felt like it (remember people strive for options), but remember that windows does ask you to back up your registry before missing with it. plus the backup feature for the whole os thingy thats comes built in (dont remember its commercial name) i have vista enterprise at work and basic at a laptop at home and they never crashed on me. that doesnt mean its invincible though. Bo-Bader: I agree with you in that macs have more eye candy bits than windows os (but ubuntu surpass them both in that aspect) & that windows os is more prone to virus attacks, but that just because its soooo much more popular that people would actually sit and spend their time writing the virus codes or whatever, wait till mac’s become some what popular (if ever :P) and more and more viruses will hit it.

as for cusmtomization, programmers do go to linux mainly because its an open source code software, while windows on the other hand is a closed source code ( its so to prevent programmers to from altering it and then selling it under different name and that what happened with linux and red hat). and about windows registry, atleast you can brick your own machine if you felt like it (remember people strive for options), but remember that windows does ask you to back up your registry before missing with it. plus the backup feature for the whole os thingy thats comes built in (dont remember its commercial name)
i have vista enterprise at work and basic at a laptop at home and they never crashed on me. that doesnt mean its invincible though.

]]> By: Cerebral Assassin http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406156 Cerebral Assassin Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:50:39 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-406156 Holla-I think we all agree with u on that one!! ;)lol Holla-I think we all agree with u on that one!! ;)lol

]]> By: Bo-Bader http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405962 Bo-Bader Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:01:44 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405962 AQ you might be right about somethings. Yes Macs freezes but not as much as windows. I have my mac for one and half years and it had few freezes (maybe 10 times max) mainly with leopard. I used Vista at work and it freeze almost every other day. You cannot actually judge speed by looking at the thing and don't forget that until recently most of mac os applications are not designed to run on Intel chip. It also depends on the programs you use. Many programs (both on windows and mac os x) do not utilize the dual core feature. By the way, what do you mean by windows can be configured anyway you want?! I thought Linux came out because people/programmers wanted to be able to customize their OS and windows is closed OS and cannot be customized (Good luck if you make a mistake while modifying the registry). Don't get me wrong, windows is great OS but its kind of boring and a security risk without an anti-virus. For the last month or so, there have been a virus on our university campus infecting every computer on the network but not mac. Our IT are frustrated trying to catch it as it goes from windows machine to another (not macs). AQ you might be right about somethings. Yes Macs freezes but not as much as windows. I have my mac for one and half years and it had few freezes (maybe 10 times max) mainly with leopard. I used Vista at work and it freeze almost every other day. You cannot actually judge speed by looking at the thing and don’t forget that until recently most of mac os applications are not designed to run on Intel chip. It also depends on the programs you use. Many programs (both on windows and mac os x) do not utilize the dual core feature.
By the way, what do you mean by windows can be configured anyway you want?! I thought Linux came out because people/programmers wanted to be able to customize their OS and windows is closed OS and cannot be customized (Good luck if you make a mistake while modifying the registry).
Don’t get me wrong, windows is great OS but its kind of boring and a security risk without an anti-virus. For the last month or so, there have been a virus on our university campus infecting every computer on the network but not mac. Our IT are frustrated trying to catch it as it goes from windows machine to another (not macs).

]]> By: AQ http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405933 AQ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:59:49 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405933 wow thats a long post and lots of mistakes, but it is past my bed time wow thats a long post and lots of mistakes, but it is past my bed time

]]> By: AQ http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405931 AQ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:54:10 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405931 umm i beg a differ, mac os is more like an eye candy rather than anything else, in my opinion and i am open to be persuaded on this, because to be honest i only had apple for about a month (when i bought it for a friend and had to use it while abroad) but the thing is i found out that you barely can touch configure anything in it, while on windows you can configure abs. everything u want using the registry ie. windows os is way more customizable, and the claim that macs dont crash is proven to be plain wrong for me, as the machine hanged several times on me, as did the softwares. at the end, i love windows because it is extremely flexible even dangerously so. and performance wise i never bought that macs are faster machines than pc's because in the end mac adopted the same processor architicutre that windowds machines use (intel) which I personally saw and heard S.Jobs claiming to have a better processor than intels top of the line (i think it was back in the days mac's G sth processors and he claimed it to be about 25% faster than intels top of the line only to adapt intel cpu's less than a year after) i hope i didnt bore you with my long entries, i usually just read your articles and comments w/o participating. its just that ive been arguing about this topic for years now ever since i had a friend whos an apple extremest back in my college days :) finally let me say that my only take on the mac air (design wise), is that the border of the screen is too thick to be super stylish.. just too much plastic around the screen for me umm i beg a differ, mac os is more like an eye candy rather than anything else, in my opinion and i am open to be persuaded on this, because to be honest i only had apple for about a month (when i bought it for a friend and had to use it while abroad) but the thing is i found out that you barely can touch configure anything in it, while on windows you can configure abs. everything u want using the registry ie. windows os is way more customizable, and the claim that macs dont crash is proven to be plain wrong for me, as the machine hanged several times on me, as did the softwares.

at the end, i love windows because it is extremely flexible even dangerously so. and performance wise i never bought that macs are faster machines than pc’s because in the end mac adopted the same processor architicutre that windowds machines use (intel) which I personally saw and heard S.Jobs claiming to have a better processor than intels top of the line (i think it was back in the days mac’s G sth processors and he claimed it to be about 25% faster than intels top of the line only to adapt intel cpu’s less than a year after)

i hope i didnt bore you with my long entries, i usually just read your articles and comments w/o participating.

its just that ive been arguing about this topic for years now ever since i had a friend whos an apple extremest back in my college days :)

finally let me say that my only take on the mac air (design wise), is that the border of the screen is too thick to be super stylish.. just too much plastic around the screen for me

]]> By: Mark http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405918 Mark Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:24:53 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405918 yeah thats true about the 8% of hardware being equal to 8% of OS but its not fair to say that because Apple has a small market share that there is something wrong. Windows is just more popular and anyone whos used windows and OSX will tell you OSX is better. yeah thats true about the 8% of hardware being equal to 8% of OS but its not fair to say that because Apple has a small market share that there is something wrong. Windows is just more popular and anyone whos used windows and OSX will tell you OSX is better.

]]> By: AQ http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405917 AQ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:21:46 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405917 every piece of PC hardware apple sells comes equipped with mac OS doesnt it? :) and even this 8% apple just reached this percentage after strong sales in this past holidays season ya3ni (6.xx% before then if i remember correctly) so for the past 20 sth years (not trying to be accurate) that macs has been around they could only manage to get hold of about 8% market share. come on people now that should tell you sth. !! having said that, i don't, by any mean, deny the design beauty that apple has come up with for their pc lineups over the of years .. but this is whats called a beauty with an AIR HEAD I think it is worth to be mentioned to tell u that i do usually recommend macs for any friend of mine who i know uses a pc exclusively for chatting, facebooking and browsing every piece of PC hardware apple sells comes equipped with mac OS doesnt it? :)
and even this 8% apple just reached this percentage after strong sales in this past holidays season ya3ni (6.xx% before then if i remember correctly) so for the past 20 sth years (not trying to be accurate) that macs has been around they could only manage to get hold of about 8% market share. come on people now that should tell you sth. !!

having said that, i don’t, by any mean, deny the design beauty that apple has come up with for their pc lineups over the of years .. but this is whats called a beauty with an AIR HEAD

I think it is worth to be mentioned to tell u that i do usually recommend macs for any friend of mine who i know uses a pc exclusively for chatting, facebooking and browsing

]]> By: Mark http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405907 Mark Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:41:46 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405907 Don't confuse OS share and hardware share. 8% is the OS share. Don’t confuse OS share and hardware share. 8% is the OS share.

]]> By: AQ http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405905 AQ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:39:48 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405905 sfsa78: it is priced at about $170 now simply because unlike other big tech companies, they don't pay dividends for shareholders, they don't make big acquisitions, and they don't buy their shares back from the market. although apple IS doing exceptionally well (thanks for their ipod lineup rather than any other product they offer) nonetheless that doesn't always mean that its bigger than other (cheaper per share) companies, it just mean that it has much less shares in total. FYI: IBM is so far the worlds biggest tech company, HP comes at a close 2nd and i know for a fact that microsoft is a much bigger company than apple is. at the end, i think apple ONLY has about 8% (as of Dec '07) of the personal computing market share for a reason :) sfsa78: it is priced at about $170 now simply because unlike other big tech companies, they don’t pay dividends for shareholders, they don’t make big acquisitions, and they don’t buy their shares back from the market. although apple IS doing exceptionally well (thanks for their ipod lineup rather than any other product they offer) nonetheless that doesn’t always mean that its bigger than other (cheaper per share) companies, it just mean that it has much less shares in total.

FYI: IBM is so far the worlds biggest tech company, HP comes at a close 2nd and i know for a fact that microsoft is a much bigger company than apple is.

at the end, i think apple ONLY has about 8% (as of Dec ’07) of the personal computing market share for a reason :)

]]> By: Holla http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405888 Holla Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.248am.com/mark/information/macbook-air-released/#comment-405888 Assassin you're right but everybody knows that haraam things are the best things in life ;) Assassin you’re right but everybody knows that haraam things are the best things in life ;)

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