macfags.comPoint: Counterpoint
Posted on January 16, 2008Wil Shipley, developer of the fine Delicious Library has a counter-argument to all of those who bitched about the MacBook Air (yes, I’m in that group too), in his delightfully titled MacBook Air Haters: Suck My Dick.
I’ve read journalists complain that you can’t get at the hard drive in the MacBook Air. What? I have no fucking idea where the hard drive is in my MacBook Pro, and even if you drew me a damn diagram with labels and numbers and gave me a replacement drive I wouldn’t open my machine even in exchange for a year with Zooey Deschanel. Ok, yes I would, but you get my point. I’m sorry, Zooey, I didn’t mean it, baby.
Some journalists get so close to the truth it hurts, yet miss the large print. “OMG! The unit is all sealed and self-contained like the iPod!”
Yes… the iPod. That huge failure. Also, the iPhone. Stunning disappointment that it was. I mean, jeebus, why would Apple make ANOTHER device incredibly simple? Clearly the market has spoken, and it wants tons of ports and screws and geegaws and flippers… no, wait, no it doesn’t.
He does make some points, and has fine taste in saucy hollywood actresses. (Hey… Zooey Deschanel is only two years older than me. That puts her in the “attainable” age range…) However, I’m still gonna go out and say that the MBa is too underpowered and too damn expensive. Those so-called “normal people” who are in the computer-as-an-appliance market and don’t care if the computer isn’t user-serviceable, also generally don’t want to spend nearly two grand on a laptop.
But still, that thing does look damn nice, and is a step towards the future of Mac portables.
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