I gotta admit…I’m thinking about that Macbook Air. All the reviews that I read say non-encouraging things. But am I the only one that’s willing to invest in apples vision? This is built to not only be the easiest computer to use with the most features available for that ease. But this is supposed to disconnect you from physical wires as much as possible, while testing the limits of how wireless you can go. The thought of incorporating as much wireless into my life as possible as long as it comes to what I will use in an average life routine (that is: pictures, music, information, files, etc). It’s set up to remove you from the wires everywhere -that alone is worth at least 500 bucks to me (I hate wires with quite a large amount of disgust, while at the same time there’s something so magic-like about being wireless (minus the cancer)).
So in preliminary thoughts and day-dreaming, I came up with what I still seem to think can be a great plan. I would buy the $1800 80 gig version, with 1.8ghz and a few other necessary additions (running me up to about a little over $2000) and then in time, see how money goes, with the plan to more importantly get the new under-the-radar product that apple announced and nobody seems to have mentioned on any pages that the actual potential for combining these things (cause the only people who write these things are geeks that think they really need all those gizmos attached -around this time I begin to picture a computer as being nothing more than one big clunky converter like the ones you bring with you on trips across Europe -one big universal heap of junk). The said product is called Time Capsule, and what this baby does is that for a mere $500 bucks, you can get a terabyte of storage space in a server grade hard drive that you place on your desk like the box in Sneakers (I left a message on your voicemail…’). One Terabyte of storage is where you put all…ALL… your data, information, etc -music, files, artlicles, pictures, projects, etc. It will be a beauty of storage and the kind of stuff you won’t need on your vacations (okay music maybe, but this is where you don’t forget your ipod). Then, in addition to holding a 1000 gigabytes of data, the Time Capsule also has a built in 802.11n ( n!!!!) wireless router. Thus, your time capsule is your black box of life. Your Macbook air is simply the holy grail delivering it’s blood. No, but seriously, think about it. You’ve got all your programs of itunes, photoshop, mozilla, winzip, office, full-tilt pokerroom, etc. all on your 80 gig harddrive, processed through a core 2 duo on a beauty of a screen that turns on right when you open it, and what jobs called their BEST KEYBOARD EVER. Have we all overlooked the simple fact that your sense of touch is completely neglected on most other machines, but apple has gone and come out with the most thought out ergonomic plan for your sense of touch to date? Okay, that aside, this is a wireless computer that is also the fastest on the market when combined with the these facts: one it on the OS leopard X -the fastest, easiest to use, stylish system, two it’s getting the internet through 11n, 3-4x faster than the 11g standard most of us are using now, three, it’s light and not cumbersome and you hold it and you want it, and the screen you can stare at for hours cause it’s pretty to look at (like one of those graphic novel films) and the keyboard works with you, anticipating you and you appreciate that. And more though and perhaps the most tempting, nerve-racking thing about the entire mess of it all…is that…that…s…s…d…drive looks so damn enticing.
Let me explain. Since computers began, the people have been debating on how to make it run faster -more ram, more ghz, more processing, and in these attempts to speed the machine up, the thing that’s lagged behind the most, despite great advances in itself, is the hard drive. This magnetic strip reading a spinning disc has been the bastion of possible accidents, diseases, and just plain breakdowns while all the other processes that could be sped up and made to be more efficient have accomplished their goals to a certain extent.
[ I have no idea how i got that font so big like that. I accidentally hit some double-keys I guess but can’t risk trying to undo it for fear of making it worse. (And damn, I’m gettin’ tired.) ]
If the computer I just spoke about was attached to an SSD drive for all its programs (ie itunes, mozilla/safari/ie, office, photoshop, email, etc, then loaded files from the internet or the time capsule, you would see the fastest moving, easiest to use, most pleasing to use computer that was possible at this juncture in time.
And that sounds good to me for about 2 years (the average time needed til an upgrade is necessary)
Now I have to see it and test it. This was all just hopeful speculation.
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