Friday, January 18, 2008

Slim in in !! MacBook Air shows it Why..

Well Apple does it again. Gives us something to chant about for the coming weeks with a new MacBook Air. I dont think they need to define why is it call Air. Have a look at it and all your qualms regarding the name will be resolved. Bloody hell, so thin.
Apple's super-thin MacBook Air noticeably is an eye catching product but they have bargained on many things for the sake of getting it a skinny look.
Like,

  • 80GB iPod hard drive is being used which means 4200 rpm ( Booooo) . And what ? 80GB only .. Keeping looks apart, I really don't think people are ready to give up the extra space on hard drive for sake of dimensions.
  • It comes with a SINGLE USB port which is something very surprising these days when every kind of gadgets and doohickeys come on USB.
  • Non-replaceable batteries means you have to send your Mac to Apple to replace. ( Poor us who are living in India ) .
  • The worst of all, No Ethernet Port. Fuck no.. That is one thing which will keep the intelligent part of the people living in India from buying it. Every broadband here comes with ethernet cables. And if you retort back on this comment of mine that you are having a wireless connections at home. What if you buy a new wireless router and want to change the settings. You wont be able to ! You might want to have USB adapter for this one ( Oh boy, there goes the one and only USB port.)

Summing it all, I dont really find it a viable option to go with as for now. Certainly a tempting thing but keep your taste buds for something more scrumptious I suggest. Still MacBook's are the best bang-for-bucks.

Ok leaving the MacBook Air banter, the temperatures are going down like hell. I can't even see outside the main gate of my house. The lowest temp is falling 1˚ in chandigarh so here in Parwanoo, it must be below 0 at night.



Its so foggy and yet so beautiful. These pics are from my garden which was looking picturesque.




And well, temperatures is not the only thing which has plummeted right now. Share market has dropped 2000 points in 3 days. Given the Bulls a real run for their money. No wonder my mom gave a break to CNBC and reading some palmistry book.

Coming to football, Liverpool finally got their winning boots on by the goal rout unleashed against Luton on wed. Lets hope they keep riding on this form and perform good against Aston Villa on weekend who are playing tremendously well under Martin Oniel.

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