“A sexy notebook that businesses can actually use.”
A Links entry from Tuesday, February 26, 2008“A sexy notebook that businesses can actually use.”
With the obligatory acknowledgement of sounding like an Apple fanboy (yes, I enjoy Apple’s more than PCs), what exactly makes this computer more feasible for business use than the MacBook Air? Granted an ethernet port is a must for old networks but that seems like a niche, and a disappearing niche at that.
It has a DVD drive? How is that tied to business again?
And for all we talk about people moving to streaming video, the fact is, I can’t remember the last time I took a cross-country flight without someone watching a DVD near me.
Remember, “Business.”
Besides, I can’t remember the last time I took my laptop on a flight and used a DVD. It’s much more efficient for battery life to just rip it the night before, or to just play downloadable content.
Tim
You have to keep in mind that many “Business” people aren’t exactly tech savy. They probably don’t know how to rip a dvd, and even if they tried they’d have to do it on a different computer and then transfer it over if they don’t have the external one offered by apple. Also, many business people like to watch movies on their off time in their hotel rooms, having a dvd player in your laptop makes it possible to go to the local Blockbuster and rent a movie.
Bryan Klausmeyer
That’s true, but I think Apple’s goal is to have it so that Business people wouldn’t even have to go to Blockbuster to get the DVD. They want it so you get the movie straight from them through iTunes! That’s really the big point in eliminating the DVD player. It’s not JUST to make the computer thinner… it’s basically Apple’s indication of where it thinks computers are headed in the future (like when they eliminated the floppy drive from the iMac while it was still popular).
Mark Elliot Cullen
mark@ivystreet.net
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