MacBook Air — thin. Amazingly thin. Too thin. Too thin to fit the stuff I’d like. I have a 120GB hard disk where I outsourced the Windows partition during Leopard installation, and I’m squeezing. The Air gives me a choice between 80GB and slow and 64GB and even more expensive, both of which are way too small. I’m waiting until the multi-touch trackpad trickles down to the MacBook Pro.
Time Capsule — good and cool. If Time Machine backup just works with it and not with AirPort Extreme base stations, mean.
Movie rentals + Apple TV 2 — fair. Renting a movie is a reasonable, working model. Getting 30 days in which to start watching and 24 hours to finish watching seems humane. Waiting 30 days from the DVD is released is complete bullshit. Being able to rent stuff from your TV wirelessly is the future. The free Apple TV firmware update is a good PR move (and probably economically sound since no one bought the first version in the first place).
Yeah, it’s definitely not a primary machine unless you’re a light user. Can’t wait until SSD prices come down though. It’s the future.
Depressing, isn’t it. Would they make less money if you could rent on iTunes and DVD at the same time? Really?
Definitely. When Jobs said the software update was for “every” Apple TV they’d sold, I wondered if he was tempted to say “both” instead.
By pauldwaite · 2008.01.15 21:20