{"id":1577,"date":"2008-01-24T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/lust-for-the-ma\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:24:58","slug":"lust-for-the-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/lust-for-the-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"LUST FOR THE MACBOOK AIR – BUT IS IT GOOD FOR YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI usually do enormous research before buying a new laptop.  Last time I moved from Windows to a 12 inch Powerbook<\/a> mostly for the 3 lb. weight at the lowest price.  I dropped the darn thing and the disk drive broke so I have to do something — but what?  <\/p>\n

Apple has quit making Powerbooks under 5 lb and now I know why.  They want the market for the super-duper groovy looking, skinny MACBOOK AIR<\/a>.   I’m totally psyched by it, although the price is really stiff – $1800 and there’s no disk drive so you need to spend another hundred on the external one.<\/a>  I don’t know…  Here’s what Walt Mossberg says:<\/p>\n

\nI guess I could just get a Vaio<\/a> – and I don’t know if I have the bucks to do either.<\/p>\n

When my husband brought me a surprise – an iPhone<\/a> I took it back because I couldn’t insure it OR search contacts (you still can’t) and the ATT rates were so absurdly high, so I know that even with Apple, looks aren’t everything.  But the idea of a light machine with power (even without a disk drive) is so seductive.  And it’s so damn gorgeous.  What  are you thinking about this BEAUTIFUL new toy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually do enormous research before buying a new laptop.  Last time I moved from Windows to a 12 inch Powerbook mostly for the 3 lb. weight at the lowest price.  I dropped the darn thing and the disk drive broke so I have to do something — but what?  Apple has quit making Powerbooks … Continue reading LUST FOR THE MACBOOK AIR – BUT IS IT GOOD FOR YOU?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,51],"tags":[1758,1761,1759,1757,1763,1760,1762,1264,1764],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-webtech","tag-apple","tag-computer","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air","tag-mossberg","tag-subnotebook","tag-vaio","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-walt-mossberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}