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  1. The whole MacBook Air thing seems useless to me...it doesn't even have wireless broadband?!
  2. Originally posted by Ali709The whole MacBook Air thing seems useless to me...it doesn't even have wireless broadband?!


    Mmmmm, a bit useless-sounding to me as well. So what's the "Air" reference mean? When it breaks can you can throw it through the air?

    You can't use it over-the-air either (so to speak in technical terms). And that reminds me too...most modems plug in via Ethernet (the long blue cable with the clip on the end, actually it can be yellow, grey, red - whatever colour amuses you) doesn't actually work in this new MacBook.



    So you're stuck using USB cords or a USB dongle - and remember, you've only got one USB port. Is Apple taking functionality out of a lot of their products to get prices down and not having to support as much? They don't even support Firewire (officially) anymore, which is a better standard than USB and UWB simply because it's faster and more reliable.

    Any difference in iTunes 7.6?
  3. I'm going to buy a new MP4 this week. Probably this one:



  4. I saw these before in a magazine. It's a 30GB Creative Vision or something, isn't it? Very nice - I would have probably got one if they were available.
  5. Originally posted by drewhigginsI saw these before in a magazine. It's a 30GB Creative Vision or something, isn't it? Very nice - I would have probably got one if they were available.


    Well, this is the 16GB Zen..the Vision is a bit too expensive for a poor student like me

    But: you can upgrade it's memory with a SD-card, so I can upgrade it to 20 or 24 GB. A friend of mine got one and the 2,5 inch screen is just clear and bright as a blue sky.
  6. Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

    Mmmmm, a bit useless-sounding to me as well. So what's the "Air" reference mean? When it breaks can you can throw it through the air?

    You can't use it over-the-air either (so to speak in technical terms). And that reminds me too...most modems plug in via Ethernet (the long blue cable with the clip on the end, actually it can be yellow, grey, red - whatever colour amuses you) doesn't actually work in this new MacBook.

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    So you're stuck using USB cords or a USB dongle - and remember, you've only got one USB port. Is Apple taking functionality out of a lot of their products to get prices down and not having to support as much? They don't even support Firewire (officially) anymore, which is a better standard than USB and UWB simply because it's faster and more reliable.

    Any difference in iTunes 7.6?


    So, let's see if I got this right...you don't have wireless, you don't have ethernet, to connect to the internet you have to use the USB port of which you only have one...right? And then you haven't got a CD or DVD drive in it...

    And Casper, looking good, how much is that one?
  7. Originally posted by MWSAH[..]

    Well, this is the 16GB Zen..the Vision is a bit too expensive for a poor student like me

    But: you can upgrade it's memory with a SD-card, so I can upgrade it to 20 or 24 GB. A friend of mine got one and the 2,5 inch screen is just clear and bright as a blue sky.


    The LCDs certainly are looking better than three years ago. Maybe worth buying one, which I'm considering maybe a 32inch LG one for my 20th. I know some of them have horrible picture quality - these are the high-end $5000 Sony and Pioneer ones that I've played Xbox360 on and watched HDTV - still terrible picture quality. So it uses Flash memory then? That would mean better battery life than the Vision with a hard drive inside.


    Originally posted by Ali709So, let's see if I got this right...you don't have wireless, you don't have ethernet, to connect to the internet you have to use the USB port of which you only have one...right? And then you haven't got a CD or DVD drive in it...


    I'm not sure about not having a DVD or CD drive, but it's confirmed there's no wireless, no Ethernet, one measly USB port and it uses a last-generation processor (Intel Core Duo 2 1.8GHz). I figure the trade-off of not having all those extra resources is to improve battery life. Wireless can take up to 20% extra battery power to run and a CD / DVD drive brings the weight to 1.3 kilograms so it's pretty light.

    And taking the stance that Firewire is slowly being phased out...I wouldn't be surprised if it's not there.

    I don't know about anyone else, but Apple's products just don't look as fancy and cool as much as twelve months ago, don't work as good as they should (although admittedly neither do Microsoft's - they have such a big market share they couldn't care less if the program works or not), and functionality is getting worse every day.
  9. If like the Zen Neeon, change the earplugs straight away. We have one here and they're horrible.
  10. Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

    I can tell you one thing. Change the earplugs straight away to anything, even a cheap Sony or Philips set. They're horrible.


    Got my own Sennheisers CX300 here.. Will be heaven on earth. I got the Philips HDD085 now, some 2-year old 3GB player with black adn white screen. It's loaded with U2 so I definately need a new one. I heard these Creatives are great, they might be even better than the Ipod Nano's. And the sound is also brilliant...
  11. Originally posted by MWSAH[..]

    Got my own Sennheisers CX300 here.. Will be heaven on earth. I got the Philips HDD085 now, some 2-year old 3GB player with black adn white screen. It's loaded with U2 so I definately need a new one. I heard these Creatives are great, they might be even better than the Ipod Nano's. And the sound is also brilliant...


    The nano is so feature-less. As are all the iPods (except the touch and iPhone). I might be getting a touch soon.

    I started cleaning out my U2 collection the other day. Got rid of a lot of live shows (mostly Vertigo) and the compilation albums like 18 Singles, Best of 1990-2000 / 1980-1990 etc because I really don't need six identical versions of Sunday Bloody Sunday.
  12. Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

    The nano is so feature-less. As are all the iPods (except the touch and iPhone). I might be getting a touch soon.

    I started cleaning out my U2 collection the other day. Got rid of a lot of live shows (mostly Vertigo) and the compilation albums like 18 Singles, Best of 1990-2000 / 1980-1990 etc because I really don't need six identical versions of Sunday Bloody Sunday.


    Exactly right about those compilations. My Philips has a different approach: he knows the two Beautiful Days from ATYCLB and The Best Of are the same. So he puts BD in the Best Of map, leaving ATYCLB without BD. So I do have one version of it, but not in the right map. I can change the ID3-tag of course, but BD isn't the only one. I think I'll get rid of these compilations too...good idea

    And about Vista: Indeed, Drew...way too slow. My laptop with 1 GB has XP and it's faster compared to the main PC, with 3GB, which has Vista running on it.
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