Reinventing the MacBook Air Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News . How will Apple redesign the ultraslim, seminal MacBook Air that launched dozens of me-too ultraportable laptops? Only Apple knows. But here are some gratuitous musings anyway. . In a previous post , I said I wouldn't hazard any guesses on what Apple may do with the MacBook Air. And I won't. That doesn't stop me from looking at the most recent ultrathin laptop competition to see where Apple might be able to improve the design
that turns two years old in January. Enclosure: This will be a tough act to follow. The original design was good enough that Apple didn't change it for gen 2--aka Rev. B--of the Air. And the aluminum enclosure was a trendsetter, which all MacBook Pros (and other PC makers) eventually copied. But that doesn't mean the Air is perfect. The razor-thin slab of aluminum provides little room for ports and connectors. (Apple's implementation is a flip-out set of USB, Mini DisplayPort, audio ports that r...
Leaked HP, Toshiba 'Core i3' laptops not pricey Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News . Thought that the newest laptop technology is always priced at a premium? Think again. Due in the next few weeks from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Gateway and a host of other PC makers, some of the first laptops u
I, Cringely Blog Archive Fallon's Getting a Dell! - Cringely on technology . There were already two computers in our kitchen but that wasn't enough for Fallon, age three, who needs his daily fix of YouTube Scooby-Doo clips. So for Christmas Fallon (who refers to himself as "the small boy")