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+title: Air
+date: '2008-01-16T10:54:45-05:00'
+permalink: /air/
+tags:
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+I’m still processing my responses to yesterday’s [Macworld Stevenote](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/) and the announcement of the [MacBook Air](http://www.apple.com/macbookair/). On the one hand, a super-lightweight portable computer seems to me a great niche for Apple to move into. On the other hand, this one is almost too focused on lightweight portability for me. It would be a fantastic travel machine, but not so great for working on day in and day out: not enough storage, not enough ports, not enough screen real estate.
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+Which makes me begin to suspect that Apple has opened a new front in consumer electronics marketing, as of yesterday: not upgrade-your-current-computer but instead buy-a-second-machine. After all, if you’re going to take advantage of things like [Remote Disc](http://www.apple.com/macbookair/wireless.html), you’ve got to have another machine nearby. And if you’re going to use wireless networking for everything including backups, you’ve got to have a [Time Capsule](http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/). So the digital hub seems increasingly to be throwing out new spokes, producing not a convergence of appliances but instead appliance proliferation.
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+I held off on replacing my 12″ PowerBook G4 until now, hoping that I’d want to replace it with something new and sexy. And I do, as it turns out: I want to replace it with a 24″ iMac and a MacBook Air. But until I get some grant that will allow me to do so, it looks like I’m going to be getting the same MacBook Pro I’d have gotten last month instead. Ah, well.
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