MacBook Air

[marcode]

i played with the airs in the new apple store in glasgow the other day and they are fucking ridiculous.

doesnt even feel like you are holding a laptop when u pick it up cos its so light... i must own one of these fuckers, or their successors.

[BertRoot]

CJ over to the darkside in another way. It will be on ebay soon I hope.

[TheManWho]

*jealous*

[CzarJunkie]

Posting this using Safari, I hate to gloat but wow, if I could marry a machine I'd be down on one knee. Safari has a built in spell checker I've just noticed too.........it's all good

[TheManWho]

Don't forget to program your 'hot corners' in system prefs > Desktop & Screen saver.

I have top right, displays all windows/apps and bottom right is desktop - makes everything so easy.

One thing I noticed with my MacBook CJ - even the inner packing was too perfect to open and disrupt.

[Freddy]

Welcome to heaven CJ. Me and the lads are due to spit down on the windows boys this afternoon and I've a lovely head cold. Come on over at 3pm.

[CzarJunkie]

Don't forget to program your 'hot corners' in system prefs > Desktop & Screen saver.

I have top right, displays all windows/apps and bottom right is desktop - makes everything so easy.

One thing I noticed with my MacBook CJ - even the inner packing was too perfect to open and disrupt.

I found it difficult to take it out of the box, I didn't want to touch it. Purely from a design aspect the experience has been beyond my expectations. Is it worth the money? Even if I never spend another productive minute using it I'd say yes.

Christ, I think this is the feeling all those tossers in the 'new baby' thread were banging on about.

[gunner]

Hopefully it wont be long before HP/Lenovo/Dell follow suit.

[TheManWho]

Christ, I think this is the feeling all those tossers in the 'new baby' thread were banging on about.

buahahaha NEXT you'll be busting out your MBA in Starbucks, along with your skinny muffin and one pump skinny mochaccino no foam... it's the mother-ship... and it's calling you home.

[Sanj[UK]]

Czar how are you finding osx? glad you made the switch or you got windows back on it?

[CzarJunkie]

Czar how are you finding osx? glad you made the switch or you got windows back on it?

I expected to be faced with a steeper learning curve but it's far more intuitive than windows. I know it's shallow but it's so pretty too, the dashboard widgets have kept me occupied for hours.

I've installed MS Office 2008 so I can connect to our exchange server, in place of Outlook it has something called Entourage. I've not used it much yet but even MS software seems better on a Mac.

Safari appears to be solid and I love the in-built spell checking feature, so all in all I'm impressed with both the hardware and software.

I watched the Gadget Show last week and they criticised it's lack of connections and voted a Sony Viao ahead of it. Daft cunts haven't got a clue.

[ruggie_uk]

Welcome to the future!
I got a macbook to see what all the fuss is about. It just feels so much better than using windows and the hardware feels smooth(hard to describe) but sturdy.
The more you use it the more you can see that Vista has stolen but cocked up.

[flumperino]

A guy in work bought one of these and had it in the office - must say, it is sexy as hell! Couldn't believe how slick it is, only about 1cm thick!

He only bought it because he's minted and wanted a new lappy.....he honestly couldn't understand why I kept staring at it and drooling

[Mobileman]

Well got to work today and I am now the proud owner of a FOC macbook air courtesy of apple RESULT shame its only the 1.6mhz one

WOW, WOW, WOW is all i can say found it really easy to use and much easier than the last time i used a Mac over 15 years ago

So thinking about dual OS but really want to give this a fair crack

I need word, excel for work attachments the other apps i use at work go through our aventail box and IT reckon they can get that working

Does MS Office Mac read and write office 2000/2003 files as our aged IT department still have not moved to 2007

Also any tips or hints and must haves ??

Thanks