Mac Complainer

Engadget just published their much anticipated review of the MacBook Air. I think they are straining a bit giving Apple’s sub-notebook a good review…
Good points: Screen is great, keyboard is full-size for an ultraportable
I won’t mention the bad points as these have been extravagantly covered everywhere including this blog. Engadget wraps up thus:
Given its stripped [...]

It’s not just that lone USB port that’s bugging some people about MBA. Look at what Gizmodo and Engadget found out:
Other MagSafes can’t reach into MacBook Air’s power port:

A USB 3G modem finds no purchase in MacBook Air’s USB port.

USA Today agrees with Mac Complainer that MacBook Air cannot be your lone computer.
Stephen Levy of Newsweek says that McBook Air is a circumcised laptop.
Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal repeats that MacBook Air is very thin and pretty , but hates the MacBook Air battery because it is non-removable, the single USB port [...]

I apologize for not posting as much as I wanted in the past couple of days. You see, I’ve just been hit back Karmic-style because of this new site I lovingly titled “Mac Complainer.” I’ve been a totally satisfied Apple customer since I purchased my white Macbook back in September of 2007. There’s not one [...]

Engadget reports that Apple software engineers have been preparing native applications to be used for firmware update 1.1.3. Firmware 1.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a crucial platform for hastening these two multi-touch gadgets into the future. With 1.1.3, SpringBoard will be able to add apps with ease and SpringBoard itself will have [...]

We’ve been expecting Apple to announce the multi-touch track pad on MacBook Pros. The news has come too soon for it to be good news to those who have recently purchased a MacBook Pro. Apple will be making the multi-touch trackpad standard on all MacBooks eventually, like iSight is today.
Penryn Core 2 Duo Intel [...]

Greenpeace has been on Apple’s back for many years for being an enemy to planet Earth. But now, the international environmental group has changed tune and they were practically doting on Apple’s new baby.
The MacBook Air aluminum covering is 100% recyclable. The LCD glass is mercury and arsenic free and the circuit boards BFR-free and [...]

Michael Horowitz, who writes a blog for CNET called “Defensive Computing, has a very important point to make about the design of Apple’s sub-notebook superficially made for business users or road warriors. The non-replaceable battery makes another appearance as primary suspect. Imagine, Horowitz writes, forgetting to backup all your important files when you ship your [...]

“MacBook Air is physically attractive,” tech guru Walt Mossberg kept saying during the interview with Wall Street Journal Digital Network (watch the video below). He said it so many times I wondered why he didn’t just come out with it. MBA is damned sexy. Mossberg also pointed out that Apple has made it a habit [...]

Some describe it as ethereal, so thin it fits in a Manila envelope. Encased in aluminum, Apple’s MacBook Air has been struggling keeping Apple fans from considering other light-weight notebooks. Is buying an ultraportable laptop from a different manufacturer to avoid the crippled hardware of MBA really worth abandoning OS X? This isn’t an easy [...]