MacBook Air Forum Getting Busy
30Jan2008 Filed under: MacBook Complaints Author: BrianB
Apple.com has launched a support page for the MacBook Air. There’s a usage guide (PDF), a guided tour and a forum. The forum has been pretty busy even with MBA still on pre-order status. There are currently 2,352 messages and 297 topic threads. Pretty amazing for something that hasn’t reached consumer hands yet. This is logical for a notebook that is so different from all others before it. A smart user will need to know everything he possibly can before shelling out $1799 for a notebook with no optical drive and a slow-poke hard disk. You learn, for example, that the MacBook Air speakers are located below the keyboard. Wow! One revelation that warrants a separate post is the time it takes to recharge the MBA battery to full capacity… 8.5 hours! My God!
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Patrick Pending
February 5th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Macbook Air can be dangerous too … http://www.theferret.org.uk/articleDetail.php?articleID=181
MacBook Air Battery Problems
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
[...] the MBA battery takes 10 hours to fully recharge. Say what! I think we’ve posted about this somewhere but due to expert reviewers, we gave Apple the benefit of the doubt and began buying one [...]
Lucy Davis
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:58 am
Actually, the MacBook Air is not perfect at all. But what is?
We all shoul stop hating, because all of the criticisms are dramatically dampening the demand. So that the new-gen macBook Airs could never appear. We won’t see any progress if just looking ate every innovation at it’s negative side.
Apple has some plans for it’s future expansion by the way: http://www.maconair.com/macbook_air_patent_future_expansion
manu
May 7th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Macbook air is indeed an awesome and amazing laptop its the lighest and the thinnest laptop ever made by apple.
it comes with great features and specs
you need one then infomr me i can advise
manucontreraskk@gmail.com
chachiksin
October 5th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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Tom Hunter
November 29th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I bought a MacBook Air for $999. Because of the all-aluminum frame and the no-moving-parts hard drive, I expected it to be durable.
Unfortunately, while moving a coffee cup to my lips, I spilled a drop or two of coffee on my brand-new MacBook Air. It shut down in about 30 seconds forever, a total loss. All my data is 100% gone forever. $700 to repair.
Of course, I am responsible for my own mistake. Yet, when you start to google: ” ‘MacBook Air’ water”, you see legions of customers who have encountered this problem. Couple drops of water in the top–total loss.
Why? The aluminum housing acts like a bath tub.
The design decision to include a single aluminum housing came with consequences. It introduced a new vulnerability not shared by a machine with a porous bottom, one that cooled through the bottom instead of through the keys.
The design decision to move away from a spinning hard drive to flash memory chips naked on the motherboard also came with consequences. When your data is within a hard drive, it is pretty safe–it’s raised off the bottom of the laptop. Your precious data is safe. When it’s on the motherboard, your precious data is naked to the wind.
The failure mode of a laptop with a traditional hard drive is not pretty but it’s survivable. It sucks but you can usually recover all your data. It’s also rare to have a motherboard and hard drive fail simultaneously. It’s actually pretty hard to make a traditional hard drive fail–they are sealed up tightly.
The failure mode of a MacBook Air is obscene: two drops of water, rain–and everything is gone, all of your data. Your entire motherboard, hard drive, memory–everything–is toast.