Recently I started reading posts over at Apple's MacBook Air Support Forum for, as they say, "shits and giggles."
OMG.
Do people really buy this machine without knowing its capabilities (and, more importantly, its limitations)? Apparently so.
Some examples (verbatim):
- I have sims 2 disks. And i recently got a macbook air which i realised doesnt have a disk holder thing. I dont want to illegally download it. Does anyone have any ideas so i can play it on my laptop?
- How can I add a firewire port to MacBook Air?
- I am confused about the new MacBook Air. It would appear it does not have an internal DVD/CD drive as most computers do. Does this mean after the price of this Mac Air I still would have to purchase an external DVD/CD player to load software or play DVD's and CD's ??? That seems like technology is going backwards and the owners just want more money.
- i recentely brought a apple macbook air 13 inch 128gb and am running low on gb. Is there anyway to obtain more as even software updates are taking too much gb up!
Do people just walk into an Apple Store and say, "Oooh! Pretty!" and drop $1200 without researching the product first?
Knowing that the internals of the Air are not upgradable, I anguished for months before I got mine.
Will 4 GB RAM be enough? (Yes, because I didn't see any real difference when I upgraded my old 4GB MacBook Pro to 8GB.)
More importantly, will having only 256GB of storage be sufficient? (I had a 320GB hard drive on the MBP that was only about 2/3 full, so yeah…after some much needed archiving of old stuff to an external drive it was more than sufficient.)
Will not having a disk player impact the usability? (I used the disk slot on the MBP only a dozen times to install software, and only once to watch a movie. Worst case scenario I have an external DVD drive that I can pull out of storage for occasional use or drop $79 for Apple's proprietary player if it ever becomes an ongoing need.)
Ben can attest to the fact that I had several rough weeks adapting to the Apple ecosystem when I first abandoned Microsoft, so I can't read the forums with a totally jaundiced eye, but some of the postings tell me that no matter how intuitive or user-friendly Apple makes their products, there will always be a certain demographic—the same demographic that undoubtedly would quickly embrace a product like pre-chewed food—that simply will never get it…
Because, as Ben and I are fond of yelling out the car window, "THINKING IS HARD!"