Comments on: MacBook Air unboxing: notes and high-quality photos http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:15:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: elppa http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-4941 elppa Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:51:39 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/#comment-4941 Christian – Apple appear to be using a custom made security thingy which plugs into the solo USB port in the photos I have seen. Christian – Apple appear to be using a custom made security thingy which plugs into the solo USB port in the photos I have seen.

]]> By: GoDisplay http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-4911 GoDisplay Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:59:01 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/#comment-4911 Maybe my comment should be posted in the article "What's Wrong with the MacBook Air," but I have chosen to post it here instead... While Apple may have compromised some features with the MBA, this engineering is just a glimpse of things to come from Apple's future laptops/notebooks. Once certain engineering barriers are broken, the technology will permeate into other products. Look for subsequent Macbook Pros to be thinner, have wedged/rounded edges and other features similar to the Air. No optical drive? Good riddance, perhaps - Works for me. Just like the original iMac dumped the floppy, optical's days are numbered, when portability is at stake. The Air, if nothing else, is a pinnacle of what CAN be done - Not necessarily what SHOULD be done. With these initial feats, a new breed of laptops will emerge from Apple making last month's crop of ALL laptops look like OldTech. I predict all Apples laptops will be strikingly different in the next 18 months. Maybe my comment should be posted in the article “What’s Wrong with the MacBook Air,” but I have chosen to post it here instead… While Apple may have compromised some features with the MBA, this engineering is just a glimpse of things to come from Apple’s future laptops/notebooks. Once certain engineering barriers are broken, the technology will permeate into other products. Look for subsequent Macbook Pros to be thinner, have wedged/rounded edges and other features similar to the Air. No optical drive? Good riddance, perhaps – Works for me. Just like the original iMac dumped the floppy, optical’s days are numbered, when portability is at stake. The Air, if nothing else, is a pinnacle of what CAN be done – Not necessarily what SHOULD be done. With these initial feats, a new breed of laptops will emerge from Apple making last month’s crop of ALL laptops look like OldTech. I predict all Apples laptops will be strikingly different in the next 18 months.

]]> By: christian http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-4901 christian Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:22:18 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/02/macbook-air-unboxing-notes-and-high-quality-photos/#comment-4901 Hey Daniel, thanks for doing this blog. I follow your posts intently. You have some skill! Kudos. I was wanting to know how security of the macbook air is done in the Applestore? Have all units been glued to the tabletop or ...? And do they have macbook Air's that you can lift / actually hold in your hands - how are these units secured? I work at reseller in northern europe, and we are intensely looking forward to receive our first shipment / demo units. But we still haven't decided on security measures. Somehow -glueing a metal plate to the bottom, just to be able to fasten a cable, seems like raping this beauty... [Hi Christian - Thanks for the comments. The Apple Stores use a special USB security cable that goes off if unplugged. It has a pass through so that they can plug in another USB device. - Dan ] Hey Daniel, thanks for doing this blog. I follow your posts intently. You have some skill! Kudos.

I was wanting to know how security of the macbook air is done in the Applestore? Have all units been glued to the tabletop or …?
And do they have macbook Air’s that you can lift / actually hold in your hands – how are these units secured?

I work at reseller in northern europe, and we are intensely looking forward to receive our first shipment / demo units. But we still haven’t decided on security measures.

Somehow -glueing a metal plate to the bottom, just to be able to fasten a cable, seems like raping this beauty…

[Hi Christian - Thanks for the comments. The Apple Stores use a special USB security cable that goes off if unplugged. It has a pass through so that they can plug in another USB device. - Dan ]

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