{"id":183,"date":"2008-02-23T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/2008\/02\/23\/macbook-air-first-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T00:06:28","slug":"macbook-air-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/23\/macbook-air-first-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air first thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a week and a half ago I received a lovely, little package in the mail.\u00a0 It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/\">MacBook Air<\/a>, Apple's newest, thinnest, and lightest notebook computer.\u00a0 I can say, without a doubt, that this is the best laptop I have ever seen, used, or owned.\u00a0 It is not the right laptop for everyone, but it fits my needs perfectly.\u00a0 I have little need for extra USB ports or an optical drive while I'm away from my desk.\u00a0 The combination of its beautiful, widescreen, LED-backlit display, its full-size keyboard, and its surprisingly light weight make this computer a pleasure to use and carry around.\u00a0 Despite its thinness, the MacBook Air runs Mac OS X very well.\u00a0 I am using the 1.8GHz processor + 80GB HDD configuration.\u00a0 To be honest, most of my comparisons are against my old 1GHz 12-inch PowerBook G4, but for someone like me, who has a powerful quad-core Xeon Mac Pro as a desktop, the MacBook Air still does an excellent job of holding its own.\u00a0 The computer runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/aperture\/\">Aperture<\/a> quite well (I just installed Aperture 2 a couple days ago), which certainly says something given the requirements of that application.\u00a0 This new laptop allows me to be more productive away from my desk without being too much of a burden to lug around.\u00a0 Additionally, it is Apple's most environmentally friendly computer to date.\u00a0 For that, it is worth my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a week and a half ago I received a lovely, little package in the mail.  It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/\">MacBook Air<\/a>, Apple's newest, thinnest, and lightest notebook computer.  I can say, without a doubt, that this is the best laptop I have ever seen, used, or owned.  It is not the right laptop for everyone, but it fits my needs perfectly.  I have little need for extra USB ports or an optical drive while I'm away from my desk.  The combination of its beautiful, widescreen, LED-backlit display, its full-size keyboard, and its surprisingly light weight make this computer a pleasure to use and carry around.  Despite its thinness, the MacBook Air runs Mac OS X very well.  I am using the 1.8GHz processor + 80GB HDD configuration.  To be honest, most of my comparisons are against my old 1GHz 12-inch PowerBook G4, but for someone like me, who has a powerful quad-core Xeon Mac Pro as a desktop, the MacBook Air still does an excellent job of holding its own.  The computer runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/aperture\/\">Aperture<\/a> quite well (I just installed Aperture 2 a couple days ago), which certainly says something given the requirements of that application.  This new laptop allows me to be more productive away from my desk without being too much of a burden to lug around.  Additionally, it is Apple's most environmentally friendly computer to date.  For that, it is worth my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}