Interesting piece from Cody Fink that is half review of the overall Apple Store experience, and half anecdotal observations of how the typical consumer views the MacBook Air. Choice bits:
A married couple walked up to the machine next to me and began talking about the MacBook Air in comparison to the iPad. For the same storage (64 GB I assume) and a couple hundred more dollars, they said they could have a computer that does much more than the iPad. These guys saw the MacBook Air as being the iPad replacement — they don’t coexist as a family of products since the thinness and size are so similar.
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From what I could gather, I don’t think these customers could relate the MacBook Air’s performance to its flash storage, and were concerned about whether the base model (as it was cheaper) would be “good enough”. To them, storage is storage and the processor is what determines how fast a computer is.
Apple Store Observations on the New MacBook Air - MacStories
Interesting piece from Cody Fink that is half review of the overall Apple Store experience, and half anecdotal observations of how the typical consumer views the MacBook Air. Choice bits:
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