Pros and Cons of New Macbook

Pros:

·         Flash Storage

- Increases speed, reliability, and efficiency. It also gives it enough memory space to stay on standby for up to 30 days. Something most laptops cannot do.

·         Multi-Touch Trackpad

 - You can pinch and pinch out to adjust the size of images and maps. You can swipe left tor right to change through acticve applications, and you can do much more. There are no buttons, so you can click poractically anywhere.

·                  Long Lasting Battery

- They are said to last a total of 5-7 hours. This is a marvelous amount of time. On average, a laptop lasts 3-4 hours. Yes. Apple is above-average.

·                  Phenomenal Display, Camera, and Stereo

- The display has reached a phenomenal level. It is only 4.9 millimeters long, but produces one of the best displays in all laptops. The camera allows the user to FaceTime and has a video chat. The stereo is heard, but it is not visible. That’s right. Apple hid the stereo speakers.

·                  Lightweight, weighs only 3 lbs, extremely thin and sleek design, can fit into a manila envelope, up to 128GB drive, large LCD screen, measures 13.3", full-size keyboard, long battery life, lasts up to 7 hours under normal conditions, allows sharing/networking of DVD drive from several computers (either Windows or Mac) using its innovative

Cons:

·                  No CD or DVD drive

- Apple fails to add a DVD or CD drive in the pursuit of maintaining its honor as the thinnest laptop in the world. A CD drive and a DVD drive are essentials for a laptop.

·                  Battery is not removable

- Batteries have to run out after a certain point. In this category, Apple is not exceptional. The Macbook still cannot remove its battery unless you get it done by a professional. Another way to spend more money.

·                  Designed with only 3 ports/connectors: USB, mini DVI, and headphone jack

- The more the merrier! Not in this case. Apple still has only 3 ports in their laptop, making it very hard to use it as a laptop for software. This disadvantage will standout forever in all Macbooks, because it is merely too thin to put more.

·                  Requires additional external devices for other connections

-You must have other devices connected through the top 3 ports if you want more features. This is very disappointing. The whole point of a laptop is to be mobile. Features like this do not make it mobile. You cannot carry another device just to hook up to the Macbook.

·                  No Ethernet. Only Wireless.

-Once again, there is no Ethernet port. You must connect wirelessly using the Wi-Fi. This automatically removes Macbooks from the race for company computers.

      In general, the pros are extremely promising, but the cons are disappointing. There are a few features that aren’t and will never be added to the Macbook Air. Therefore, the regular Macbooks are the ones to aim for. Out of 10, I give the Macbook a rating of 7.5.

Apple Releases MacBooks and Mac OS X Lion Software

Apple had a great, busy day today! The company unveiled two new versions of its MacBook Air ultralight laptops. It also launched the Mac OS X Lion operating system for the Mac. As usual, Apple released new products the day after its earnings were exposed.
            The Mac OS X Lion software borrowed parts of the lightweight iPhone’s iOS software. This allowed the laptop to act more like Apple’s mobile gadgets. Apple uses names of big cats to distinguish between versions of their software. Lion will include a built-in store that sells various types of Mac software. It will be very similar to the iTunes store that sells apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. These devices have had more success than the Macbooks, because of the fact that they have various free apps that are linked to them. Macs only accounted for a jaw-dropping 4% of the world’s PC shipments. There are many more similar features that the PC carries. The software will also allow users to swipe to a dashboard. It will be possible to create folders by dragging an icon over another, which names itself based on the apps.
            The two new Macs are sleek and sick! The laptops are 0.68 inches thick at the back edge and decrease down to 0.11 inches thick at the front edge. They come in two different sizes. One with a screen that's 13.3 inches diagonally and another that contains a screen with an 11.6-inch screen. The larger one scales in at 2.9 pounds and can be used for seven hours. Thanks in part to a low-voltage processor from Intel Corp. that consumes less power than ones running in standard laptops. The smaller one weighs 2.3 pounds and is rated to last five hours. Both can sit on standby for 30 days.
            Prices range from $999 for a smaller one with 64 gigabytes of flash memory storage to $1,599 for the larger model with 256 gigabytes of flash.
            Before the release, there was a rumor that Apple could include a touch screen on their Macs. Apple did not do so, because they believe it doesn’t make sense to make customers touch a vertical surface. A con is they still do not have a CD drive or DVD drive. Although, this is disappointing, it should be known that computers process faster and wake up from their “sleep” state quicker.
            Apple is also bringing the famous FaceTime to its Macbooks. The feature was introduced in the iPhone 4 and has been introduced recently to the iPad.
            Apple is also releasing a new version of iLife, its set of programs for managing photos, editing videos and music and doing other tasks. This will just add to the brilliance of the Macs.
            The company added more ties between its iPhoto program and the popular social networking site Facebook. When people glance at pictures they've published on Facebook, iPhoto displays comments friends made on that site.
            Other new features include a full-screen view for managing photos, new slideshow templates with great designs, and the ability to e-mail customized photo-postcards straight from iPhoto.
            In iMovie, Apple improved audio editing and the ability to easily piece together movie trailers. The audio was originally known to be horrible and hard to hear. This was greatly improved.
            ILife '11 will come installed on new Macs and can be purchased as an upgrade for $49 starting immediately. The previous 2009 version will cost $30 more.
            Overall, the two Macbooks and the new software for the Macs are expected to get brilliant reviews and have so far. The company of Apple is expected to get a 5% rise in earnings for their 4^th quarter due to this release only.