Technology Article #1

Eyah Ncho

October 24, 2010

Information Technology

Mr.Stia          

Due: September 17, 2010

Apple 11-inch MacBook Air 2010

                          Apple has designed a new laptop that’s light weight and portable to carry around.  This computer holds up to 2 GB of RAM and 128 GB of Hard Drive. This computer holds up to 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. The laptop only weights about 2.3 pounds, so it’s very light weight to carry around in school etc. There also is a 13 inch MacBook Air that has a faster CPU and a higher resolution screen and a SD slot. Apple improved versions of imovie, iphoto, and garage band so now it would be funnier to make a photo gallery or make movies or even play instruments. Apple made a better garage band to play more instruments and hours of fun and imovie turns all the pictures and videos into a slide show. Now it is easier to share pictures with friends and family and create slideshows using fun themes. There is an app store to purchase games or apps like the iPhone and the iPod. In the Mac there are new accessories like ichat, ical, iphoto booth etc. and there is a one year warranty so if anything goes wrong with the laptop, you can ship it and let them figure out what’s wrong but if you broke it you have to buy a new one.

                          Even though there are some good things about this pc there are also bad things also. It’s crazy that someone will pay $1,199 for a small 11 inch netbook for a hard drive that is 128GB and for a lesser hard drive 64 GB it will cost $999. You’ll only get 90 days of free telephone support and then after that I guess you will have to pay. The laptop is very thin so if someone or something knocks it down then that’s the end of the laptop. When you set it down on a smooth surface it might tilt and fall or might fall over but Apple put some stuff to hold the laptop down but it still tilt. It doesn’t come with a SD card slot to put videos and pictures and store or share in the computer. There isn’t a CD Rom to add CD’s or DVD’s into the computer and burn songs or a movie.

                          This laptop to me seems like it is a great nicely designed laptop.  But I have some pros and cons with this laptop. The laptop is small but you can carry it around easily. I don’t like how it is really pricy and that there isn’t a three USB 2.0 ports. I also don’t like that Apple won’t give people free phone telephone support more than 90 days or even a lifetime. I recommend this computer to grown teens that are doing work for school or busy adults that works on the computer a lot.

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-air-11-inch-2010.aspx?page=3#ixzz138C9uRug