I've now been using my MacBook Air for 2 months. And my iPhone for 3 months. Feedback time...
Firstly the MacBook Air gets a lot of attention. A lot. Probably more than the early USR PDA that I bought in 1998 and transferred my Filofax during a flight from West Coast to East Coast - and could have sold 5 or 6 on the flight. The positive noises are the look, the thin profile, the wide angle of view on the screen, the brightness and clarity of the screen. There are a couple of colleagues who carp about the lack of USB ports (which hasn't been a significant issue) and the lack of a CD drive. I didn't originally buy the AirDrive - but I should have done - along with an external ethernet adapter which I need on most customer sites as many have wired guest networks but not wireless. It's running VMWare Fusion with an XP install which runs business software quickly very adequately. Happy.
Secondly the iPhone with the "unlimited" access to data is invaluable - and I never switch it off. It really works in both the wireless availability and GPRS modes. I have 3 email accounts synched and the only issue is that I would rather it did some better synchronisation - but then I'd have to move to IMAP. Which I can't at the moment. Happy
I also bought the Microsoft Office suite and this is where I get a bit disappointed as the synch between Entourage and iCal / email is pretty unstable. I'm disappointed because I have to use the MS product to interact with work colleagues - but it's still not as solid as I'd like.
But unless I have to for work reasons (like I work for someone who bans Mac - then I'm never going back... and if I can find an alternative office suite which doesn't require me to be online then I'm going to try to exit the MS bundle.
Try www.openoffice.org I use it on my mac.
Posted by: Dan | April 26, 2008 at 09:45 PM