15" MacBook Air Under Development?

To which we say:

WHY?! What's the point?!

The MacBook Air abysmally failed at being a really small, really thin computer, so now they're making it a really big, really thin computer?

I don't get it.

i hope this doesn't happen. the current macbook air is hard enough to sell, but a 15" one? if anything, they should make a smaller one, not a bigger one

This is an even worse idea than the original Macbook Air.

I can kind of see the logic in a 15" macbook air. If you take away the optical drive and have a sealed battery you could easily make it so the 15" could hit 8hours like the 17" and also as probably reduce the overall size a bit as well. I personally see the 15" screen as the ideal size for a presentation laptop when theres no projector etc.

They could probably keep all the ports (split onto both sides now though) and give it the macbook airs slanted shape or make it overall thinner (just :))

For me personally I hardly use the optical drive on my computers, most of my backups are on a server and I wouldn't mind the lack of it in a laptop if it gets me more battery life. I'm more than happy to carry a portable drive with me for the rare occasions its needed - I generally know when this is likely to happen anyways.

i hope this doesn't happen. the current macbook air is hard enough to sell, but a 15" one? if anything, they should make a smaller one, not a bigger one

Agreed! WTF are they doing!?? It needs to be smaller and lighter. Not bigger and heavier! They should just call it the Macbook Stone.:eek:

I would not call the Air a failure ... it seems to me that people who have never used it call it a failure. Having owned an Air now, I certainly love how light it is, how thin it is, and that I still get a nice bright 13" screen to work on if I'm on the road.

A 15" Air is a bad idea. A very very bad idea.

I can kind of see the logic in a 15" macbook air. If you take away the optical drive and have a sealed battery you could easily make it so the 15" could hit 8hours like the 17" and also as probably reduce the overall size a bit as well. I personally see the 15" screen as the ideal size for a presentation laptop when theres no projector etc.

They could probably keep all the ports (split onto both sides now though) and give it the macbook airs slanted shape or make it overall thinner (just :))

For me personally I hardly use the optical drive on my computers, most of my backups are on a server and I wouldn't mind the lack of it in a laptop if it gets me more battery life. I'm more than happy to carry a portable drive with me for the rare occasions its needed - I generally know when this is likely to happen anyways.

But they don't have to take the optical drive out in order to reach 8 hours if it has a sealed battery. The 17" still has its Optical Drive....

I call this rumor as BS.

Personally, I'm irritated by the current MacBookAir (second generation) not being updated to the "Unibody" aesthetic. If they had updated it, I would've bough one.

But since it's inevitable that eventually they will update it, and then everybody with the old-looking model will obviously be a sucker, I'm waiting for them to update it again...

That's ridiculous. They should make an effort to uniform the current MacBookAir to the prevailing style of their laptop offerings, complete with black-bezel screen and buttonless trackpad.

Why they didn't is totally beyond me.

I would not call the Air a failure ... it seems to me that people who have never used it call it a failure. Having owned an Air now, I certainly love how light it is, how thin it is, and that I still get a nice bright 13" screen to work on if I'm on the road.

A 15" Air is a bad idea. A very very bad idea.

I would not call the 15" Air a bad idea ... it seems to me that people who have never used a "15 call it a failure. Having owned a 15" now, I certainly love how cool it is, how steady it is, and that I still get a nice bright 15" screen to work on if I'm on the road.

:)

For Apple, this forum is definitely not representative...

This is an even worse idea than the original Macbook Air.

:rolleyes:

Yah, sure. Whatever. The 15" may or may not be a good idea but the macbook air was certainly very useful to a subgroup of mobile users.