Sadly for you, they just announced the newest macbook air, pretty much the equivalent of this one, your statement is retarded, you can watch a few interviews with Steve Jobs and realize that he knows and talks about you people, people who see him as a symbol, but he wasn't the only one working at apple...
At the time, it was a really big deal. Tons of people wouldn't buy it because it was 1. Too expensive, and 2. Didn't have an optical drive included. People complained that for it's price, it should of come with the optical drive. And the screen was horrifically bad, people complained about that so much. And extremely underpowered, it could barely be used for anything except surfing the web and answering emails. It was seen as an unnecessary luxury.
@@elliemay1748 That's a pretty one sided analysis of the initial reception of the Macbook Air. All of the things you mentioned were concerns for some people, but as this presentation points out, the standard for equivalently compact/light machines at the time was 2x 1.2GHz, and this was 2x1.6 or 1.8. It couldn't concievably have been any more powerful in it's weight class at the time. Have you ever used one for any length of time? My Dad bought one and I borrowed it a few times for browsing. It's a well made machine. Great keyboard, and it's altogether an enjoyable device to use. If you want a mobile office device, you want comfort and accessibility, not horsepower. It provides that. Most of what you've said was the typical 'Apples vs oranges' comparisons, which were generally based around the price tag. I made plenty of arguments like that myself at the time. As a young broke student, if I had $1799 to blow there would be no way in hell I would be putting it towards a Macbook - I had power hungry design work to do and would have rather bought the most GHz and and RAM I could afford with reasonable battery life. Size and weight didn't factor in at all. I'd rather suffer for maximum capability. I understand what you're saying about unnecessary luxury, but whether it's a luxury or not depends a lot on the sort of work that you're doing. A huge amount of the work in the world - the vast majority, actually - done on computers, is just numbers and text. You don't hear about that so much when people talk about computers, because it's not interesting, and it's not controversial. The buzz on the Internet, when people talk about computers, is always about horsepower, FPS, benchmarks, will it run Crysis at full detail, can I edit HD videos, do 3D rendering, etc, because that's what computer hardware enthusiasts talk about. People who aren't computer hardware enthusiasts don't talk about computers very much, but they do use them. Editing HD videos is about the most mainstream of those concerns, but it's still a relatively fringe concern and something most consider a neat addition to their computer's capability, not a core function, and most people in the target market for the MacBook Air also have at least one other more powerful laptop or desktop if they really need to do that.
I really miss Steve. He was such a visionary, and amazing presenter. Apple's technology is astonishing, especially Apple Silicon, but they have undoubtedly lost the soul of the company without Steve. If he were still around I'm certain we wouldn't have camera bumps and notches in all of our iPhones :(
yeah there is a way not have camera bumps, just make the phone 3 times as thick and instead of notches, why not have an unreliable motorized pop up selfie camera or have an awful under display one that ends up attracted more attention than the notch.
Wtf is this worshipping of a CEO? Not to mention the rewriting of history and some weird parasocial relationship stuff thrown in. Jobs didn’t want the iPhone because he worried it would cut into iPod sales. Jobs didn’t want an App Store, instead relying on web apps. Jobs famously told people they’re holding their phone wrong, then Apple had to send free bumpers to every iPhone 4 owner as a workaround. He wanted screen size to stay at 3.5”, despite the market demanding bigger screens, saying that “no one is going to buy a phone with a big screen” (5.5” at the time). He was stubborn, controlling, and executives had to always work around him and convince him of decisions that made Apple successful in the first place. Do your research, there’s lots of biographies and interviews from people who’ve worked closely with Jobs. Don’t pull random stuff out of your ass and pass them off as facts.
I remember when I first seen that and I was like wow. I know Steve Jobs Demanded a lot from his team but in the end that’s what made Apple so great and that’s what they’re lacking right now. Steve we miss you
I just checked prices of macbook air and its price is starting at $999.It is also more powerful and has even more memory now.Not bad price drop in 4 years since it first came out.
@@one_step_sidewaysLol is this a joke? M1 Air starts at 999, and it’s better than most ultrabooks around the same price point. But nah let’s just throw some bs and see what sticks
I remember a lot of skepticism when Apple started removing optical drives in their Macs. But Steve was spot on here -- digital servicing and the internet has really taken over, and it's much more efficient now to just rip from an external drive now when needed.
Not once have i rented a movie online , especially not in itunes and streaming really started in the mid 2010s. The optical drive vanished over the years because of streaming, fast internet and fast enough flash drives. Since most of the people on this planet do not use macs, it had nothing to do with apple and /or jobs. Still buying my favorite movies on bluray though, because many movies were removed on the streaming services and replaced by crappy shows. Maybe disney will alter all their movies to please the "modern audience", so i'm save with my original uncut versions.
Considering Ultrabooks did not exist at the time and that it took till 2011 for ultrabooks to become mainstream in the market, i think they can choose whatever price they want considering nothing like it existed at the time.
2020: Apple makes an ARM processor thats built in an iPad, running a full fledged video game built for PS4 and Xbox One. Also in 2020, Apple’s gonna announce 5nm chips.
@@vshnv_c apple made a 5nm arm processor built in a macbook, as powerful as i9 9980hk, with integrated graphics as powerful as geforce 1060 and completely silent. No fans.
Yo tuve un Mac Book Air de 2008, y he de decir que fue mi primer Max, es un ordenador fantástico, al que le saqué muchísimo partido, edité fotos, aprendí a editar vídeos con iMovie, la experiencia de uso que tuve con este ordenador, hizo que nunca más quisiese tener un ordenador con sistema operativo Windows, para mi el Mac Book Air, marco un antes y un después, en mi relación con la informática, un grandísimo ordenador.
Nowadays, headphone jack is disappearing faster than ever before. Samsung, Google, and other Chinese makers following Apple`s decision.. So yeah, you are right..
Yeah, my guess on what they'll do on the next gen MacBook: No USB-c/Thunderbolt connectors. They're a 299.99$ Option coz it's... you know designed to be wireless. Sadly though this might just actually happen.
I love how Steve presents his vision as a persuasive argument. He readily admits the compromises they made and why it was worth the trade-off. The removal of the optical drive is a prime example. That's a stark contrast to how the company presents this air of uncompromised perfection under Tim
Steve Jobs was such a genius. Just 6 years before this came out, laptops were nearly 3 inches thick and weighed over 6 pounds. People say the MacBook air was so garbage for the value for its time, but consider that this was a good preforming laptop for the time and in such a tiny package. In any windows laptop then for the same performance it would be double the thickness
Also, it was physically impossible (at the time) to fit anything larger than 80GB in a HDD that small, in a package that thin. Plus, PC gamers say that they save more money on Steam than on a traditional DVD/BD. One more thing, the Macbook Air was (and still is) made without a discrete graphics card.
I would have agreed but after seeing the new MacBook Air with an m1 chip I was blown away I am an Apple fan but yeah they have stopped innovating like they used to I hope the old Apple comes back😕
It was still $1000+ cheaper than the Sony VAIO TZ laptop it was compared to during the keynote, which was much thicker, significantly less powerful, and had significantly worse battery life than that first $1799 Macbook Air.
Apple didn't kill the floppy and CD. The tech evolution did. Floppies were killed by ZIP disks, then by CDs and DVDs, then by USB sticks and finally by WiFi/Cloud/App stores.
It's amazing how Steve got out in front of all the 'no cd/dvd drive' predicted criticisms. He, back in 2008, convinced people that you don't really need these things and if you absolutely, on occasion, need to read a CD- here is how you can do it. He did the same thing years prior with no floppy drive. And then of course- he pulled it off with no Flash when the iPhone and iPad came out. His 'Thoughts on Flash' was brilliant. And now of course- we realize he was absolutely correct about all of the above. RiP Steve Jobs.
Was a lot back then. My old 2011 Windows laptop only lasted about 2,5 hours with all settings on maximum saving. Play a game, sure but after 45 minutes I got the low battery warning already.
It's incredible to me how little has changed since then, the last 10 years have been so disappointing tech wise. Smart phones have improved yes, but other than that... the laptops/desktops have seen so little change. Using OSX 10.4 Lion is practically the same experience as it is today. You can't do anything today that you couldn't do then. We've had some smaller advances like HD video streaming and higher resolutions screens are nice, but that's about it.
@andyt2k You can use any Windows or Mac PC with a Optical drive to remote connect for the Air and Mini (and now ALL Macs; great if you remove the Optical for an SSD) to rip movies or install programs.
Omitting optical drive said by users was crazy back in 2008. Same thing with the headphone jack in 2016 and legacy ports in 2015 (see, a lot of legacy tech were omitted, like floppy disk and SCSI in 1998). Tech industry mocked them and usually follows what Apple did when users moved on with these legacy things.
the problem is that unlike the optical drive - there isn't a suitable replacement for wired headphones for several use cases especially pro ones on products like the iPad which claim to be pro
My, so much has changed since then... But yet again, a lot is the same. The MacBook is no more, the Air is the best selling ultrabook even though it was critisized so much, and a 80GB HDD is a joke in today's standard. And damn, $1799? And now it's $999.
thats true but then what about playing games and watching movies, I know you can download them but they take up a lot of hard drive space and people already have collections of games and dvds, it basically means they have to spend more money buying a portable optical drive
Насколько Стив Джобс был великолепен,как умело и с любовью он преподносил людям технологии. Ты сделал то что другим было не по силам !!! Царство тебе небесное покойся с миром 🙏
@AwesomeTeeVee what are your specs and what are hi? whose is older? my pc looks more 1337, can play 5 games at 1600p at the same time, while rendering a 1000 megapixel image, and it seamlessly integrates with my home network. I have used one for two hours once, the farthest i could get is youtube before it crashed.
2008: This is so stupid, who'd buy a laptop without an optical drive?!
2012: What's an optical drive?
TommyBNSF 2018 Netflix
2016: What are ports?
TommyBNSF 2018 what’s a computer
@Negan 2045
What's a baseball bat?
@@waldodoodoo6793 few years later... What is usb port??
15 years later and this still looks great today. Aside from the screen bezels.
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This notebook was 10 years ahead of it's time. Steve really was an amazing presenter and innovator. The industry and world truly misses him.
I think Steve's favorite three phrases are
"It's really beautiful", "It's really tiny", and "but there's one more thing"
Isn't it incredible?
Ikr
It's phenomenal
its mind blowing
It’s a screamer!
Hard to believe both of them have passed away.
Angeelo Gov rip
He always gave reasons for compromising and those were true unlike today
He was a marketing genius! Way more convincing than today’s highly exaggerated graphical presentations.
Sometimes less is more
steve jobs remove things (optical driver) with purposes and solution, tim cook removes things.
Hahaha true! MacBook Airs are probably the best Laptops ever made! Removing all the ports?! What a joke! Steve Jobs would be ashamed!
2 years after removing all legacy ports in exchange for usb-c and all apple mobile devices *still* come with old USB charging cables.
Sadly for you, they just announced the newest macbook air, pretty much the equivalent of this one, your statement is retarded, you can watch a few interviews with Steve Jobs and realize that he knows and talks about you people, people who see him as a symbol, but he wasn't the only one working at apple...
At the time, it was a really big deal. Tons of people wouldn't buy it because it was 1. Too expensive, and 2. Didn't have an optical drive included. People complained that for it's price, it should of come with the optical drive. And the screen was horrifically bad, people complained about that so much. And extremely underpowered, it could barely be used for anything except surfing the web and answering emails. It was seen as an unnecessary luxury.
@@elliemay1748 That's a pretty one sided analysis of the initial reception of the Macbook Air.
All of the things you mentioned were concerns for some people, but as this presentation points out, the standard for equivalently compact/light machines at the time was 2x 1.2GHz, and this was 2x1.6 or 1.8. It couldn't concievably have been any more powerful in it's weight class at the time.
Have you ever used one for any length of time? My Dad bought one and I borrowed it a few times for browsing. It's a well made machine. Great keyboard, and it's altogether an enjoyable device to use. If you want a mobile office device, you want comfort and accessibility, not horsepower. It provides that.
Most of what you've said was the typical 'Apples vs oranges' comparisons, which were generally based around the price tag.
I made plenty of arguments like that myself at the time. As a young broke student, if I had $1799 to blow there would be no way in hell I would be putting it towards a Macbook - I had power hungry design work to do and would have rather bought the most GHz and and RAM I could afford with reasonable battery life. Size and weight didn't factor in at all. I'd rather suffer for maximum capability.
I understand what you're saying about unnecessary luxury, but whether it's a luxury or not depends a lot on the sort of work that you're doing. A huge amount of the work in the world - the vast majority, actually - done on computers, is just numbers and text. You don't hear about that so much when people talk about computers, because it's not interesting, and it's not controversial.
The buzz on the Internet, when people talk about computers, is always about horsepower, FPS, benchmarks, will it run Crysis at full detail, can I edit HD videos, do 3D rendering, etc, because that's what computer hardware enthusiasts talk about. People who aren't computer hardware enthusiasts don't talk about computers very much, but they do use them.
Editing HD videos is about the most mainstream of those concerns, but it's still a relatively fringe concern and something most consider a neat addition to their computer's capability, not a core function, and most people in the target market for the MacBook Air also have at least one other more powerful laptop or desktop if they really need to do that.
I really miss Steve. He was such a visionary, and amazing presenter. Apple's technology is astonishing, especially Apple Silicon, but they have undoubtedly lost the soul of the company without Steve. If he were still around I'm certain we wouldn't have camera bumps and notches in all of our iPhones :(
He would have embraced the notch like they have
yeah there is a way not have camera bumps, just make the phone 3 times as thick and instead of notches, why not have an unreliable motorized pop up selfie camera or have an awful under display one that ends up attracted more attention than the notch.
Glad to say they finally got rid of the iPhone notch for a much nicer looking island that can actually resize with functionality
Wtf is this worshipping of a CEO? Not to mention the rewriting of history and some weird parasocial relationship stuff thrown in.
Jobs didn’t want the iPhone because he worried it would cut into iPod sales. Jobs didn’t want an App Store, instead relying on web apps. Jobs famously told people they’re holding their phone wrong, then Apple had to send free bumpers to every iPhone 4 owner as a workaround. He wanted screen size to stay at 3.5”, despite the market demanding bigger screens, saying that “no one is going to buy a phone with a big screen” (5.5” at the time). He was stubborn, controlling, and executives had to always work around him and convince him of decisions that made Apple successful in the first place.
Do your research, there’s lots of biographies and interviews from people who’ve worked closely with Jobs. Don’t pull random stuff out of your ass and pass them off as facts.
Watching this on my M1 Air. Amazing how for we've come!
Do macs fart?
I like this style way more than the current advertisement.
He just had a way of saying things.
It's crazy that the current MacBook Air has 9-12 hours of battery life
Psst, 20 hours now.
Jeez this comment is old
Руслан Гиндуллин the air has around 18 doesn't it? I'm pretty sure the pro has over 20 hours of battery life
damnn look at the m1 chip battery now, crazyyyy
@@BrightWolfMaster it was 8 years ago 😂
I remember when I first seen that and I was like wow. I know Steve Jobs Demanded a lot from his team but in the end that’s what made Apple so great and that’s what they’re lacking right now. Steve we miss you
I just checked prices of macbook air and its price is starting at $999.It is also more powerful and has even more memory now.Not bad price drop in 4 years since it first came out.
yes it is $999 not bad after 11 years
Lmao
@@RazzorrXX ........ So what? It's at same price but better, macbook air was never a cheap laptop, it's an premium ultrabook not an affordable laptop
Not anymore, overpriced craptops here we go
@@one_step_sidewaysLol is this a joke? M1 Air starts at 999, and it’s better than most ultrabooks around the same price point.
But nah let’s just throw some bs and see what sticks
I remember a lot of skepticism when Apple started removing optical drives in their Macs. But Steve was spot on here -- digital servicing and the internet has really taken over, and it's much more efficient now to just rip from an external drive now when needed.
Not once have i rented a movie online , especially not in itunes and streaming really started in the mid 2010s. The optical drive vanished over the years because of streaming, fast internet and fast enough flash drives. Since most of the people on this planet do not use macs, it had nothing to do with apple and /or jobs.
Still buying my favorite movies on bluray though, because many movies were removed on the streaming services and replaced by crappy shows. Maybe disney will alter all their movies to please the "modern audience", so i'm save with my original uncut versions.
Considering Ultrabooks did not exist at the time and that it took till 2011 for ultrabooks to become mainstream in the market, i think they can choose whatever price they want considering nothing like it existed at the time.
Hey
@@GoToMan Ho
People clapping to the $1799 price tag makes me feel better about the price I paid for my M2 MacBook Air.
1799 a lot of money at that time
$2,106 specifically now
Lol it still is!
Not for a computer so advanced like this one it was really a good deal at the time
If you see the facial reaction of those people in the room, you can guess that it was a really really good deal
Compared to similar products back then that price was good
2008:When Intel and Apple were innovative
2019:When Apple launches a stand for a thousand bucks and Intel still not on 7nm
ouch
2020: Apple makes an ARM processor thats built in an iPad, running a full fledged video game built for PS4 and Xbox One. Also in 2020, Apple’s gonna announce 5nm chips.
2027: Apple's sold for 1 yuan to Huawei
@@pauldiether2415 Apple is the most valuable company as of July 2020, stupid huawei fanboy
@@vshnv_c apple made a 5nm arm processor built in a macbook, as powerful as i9 9980hk, with integrated graphics as powerful as geforce 1060 and completely silent. No fans.
Yo tuve un Mac Book Air de 2008, y he de decir que fue mi primer Max, es un ordenador fantástico, al que le saqué muchísimo partido, edité fotos, aprendí a editar vídeos con iMovie, la experiencia de uso que tuve con este ordenador, hizo que nunca más quisiese tener un ordenador con sistema operativo Windows, para mi el Mac Book Air, marco un antes y un después, en mi relación con la informática, un grandísimo ordenador.
Thank you Steve, rest in peace mate, we will meet again...
2008:You're crazy did you put out CD/DVD!?
10 years later...
2018:You're crazy did you buy notebook with CD/DVD!? (and now CD/DVD out of the shop..)
Sorry for bad English...
It is more like: Apple 2018- No connectors/ports on laptops, dont worry- you dont need them (even if you do).
Yea, i was stunned when he said there was no optical drive. But I guess he was just ahead of his time.
Nowdays, they're complaining when they put away the USB Port
same thing will happen with usb a ports.
watching this in 2021 and this was SO far ahead of it's time.
Steve knew his stuff. Tim Cook is a businessman with zero passion.
yup
“... AND A HEADPHONE JACK”
... *ahem* Sorry, just wanted to point that out. 😂😉
Gavin Are you funny or what
Sure....except today's MacBooks all still have the jack. 😄
What is your point all macs still have headphone jacks....
Nowadays, headphone jack is disappearing faster than ever before. Samsung, Google, and other Chinese makers following Apple`s decision..
So yeah, you are right..
@@MrCooper83 And that's good!!
Ahh, back when you took to technological measures and speeches to convince people they didn't need an optical drive.
This product still seems awesome 5 years later!
Even 10 years later!!!!
No
Even 12 years later
even 13 years later
Just bought it for collection, damn what a design!
Watching this on my 2017 Macbook Air :)
it sucks now ,better buy a netbook instead of it lol ,maybe a 400$ chromebook xD
Kurisu Munaraki Chromebooks are complete and utter junk
Macbook Air is outdated. It's been 3 years without a refresh.
SAME!
@@s.morton7073 He literally said 2017 MacBook. You guys blind or what?
$1799 is a hell of a lot, but back then this was literally the future. Only 3/11 of their laptops even have optical drives anymore.
Tanuj Dua “back then” reading this six years later....
@@EpicExplosionify😂😂😂
@@EpicExplosionify damn and now I'm reading your comment after at least a year. Nice.
1799 IS BANKRUPTCY even in todays time. That was crazy back then 😮😮
If the portable CD drive was released now it would’ve cost $300
Yeah, my guess on what they'll do on the next gen MacBook: No USB-c/Thunderbolt connectors. They're a 299.99$ Option coz it's... you know designed to be wireless. Sadly though this might just actually happen.
They still sell superdrive for only $80 now
@@Simufreund309 well it didn't.
The problem is that almost nobody use that in a home... all can be downloaded
I love how Steve presents his vision as a persuasive argument. He readily admits the compromises they made and why it was worth the trade-off. The removal of the optical drive is a prime example. That's a stark contrast to how the company presents this air of uncompromised perfection under Tim
Steve Jobs was such a genius. Just 6 years before this came out, laptops were nearly 3 inches thick and weighed over 6 pounds. People say the MacBook air was so garbage for the value for its time, but consider that this was a good preforming laptop for the time and in such a tiny package. In any windows laptop then for the same performance it would be double the thickness
Also, it was physically impossible (at the time) to fit anything larger than 80GB in a HDD that small, in a package that thin. Plus, PC gamers say that they save more money on Steam than on a traditional DVD/BD. One more thing, the Macbook Air was (and still is) made without a discrete graphics card.
Nobody:
UA-cam: "Do you remember the time when Apple was awesome and innovative? No? Here, watch this in 2019"
I would have agreed but after seeing the new MacBook Air with an m1 chip
I was blown away
I am an Apple fan but yeah they have stopped innovating like they used to
I hope the old Apple comes back😕
Then: Apple announces the price.
People: cheering
Now: Apple announces the price.
People: in shock
M1 MacBook Air: Hold my beer.
and they all cheered as if $1799 it was hella cheap.
Bro do you even know at that time computer started around at 3000$
Pragyan are you serious? I remember there were free after rebate computers.
Simon C that thin great?
@@mytube2013 Funny enough, Apple was cheaper than its competitors before all the junk other manufacturers threw into PCs to bring the price down.
It was still $1000+ cheaper than the Sony VAIO TZ laptop it was compared to during the keynote, which was much thicker, significantly less powerful, and had significantly worse battery life than that first $1799 Macbook Air.
Watching this after the 15” MacBook Air was released, at 3.3 lbs. Phenomenal engineering. That reveal is still something though.
in 2008 I was 18 and studying in Singapore, I was watching the tech news from a Chinese website, and I was like Hooooly shoooooot....
TIL what the Remote Disc in Finder does. Amazing.
2020 and this relationship with Intel has come to the end.
"a time machine"
Me: FROM THE FUTURE!?
"Ronald Reagan, the ACTOR??"
@@aviddancer6614 Donald Trump was an actor too.
Who else misses Steve :(
crazy, the new M1 Mac's start at $999 now even $899 with educational pricing
Probably cheaper if you find a good sale too
I'm watching this video on my late 2011 macbook pro 17" and I love it!
And like what?
14years later the ad song becomes a tiktok meme....
How does humanity evolve now..
Apple didn't kill the floppy and CD. The tech evolution did. Floppies were killed by ZIP disks, then by CDs and DVDs, then by USB sticks and finally by WiFi/Cloud/App stores.
"... at just $1799" lol its expensive even this day after inflation
Even today this is so innovative!
It's amazing how Steve got out in front of all the 'no cd/dvd drive' predicted criticisms. He, back in 2008, convinced people that you don't really need these things and if you absolutely, on occasion, need to read a CD- here is how you can do it. He did the same thing years prior with no floppy drive. And then of course- he pulled it off with no Flash when the iPhone and iPad came out. His 'Thoughts on Flash' was brilliant. And now of course- we realize he was absolutely correct about all of the above. RiP Steve Jobs.
That computer has 400 Million transistors; the new iPhone 13 has 11.8 Billion; the new Mac Book Air has 16 Billion transistors
Such a timeless design
good job with software Steve
I love my 2018 Macbook Air!
yeah
"horsing around with photo booth" he knows what he created
THIS IS A GR8 PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY!!!
He's right, it's 2012 and all installing software is on the App Store that's integrated in Mac OSX to a degree.
5 hours battery life lol
Michael Jimenez laptop, 2008 year, lol.
Was a lot back then. My old 2011 Windows laptop only lasted about 2,5 hours with all settings on maximum saving. Play a game, sure but after 45 minutes I got the low battery warning already.
mats098 my 2018 Air lasts about 10 hours
You know its Apple when they say JUST 1799$.
watching this on my M1 MacBook Air. Holy me the greatest laptop ever
quest'uomo è un genio della comunicazione!
It's incredible to me how little has changed since then, the last 10 years have been so disappointing tech wise. Smart phones have improved yes, but other than that... the laptops/desktops have seen so little change. Using OSX 10.4 Lion is practically the same experience as it is today. You can't do anything today that you couldn't do then. We've had some smaller advances like HD video streaming and higher resolutions screens are nice, but that's about it.
I prefer Mac OS X before Mavericks. That was when the UI started getting silly looking. I miss Aqua.
What do you think about the M1?
are u kidding... this had 80 gb hdd. by 2015 we had 1tb hdds as common. ram from 2 gb to 16/32 gb
I want a Macbook air now, and you know what, I really think the prizes are not expensive.
Let's Learn Together Get a gaming laptop that’s thin and light, and it way more powerful
Same here, the comment is just a figurative of how Steve Jobs is good in selling
That’s when people still innovate things
i love how he says "JUST $1799!" as if 1799 was hella cheap.
now the macbook air has 20 hours of battery life
Steve Jobs presented much better, he showed the product on stage.
i think it was cheap that time, my sony laptop cost 2000 dollars in 2003
Damn u r rich
The Macbook Pro is higher spec'ed than Air all round. This is a consumer product, the Pro is a professional product.
Now with my new M1 MBA, I’m going to get that paper envelope ☝️😎🤣
To think in 2024 Apple is making it's own silicon and is beyond anything Intel could make these days.
3:30 i thought he gonna say the app store, then he went to showcase the most unintuitive software installation feature apple has ever done
I wrote this on MY macbook air! Its so cool
@andyt2k You can use any Windows or Mac PC with a Optical drive to remote connect for the Air and Mini (and now ALL Macs; great if you remove the Optical for an SSD) to rip movies or install programs.
The iPhone xs has 5 billion transistors. Wow.
To be exact 6.9 billion transistors.
"That's not technology " a kid in 2019 would say
Omitting optical drive said by users was crazy back in 2008. Same thing with the headphone jack in 2016 and legacy ports in 2015 (see, a lot of legacy tech were omitted, like floppy disk and SCSI in 1998). Tech industry mocked them and usually follows what Apple did when users moved on with these legacy things.
the problem is that unlike the optical drive - there isn't a suitable replacement for wired headphones for several use cases especially pro ones on products like the iPad which claim to be pro
Headphone jacks are still useful in 2022. Unlike optical drives. Modern Macs as of this time of writing still have it.
AWESOME technology
Crazy that a small 80GB hard drive was breakthrough back then, and now we have 8tb NVME drives.
God, I remember seeing that Ad!
three years later this computer comes worth buying
My, so much has changed since then... But yet again, a lot is the same. The MacBook is no more, the Air is the best selling ultrabook even though it was critisized so much, and a 80GB HDD is a joke in today's standard. And damn, $1799? And now it's $999.
$1799 in 2008 with inflation, it must be like 2500 nowadays
I have fortunaly the capability to work at home with my laptop (notebook) MEDION a replica of the Macbookair. THANKS TO STEVE.
thats true but then what about playing games and watching movies, I know you can download them but they take up a lot of hard drive space and people already have collections of games and dvds, it basically means they have to spend more money buying a portable optical drive
Holy cow. Was it really $1799 starting back then? And today reviewers are complaining about 8gb unified RAM and 256gb at $999.
Watching this on my MBA :) but think it could use a retina upgrade!
hopefully it will this year!
Arch Khudoba - And it has 😂
@@dirtyasianmafia2310 yay!
Isn't it so weird that back in 2008, software still came on a disk? There wasn't an app store back then...
Its!!great Man!! Insaane. E dizer que até hoje é atual esse modelo. Steve estava a frente do tempo!
Watching this on my iPhone X.
These really were, the days...
i miss u , steve
My god he was right about that optical drive
tho im sad to see that the headphone jack is going the same way
The only difference is. Their is no reason to remove the headphone jack.
Насколько Стив Джобс был великолепен,как умело и с любовью он преподносил людям технологии.
Ты сделал то что другим было не по силам !!!
Царство тебе небесное покойся с миром 🙏
I don’t know if the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro will remove the headphone jack
It was bold back then to say that about the CD drive but he was 100% right.
yEs MaCBoOk A!r
!S aMaZ!nG oNe!
Its so beautiful
@AwesomeTeeVee what are your specs and what are hi? whose is older? my pc looks more 1337, can play 5 games at 1600p at the same time, while rendering a 1000 megapixel image, and it seamlessly integrates with my home network. I have used one for two hours once, the farthest i could get is youtube before it crashed.
RIP Steve and Paul 🙏
2020
This guy is inactive ?