1. Feb 5th, 2008

    New love, first impressions

    - Don’t call it SSD. It’s NinjaDisk! That thing is deadly quiet, smooth as silk, and can go about its business while hanging upside down or flipping in the air. Just brilliant. Also overpriced as hell for a measly 55gb (real capacity).

    - Works nicely with the Franklin CDU680 (review pending), in fact the cramped USB port forces the card to hang out at the perfect angle.

    - First notebook that feels like … well, a notebook. Even the svelte SZ carbon, the previous 13″ lightweight around here, feels like a coffee table book in comparison.

    - About the battery life … someone with a strong reality distortion field decided it’s good for five hours. Yeah, right. And the new Migration Assistant and RemoteDisk install were obviously sourced from Redmond … even repeated reboots won’t convince them to work.

    - A moment of appreciation:

    cd buildr
    rake spec

    Vaio SZ360, 2ghz Core Due 2, 5400rpm, Fedora: 140sec

    Air 1st Gen, 1.8ghz Core Due 2, SSD, Leopard: 140sec

    - Beryl still better then Leopard, Leopard still slicker than Linux, MacPorts a poor man’s apt-get, but iTerm and Vim.app kick ass.

    - MagSafe. Ginormous trackpad. Aluminum construction. Ambient sensitive lighting. Leather seats not included.

    - No blue screen of death! It’s grey and it actually looks like a scary Halloween mask. Three times on day 1.

    - Finally, a usable machine that doesn’t come with a cup holder!

    Posted by Assaf Filed in general

    1. Feb 7th, 2008

      tnkgrl

      OMG! Not only did you actually get the MacBook Air, but you got the SSD version… Wow :)

      Mine is the HDD model: http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/unboxing-the-apple-macbook-air/

    2. Feb 8th, 2008

      Evgeny

      Why use iTerm? … the native term is so stable and cool, I could never understand why iTerm even exists.

    3. Feb 8th, 2008

      Assaf

      Full screen mode. Growl notifications. Better tabbing (e.g. cmd-num to select a tab). Works the same way on both Leopard and Tiger (I’ve got one of each).

      Terminal has its own benefits, but if I had to pick the two that make me more productive — and it’s really subjective — it would be Konsole on KDE and iTerm on OS/X.

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