How the MacBook Air Changed EVERYTHING - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk
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Enjoy the retrospective! NEXT WEEK, Apple's brand-new M2 MacBook Air will be in my lair, so subscribe stay tuned for my first impressions! I'll do some comparisons of the new one vs. the original. 😈
I’m watching it right now lol
@EricPlayz oh man, it’s been a long time. What makes you say that?
Mba is not thinner than dell adimo 13… just sayin.
my favorit tech on mac book and mac book air is the integrated bread crumb vacuum at the back of it. Holes are so large I ofently find large sized bread crumbs and they still have jam on it :)
My favourite dig against this was when Lenovo released the X300, and they did a parody of the "it fits in a Manila envelope" Apple ad by adding all the stuff like the external DVD drive, a usb hub, and dongles for a fingerprint reader and Ethernet, tearing the crap outta the envelope. Then they showed off the X300 which was only slightly thicker but had everything you needed built in.
that’s brilliant
here for anyone that wants to watch it: ruclips.net/video/_hnOCUkbix0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/_hnOCUkbix0/видео.html
PCs, technology for people from yesterday.
Well I certainly thought the macbook air was silly when it was first announced. I remember being so tired of companies only innovation seeming to be "smaller and smaller", so much so that they'd cut out (then)"critical" features such as an optical drive. Especially with such a huge price premium! Certainly didn't imagine buying one for college 6 years later (which still runs quite nicely today). It was very nice to see that computer drop in price and continue to improve. Wild to think that the M2 air is coming out at a much more decent price than the original.
Exactly the same here - but the second gen put back just enough to make it really useful. I can't believe that my 11" is almost 10 years old now and still going strong. It's gone to the other side of the world with me many times, edited video presentations, had papers and book chapters written on it, shown me hours and hours of RUclips, and even once made it through a full play through of Portal. Still think it's the best Mac I've ever bought.
My favorite part of the Air was that within less than a year I was able to hackintosh OSX onto a Dell Vostro A90 because it shared virtually all of the necessary hardware. I still have that thing running strong on 10.5.6 thirteen-plus years later.
I thought the MacBook Air was honestly hilarious when I first saw it, because it seemed just impossibly thin for what they were packing into it at the time, but as time wore on and laptops have evolved, I definitely came to appreciate just what they were doing with the Air.
And then there was the picture of someone cutting a cake with an Air. Also that.
"A fresh, new SSD can absolutely breathe new life into an older computer" you're telling me, i finally added an ssd to my 2013 dell laptop that took ~10 minutes to boot into windows 10 recently, and now its faster than ever! 100% worth the $30
Yeah, spinning hard disks are the biggest bottleneck for many computers.
If Windows takes 10 minutes to start then it's beyond "bottleneck". It's defective.
@@kg790 the drive itself still functioned fine, just took ages to get into windows. after booting it wasn't snappy per se, but nothing past the initial boot took very long
@@Owtasmh If the mechanical drive was OK, then the Windows installation was horrendously bloated. I bet if you imaged it to the SSD boot time would still be mediocre in the best of cases. My HP laptop, also from 2013 and spinning HD, boots in under a couple of minutes to fully working state, and that's with a several year old install and no optimization of any type.
Honestly, thanks for making nostalgic vids like these! Old hardware and software just hit differently, and you've been a channel I've followed for quite some time!
Thank you!
I seem to recall around the time the first-gen Air came out, you could buy cases designed for it that look like one of those envelopes, but made out of cloth
Awesome episode Ken! I always wanted a first gen MacBook Air and I might get one for my collection!
My laptop as it is now, a Lenovo 330s, also does not have a disk drive. I ended up buying an external disk drive from Best Buy for $30. But hey, the laptop cost me $600, I could’ve spent less, but I wanted to game. And the clerk at Staples said it was the best in my budget for roll playing games.
Announcing iTunes movie rentals with the air was brilliant. DVDs were the king of the day- having an alternative the day of release was great.
I had the 2010 MacBook Air. I bought it to take to class. I was in my third year of college. The notebook I was using before to take to class was a thick ThinkPad. I am not a MacOS person, but at the time the Ultrabook didn't exist. It was the ONLY option if you wanted a thin and light laptop to bring to class.
Now, I use a ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Fedora. It's a much better experience imo. It is just as thin and light as the Air was back then, but I get a full compliment of ports.
fedora? eww. use arch instead.
Still using my 2015 MacBook Air and still works great..
My initial reaction when the MacBook Air came out was "googoo gaga"
My PC has an optical drive, and I still occasionally use it to watch movies, as disks I bought don't get kicked from online services. I also occasionally burn an audio CD for the car, that's because the European audio output limits make the aux input from my phone too quiet to use.
I didn’t know they limited it
I still have one of those external SuperDrives. It's plugged in to my M1 Mac Mini. I think I last used it about six months ago to burn a CD to reload the OS onto a rack mount server in my garage server "closet".
I didn't begrudge the loss of the optical drive. I couldn't afford an Air at the time, but I had a Sony thin and light laptop that had no optical drive (dating back to 1999,) and a 15" MacBook Pro.
When this was released, I knew it from Chinese TV news. I was a primary school kid, didn't knew Steve Jobs or a computer company named after a fruit, but I was pretty impressed watching him pull this thing out from an envelope.
I was waiting for this ever since I saw the community post! Great video, man.
I can’t wait to see this love your videos thanks for uploading
I work in the computer works department of a big name thrift store and specialize in Macs. I have never ever seen an original MacBook Air come in that was in any sort of decent condition. Either those things are extremely fragile or people didn't know how to treat them at the time. I see a lot of the the later MacBook Airs come in and they are usually in pretty good shape but those OG ones don't seem to physically hold up.
first launch Air itself might not been super amazing as performance standpoint, but this form factor, is now legendary. Look at your laptop, unless it's gaming or editing, it's literally all Macbook Air clones.
You're right. It's not for me. I don't mind not looking cool but I do need the dvd/cd drive.
What for though? Only use case I can think of these days would for cds
@02:02 I don't care that much about weight (until it becomes ridiculous). I don't care that much about how thin it is, unless it's too tall to reach the keyboard. I want something more modular, repairable, modifiable, upgradable; built robustly, with upgradable lithium batteries that last for several hours, upgradable antennas and receiver electronics, video cards, mobos, ram, ports, m.2 storage. I want captured fasteners, so they can't be lost or mixed up. I'd be willing to pay more for such a platform.
That being said, all the mac laptops are very nice and work wonderfully.
You know when Ken and Michael Mjd upload i really enjoy their vids
😇
Agreed! Been a good day
Ken why dont you do a vid about using windows 11 on the m2 mac if you can
You forgot that the first Aluminum Unibody MacBook had also a user removable battery.
I didn't forget. I didn't mention it because I did not find it relevant.
The big problem wasn't that they took out the optical drive, but the complete lack of connectivity. Terribly limited. That made it a lousy product.
This is to me when the Macbook series of Laptops started waning on me. I used it for years as a developer machine. I also would use the CD / DVD drive to rip my CD's to upload to Apple Music for example. Then they took out the ability to swap the battery, then the HDD (ok they made it not SSD later on but still). Today even the Macbook Pro feels like a glorified iPad. For the price, not sure that it is worth it anymore. I guess I grew out of the Apple ecosystem. Still great video as always!
Ken, read me out here...I've been a Windows guy all my life...but I've had a Mac Mini hanging around to manage things like my iPhone and iPad etc. Well a little while ago I took a good long look at my laptop, a desktop replacement class Alienware, weighs a ton, dual power bricks etc. so I thought I need a smaller lighter laptop for quick trips from home and times I really didn't want to drag the boat anchor around and someone suggested I look at the M1 Air...yeah I bought one, 8C/8GPU-C/8Gb and 512Gb SSD and I can honestly say without a shadow of a doubt that little Air is one amazing machine. It never leaves me longing for more power no matter what I ask of it and the battery lasts a LONG time and the best part...it's stupid thin and light and I love the backlot keys. Apple nailed this little machine nicely, now while I'm not a complete Apple convert I actually enjoy using the M1 Air because it's that good. It's definitely a game changer for sure.
I still have my MacBook Air (not the original but still the same sort of design) and I love it!
I remember my initial thoughts of this being the official death of optical drives for Apple's systems. And yep, it was true. 😅 I loved this promising big step of new possibilities even more than the Air itself.
Still rocking the MacBook Air Mid 2012
I still like having DVD or Bluray drive
MBA: From an overheating, overpriced and slow concept laptop that made compromises to an almost perfect $999 laptop (Apple Silicon)
Changed the studio! Nice RGB lighting. Great video as always and always worth a watch.
My first ever Mac (that I'm also currently typing this on) was the cheapest one could get new in 2016 - An 11" MacBook Air for €899. I've rarely missed the optical drive, and the tiny screen has its limits, but also means it can fit anywhere an A4 sheet of paper can.
Also, does the 2010 MBA seriously have an eject key? What for? The 2010 and after models ditched it for a power button key instead.
Apple external keyboards had an eject key until fairly recently. Even my iMac’s keyboard (late 2015 model) has an eject key.
@@TimurTripp2 even the 1st gen magic keyboard
This video is underrated! Great job Ken!
Just built a brand new system with a bluray drive. I just like having the option if i want to use it. Ive never understood why everyone just stopped using them.
I personally refuse to have a PC without an optical drive hooked up. Heck, my custom PC case that I'm designing literally has space for an optical drive
It also changed to where I now have a broken Mac
I bought my first Mac Air in 2009, immediately installed Linux Mint on it, so that it had a usable operating system, and I'm still using it. Terrific hardware, and without the Mac-OS aka "Training Wheels for grandma's and kids" this baby is a screamer.
I hated this thing with fervor back when it was new. The dongle life was stupid. I hate it even MORE, now, entirely because it allowed Apple to introduce unprecedented levels of e-waste mentality and basically making products that are as unable to be repaired as inhumanly possible. And even if it's "not for me", I hate it because it basically guaranteed every other manufacturer was going to copycat them and basically make sure you can't fix your own tech.
I was at work the day the MacBook Air was unveiled. This was before smartphones were ubiquitous. So I had to text a friend to see what happened. The original Air was so expensive compared to the other MacBooks at the time. But it was still really cool and set the standard for consumer laptops going forward. I got one in 2011 then another in 2012 but then went Pro with the Retina MBP in 2013 and kept that for 6 years. But I've always missed that super thin and light laptop feel. I now have a 14" Pro. Side note: I really miss the 12" MacBook. If it had just one or two more ports and a better chip, like put M2 in it now, it would be really neat. Maybe they can one day bring it back as a 12" MacBook Air.
Wow, this mac shaped modern laptops
I have been waiting for this video for so long bro thx
I never used a mac but i can say the door was kinda cool ngl
Watching this on a 2012 MacBook Air that I still use on a daily basis 😀
I just bought a MacBook Pro core 2 duo the other day and it only has a broken screen and it’s safe to say I’m very excited to fix her up
I had a early 2015 MacBook Air that I bought used around 2 weeks ago. After being charged 2 times, it stopped working. I bought it for 75$. Does anyone know why and how to fix this?
Change the battery
Most likely a dead battery 🙂
SMC reset, pram reset.
battery. Check Hugh Jefferys on this platform
Most likely the battery. Even if it was working I would recommend replacing it, since most batteries only usually last ~5 years. It’s been 7 at this point.
saw the twitter posts about this thing, cool to see a working one 14 years later
This was insane
You forgot to mention that since they omitted the optical drive, another way of getting the data from a CD or DVD was to borrow the drive off another computer! (Whether it was a Mac OR A PC!) Apple devised a way to place a disc in the optical drive of another computer and send that data or music from a CD or video content from a DVD right to the MacBook Air via WIFI! I remember I couldn't afford a MacBook Air yet but I jumped through the hoops to watch a DVD that was in my Mac Mini and viewed it on my Macbook Pro. I was Flabbergasted! 🤯
Uh. Did you not watch the episode? I did mention Remote Disc. Try again. : p
Oops, you’re right. I did miss that one sentence. 😳
@@scottls All good ; )
Another great docu-comedy.
Great Channel!!!
I lusted after but couldn't afford a MBA at the time - had to get a 13" Dell Vostro instead which served me well.
Soon after the Air, Dell released their Adamo 13 which was even more expensive at £1800 when new.
I bought one as surplus stock a couple of years later for £620. It was a lovely laptop with all the features of the Air in a similar sized package and with an SSD as standard. Only -ve is that it was absolutely non-upgradeable (other than buying a newer mainboard) and the 2GB RAM it came with was soon not enough.
Another interesting feature: the laptop came with Vista but after a bios upgrade would activate Windows 7 using the Dell installer. This was then upgraded for free to windows 10..
I smoked weed with Steve Jobs! and that was when he came out with the iPad!
Well this is interesting
Indeed >:)
@@ComputerClan 😄
The background looks so different
Yep! Working on a new look. It will be fully dialed in next time you see me ; ) (probably Monday…)
One thing the MacBook Air did was prepare people for the iPad. It helped ween people off physical media and showed them thinness and portability could be an acceptable trade off for lesser performance and lack of I/O ports.
Now if they would just get iPad OS a decent file management system I could probably do without a Mac altogether.
Non user replaceable battery doesn’t bother you? On an $1800 device from 2008? It should.
´The Macbook Air started the whole Ultrabook movement.
People really had a problem with the drive being removed
great video as always
NO! there's no way a spend money in a mac when I still can do Hackintosh
9:22 Actually I was super disappointed that most laptops don’t have an optical drive. Want to watch a movie or play a CD you own? Well tough.
In 2020 the school here sent disks with class lessons, but so many had trouble getting the cheap and easy to use solution to play because people didn’t have what once was standard available.
We were stuck with sometimes flaky internet due to increased demand.
Walmart sells records and record players, but most laptops don’t have optical drives.
In short, I was like 🤯🤯🤯
I like the new lighting.
Thanks! I'm still dialing it in a bit, but this was a great first test.
With regards to a battery see a framework laptop
You can install Mac OS X Tiger on it.
Watching this on my 2020 M1 macbook air while my 11" macbook air charges, nice.
i have the 2017 model core i5 1.8ghz, 8gb ram and 256gb m.2 (stock) with monteray pushing him to its limits and temps even with new thermal paste.
Innovation died with the legend Steve Jobs
$99? For an external DVD drive? The hell you say. That's like a $30 item at worst.
Can check out the hubless E-bike
I know the real reason why Apple removed the optical drive from the MacBook Air. One word.
"Courage"
🙄
I have one of those I am hoping to restore it to its former glory, but the thing is soo slow, I got it running Mountain Lion after a lot of work but the HDD is so slow... Upgrading the OS took all night and the thing wanted to take off or implode
Its basically a iMac g5 portable
It was an innovative product in user hostile design
"Where is your DVD Driver?"
CMIIW, but in recent years with downloadable content and flash disk, DVD and CD seem to be decrease in uses. At least in computing business. It is still popular as entertainment storage device, but you have dedicated DVD Player for that. So, it is not much a loss? Is it possible the DVD Driver loss in Mac Air Book directly correlated to DVD uses in laptop?
When the Apple MacBook Air first came out, and Steve pulled it out of the interoffice envelopes with string 10x13 I though I would get this in a heartbeat if I only had a need for a laptop. Still do not have real need for a laptop, however last March when Apple did not come out with a 27-inch 5K M1 iMac I purchased a M1 MackBook Air, and 27-inch 5K VESA mount/arm as my replace for my 2014 5K 27-inch iMac.
My hope is that Apple keeps the Jony, and Steve design around as a SE entry level $ 999.00 version of the MacBook Air. Just keep it with the previous version M series SOC for normals who just do things like eMail, surf the web, and watch your RUclips type clips.
Just like the loss of the floppy disk drive. The loss of the CD/DVD drive in the Mac product line was not a loss. The loss to the link one of my great Steve moments during presentations will hurt if Apple does not keep the original MacBook Air design around.
I have this MacBook air but is working fine
Nice. Which specs does your one have?
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I want a video going over the 11" MBA solely to laugh at it. I had one as a hand me down, and it was horrible!
what SSD did you use in this? im looking for one for my 2008 MacBook Air
I'm not 100% sure because I actually JUST bought this computer and am not super familiar with it yet. I'm 99% sure any 1.8-inch PATA SSD will work.
I had this macbook
Barely? What's an optical drive?
Marketing! It's just a laptop which Costs a lot.
What I don't like this 1st MacBook air.
The HDD was so... slow.....
Yes, I'm not kidding. Hard to replace but thank's to custom SSD it could do replace
Now the price of the macbook air is a price of any old macbook pro tho.
MacBook Air really might be good.
I use optical drives when I'm too lazy to pirate PS2 games
Well I didn't have a mac but recently tried hackintosh and I like the os maybe will save up and buy a used macbook
I remember watching the event and it was (as usual) a MasterClass of presentation by Steve (Willy Wonka) Jobs. To this day I’ve always been a “Pro” guy so I’ve never purchased an Air.
Also, linODE?…..everybody pronounces it LINode. I wonder which is correct?🧐
The one I said is correct.
Here's an explainer video from their official RUclips page. They also pronounce it the same way I do: ruclips.net/video/WNzQvTbRcis/видео.html
@@ComputerClan thanks for the explanation. That was wonDERful. 🤪
The ram on mine dont work :(
I waiting
Its not hard to comprehend that if you have a cd drive externally that you can use it whenever you want and put it away when you are done. I bet a lot of people didn't use a cd drive as much a one would think.
What's that game you played at 3:07?
Every time Ballmer would mock Apple, it made him look like an idiot. The MBA was incredibly innovative at the time, though the original one had a lot of problems. At the time, I thought it was cool, but a bit pricey. It's hard to believe that they've become the entry level to the line.
Bro M2 can't run the game showed off in like the trailer i think
Hey Ken do you like peanuts
I’d rather have 1 usb-a port then 3 usb-c ports with no usb-a…