How the MacBook Air Changed EVERYTHING - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk

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The first MacBook Air completely changed the Mac line for the better, but some "features" might not be loved by everyone…

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[ComputerClan]

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. 😈

[CJTheReal]

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.

[AutumnRain]

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.

[callmecaiti]

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.

[christophernelson]

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.

[Owtasmh]

"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

[JDX_]

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!

[Penti]

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

[X-OR_]

Still using my 2015 MacBook Air and still works great..

[holodoctor]

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.

[brucesuit]

I was waiting for this ever since I saw the community post! Great video, man.

[vampyryannik]

Awesome episode Ken! I always wanted a first gen MacBook Air and I might get one for my collection!

[AnonymousFreakYT]

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.

[blackxfiied_]

My initial reaction when the MacBook Air came out was "googoo gaga"

[WiseAssGamer]

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.

[therealcthulhu]

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.

[Mopsie]

This video is underrated! Great job Ken!

[prpl-wtf]

Still rocking the MacBook Air Mid 2012

[JamesnLollify]

saw the twitter posts about this thing, cool to see a working one 14 years later

[TheCasualSubculturist]

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.