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Posted 01 August 2011 - 01:59 PM
Boring....
Too overpriced if you consider the competition, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.
Too little (not enough) if you consider the competition, including the Mac Book Pros.
If everything is in the iCloud or Cloud services, a device like this should not be consider since is not as powerful for photo or editing like the Mac Book Pros, and almost competes with the iPad. 256 GB? How many Pages, Word, Excel Docs do you have that would fill 256GB?
I see existence of an iPad or Mac Book Pro, I see the existence of an iMac. I see the existence of an intermediate product between iPad and Mac Pro more than the Mac Book Air.
Too overpriced if you consider the competition, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.
Too little (not enough) if you consider the competition, including the Mac Book Pros.
If everything is in the iCloud or Cloud services, a device like this should not be consider since is not as powerful for photo or editing like the Mac Book Pros, and almost competes with the iPad. 256 GB? How many Pages, Word, Excel Docs do you have that would fill 256GB?
I see existence of an iPad or Mac Book Pro, I see the existence of an iMac. I see the existence of an intermediate product between iPad and Mac Pro more than the Mac Book Air.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 02:10 PM
I think the 11" i7 with the 128GB SSD might be the sweet spot for price-conscious power users. Unlike the 13", the 11" is available with the i7 in the smaller storage amount, and so it allows buyers to save $300 if they don't need the extra storage space. Hopefully Thunderbolt external drives will be coming soon, and in any case the $999 Thunderbolt Display is effectively a docking station for the new MacBook Air.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 02:17 PM
Wow, my 13" MBP 2.4GHz C2D (mid 2010) has 16 more minutes of battery life than the latest i5 2.3Ghz one. I'm not in a rush to upgrade now. I am satisfied with the one I got and not looking to upgrade for couple of years.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 02:25 PM
Just reading this on my new Air 11" - in a quiet, dim room. The illuminated keyboard means I can type easily, and let me tell you that this laptop is utterly silent in normal use. As for the cost issue - I just sold my 3 year old, 1st edition 13" Air for over 1/2 what a new one costs, and I fully expect to be able to do something similar when the time comes to replace this one - so you can effectively divide that price by 2 to work out the real cost of ownership. Suddenly, it's those Windows netbooks that are looking awfully pricey.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 03:40 PM
Jason,
Really nice article with a balanced point of view of advantages and disadvantages. I have to admit I have just purchased an 11.6"/128 gig/i5 model and your conclusions have justified my choice.
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
Really nice article with a balanced point of view of advantages and disadvantages. I have to admit I have just purchased an 11.6"/128 gig/i5 model and your conclusions have justified my choice.
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 03:56 PM
The Air sounds like a cool machine for the target market it's aiming at. If I were still in school, it would be very tempting.
But every time I see how Lion is clearly designed for small screen sizes like the 11.6" display on the smaller Air (it did come from a UI made for 3.5" and 9.7" screens, after all), it makes me sad that I just purchased a 27" iMac, which is a phenomenal machine and meets my needs very well. But it makes me sad that Lion (and, presumably future OSes if they continue down this path) feels like a downgrade.
I know Apple sells a lot more iPhones and iPads (and small-screen laptops) than desktops or 27" iMacs, but please don't forget about us. Your desktop users have been with you for a long time.
But every time I see how Lion is clearly designed for small screen sizes like the 11.6" display on the smaller Air (it did come from a UI made for 3.5" and 9.7" screens, after all), it makes me sad that I just purchased a 27" iMac, which is a phenomenal machine and meets my needs very well. But it makes me sad that Lion (and, presumably future OSes if they continue down this path) feels like a downgrade.
I know Apple sells a lot more iPhones and iPads (and small-screen laptops) than desktops or 27" iMacs, but please don't forget about us. Your desktop users have been with you for a long time.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 04:11 PM
pawhite524, on 01 August 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:
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One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
The flash memory is referred to as a solid state disk. Not because it is disk shaped but because it is interfaced the same way as a 'normal' disk...
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 04:11 PM
pawhite524, on 01 August 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:
Jason,
Really nice article with a balanced point of view of advantages and disadvantages. I have to admit I have just purchased an 11.6"/128 gig/i5 model and your conclusions have justified my choice.
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
Really nice article with a balanced point of view of advantages and disadvantages. I have to admit I have just purchased an 11.6"/128 gig/i5 model and your conclusions have justified my choice.
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
You can (theoretically) remove the SSD from your MacBook Air and put a blank SSD in there, and by pressing CMD-R as you reboot, you can enter recovery mode and reinstall Lion as long as you have an available Internet connection. It will download the necessary files and then reinstall Lion.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 04:19 PM
Can Snow Leopard be installed on the current Air?
Oops. Just read the para in the article.
Oh well.
Oops. Just read the para in the article.
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These MacBook Air models were announced simultaneously with the release of OS X Lion. As a result, they only run under Lion—if you're committed to Snow Leopard or running PowerPC-based apps, you shouldn't get one.
Oh well.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 04:47 PM
pawhite524, on 01 August 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:
One editing question though: In the section labeled "Lion Recovery Mode" you reference a disk "from which the disk can be repaired or erased and restored. That's a feature available on any system running Lion. These new systems, though, can even restore if the disk is completely wiped out."
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
What disk is this? Forgive if this comes across like nitpicking I am just puzzled is all...
The Flash Storage. Since it serves the role that a hard drive serves, we call it "disk" even though it's not a physical disk. Not sure what we'll do in the long run. We can't call it memory! Storage seems like such a weird noun.
