Any 11.6 inch regrets?

[rasakn]

Just picked up the 11.6" base from BestBuy and so far I must say, it's excellent. I am looking forward to testing out WoW and Starcraft II today.

Keyboard is excellent, even with my big hands. Screen is very readable. Ultra silent during web browsing.

For the casual coffee shop clicking away I'll be using this for, it's a great upgrade from my Samsung N150.

All in all, no regrets!

 

[Westyfield2]

High resolution on small screens is great until you reach a certain age. After you will need reading glasses. Buy the screen size that best fits your vision!

A friend went and bought a 13" Vaio (I forget the model number).

The resolution on it's 13" screen? 1920 * 1080 .

I could use it fine and thought it looked awesome, but for him it was just too small. Had to massively increase all the font settings in Windows!

 

[halledise]

my only regret with the 11" air is that the usb restore disk is wreaking havok on my restore procedures / preparations.

how so?

I too like to start afresh and found the restore stick to be infinitely faster and easier than external optical drive (hold down 'D' and wait forever) or 'remote disk'

 

[nomad01]

huh.. well, you can see the stutter in the video i posted.

The problem isn't an occasional stutter, it's just a fact of my life that i frequent heavy threads like that - and again, i just estimated badly I guess.

The scrolling hiccup is one thing, the 20+ seconds of page load is a completely different one.

On my old MBP, with lightroom, textedit, and 7 tabs open in firefox (including a youtube video), that page takes about 5 seconds to load, and never jumps above 40% processor usage... with double the threads open for firefox.. fwiw... although it does suffer the scrolling issue in firefox, I guess I never noticed that before. I'll reevaluate.. maybe it's all in my head.. that would be awesome if it is.

I can see the stutter in the video very clearly. If I load it on my MBA in Safari though it stutters for just a moment. Nothing I'd consider even a hindrance.

I dunno. I'd consider myself to be pretty picky but I really am struggling to find a problem with this.

 

[w00tini]

Here is a video showing the issue I'm talking about. Watch how long the processor stays over 100% on just the page loads.. then scrolling getting into the 90's. Anything over about 70% processor usage and the page drags...

With 100%+ usage on load, you can't even begin to scroll the page, it is, for all intents and purposes, beachballing without beachballing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EB6EN2ae4

btw, watch it full screened at 480p - and bear in mind, I never stopped scrolling, the pauses are not video lag or me not scrolling, they are hiccups to do with processor usage.

my Mac Pro 3.33Ghz Six-core machine also pegs to 100% CPU on that page load. that's a software matter altogether, not a hardware issue in my estimation. besides, that page is also loading some rather large images which is not only a matter of loading HTML text on a page, it has to render which requires CPU cycles.

 

[h00ligan]

word, well thanks for the feedback all.

Edit..

I've sold mine. I'll evaluate the much faster 13" and decide if that will be fast enough.