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Anyone else addicted to this damn MBA
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Do you have kids? Surely NOT! It is difficult. We are all looking out for the best interest of our kids, NOT SPYING! This is different than snooping. What if you have a kid chatting with his drug dealer? Or worse? My house, MY RULES. I have two little ones, but I will watch them like a hawk on computers. Too many predators and bad things. And parental controls are not any kind of perfect science.
Thank you! That's my job as as a mom. They are KIDS, they don't always make the best decisions. Well, on the internet, that could be dangerous. So yeah, I look, I invade their privacy. Because that's my job; to see them healthy and safe.
(Also, when I was their age, there was no internet. I didn't have to worry about a 40 year-old pedophile pretending to be 12, trying to get me to meet him at the mall.)
I agree!! But there are plenty of things we don't want our parents to know and we should have. The most honorable way to do it is by making your kids trust you. As a parent, you should know your kids trust you to tell you everything you need to know so you don't need to sneak around and spy on them. If you don't think your kids trust you, well you have a whole set of different issues..
but then again it depends on how old...at a certain age, it's just not COOL to tell your parents EVERYTHING...hahaha
Love it ! , absolutely
I have White iMac, and a White Macbook , and felt I needed to upgrade one of the machines , for little reason other than everything was now Aluminium and all my Macs were white !
So , I bought a new MBP just before Xmas , which had a couple of problems - 1 dead pixel , and a sort of 'flickering' of the backlight (not the widely discussed flickering that seems common among MBP , this seemed to be coming from the backlight ) - other than this , I loved the MBP - But there is NO WAY I am spending £1,400 on an imperfect machine , so I returned it.
After spending a little time reading these forums , I got the impression that buying an MBP really was a lucky dip ,so I decided to delay my purchase until things were a little more stable
... Then I stumbled across a post here about the 1.8 SSD being £749 + VAT on Viking , I know a couple of people with these already ,and had heard positive things , so I thought "What the hell" and ordered one , - this would give me a new aluminium toy for the the lowest price I have ever paid for a Mac !
Spec sheet aside , I'd say it is the BEST Mac I have ever owned , OK so the MBP would have blown it away in terms of spec , but TBH it was probably overkill for my needs from a laptop , the Air is the best compromise of Brilliant screen , nice light form , quick performance for my daily tasks (Browsing , Mail , Office stuff , Photos , etc , the usual stuff) - and I seem able to watch video without any problems (or none that I am aware of , and if I am not aware of them , there's no problem ! , right ? )
Yep , absolutely love it ! the plan was that this was going to be an interim purchase to keep me happy for a few months , but TBH I just don't feel the need for a MBP now
I have White iMac, and a White Macbook , and felt I needed to upgrade one of the machines , for little reason other than everything was now Aluminium and all my Macs were white !
So , I bought a new MBP just before Xmas , which had a couple of problems - 1 dead pixel , and a sort of 'flickering' of the backlight (not the widely discussed flickering that seems common among MBP , this seemed to be coming from the backlight ) - other than this , I loved the MBP - But there is NO WAY I am spending £1,400 on an imperfect machine , so I returned it.
After spending a little time reading these forums , I got the impression that buying an MBP really was a lucky dip ,so I decided to delay my purchase until things were a little more stable
... Then I stumbled across a post here about the 1.8 SSD being £749 + VAT on Viking , I know a couple of people with these already ,and had heard positive things , so I thought "What the hell" and ordered one , - this would give me a new aluminium toy for the the lowest price I have ever paid for a Mac !
Spec sheet aside , I'd say it is the BEST Mac I have ever owned , OK so the MBP would have blown it away in terms of spec , but TBH it was probably overkill for my needs from a laptop , the Air is the best compromise of Brilliant screen , nice light form , quick performance for my daily tasks (Browsing , Mail , Office stuff , Photos , etc , the usual stuff) - and I seem able to watch video without any problems (or none that I am aware of , and if I am not aware of them , there's no problem ! , right ? )
Yep , absolutely love it ! the plan was that this was going to be an interim purchase to keep me happy for a few months , but TBH I just don't feel the need for a MBP now
so taking it with you on the can is not normal?
That's what the iPhone is for.
By the way, interesting trivia -- the iPhone's height is exactly the same as the width of a sheet of toilet paper.
I love seeing people's faces when they hold the MBA for the first time and realize how light it is compare to their HP Pavillion and Dell XPS...
The SSD of the MBA is perfect for a dizzy like me. I dropped it from about 3 ft onto a carpet floor several times now, once while it was converting video files, and everything still work, the file even came out perfect. My old Dell would definitely shut down and give me the blue screen whenever I dropped it.
I heart my
MBA
The SSD of the MBA is perfect for a dizzy like me. I dropped it from about 3 ft onto a carpet floor several times now, once while it was converting video files, and everything still work, the file even came out perfect. My old Dell would definitely shut down and give me the blue screen whenever I dropped it.
I heart my
MBA
It seems that you place your iPhone on a toilet paper and then place it on the sink counter so it does NOT get dirty
That is how you knew the sizes
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As a parent, I believe in the Reagan theory, "trust, but verify." There are too many dead children because their parents "trusted" them to be safe on the internet.
I'm totally addicted to my MBA/SSD128... now thinking of an SSD for my Mac Pro! Apple should make that available as a build option on all Macs.
I've had it for a couple of months now and only have two gripes:
- It could be a little lighter (I think Apple's working on it)
- WiFi sometimes has problems reconnecting after sleep mode
(turning Airport off/on fixes it)
If you're waiting for an Apple netbook, reconsider.... the 13" screen is nice!
I've had it for a couple of months now and only have two gripes:
- It could be a little lighter (I think Apple's working on it)
- WiFi sometimes has problems reconnecting after sleep mode
(turning Airport off/on fixes it)
If you're waiting for an Apple netbook, reconsider.... the 13" screen is nice!
I'm *VERY* addicted to the 4 finger Expose gestures. I used to run Windows the majority of the time but this is seriously pulling me to the other side. It's just fascinating how such a small silly feature can strike such a chord.
The SSD 128 is doing what I'd hoped. It keeps the "lesser" processor feeling snappy!
The SSD 128 is doing what I'd hoped. It keeps the "lesser" processor feeling snappy!
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The Toddfather
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Another thread about happy MBA owners, who whudda thunk it. Like many MBA owners, it has become my primary laptop as well.
Wow. I kinda feel sorry for them.
I would get really angry if my parents would do that. But I just managed last year to get my mom to buy a computer and my dad is getting one sometime this year. So it's more like me looking after them, computer-wise at least
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The Toddfather
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Wow. I kinda feel sorry for them.
Give yourself 15 years and let me know if your opinion changes.
Nice of you to help out your parents.
Wow. I kinda feel sorry for them.
I would expect someone who is not a parent to have a different viewpoint. However. I absolutely standby my opinion on this one. The internet can be a very dangerous place for unsophisticated, trusting young minds. period.
That's my next step too actually, when's somebody gonna come up with a great nas for the mac...there are a few out there but they leave a few things to be desired in terms of integration...btw I think apple is unwise for not coming up with a home server four bay time machine, what they they think it will canibalize on sales of imacs...shhhhh....
Macs were supposed to be on the forefront, getting airtunes when the rest had to play tracks from their crappy pc speakers. And now the forefront are homservers were on can store most of the media in centralized and above all safe (ie redundant arrays) way...Wake up apple....
Apple home servers would sell like hotcakes....shame....
Agree.
I wish Apple would use something like the Mac Mini as the controller and have modules that you can add to increase the storage. Remotely access to control it. Awesome.
This would augment the MBA very nicely.
Agree.
I wish Apple would use something like the Mac Mini as the controller and have modules that you can add to increase the storage. Remotely access to control it. Awesome.
This would augment the MBA very nicely.
That would fit hand in glove with the mba and the apple tv tune, stream from your server to any apple tv without even need to open a computer. Cause as I said before, what't the use or ingenuite of the apple tv if you already open the computer up to tranfer teh files wirelessly to the
tv. It's dumb, dumb, dumb to me without the home server nas. Cause if you have to turn on a computer and get the files off there wirelessly to tv then you might as well just copy (as I do) in matters of seconds nowadays to your 16+gb pen usb drive anything you want to and stick the pen drive then to the dvd or other media player hooked on your tv. You 've already turned on the pc, it's no big deal copying something over thus, over streaming it. But had there been a home server THAT WOULD make sense, cause you d have it permanently on on power save ready to stream to whatever pod/laptop/pc/tv requested to. Nowadays say you want to watch a video and I am belabouring a point here but humour me, say you want to watch a video you just donwloaded to your pc, go into one room, turn on the pc, boot in, then go to tv, turn on apple tv, request video wirelessly, go to other room shut down pc (or what most people do as I said just copy it over with a pen drive), it doens't make any f. sense without the server.
tv is supposed to be the wireless client, WHERE IS THE SERVER THEN APPLE?