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Has anybody had any bad experiences with the 11 inch macbook air?
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For the same price you could have gotten a larger screen, an SD card slot and a faster processor. What made you choose the maxed out 11 inch instead.
Its a second computer and i wanted the portability of the 11 over the 13
it was my birthday so i maxed it out
Its a second computer and i wanted the portability of the 11 over the 13
it was my birthday so i maxed it out
Ahh..makes sense. Would you say it would be a useful primary computer for word processing, iChat, Safari, and iTunes, and rarely iLife. On average running no more than 3 apps at once.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Absolutly
I have run Pages, Acorn, Alfred, Notify, Dropbox, Cloud, iTunes, and Chrome with no lag at all
the machine continues to amaze me and i highly recomend it, even as a primary computer.
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Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Absolutly
I have run Pages, Acorn, Alfred, Notify, Dropbox, Cloud, iTunes, and Chrome with no lag at all
the machine continues to amaze me and i highly recomend it, even as a primary computer.
EDIT
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Thank you very much...very useful info.
I think that I will just wait until after the holidays and save up all my money from work and then I will go with the 13 inch with the 1.86 GHz processor and 4GB or RAM.
I know with this, I will not look back and regret my decision, but it better be the best 1,400 dollars ever spent.
and then I will go with the 13 inch with the 1.86 GHz processor and 4GB or RAM.I know with this, I will not look back and regret my decision, but it better be the best 1,400 dollars ever spent.
Its a second computer and i wanted the portability of the 11 over the 13
it was my birthday so i maxed it out
happy birthday.
I think that I will just wait until after the holidays and save up all my money from work
I know with this, I will not look back and regret my decision, but it better be the best 1,400 dollars ever spent.
Good luck!
are you going with the 13 for the screen real estate or something else
And you base your "get used to it" comment on what proof? Or is that denial I hear talking? I wish you well, if your MBA develops the problem you're in for the shock of your life. Or not, denial can be very rewarding (for some people) ...
Testing a 11' model 1.4ghz processor 2gb ram in the Apple Store with this trailer at 1080p:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sg=AFQjCNFPWV8GsR1GmeG38sjJ8e--W5Z-yw&cad=rja
Choppy, slow. On 13' 1.86ghz mba played smoothly.
Can anyone this with 1.6ghz to see if there is any difference?
Depends on how you equate power? A 2.2Ghz Core2Duo vs. a 1.4Ghz ULV Core2Duo is not more powerful.
A 1.4Ghz Core2Duo with a speedy SSD = "feels faster" than a 2.2Ghz Core2Duo. But put an OWC or Vertex or other Sandforce SSD into the 2.2Ghs 2007 MacBook and you'll feel the same "snappiness", plus have more horsepower under the hood.
Let me ask this. Would it be worth it to spend 200 dollars extra for the 13 inch model with 4GB just to get the 1.86 GHz processor. I don't care about the screen sizes and besides that the RAM would be the same. Is there a difference between the 1.4 GHz processor and 1.86 GHz?
There most certainly is a difference between the 1.4Ghz and 1.86Ghz processors. Look at Anandtech's report on anything that is processor intensive, such a Photoshop Task:
The 1.86 is ~20% or more faster than the 1.4Ghz.
I just tried it on my 1.6/4/128 and I had no studdering. I let the video load a bit to make sure my internet connection wouldn't make a difference.
Funny, I think I tried it in the apple store on a 1.4 machine and didn't have any problems either.
Not sure what I'm looking for. Played perfectly smoothly full screen on my 11". I can't believe the processor speed would be enough to make a difference. Are you sure you weren't seeing a slow connection speed?
as a primary computer?
my job requires me to do 4000x4000 pixels images in photoshop, and i have 17" uni MBP to work on that. but if my job doesn't require me to do that kind oh photoshop work, then yes, the 11" can be used as a primary computer.
I just wondered is there any difference in fullscreen on the MBA and playing on an external at 1080p resolution? Maybe 1080p video studders then? I've only tried it fullscreen on the MBA resolution.
mine was fullscreen and it ran great
let it load a little bit and then it was all good
(im on google chrome if that matters)
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Weird. I can't run even 720p YouTube video on chrome, on 1.4 4Gb. However Safari works fine.
Tomple said:
Weird. I can't run even 720p YouTube video on chrome, on 1.4 4Gb. However Safari works fine.