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Just got the new Macbook Air 2.0
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How do games like Red Alert 3, COD4 and HL2 run? Would be nice if you can enable the ingame fps counter, maybe the new air will be good for games after all.
The Air's have Remote Disk which allows sharing an optical drive. It works pretty good but there are times when I choose not to tie up two computers to say, rip a DVD..
I also just reformatted and loaded OSX on my first Air and the Superdrive was a godsend. I don't use it a lot but every time I do use it, I'm glad I ponied up the $100.
My overall adaptation of the Air-lifestyle is positive. One place it continues to fall short is it's wireless connectivity. I played right into all aspects of Apple marketing and have the AppleTV - Time Capsule - MBA all in the same room. Syncing these devices is unimpressive.
Downloading a TV Show on MBA and a movie on ATV is unbearably slow. Trailers on the ATV take about 2 minutes to buffer and play while the MBA is using the Time Capsule.
Downloading a TV Show on MBA and a movie on ATV is unbearably slow. Trailers on the ATV take about 2 minutes to buffer and play while the MBA is using the Time Capsule.
I can tell you I'm seeing the same or nearly the same battery life on my new Air as I was getting on my 1st Generation Air. Only 3 day's of use so far but the battery seems unchanged to me.
So about 3 to 3.5 hours on a full charge.
Interesting... since apple markets this as the ultimate wireless device. I mean without good wireless this thing is useless (no ethernet port)
wow. do you have a steal mesh cage around one of them? or is time capsule really that big a hog?
i have an airport, a mini connected on wireless, an emac on wireless, and an ibook and appletv and wii all on the wireless, and i never see any real slow downs doing anything. even when watching streaming movies from apple i have fair internet speeds. movies never take more than 2-3 minutes of loading before they start streaming. and mine are very much not in the same room. very odd......
IMO, it's the Time Capsule that poops out when a lot of info is flying around wirelessly, not the Air.
Thats true to an extent. But then again, if your multi-tasking on the AIR, that will slow down data considerably. ESPECIALLY if your using the internet, Air or not.
What do you mean? I had no problems with iTunes on my version 1 Air playing music via Airtunes on my AppleTV while I was torrenting in Transmission and surfing MacRumors.
Now if another Mac in the house did a TC backup wirelessly, then Airtunes would start skipping, etc.
I want to get one of these with the new 24 inch display. Looking at the cable, I don't see how it will work well. The power connector is on the opposite side of the USB and video. The splitter seems too short to connect the cables to both sides.
Wow. I have a Mac Mini HTPC connected to an AEBS and I can quicklook movies wirelessly to my Air in any room of the house and they play as if they are local. No worried. The Mini can even be downloading files and I have my MBP and My roomie's MB also on the wireless network - no problems...
Are you using Leopard? Also, are you running Time Machine over AirDisk, as Time Capsule would(if you can even do that)? if not I guess they're not comparable environments....