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List of Members Waiting for their Macbook Air to Ship and Arrive and Photos!
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PowerSupport--the Japanese company that also makes the Crystal Shield and AntiGlare screen protectors for iPhone--also makes them for MacBook. They're outstanding, but expensive. http://www.powersupportusa.com Just pick up an AntiGlare screen protector for MacBook--that'll do the trick!Oh no! It's a glossy screen?! I didn't even realize. I can't stand those. The glare is just too terrible.
And it could have been perfect....
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I don't believe there is a fan in the MBA.The SSD units should be entirely silent. The units with a hard drive, the only source of sound would be the hard disk.
PowerSupport--the Japanese company that also makes the Crystal Shield and AntiGlare screen protectors for iPhone--also makes them for MacBook. They're outstanding, but expensive. http://www.powersupportusa.com Just pick up an AntiGlare screen protector for MacBook--that'll do the trick!
Indeed they are expensive but they do the best, by far, job on screen protection I've ever seen.
You'll be surprised to see how finger print resistant is the Power Support, sheet.
And it does tone down the screen. The trade off is brighter colors, and duller with the Power Support.
And you can try my solution. Use the MBA only in a darkened room, with no overhead light source. Or outside in the shade.
It so wonderful to play all day with my Mac toys.
MacAlly used to make some glossy screen protectors, which were cheaper and came in a three-pack. But they don't last as long as the Power Support Screen Film. Long live Power Support--they make the best uber-geek Mac accessories! [I love visiting their booth every Macworld Expo!!]
Yes, there is an active cooling system. The blue-shirt Apple engineers at Macworld Expo confirmed this. And, if you take a look at the Stevenote, there's one slide that shows the active cooling system. [This is the segment before Steve talks about the custom-designed Intel Core Two Duo.]er
The SSD units should be entirely silent. The units with a hard drive, the only source of sound would be the hard disk.
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The SSD units should be entirely silent. The units with a hard drive, the only source of sound would be the hard disk.
When Steve showed the innards of the Air at Macworld and compared the logic board with a pencil, there was a fan. I don't think it would be on most of the time tho since the Air is really thin which helps with the cooling. And yes, the SSDs are silent up to the 128 GB capacity where you would need a fan to cool them down. But that doesn't mean the 64 GB SSD models won't need a fan since other computer components need to be cooled down -- but even then, sound would be at a minimum
Yepp. If you go to the re-released pictures on Gizmodo's site you'll clearly see one.
Yup I ordered at 11:59am on Jan 15th 1.8/80gb and its still Not Yet shipped
but of course the superdrive and ethernet dongle has shipped and will arrive tommorow..lol
Yep. Jan. 15, ~1:30 PM order for 1.8/SSD still on "Not yet shipped".
The wait is destroying me!
The wait is destroying me!
Oh no!
The MB is on the edge of what I can tolerate. Plus the angle of the bottom will make this even worse.
So Northern Minnesota on the edge of the wilderness is not on FedEx's priority list?
A quick field report from the Santa Monica store:
A went with a friend to buy a new Mac Pro desktop today. Since the Santa Monica store is in an outdoor mall, the procedure with big items is to drive around to the back alley, knock on the door, show receipt and they give you the machine. So it was right around 4:00pm when we pulled up to the rear door of the Apple store and saw... A FedEx truck being unloaded! I don't have X-Ray vision, but it looked like pallets of Macbook Air shipping containers all shrinkwrapped together. After we got our computer loaded into the car, I asked one of the store employees who was there if any of them might have the SSD. He smiled wryly and said "That would be nice!"
So if you're in the LA area, I bet that a personal shopping appointment for tomorrow at the 3rd St. store in Santa Monica would be a good way to get a machine!
A went with a friend to buy a new Mac Pro desktop today. Since the Santa Monica store is in an outdoor mall, the procedure with big items is to drive around to the back alley, knock on the door, show receipt and they give you the machine. So it was right around 4:00pm when we pulled up to the rear door of the Apple store and saw... A FedEx truck being unloaded! I don't have X-Ray vision, but it looked like pallets of Macbook Air shipping containers all shrinkwrapped together. After we got our computer loaded into the car, I asked one of the store employees who was there if any of them might have the SSD. He smiled wryly and said "That would be nice!"
So if you're in the LA area, I bet that a personal shopping appointment for tomorrow at the 3rd St. store in Santa Monica would be a good way to get a machine!