New 11" i5 MacBook Air Unboxing, 1st Bootup & Geekbench!

[MacHead04]

Went all around town hunting a new MacBook Air down..Apple Store Victoria Gardens & Brea said none for sale until tomorrow along with the Mac Minis. Pasadena had them in stock but couldn't sell until tomorrow because the SKUs hadn't hit the computers yet.

Talked to the manager for a while who was a really cool dude and ended up forcing the SKU in and doing an old school transaction letting me pick one up today.

Specs:
11.6" Display
1.6GHz Core i5 CPU
4GB RAM
128GB SSD

Here's the unboxing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWzRqV1Fyw4

Here's the first boot up & setup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7SJuA6V_E

Geekbench 64-bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1uej8A8Vng

Runs great so far..Really enjoying OSX Lion Should have a few more videos tomorrow including:

*Updated*

Final Cut Pro X - Now up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iX0PNn-nrI
Photoshop Speed Test
Gaming
Hooking up to a 27" iMac as a Display - now live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVOssjlsGY

Enjoy!

Jonathan

 

[Mase2000]

Congrats on the early purchase!

Can you post more detailed results of your benchmarking?

Thanks!

 

[Duke15]

Good videos

 

[Maziar]

Congrats and thanks for the vids !! Enjoy

 

[mscofield]

Congrats and great vids!
I'm thinking about the 11" model, but still waiting for some i5 vs i7 reviews/benchmarks.
Could you perhaps make some vids about Lion's fullscreen feature?

Cheers

 

[Oppressed]

Can I throw in a request for WoW and/or SC2? If you don't have them there are demos available.

 

[clactonlad]

Thanks for the videos, appreciate it! I also have a request for a video, can you see how long it takes handbrake to convert a movie to m4v/mp4?

Thanks

 

[BigCanoe]

Cool, thanks! How will it run WoW connected to that 27"?

 

[Abstract]

I have a request for battery life info!

I just want to know how long the battery lasts. I know Laptop Mag already did one, but I was hoping for a few results to get a better understanding of what to expect.

 

[opera57]

The Geekbench score is very impressive! I think my 3.06ghz iMac only gets around 4k!

 

[NutsNGum]

Your videos are consistently among the best Mac-related videos I've seen on YouTube.

 

[ronin510]

Can you go into Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor) and tell us how many CPU graphs it has under the CPU tab>CPU Usage?

People have been arguing whether it has Turbo Boost and HyperThreading. If it shows 2 CPUs then no HT, 4 CPUs then yes.

Thanks!

 

[JusChexin]

I'd also love to hear your personal use experience with the battery life and heat output of the 2011 11" MBA

 

[Littleman]

can you go into activity monitor (applications>utilities>activity monitor) and tell us how many cpu graphs it has under the cpu tab>cpu usage?

People have been arguing whether it has turbo boost and hyperthreading. If it shows 2 cpus then no ht, 4 cpus then yes.

Thanks!

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[striker33]

Could you possibly report on what SSD you got?

Like the model no.

Cheers.

 

[yanksrock100]

great videos....as always jon!

i subbed...need my daily tech fast

 

[MacHead04]

Can you go into Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor) and tell us how many CPU graphs it has under the CPU tab>CPU Usage?

People have been arguing whether it has Turbo Boost and HyperThreading. If it shows 2 CPUs then no HT, 4 CPUs then yes.

Thanks!

There is hyperthreading If you watch my FCPX Video I talk about it and show it in there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iX0PNn-nrI

Your videos are consistently among the best Mac-related videos I've seen on YouTube.

Really appreciate it dude

I have a request for battery life info!

I just want to know how long the battery lasts. I know Laptop Mag already did one, but I was hoping for a few results to get a better understanding of what to expect.

I'll be testing it all weekend and be sure to include that info the in the full review would should be out early next week!

Thanks for the videos, appreciate it! I also have a request for a video, can you see how long it takes handbrake to convert a movie to m4v/mp4?

Thanks

No problem! I'll def be testing handbrake so look out for a video soon!

Can I throw in a request for WoW and/or SC2? If you don't have them there are demos available.

I'll see if I can get to them but if not I'll for sure have a couple gaming videos tomorrow

 

[MacHead04]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Just added two more videos:

Final Cut Pro X http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iX0PNn-nrI

Hooking up to a 27" iMac as a Display - now live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVOssjlsGY

i'll update this thread as they come! thanks again for watching.

Jonathan

 

[macjacky11]

Thanks for the videos.

 

[WhoDatWayne]

As others have said-thanks for the videos!!!