Samsung updates 11" and 13" 9 Series. Specs probably similar to MBA update

[The-Pro]

Have you guys seen the Asus UX21 that's coming out soon?
Here's an early look

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/asus-outs-ux21-ultrathin-laptop-with-up-to-core-i7-cpu-video-ha/

Now that's a MBA competitor

But I'm excited, hopefully this will push Apple to start improving the specs of their updated machines.

I wonder what machine inspired them (design wise )

 

[seepel]

What I don't think a lot of people are realizing is that the MBAs are different, in the way that the RAM has to be soldiered onto the machine. That means that instead of just making them with X gigs by default like all of their other MBs, they have to make X amount with X RAM; this means that they have to really decide on what they want to sell and how much of that they will sell.

How many people do you think will go for an Air with 8 gigs of RAM? Seeing that they're generally on the same price level as the Pros (which more people are going to go for if they want power), not many people would go for that model.

I don't know for certain but I highly doubt they would go that route, at least with something THAT much higher than 4. Six is a stretch and if they did up the RAM, they would probably do 6. If you need 8 gigs, chances are you'd be better of using a Pro. Not you specifically but customers in general.

Now they might switch it up and have an option to literally build your own but that's highly unlikely.

You're absolutely right 8GB is probably a long shot, I realize this, and I bet many others do as well. That doesn't stop us from hoping for it though. As for me and probably many others here, no one makes exactly the computer that I would like, but Apple always seems to come the closest. Right now that is the Macbook Air, an 11" with SB i5/i7, 8GB RAM, and 256 GB SSD and that will come the closest to what I want yet. I have a feeling what I'll get is SB i5, 4GB RAM and 128 GB SSD and I'll probably take it.

 

[seepel]

Well, I've got Xcode open, X11, terminal, Chrome, all my IM clients and I left Mplayer open with no file loaded, and I'm just under 1 Gig of used memory. Yes, 1 Gig :

PhysMem: 568M wired, 355M active, 105M inactive, 1027M used, 3068M free.

So I don't know what you're doing in Xcode to have it take 700M by itself...

I could still open both Illustrator and Photoshop and run my Windows VM for work and still have plenty of RAM to throw around...

I don't mean to start a p**ssing contest or anything, I just see a lot of posts from you wondering how people use more than 4GB and I had some numbers on hand and figured I'd post them. As for why my XCode takes up more space, it probably just has to do with the projects open, I've got two iPhone projects open that are probably fairly big, using several different third party frameworks that all need to be included in the project and compiled in. I don't feel that I'm doing anything crazy with XCode to make it take up a lot of memory, I'm just working normally.

 

[KnightWRX]

I don't mean to start a p**ssing contest or anything, I just see a lot of posts from you wondering how people use more than 4GB and I had some numbers on hand and figured I'd post them. As for why my XCode takes up more space, it probably just has to do with the projects open, I've got two iPhone projects open that are probably fairly big, using several different third party frameworks that all need to be included in the project and compiled in. I don't feel that I'm doing anything crazy with XCode to make it take up a lot of memory, I'm just working normally.

Well, I have a fairly big iPhone project open at all times (I checked before copy/pasting that and it was) with some odd 40 or so classes, XML files and image files, so still, those must be huge iPhone projects you have there to have it take up 700 Mb.

The truth is, even with my Windows VM I struggle to reach 4 GBs of RAM used on my MBA so I really don't know what you people are doing on a MBA that draws this much RAM. Granted my work is systems administration and programming is a hobby, neither of which are memory intensive in their own right, but...

 

[seepel]

Well, I have a fairly big iPhone project open at all times (I checked before copy/pasting that and it was) with some odd 40 or so classes, XML files and image files, so still, those must be huge iPhone projects you have there to have it take up 700 Mb.

The truth is, even with my Windows VM I struggle to reach 4 GBs of RAM used on my MBA so I really don't know what you people are doing on a MBA that draws this much RAM. Granted my work is systems administration and programming is a hobby, neither of which are memory intensive in their own right, but...

When I say large I'm talking ~400 classes spread over ~300 files and this is a game so all sorts of image files etc... And please don't take me wrong, I am not trying to belittle your project or say that mine is better because it is bigger, I have several other projects that are the same size as yours that I think are just as good if not better than the large ones that I mention. I'm just trying to point out that it takes all types. And everything else about the Macbook Air would be perfect for my work, I would just value more memory (And as I've said I will probably make do with 4GB when my dream doesn't come true).