As much as I hate feeding trolls....
The one you posted has a smaller screen, costs $400 more, has less RAM and runs Windows.
Now granted it does come with an optical drive and a fingerprint reader... oooh
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Should we buy an MBA Jjust because is thinner and newer?We get better perf. ON MB!!
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As much as I hate feeding trolls....
The one you posted has a smaller screen, costs $400 more, has less RAM and runs Windows.
Now granted it does come with an optical drive and a fingerprint reader... oooh
I'm not Gay, nor Female, but it's going to be my first Apple PC with a 64 GB SSD
You buy it because it's the hot new Apple product. You're either with us, or you're against us.In my opinion I think we should not follow tecnology in newest...oldest we should follow best performance.....less performance,guys the macbook air is 700 dls. more than an macbook which performs better!
You buy it because it's the hot new Apple product. You're either with us, or you're against us.
I am against you then....
it not about the money...its all about being a sucker...
for $3000...I get a fully loaded 17" macbook pro (top of the line)....hellllloooo??????
if I pay 3K for a machine with specs like air has...i'd shoot myself in the head...
I dont care how thin it is....and thats all it is, really...thin!...same size as the MB...
where I come from people dont look "cool" because they paid the highest price tag...they look like suckers...i'd be ashamed to tell people that I bought one...
The product is not for you... just as the MBP is not the product for a lot of other people. Not hard to understand. Or should I add a patronising 'hello'?
flip it around and see how you like it:
I am against you then....
it not about the money...its all about being a sucker...
for $3000...I get a fully loaded macbook air (top of the line)....hellllloooo??????
if I pay 3K for a machine with specs like MBP has...i'd shoot myself in the head...
I dont care how powerful it is....and thats all it is, really...powerful!...same size as the MB...
where I come from people dont look "cool" because they bought the most powerful computer...they look like suckers...i'd be ashamed to tell people that I bought one...
see? Not nice but also not relevant to you. you don't like it? fine.
I have an imac 24" which I use for all my 'work' - any heavy lifting if you like. I coudl just as easily argue that its folly for me to pay $3000 for a 17" MBP when I won't be using most of the power/features. I need a laptop as a 2nd machine for light duties around the lounge and occasionally out and about. MB air is perfect. Although I will be looking at the MB due to cost and compare, but the lightness/slimness of the MBA is tempting
I went MB
The 3000k model is a joke. In 6 months the price of SDD drive will drop big time. You will be lucky if you can get 1000 for the machine on eBay once the new models come out. The 1799 model is to slow with the 1.6 and 4500 rpm drive. They may seem fast in the store but wait until you start running things like vmware and loading saving large files in Photoshop etc. It will be one of the fastest depreciating investments you can make. I still think the only advantage the Air has is it is pretty. I am sure I will see all the queens this weekend pull their Air out of their Lois Vutton bags at the local coffee shops in SF. I also don't see the 2lbs as a savings unless your climbing mount Everest or something.
If you have plenty of money, want vanity, and don't care or need the missing performance etc then go for it.
It is tempting for me to Exchange my MB for it but it would be totaly impulsive and stupid of me. I have already filled up 60GB in 2 weeks on my MB and used my optical drive several times.
The 3000k model is a joke. In 6 months the price of SDD drive will drop big time. You will be lucky if you can get 1000 for the machine on eBay once the new models come out. The 1799 model is to slow with the 1.6 and 4500 rpm drive. They may seem fast in the store but wait until you start running things like vmware and loading saving large files in Photoshop etc. It will be one of the fastest depreciating investments you can make. I still think the only advantage the Air has is it is pretty. I am sure I will see all the queens this weekend pull their Air out of their Lois Vutton bags at the local coffee shops in SF. I also don't see the 2lbs as a savings unless your climbing mount Everest or something.
If you have plenty of money, want vanity, and don't care or need the missing performance etc then go for it.
It is tempting for me to Exchange my MB for it but it would be totaly impulsive and stupid of me. I have already filled up 60GB in 2 weeks on my MB and used my optical drive several times.
I agree Man I want ssd drive as all of you do because is ell lot faster than the 4200 hd but 3000 bucks I think I will wait another 6 months or so..
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To respond to the OP, the MBA is not about raw performance. It's not meant for heavy lifting in games or professional apps.
If you buy a macbook air to run vmware and heavy photoshop files then you've made a mistake. If you're going to make valid arguments than please make valid arguments.
It's like me saying "Oh you bought a $800,000 2 bedroom condo in La Jolla?? You could have bought a mansion with 10 bedrooms and 5 acres of land for horses and ATV's and huge driveways for your huge trucks and a giant pools for $500,000 in Wisconsin." But what if I live by myself and don't ride horses, and don't need 10 bedrooms, and a pool, and I'm enjoy a good looking small home than a fat ugly home? Should I still buy the huge house?? Think people, you all are a lot smarter than you seem through the internet, you have to be, at least i'm hoping you are.
everytime i see this thread i think the performance people really made a mistake buying macbooks and macbook pros. i mean, you get so much better performance with an imac - and it's only 20 pounds. will anyone admit to being a weakling who can't lift 20 pounds?
says the owner of a macbook air, and imac
says the owner of a macbook air, and imac
The air is all about design and thinness. However, there seems to be a fundamental conflict in its aim of being the most portable laptop on earth, battery life. IMO apple and other hardware co's need to really work on a new method of storing energy, batteries are almost useless. The whole purpose of a notebook in general is portability, and batteries completely limit this, especially with the air so I hear.
There wont be a truly portable laptop until there is a much better way of storing energy so it can be portable for at lease 24 hours between charges.
There wont be a truly portable laptop until there is a much better way of storing energy so it can be portable for at lease 24 hours between charges.
Dude, what is your problem, seriously. It takes time, engineering effort, and money to produce bleeding edge products. If you don't like it DON'T BUY IT and stop wasting forum space. This post needs to be in the wasteland.
...keep dreaming
Laptops were never actually meant to be a battery only computing solution!! In fact "laptop" is a slang term short for BUT not synonymous with "portable computer".
Um, maybe you should learn a bit of facts and find some information
the top mba costs: $2,598.00
it will load osx and applications faster than the macbook pro, due to the ssd. it will only write slower. also if you travel a lot, then you aren't going to lug around a hugh mbp, for just tasks like microsoft word, powerpoint, excel, and mail. Unlike you, probably, most people don't play crysis, or counterstrike when they are on business trips.
i know the MBA is targetted towards a small segment who need this for a brief encounter and have other Mac systems as well as the MBA such as the MacPro or whatever.
But i saw the MBA at an Apple store, because i had to wait to see a genius and i looked at this...and frankly it feels and looks like its something that for the clumsy would be just waiting to find a chance to be dropped or knocked off a desk by accident and that this would wreck the thing. Hell i glanced at three of them and all three floor models had a stage of the keyboard keys losing their color-i think it was white? Sure any dropped Mac might be damaged but the MBA just looks like something asking to be knocked over.......i said it before the PB12" should have remained within the MBP stables.....
But i saw the MBA at an Apple store, because i had to wait to see a genius and i looked at this...and frankly it feels and looks like its something that for the clumsy would be just waiting to find a chance to be dropped or knocked off a desk by accident and that this would wreck the thing. Hell i glanced at three of them and all three floor models had a stage of the keyboard keys losing their color-i think it was white? Sure any dropped Mac might be damaged but the MBA just looks like something asking to be knocked over.......i said it before the PB12" should have remained within the MBP stables.....
Ummm no we won't. Believe it or not I need a computer a lot more powerful than a Macbook Air. I need to be able to work with Aperture, Final Cut, Photoshop and other image editors and they just won't run well enough on an Air.
That was probably one of the most ignorant comments I've come across in a while. More than just straight men need powerful computers. I bet the majority of the Macbook Air owners are straight business men that travel a lot.