Good grief. How do you people expect a MacBook Air to compete with a Z when it is half the thickness? You do realize that severely limits what GPU and CPU you can use due to heat issues in thinner cases, not to mention reduced component sizes, right? I'm guessing not otherwise there wouldn't be so many ridiculous comments about it. If you're going to compare the Z to something it should be the 13" MacBook Pro not the MacBook Air.
"Ridiculous?" Get a grip partner. It seems to me that no one said anything that should offend you. Is there some immutable law of nature that would require a redesigned MBA to be as thin as the current version is? If so, I must have overlooked it. As long as a redesigned MBA would still weigh only 3 pounds and provide the same small footprint it does now I, for one would happily accept a thicker version that would accommodate slots for RAM modules and a discrete GPU. The current MBA is obsolescent at best and fast becoming obsolete. Apple is going to have to rethink the MBA concept or allow it to die, at least it seems so to me and a number of others who post here.Good grief. How do you people expect a MacBook Air to compete with a Z when it is half the thickness? You do realize that severely limits what GPU and CPU you can use due to heat issues in thinner cases, not to mention reduced component sizes, right? I'm guessing not otherwise there wouldn't be so many ridiculous comments about it. If you're going to compare the Z to something it should be the 13" MacBook Pro not the MacBook Air.
That's a good point. Despite my having given up on the MBA in its current iteration, I am not ready to shift to a Windows machine, either. For the moment at least, my old Santa Rosa MBP with 6Gb of RAM handles Windows apps under VMware Fusion in Unity mode just fine. No Windows machine, regardless of its gee whiz features can do that. If the MBA is discontinued or is given another halfhearted update, I'll probably get a 13 inch MBP, up its RAM to 8Gb, and add a 256 or 512Gb SSD.Excellent post!
I'm with you, I really like my macs, especially the cornerstone of my work life my 15" mid 2010 Core i7 MacBook Pro...
I want computers and software that work right out of the box. A dual boot setup, such as Bootcamp, is of no interest to me. No Windows machine or commercial software for it that I know about will let me run Windows and OS X apps in tandem. So far VMware Fusion or Parallels running on Macs seem to be the only game in town for that sort of thing.
Jesus, you've posted this in every single thread I've looked in
That's a fair question. I came to Macs from the Windows world in 2003. Before that I had run Windows ever since there was a Windows. My bookkeeping program is Quicken for Windows, which I use several times a day. Unfortunately, the OS X version is a crippled imitation of the Windows version. Thus, I stuck with Quicken for Windows, even when I had to run it from my home Windows desktop. It was a major pain. Getting a MBP and its Intel CPU was like being let out of jail, especially after I upgraded its RAM to 6Gb. Now, I leave Quicken open on the OS X desktop all the time, just as I do OS X apps such as Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. On top of that, I have used WordPerfect for Windows as my word processing app for many years. I have thousands of documents and dozens of forms for it that would have required a huge amount of work to convert to Word format. With that explanation, I trust you will trust me when I say that I really do need to run Windows apps from the OS X desktop in tandem with OS X apps.
I hadn't even thought about the fact that using an OS X emulator in a non Apple machine is, indeed, illegal.
