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What are Macbook Air owner doing for a living? :)
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hello fellow davis student!
im a student
Yay, I am not the only one in UC Davis with an Air.
i wear a few hats - a writer, organ transplant preservation tech, and also a med student.
love my air for its weight. learned years ago that lugging heavy notebooks around was ludicrous.
mostly use my air for thunderbird, firefox, ms office, ical, and the like. sometimes some light audio or image work.
love my air for its weight. learned years ago that lugging heavy notebooks around was ludicrous.
mostly use my air for thunderbird, firefox, ms office, ical, and the like. sometimes some light audio or image work.
Business school student - second year.
Been using a 2004 Dell Inspiron 6000 and traded in for something light ;-)
Seriously though, we live on our computers at school and I need to go from classroom to classroom, home and back, etc - so the weight of this thing and its size is great for me.
Been using a 2004 Dell Inspiron 6000 and traded in for something light ;-)
Seriously though, we live on our computers at school and I need to go from classroom to classroom, home and back, etc - so the weight of this thing and its size is great for me.
I had one of those Inspiron 6000s for a work machine for 2 years... that's what convinced me I wanted a lighter laptop. Once you got that thing and the power brick into a bag, you knew you were carrying something. The MBA slides in the bag, even with power adapter and external mouse, and I hardly notice.
I Work part time at my family model shop and am now training to become a children's book illustrator. I use my air to display my art portfolio and work with Painter and Photoshop on it using a graphics tablet. I Carry my Air around with me all the time in a wonderful brightly coloured Fabrix case while my poor old G4 Powerbook hardly ever moved from the house.
The weight was an issue with me as I have to carry lots of art stuff around and have a weakened arm after breast cancer treatment years ago. Also I had problems with my eyesight recently and was finding it hard to watch programs on the small screen of my ipod - the large bright screen on the Air is a joy.
Unfortunately the Air has not increased my art output, it has however lead to me reducing my vast pile of EyeTV recordings.
The weight was an issue with me as I have to carry lots of art stuff around and have a weakened arm after breast cancer treatment years ago. Also I had problems with my eyesight recently and was finding it hard to watch programs on the small screen of my ipod - the large bright screen on the Air is a joy.
Unfortunately the Air has not increased my art output, it has however lead to me reducing my vast pile of EyeTV recordings.
I'm a professor/scientist- use it to write papers, present talks at meetings and at other Universities, review grants for the government and browse the scientific literature. It replaced a 17 inch PB that was too big to carry around and a 12 inch PB before that. 17 inch PB was a mistake but I hung on to it because of the rumors about the MBA. On the day the MBA was announced I ordered it.
I'm an Investment Banker at a bulge bracket bank in New York City.
Just ordered my MBA while in my MBA class - just started my part-time MBA on nights/weekends.
Just ordered my MBA while in my MBA class - just started my part-time MBA on nights/weekends.
Traveling lighter
As a full time graphic designer and photographer, I have been lugging macbook pro around for years and have seriously been ready to chuck it out the hotel window after a week long tethered shoot. The final straw was en-route to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, the bag with camera, lenses, and computer hit the floor and I thought I was screwed, but amazingly the MBP broke the fall (now 2 mm shorter but still working). I wouldn't have tried to hang the thing, but I was exhausted from lugging around equipment. So, now, with the macbook air, I don't even notice it is there. I didn't migrate, just installed new CS3 and camera shooting software and there's plenty of room for a full week's shooting RAW files. Minor processing done on the road, back ups on passport 250 gig portable USB drive, full processing done when I get back to the slightly crumpled but still perfectly good MBP.
Makes all the sense in the world to me, don't care what it looks like, it feels great!
As a full time graphic designer and photographer, I have been lugging macbook pro around for years and have seriously been ready to chuck it out the hotel window after a week long tethered shoot. The final straw was en-route to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, the bag with camera, lenses, and computer hit the floor and I thought I was screwed, but amazingly the MBP broke the fall (now 2 mm shorter but still working). I wouldn't have tried to hang the thing, but I was exhausted from lugging around equipment. So, now, with the macbook air, I don't even notice it is there. I didn't migrate, just installed new CS3 and camera shooting software and there's plenty of room for a full week's shooting RAW files. Minor processing done on the road, back ups on passport 250 gig portable USB drive, full processing done when I get back to the slightly crumpled but still perfectly good MBP.
Makes all the sense in the world to me, don't care what it looks like, it feels great!
Used to work in advertising with Saatchi & Saatchi and recently TBWA, but recently me and my husband won a large amount of money with the National Lottery (UK), therefore I haven't worked in around 4 months now
MacBook Air is a fabulous companion for going to a cafe or inner-city shopping.
Best,
Rose.
MacBook Air is a fabulous companion for going to a cafe or inner-city shopping.
Best,
Rose.
Exactly like me (academic, MD PhD), except for my 15 inch PB that was replaced by my MBA.
Same here - University Educator/FOSS Advocate/Apple Distinguished Educator/Sun Java Champion. Use the MBA (replaced my 15" MBP) when I am out and about. Have 17" iMac and planning to get another 20" iMac. Just waiting for MobileMe to see how good sync is.
Owner of a small tech. company. Don't wear suits if I can help it but do like an occasional extra-dirty martini.
Air is fine for what I need and that's a small portable lappy running OSX and heavy use of Word, Excel, Keynote and email. Had a Blackbook and they look pretty tacky if used at a semi-important meeting. Have a MBP as an office spare. Travel quite a bit and the weight & thinness do mean something popping it in and out of briefcase and through security.
My Air is not used for status but because it's smallest Apple has. After extensive use of the Air I can honestly say my 12" PB was my favorite Apple product EVER. Hopefully next Rev. will trump it??
Air is fine for what I need and that's a small portable lappy running OSX and heavy use of Word, Excel, Keynote and email. Had a Blackbook and they look pretty tacky if used at a semi-important meeting. Have a MBP as an office spare. Travel quite a bit and the weight & thinness do mean something popping it in and out of briefcase and through security.
My Air is not used for status but because it's smallest Apple has. After extensive use of the Air I can honestly say my 12" PB was my favorite Apple product EVER. Hopefully next Rev. will trump it??
Manager at a tech firm, but wine + margaritas, not martinis
In general it works very, very well even coming from my 15" MBP which I loved. I use MBA as my sole computer. I travel extensively and you would think a couple of pounds doesn't make much of a difference but it really does, on the plane, in backpacks to coffeeshops, etc.
My wish list for the next generation model currently is:
- lower prices on SSD ( check! ) : this will help my anti-virus scans and backups run faster (required to for work reasons, yes I know AV on mac/unix isn't that helpful)
- fix heat issues : this would improve performance playing world of warcraft
- faster GPU : this would improve performance playing world of warcraft
- tether bluetooth 3G internet connection off of iPhone 3G? Not sure if this will be possible or fast enough, if so I can stop paying for my 3G Sprint wireless broadband plan
In general it works very, very well even coming from my 15" MBP which I loved. I use MBA as my sole computer. I travel extensively and you would think a couple of pounds doesn't make much of a difference but it really does, on the plane, in backpacks to coffeeshops, etc.
My wish list for the next generation model currently is:
- lower prices on SSD ( check! ) : this will help my anti-virus scans and backups run faster (required to for work reasons, yes I know AV on mac/unix isn't that helpful)
- fix heat issues : this would improve performance playing world of warcraft
- faster GPU : this would improve performance playing world of warcraft
- tether bluetooth 3G internet connection off of iPhone 3G? Not sure if this will be possible or fast enough, if so I can stop paying for my 3G Sprint wireless broadband plan