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These things keep getting harder to resist, and I'm a Windows user. Can anyone tell me if it's true that Windows on boot camp doesn't take advantage of all of the power saving features, and so doesn't last as long? And if so, how big is the difference?
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/macbook-air-wi...
I am likely going to fall for a larger MB Air... if they sell a 15" model, I'll be the first in line. However, I'm still not sure if I like the non-discrete video. Anyone with an MBP'11 that only has Intel HD video care to tell me if it's any good for gaming? At least the current MB Air has discrete video.
As a longtime user of Dell Latitudes and HP Pavilions, I promise you that the MBAir will blow you away. I always pooh poohed "Light and Thin" - until I had a light and thin laptop, with SSDs, and a 1440x900 13.3" display, with Terminal.App (which is 50%+ of the reason I love OS X) and insanely addictive (and useful) touch pad). The only major downside of the MBAir is that it is so competitive a form factor for an iPa…
Aside from weight, which isn't a real concern for me in a MBP 13", if I decked out a MBP 13" w/ an SSD, is there a compelling reason to still go with an MBA? One of my main concerns is that the MBA can only go to 4GB of ram while the MBP can theoretically go to 16GB. Seems more future proofing etc.
Just so you know, I do mostly iOS, Android, and Web dev (Ruby, Python, JS and Erlang).
I also have several Ubuntu instances up at all times if I'm doing iOS or I run Ubuntu the majority of the time if I'm doing other stuff (Ubuntu is still a better dev environment, IMO, but that is for a different post :) )
I am genuinely intrigued by the MBA, but I can't seem to get my head around getting that instead of a MBP 13" (I would be getting a MBA 13", 11" is too small for me). Aside from weight, which isn't a real concern for me in a MBP 13", if I decked out a MBP 13" w/ an SSD, is there a compelling reason to still go with an MBA? One of my main concerns is that the MBA can only go to 4GB of ram while the MBP can theoretical…
I am genuinely intrigued by the MBA, but I can't seem to get my head around getting that instead of a MBP 13" (I would be getting a MBA 13", 11" is too small for me). Aside from weight, which isn't a real concern for me in a MBP 13", if I decked out a MBP 13" w/ an SSD, is there a compelling reason to still go with an MBA? One of my main concerns is that the MBA can only go to 4GB of ram while the MBP can theoretical…
It's the best computer I've ever owned. And it's my first Mac, I'm not much of a fanboy.
I've been waiting for this - my MBP15 is long in the tooth and desperately needs a refresh. I don't need nearly the same amount of raw power I used to, so a MBA is going to be a blessing on my back!
These things keep getting harder to resist, and I'm a Windows user. Can anyone tell me if it's true that Windows on boot camp doesn't take advantage of all of the power saving features, and so doesn't last as long? And if so, how big is the difference?
Ubuntu is limited as well. I'm not sure if this will change with Window 7's ability to boot from EFI or with GRUB2 now supporting EFI. If I recall there are several bits of the Apple/MBP EFI implementation that causes things to not work as smoothly as they should... some things that Apple either cut corners with or did intentionally to force you to keep OS X on the hard drive, not sure which.
Sweet built-in DRM!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Other_details Sounds like quite a big turn off, I wonder how bad this will be in practice
Much unlike HDCP which virtually all computers have nowadays and actually does inhibit normal functionality.
Sweet built-in DRM!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Other_details Sounds like quite a big turn off, I wonder how bad this will be in practice
I don't see anything there that would prevent me from easily choose Sandy Bridge, despite not really liking the idea of DRM.
I don't know why people are surprised by this. I try to explain how the DRM components of Netflix work and why they're able to be used in Linux devices with hardware security. Android has DRM providers that are backed all the way to hardware, I'm assuming this Netflix Chrome extension will leverage some new DRM framework that will be part of Chrome (maybe, maybe not Chromium). And really, in terms of everything, I think it's reasonable.