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Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by kayoone »

lean wrote: post #148

Isn't the Intel HD 3000 a downgrade from the previous-gen MBA's Nvidia GeForce 320? http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0.... http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...

roughly the same. For the Sandy Bridge platform there is no other choice anyway as a dedicated nvidia chip wouldnt fit and draw more power.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by kayoone »

ascendant wrote: post #147
lispm wrote: post #90

Now the questions are: * how warm will the MacBook Air get with the Thunderbolt in use / not in use? Will the fan kick in more often? * what effect has the i5 or i7 wrt. to heat? * will the average battery runtime be better or worse? Are the Apple numbers realistic? From what I hear, the Thunderbolt MacBook Pros are using the fans to cool the machine more often.

I have a current gen MBP with a core i7 and I don't really hear the fans that often, and I'm usually running a lot of stuff at once.

i have a current gen MBP with a core i7 Quad-Core 2.2Ghz and while attached to an external display the fans get noisy pretty fast. I basically gave up working on GPU intensive stuff on the MBP because the fans annoy me.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by kayoone »

corin_ wrote: post #42

I'm really not a fan of their non-US pricing, it rarely works out well for international buyers. For example the $1,199 model costs £999 in the UK. $1,199 is equal to £744. So to buy it from the UK store you're paying 34% more? For the cheapest option, $999 in US store, the UK price is 37% more. And I'm too lazy to work out the 13" price differences.

the $999 is 949 EUR in germany which translates to $1349 :-/

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by jasonkester »

corin_ wrote: post #42

I'm really not a fan of their non-US pricing, it rarely works out well for international buyers. For example the $1,199 model costs £999 in the UK. $1,199 is equal to £744. So to buy it from the UK store you're paying 34% more? For the cheapest option, $999 in US store, the UK price is 37% more. And I'm too lazy to work out the 13" price differences.

On a completely unrelated note, I find that my Apple purchases often correlate closely to dates when my American friends come out to visit.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by kayoone »

jamesteow wrote: post #138
crazygringo wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree completely. I've been spoiled rotten, and now realize I can never go back to any other laptop. They just seem like heavy, slow relics from a previous decade. Damn you, Apple! I also run virtual copies of Windows, and it all runs like a dream.

Wouldn't a MBP with an SSD be faster (quad core and all)?

It definately would, questions is if you really need that kind of extra power.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by dlehman »

jrockway wrote: post #122
joshklein wrote: post #108

I'm going to be purchasing the 13" MBA, and I'm trying to decide between the baseline version and the maxed out version. I would pay the $100 to upgrade to the i7, but one can only do so by also paying $300 for the 256GB of memory. Honestly, the 256GB memory vs 128GB isn't important to me (most of my stuff is small files or in the cloud), so I'm finding it hard to justify $400 for the better processor. Any advice fro…

The i7 is going to use less power for a given workload because it will be asleep more.

Is this true? For the same workload, would the i7 processor shorten or lengthen battery life?

If it's the same or better, $100 for the \i7 upgrade seems like a no-brainer. Or am I missing something?

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by palehose »

Udo wrote: post #134
dhbanes wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a big difference between the MBA glossy display and the macbook pro glass display. I use the MBA daily but when I got a chance to play around with a friend's 17" MBP glossy... it was terribly unusable.

At least you can custom order the MBP a with non-glossy hi-res display (I'm quite happy with mine now). I don't think that option exists for the MBA.

MBA is not nearly as glossy as the MBP.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by Udo »

palehose wrote: post #158
Udo wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least you can custom order the MBP a with non-glossy hi-res display (I'm quite happy with mine now). I don't think that option exists for the MBA.

MBA is not nearly as glossy as the MBP.

Is it just because of the screen size or is the material different somehow? I'm actually toying with the idea of buying one to take with me on the road where the 15" colossus is just impractical...
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