New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by privacyguru » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:54 PM UTC

New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store
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Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by lemming » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:13 PM UTC

While I'm sure this is nice, I don't have a compelling reason to upgrade from my existing MBA (and I really wanted to!). I'd have loved to have seen 8GB RAM as an option.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by jason_tko » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:15 PM UTC

HD video cameras, backlit keyboard, i5 upgradable to i7 - pretty decent upgrade.

Curses, 3 month old MacBook Air.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by _Fil_ » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:15 PM UTC

Still no Gigabit Ethernet adapter ?!? Even with the thunderbolt port ? Come on Apple, you can do better ....

Apart from that slight pet peeve of mine, those looks like really great replacement for my now aging MacBook unibody.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by joeminkie » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

_Fil_ wrote: post #4

Still no Gigabit Ethernet adapter ?!? Even with the thunderbolt port ? Come on Apple, you can do better .... Apart from that slight pet peeve of mine, those looks like really great replacement for my now aging MacBook unibody.

They want you to get the new Thunderbolt LED Display which has a gigabit ethernet adapter built in.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by angerman » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:25 PM UTC

This is surely a nice update. But I _really_ miss configuration options. The only option seems to be

1.7GHz i5 -> 1.8GHz i7

No choice of flash no choice of ram :/ I love my current air. It's a really nice piece of engineering but even 4GB of ram are sometimes full. With an more powerful CPU more RAM would be a nice choice...

TB, Backlit KB and a faster CPU are very nice though.

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by macavity23 » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:26 PM UTC

lemming wrote: post #2

While I'm sure this is nice, I don't have a compelling reason to upgrade from my existing MBA (and I really wanted to!). I'd have loved to have seen 8GB RAM as an option.

I have a current MBA, and I find 2GB very limiting when running eclipse, tomcat, photoshop and firefox. 4GB will be very nice.

Also, a second USB port! Oh, the luxury!

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by CWIZO » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:29 PM UTC

_Fil_ wrote: post #4

Still no Gigabit Ethernet adapter ?!? Even with the thunderbolt port ? Come on Apple, you can do better .... Apart from that slight pet peeve of mine, those looks like really great replacement for my now aging MacBook unibody.

You mean this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC704ZM/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY ?

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by TillE » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

That 13" Macbook Air is looking really attractive as a portable work computer. Any downsides I should be aware of?

Re: New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

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Post by jrnkntl » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

Does anybody know if they advertised with the "Instant on. Even after a month off." on the previous models as well? Or did they upgrade the flash storage type so that this is now possible?