New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

Post by srgseg » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

colin_jack wrote: post #128

srgseg wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, it's not just Apple. The UK is known in the industry as "Treasure Island" because they know that they can charge more here and get away with it. E.g. Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones: 25.2% premium excluding sales tax, 50.2% premium including sales tax comparing a zero sales tax US state to the UK.

True, to be honest I had a spell of checking the difference for products before buying them and if it was too high I'd give the product a bad review on Amazon. Felt good :P Out of interest are you aware of a site that does this sort of comparison?

Post by crazygringo » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:11 PM UTC

snorkel wrote: post #47

jason_tko wrote: post #3

HD video cameras, backlit keyboard, i5 upgradable to i7 - pretty decent upgrade. Curses, 3 month old MacBook Air.

But the max screen is still only 13" max and not a significant price drop on existing models so I'm glad I didn't wait for this release before buying.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:17 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #127

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…

For regular computer stuff, my 2nd-gen Macbook Air works like a dream, and in day-to-day use it's the SSD that makes it so much faster than my work computer with a normal HD. In the SSD era, if you don't use videogames or do video rendering, I don't think processor speed matters that much anymore. (Cue mobs with torches...)

Post by TheJester » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:22 PM UTC

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…

Post by nolanbrown23 » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:26 PM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #49

TillE wrote: post #9

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

Seems most people are interested in the 13". Does anyone have any comments on the 11"? The only downside I can see is that only 1 external monitor is supported. After all, when you're traveling, the smaller the better.