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New MacBook Air Released – $100 Cheaper

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Re: New MacBook Air Released – $100 Cheaper

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Post by bitL »

hackerboos wrote: post #17
jmnicolas wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is for the 11" model. The 13" has a more appropriate 1440x900. Retina would be nice though.

If Apple made a retina Macbook Air then nobody would buy the Macbook Pro.

Could be. 13" rMBP won't be much different from a 13" rMBA then.

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Post by Kurtz79 »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #12
bitL wrote: post #9

1366x768 in 2014?

I imagine Apple are optimising for battery life and cost here, rather than for sheer resolution. Edit: Also, that's the 11", I doubt they can squeeze many more pixels in there before it becomes unreadable. The 13" is 1440x900, which is more reasonable (I'm using it as we speak, actually!)

I'm still quite happy with my late 2010 13' Air, as a second/travel/coffee shop laptop.

About your edit: remember that how Apple does it in the "Retina" models is increasing the definition, without affecting the actual size of the UI elements.

I would buy a "Retina Air" in an heartbeat.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

bitL wrote: post #18
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine Apple are optimising for battery life and cost here, rather than for sheer resolution. Edit: Also, that's the 11", I doubt they can squeeze many more pixels in there before it becomes unreadable. The 13" is 1440x900, which is more reasonable (I'm using it as we speak, actually!)

This argument won't stand. New phone displays have significantly lower battery consumption than the old ones and substantially higher resolutions. And you can always employ tricks like reducing refresh rate to lower the consumption even more.

Why not? If they push the resolution of the 11" much more, it'll become harder to read the screen. If they double the resolution to make it "retina", the battery will take a hit, as will the cost.

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Post by neiled »

Spittie wrote: post #26

I totally missed some events, or Apple just "dropped" those in the store without any writeup/presentation? Even if this is a minor upgrade (price cut and slightly faster processors), it still feels very weird to me.

They're just minor bumps to specs and a reduction in price, they normally don't do big announcements for something like this. Now if/when the retina MacBook Airs come out you can be sure there'll be an announcement for that...
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