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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 snorkel »

duck wrote: post #20

Does anyone use an Air for a lot of Photoshop work? My wife does photography on the side and is looking for a laptop to go with her iMac. Seems like the screen would be too small?

A maxed-out Air is plenty fast enough for PS work but you may want to consider adding a 2nd display for design work.

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Post by Cbeck527 »

TillE wrote: post #9

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

I just pulled the trigger on one. From what I've read the old Air was a great little computer, and these new upgrades should only improve it.

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Post by afterburner »

cdr wrote: post #31
TillE wrote: post #9

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

The biggest downside might be 4GB maximum RAM - that's enough to dissuade me, anyway.

Seems like plenty to me for a laptop, do you bump up against that limit for what you do on a laptop? (I'm curious.)

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Post by loire280 »

antidaily wrote: post #15

I wonder if the 4GB and 256GB SSD limits have to do with keeping MBPs from becoming obsolete.

We'll find out in the teardowns how much space they're taking up, but I suspect volume is the limiting factor - RAM and flash chips are only so dense (at least at a certain price point). The RAM is already built into the motherboard to save space, and it was rumored that they would do the same with the SSD this generation.

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Post by snorkel »

TillE wrote: post #9

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

I've also been coding and working on an Air for months and had no issues other than being spoiled by its lightness and speed. I run virtual machines on it with no problem. It does everything a Macbook Pro does only faster, quieter, and without a DVD drive which I don't miss. You can also trade in your shoulder bag for a neoprene sleeve and reminisce about what life was like before computers were the size of clipboards.

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Post by dman »

snorkel wrote: post #38
TillE wrote: post #9

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

I've also been coding and working on an Air for months and had no issues other than being spoiled by its lightness and speed. I run virtual machines on it with no problem. It does everything a Macbook Pro does only faster, quieter, and without a DVD drive which I don't miss. You can also trade in your shoulder bag for a neoprene sleeve and reminisce about what life was like before computers were the size of clipboard…

You do realise that you could use a SSD on the macbook pro too right?
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