I still wonder, how well is windows 7 or windows 8.1 supported ?
how fast does xcode runs on it ?
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#42Still, no 16 GB memory. The only thing left tying me to the MBP.
Really ? With an SSD you can even go with 2GB of RAM you won't see any difference.
You completely misunderstand memory. 4GB is the bare minimum for Mavericks, any less and even on an SSD you're delving into swap hell. 8GB is really skimpy to have just as an upgrade option, I'm constantly hitting my limits on 16GB (though admittedly my workload isn't typical).
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#43I still wonder, how well is windows 7 or windows 8.1 supported ? how fast does xcode runs on it ?
Windows is supported. I imagine Xcode is almost completely unusable with that CPU and the tiny amount of RAM.
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#44Earlier 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.
New phones are also not tied to the x86 platform, and generally run software that has been optimized from the start for performance.
There are other considerations too. Phone usage patterns are way different to computer usage patterns. The vast majority of phone usage occurs in small blips of activity during which execution can be optimized for the CPU to race to sleep state as soon as possible. Computers don't have the same usage patterns at all, and have a legacy of first and third party software (on all major platforms) that have not yet been optimized for performance.
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#45except for the price and 100mhz faster processor is there anything else different than on model from 2013 (i am asking since i bought 2013 model couple days ago :))
Along those same lines: be careful if you buy an Air at a retail store for a little while. It might be different now, but a few years ago when I got my MBP I waited until the day they were released, called to confirm they were in stock, and when I got to the store they tried to sell me one of the older models that were still in stock.
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#46I guess this means they won't be announcing Retina MacBook Airs at WWDC in June.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has a slightly faster processor (don't be fooled by "1.3GHz", the MBA's top CPU speed is 2.6GHz) but there's a 500GB non-solid-state hard drive, it's heavier, the graphics are older, and it has a lower-resolution screen. Why would anyone want it?
It's probably a diminishing use-case, but I personally still need an ethernet port. There's a surprising number of times when I visit somewhere (offices, universities) and they can't figure out how to get me logged onto the guest wifi, but I can just plug in to the wired network without a problem. Also some hotels have only ethernet, though that's getting less common.
Yes, I suppose the Ethernet is useful. But it doesn't seem worth sacrificing everything else for. Why not just get a USB or Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has a slightly faster processor (don't be fooled by "1.3GHz", the MBA's top CPU speed is 2.6GHz) but there's a 500GB non-solid-state hard drive, it's heavier, the graphics are older, and it has a lower-resolution screen. Why would anyone want it?
It's probably a diminishing use-case, but I personally still need an ethernet port. There's a surprising number of times when I visit somewhere (offices, universities) and they can't figure out how to get me logged onto the guest wifi, but I can just plug in to the wired network without a problem. Also some hotels have only ethernet, though that's getting less common.
Yeah, go and buy a thunderbold ethernet cable, they are really cheap and work fantastically.
The only downside is on Linux you have to reboot if you unplug the ethernet, but apparently that's being improved in 3.15.