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Re: Review of the 11" MacBook Air

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Post by verisimilitude » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

samatman wrote: post #76

verisimilitude wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macbook 5,1 absolutely supports 6GB, NOT 8GB. The best summary I've found: http://blog.macsales.com/3291-putting-a-rumor-to-rest-owc-su...

Typing this from a Macbook 5,1 with 8gb onboard. Been running this way for months with no problems. Under Snow Leopard, at least, this limitation does not apply.

I should have specified the model... I have a 13.3" 2.0GHz MacBook5,1. There is some variation within the 5,1 MacBooks; here's a quote from the discussion attached to that linked article (perhaps you have a 15" MacBook 5,1?)

  As far as the 15" MacBook5,1 models go – The three models released in October 2008, OWC supports to 6GB of RAM:

  MacBook Pro 15″ 2.4GHz
  MacBook Pro 15″ 2.53GHz model w/ExpressCard Slot (Late 2008)
  MacBook Pro 15″ 2.8GHz model w/ExpressCard Slot (Late 2008)

  The two models released March of 2009, OWC and Apple support up to 8GB of memory.
  MacBook Pro 15″ 2.66GHz (All)
  MacBook Pro 15″ 2.93GHz (All)

Re: Review of the 11" MacBook Air

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

statictype wrote: post #65

mark_l_watson wrote: post #5

I bought the entry level 11" MacBook Air 4 weeks ago and now it is the system I use for over 90% of my work, writing,and web browsing. Caveat: most of my work is straight-up Ruby development, Rails development (both using RubyMine 3.01), and Clojure with Emacs. All three of these development scenarios take up little in the way of CPU or memory. I use TexShop for writing. I do sit at my desk with a large external moni…

How do you keep 2 separate notebooks to work with? How do you access your mail, code libraries, music, important files etc... on both? Do you sync them with dropbox or something? I have 2 laptops - a Vaio for Windows related work and a Macbook for mac/iphone related work and I'm always struggling about which one to take when I go on a trip (when I don't have any specific work but like to keep a laptop handy anyway).…

Good question. I rely on my git repos to store all writing materials, programming projects, etc.

My customers usually have my work on their svn or git repos.

Also, I rely on GMail, my own getting things done web portal, my own (work in progress) consulting management web app, and Google docs. This stuff is available from any computer.

One more thing: I keep a small encrypted partition on all three laptops that contain my .ssh, .ec2, etc. credentials. I use soft links from my home directory to this encrypted partition. Hopefully if I lose a laptop then my credentials are not up for grabs.

Re: Review of the 11" MacBook Air

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Post by samatman » Mon, Jan 03, 2011, 5:38 AM UTC

verisimilitude wrote: post #81

samatman wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Typing this from a Macbook 5,1 with 8gb onboard. Been running this way for months with no problems. Under Snow Leopard, at least, this limitation does not apply.

I should have specified the model... I have a 13.3" 2.0GHz MacBook5,1. There is some variation within the 5,1 MacBooks; here's a quote from the discussion attached to that linked article (perhaps you have a 15" MacBook 5,1?) As far as the 15" MacBook5,1 models go – The three models released in October 2008, OWC supports to 6GB of RAM: MacBook Pro 15″ 2.4GHz MacBook Pro 15″ 2.53GHz model w/ExpressCard Slot (Late 2008)…

Nope, 13", 2.4 GHz.

Like so:

[[ Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook5,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 8 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz ]]

Re: Review of the 11" MacBook Air

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Post by nzadrozny » Mon, Jan 03, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #45

nzadrozny wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those AppleScripts sound interesting -- mind sharing a link to more info?

They're nothing special, and I can quote them right here if you like: To mount a partition: do shell script "diskutil mount PARTITION_UUID" Where PARTITION_UDID is the partition's UUID as returned by diskutil's info command. To unmount all partitions: try do shell script "diskutil unmount PARTITION_UUID" end try try do shell script "diskutil unmount NEXT_PARTITION_UUID" end try The try is there in case one partition…

> Looking into auto-mounting the partition when a symlink is accessed

Ah, see now that's what I imagined would be going on here ;)

From your SuperUser question it looks like there's a service called, appropriately enough, automountd. Neat! Is there no end to Unix's little undiscovered gems?

Some docs: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...

A decent tutorial-style blog article: http://rajeev.name/2007/11/22/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leop...

(My new SSD shows up on Wednesday!)