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MacBook Air Evolving Into Mainstream Product?
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Ever try to use your 15" MBP sitting in a center seat of the coach section of a commercial airliner?
Well duh. Lower price plus a massive update will generally outsell what it did a year prior.
Time will tell how the iPad erodes these numbers in 2012.
Time will tell how the iPad erodes these numbers in 2012.
It does for those of us who want an extremely light and small laptop running OS X but don't care a fig for specs. I would contend that there are many such people.
OMG it's another "Something is popular so therefore Other Stuff is doomed" post.
Maybe it's more like this; the Air is a fabulous, very well made light duty laptop that casual laptop users should enjoy. One doesn't have to be among the crowd of "serious editors or designers" to reach the MBA's obvious limitations. More elaborate laptops will not be leaving us any more than desktops are going away. The Air is just another well focused, great Apple product.
400 thousand units. 400 million dollars. It's not misleading if you read the legend.
My next computer will be a 15 inch macbook air with ivy bridge and thunderbolt
This sounds orgasmic!
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Well, you can have it both ways with the MBA... you can plug a 27-incher in when you need it.
Also, a lot of real work can get done on a 13" or 11" screen. E.g., my wife runs her law firm with her MBA. Word, Excel, email, etc. work fine on a 13" screen and run fast on a MBA.
(Apparently the SSD makes a huge difference because they run better on her MBA than on my 2009 iMac -- the minute I can swing it, I'm doing a little surgery on my iMac to add an SSD).
Bummer...
The design rocks, but the C2D is a non-starter. My nearly 4 year old faster CPU C2D machine chugs on my iTunes collection, flash, any hi-def. video.
I really have no use for it at this point. I really find it amazing that a 2.16 C2D is OK for they type f computing that I see around me...iTune, videos, huge DPI photos in iPhoto, etc. It literally took hours to import my iTunes library while iTunes was analyzing for volume...
That said, I will be the first to buy a Sandy Bridge MBA...basically my dream machine...
The design rocks, but the C2D is a non-starter. My nearly 4 year old faster CPU C2D machine chugs on my iTunes collection, flash, any hi-def. video.
I really have no use for it at this point. I really find it amazing that a 2.16 C2D is OK for they type f computing that I see around me...iTune, videos, huge DPI photos in iPhoto, etc. It literally took hours to import my iTunes library while iTunes was analyzing for volume...
That said, I will be the first to buy a Sandy Bridge MBA...basically my dream machine...
Never considered one until I used my friend's 13" he just got, but once a real processor is adopted, I think I'm gonna get one. Love the speed the SSD brings, just not once you need to do anything remotely processor intensive. If they put like an i3 or i5 Sandy Bridge in I'm all over that (preferably i5 if the form factor could accommodate it, idk the power usage/heat factor off the top of my head).
The universe will implode from the mass if dark matter.
Every new OS makes more demands on the system, weaker the system, the harder it has to work to keep up.
My next computer will be a 15 inch macbook air with ivy bridge and thunderbolt
I doubt that spec will ever happen
I was in a similar boat, except I had a mac pro, and decided to buy the macbook air 11. After losing some files trying to sync between the two computers, I returned the 11, sold hte mac pro, and couldn't be happier. BTW, I have iPAD for flights, etc. Plus I kind of need the extra power.
This is not always true, this is what Snow Leapord was about. Performance, footprint, and constant overhead, are now requirements for all operating systems as performance upgrades are lesser and more expensive to come by.