Bring it on
Pretty much this.
If ivy bridge is supposed to be out in the 2nd quarter for the refresh of new macbook pros and iMacs, this upcoming 15" air wont contain ivy bridge.
They might as well wait until the 2nd quarter to make them.
Bring it on
..Until there's confirmation, I think we've had enough stories ending in a question mark.
Yes indeed. Many people have already decided that the Air specs and form factor are ideal. Many more will.
Exactly right. Faintly ridiculous at seeing such disproportionally-thick ugly bezels on the current MBA, the 11" especially looks awful.at what point will we see edge-to-edge displays? The current borders around lcd screens look so 1980's to me.
Intel's Ivy Bridge platform, .. will bring a significant upgrade to the line's performance, particularly with regard to graphics improvements and new OpenCL support.
The hidden story here is what happens to the 13" Pro.…
A $1500-$1999 13" Macbook Pro with an Air-style SSD plus traditional hard drive, a discrete GPU made possible by dropping the optical drive, and a 1440x900 IPS display would probably sell pretty well.
Basically the 13" Pro either needs to become a serious high-end compact powerhouse or go away.
Hmm wonder if I should cancel my MBA order and wait it out a bit more...
How would we install Windowa XP or 7? Windows will not install via usb or even from an external usb dvd drive. I need dual boot for certain web developer tools as well as the occasional gaming.
Air's have a bootcamp utility to gen up a bootable USB drive from a Winders© ISO. People do it all the time.
Will this work for a Macbook Pro without an optical drive to install Windows 7?
15" Air with the inability to upgrade the RAM? No thank you.
It's probably awesome for those that don't need to upgrade - I prefer to have upgradability however To each his own I guess.