The refurbs are still a better value, plus they come with free shipping! Too bad you can't have Apple upgrade the ram.
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The refurbs are still a better value, plus they come with free shipping! Too bad you can't have Apple upgrade the ram.
are you joking? im assuming so but incase your not.
Refurb is $2,699...
AKA $101 more.
Well, you are a nube so here is a little hint. That little emoticon on the poster's post that has a face looking up with a smirk... that means he is being sarcastic. Yes, he is joking.
Don't look over the emoticons. They are your friend.
Absolutely none of these things will happen in July. Most likely we will not see MBA 2 this year.
Yes $101 more, but they come in recycled brown cardboard boxes instead of the high carbon footprint pretty boxes. I will pay $1000 to be greener.
As a 17" MBP user, I agree, but as the significant other of a MBA wanter I see where they are coming from. They save weight by subtracting that 2lbs from their notebook, and everything else in their bag.
And I'd rather Apple have made a 12" Sony TZ like computer, a model which still weighed less, had two USB ports and a tray loading optical drive. Even if they took out the optical drive I'd be happy and it would have made the computer weigh that much less, or free up space for more hardware.
I'd still carry the 17" over anything else though.
I noticed that as well. When at the store I usually open as many apps at once as I can to see how stable and fast the machine is. Surprisingly, the Air does well with apps that don't have splash screens and once the apps are open it's a pretty speedy machine... and I am talking about PS elements, iWork apps, Quark, MS Word all open at the same time, I am sure Air users won't be doing all that at once.
And that machine was the 1.8 with 64GBs. I agree as well that after you put out the $500 for the SSD, you might as well put out the other $200 and grab the faster chip as well.
...as long as you don't mind the fact that anyone in the vicinity can intercept your connections and eavesdrop on your activity.
Agreed, I do admit that when I first setup my Airport I had it unprotected.
Actually, I find the eager, overly optimistic new guys are the ones that see updates soon. I think if you take a sober look at the Penryn CPU roadmap, Intel's failure to meet demand for their Atom processor, Apple's rumored plans to release a new silver Macbook chassis for Fall/ the Holidays, and MBA's place in the lineup as more boutique machine, the safer bet is a later MBA update rather than sooner.
I think it's a mistake to look at a price drop as anything but a price drop. , after all the Edge iPhone had a price drop 2 months after release... and 3G iPhone has yet to be released.
Ok bro, time will tell. I wager that mba gets update my MW the latest. I think this bet is a lock.
It sure isn't for me, it doesn't have an optical drive or the ports I want and is too expensive for what it offers, IMO. But my point is, there are people who would love to have it, but the lack of features prevents them from buying one.
wait... they'd love to have it, but they don't like the lack of features? So.... they wouldn't love to have it.
You just don't get that the macbook air isn't for them then. It's meant for those people who only need one USB port and don't use the optical drive.
wait... they'd love to have it, but they don't like the lack of features? So.... they wouldn't love to have it.
You just don't get that the macbook air isn't for them then. It's meant for those people who only need one USB port and don't use the optical drive.
As a former iMac G4, Macbook, MBP owner I have tried them all and as a Mac Genius for Apple, I can say this computer is great for the grad student who need a light notebook but not all the power of a pro. Yes the price is a bit high. However, this a 1st run idea and the prices will drop again (usually by the fall). I can see both sides of the coin and even my friends who are hard core mac users can bring themselves to drop this much when they can get a pro. As a grad student this works well for me even if the price is slightly high, but the size and weight make up for it.
I think we are so use to carrying and having these options, ports, and drives, we have a hard time changing our habits. Honestly I would miss having a firewire drive. But I can get over that.
I think that will happen sooner than later. I would say late summer/fall time frame.
I keep going back and forth in my mind about this issue. Even though I would say this is a great computer for a student/professional there is a part of me, which thinks the price is still too high and the pro may be a better choice. I guess I am washy about it. Still, the MBA is a cool idea. Perhaps this a the base for a new design later this year.
I wonder if the sales are low or they may stop the production of these units soon. Crap that would suck.
You can combine posts there thecartoonguy. Making multiple posts takes up a lot of space.
They lowered the price on the Apple store because the prices got lowered by the manufacturers.
As for the port question, I am begging for more on my MBP, and a second internal HDD.
Possibly, but if intel has the chips ready and larger SSD drives are available, why wouldn't Apple update the MBA? It is a cutting edge ultra-light laptop and I think Apple needs to keep it up-to-date. Otherwise the competition is going to blow by them.
If the MBA doesn't get updated then the MBPs should be updated. Montevina is coming July 14th and Apple needs to keep up with the competition which will be releasing new Montivena based laptops in July or August.
Maybe Apple will update the MBP and allow both a HDD and a SSD drive in combination. The SSD would be great for the OS, fast boot, and cache. A HDD drive would be for mass storage, music files, docs, photos, etc.
Yes $101 more, but they come in recycled brown cardboard boxes instead of the high carbon footprint pretty boxes. I will pay $1000 to be greener.
How's it going Al?
well, for one reason... as of right now the larger (capacity) SSD drives are also physically larger (3mm thicker). of course there will be larger drives that fit at some point-- that's inevitable-- but they haven't been released yet.
WiFi "protection"
The error here is to assume that setting up protected access on WiFi does any good....
Goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security for a list of risks, and even links to programs that can crack WPA encryption in minutes. (WEP is so weak that it shouldn't even be considered as protection.)
This is why it's becoming more common for businesses to only accept VPN, IPsec and other strong encryption tunnels running on top of unprotected WiFi.
The error here is to assume that setting up protected access on WiFi does any good....
Goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security for a list of risks, and even links to programs that can crack WPA encryption in minutes. (WEP is so weak that it shouldn't even be considered as protection.)
This is why it's becoming more common for businesses to only accept VPN, IPsec and other strong encryption tunnels running on top of unprotected WiFi.
It's not really desktop memory, it's workstation / server memory.
If you're talking about logic, then you shouldn't use ridiculous hyperbole in the same paragraph. The average thickness of the MBA is half that of the MB. Even the thickest point is 0.250" thinner. The weight savings can be significant, if you've ever had the fatigue of a 6+lb bag hanging on your shoulder for eight hours straight, you'd appreciate having lighter gear.
Oh, you mean like this 128 GB SSD that is available from Super Talent right now and has a thickness of 5 mm. like the current MBA SSD.
http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd_detail.php?type=MasterDrive%20KX#
I've always found apple's policy of listing the ORIGINAL price instead of the CURRENT NEW price for refurb'd products to be misleading at best, unethical, and one of those advertising deceptions that ought to be outlawed. (I was once a newspaper consumer reporter, btw, so you can factor that into your analyses of my biases).
It will, if they update the MBA with the new Montevina platform from intel due out July 14th as per my original post.
The new platform will fit into the current MBA. Only problem is that it runs slightly hotter. No problem, clock down the Penryn CPU and it fits the MBA current spec.