HyperDock will do just that. This is a $9.99 add-on available in Mac App Store.
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After almost a week of owning an Air
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HyperDock will do just that. This is a $9.99 add-on available in Mac App Store.
Sweet, thanks! I will make a note of that for when I get it.
Is it sad that my Mac purchase will probably happen at the end of the year, yet I'm already making list of apps I want to get and have already downloaded and saved Mac versions of games and emulators that I currently have for windows in preparation?
Oh, and is there any way to check out the Mac app store without having a Mac?
I guess you are where I was 3 years ago when my Asus laptop blew up. Just FYI, the switchover is actually a much less of an issue than you may think...given how well you can run Win 7 (or whatever other flavor of Win on a Mac in a virtual machine). Initially that's all I knew how to do before I learned the OS X.
To check the Mac App Store without a Mac could be a bit tricky. I would probably just drive down to an Apple Store or Best Buy near you....
Same here on my 11, 4gb, 128g. Cant see any gradient at all on any colour background, not sure which display i have but will check.
go to www.appshopper.com and click the tab on the upper left to "Mac". Now you can use all the search and sort options to see Mac apps. I'd suggest starting with the "Top 200" tab on the top row. Then you can narrow it down using the "Categories" pull down menu.
I have the same model and do not see the gradient at all. Ive cranked up the brightness all the way and do not see it. It does look slightly darker at the bottom but its very very small. As far as the HD cam the screen on the air is to thin for it.
Agree 100% I've always said, the only thing better than one Apple product is multiple Apple products.
And I think the OP is excpecting miracles from a laptop.
Besides isn't it the iPad that is magical?Although I always thought Apple products were a bit overpriced, I realized that people were paying for quality. And I finally bit the bullet last week, just like you! It's definitely a great investment. Never going back to PC after what Dell computers have done to me.
I would not be impressed with that as a solution, specially on a new hardware which has probably had hardly anything installed yet.
I made the switch from Dell/Gateway/others years ago. PCs were so poorly made I dumped desktops every two years or so. Windows was horrible, Vista doubly so.
Once you take the OSX and Mac hardware plunge, you cannot go back. So much more value for the money.
I have to admit that at my home I use both Mac OS X (previously 10.6 and now 10.7) and Windows 7 (bootcamp)... I have not had any crash on me... not that I can remember. I find W7 runs really fine... Quite happy with it..
At work its a different thing.. I have an oldish underpowered HP laptop running XP. HP is loaded with all sorts of corporate crap (just how many stupid apps do people think a corporation needs... "You are typing to fast! Please consider taking a rest, stretching, focusing onto a distant object.." is my favourite.. (especially when one takes into account my nickname
). The poor little bugger dies with a vengeance sometime.. I mean, when that HP dies, it is an order of magnitude bigger than a crash.. But it still keeps going on.. It fights on... Note: they pay me by the hour.. So am not complaining...
It was probably a software issue. Unfortunately, with them releasing Lion in line with the new MBA's, people will first blame the computer (I mean, c'mon, the computer's not working, right?!?!?!,) not the software. I'm sure Lion has a whole ton of problems; and if you glance at the first couple pages on these forums, it's obvious they do--they're just being attributed to new computer problems instead of new OS problems.
I owned a Dell laptop for about 2 years (I think just over 2 years, nearing 2 and a half), and it broke down on me. It was a Dell XPS M1210 from late 2006. I used it constantly though for gaming and whatnot. It had an Intel T7200 processor (2.00GHz) and an NVidia GeForce 7400 graphics card (64MB dedicated graphics, and I think 256MB shared memory). It had an 80GB regular hard drive and 2GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM. The thing was awesome and relatively stylish... thick though. It worked well for me, but eventually it broke. I swore Dell off also after that. To Dell's credit, I did use the laptop nonstop for gaming and the like ALL the time; the computer was probably left on for 20 hours in a day, whether idle or being used. And all of our Dell desktops we've ever owned in the house have been excellent (one is still chugging along and it's over 10 years old! lol).
That said, I don't buy desktops. I don't think I'll ever buy an Apple desktop, unless if I swear off Windows and decide not to game in the future; then I may consider an iMac of all things. But currently I love having a very powerful computer, so I build my own custom desktops.
As far as laptops go... I'm an Apple guy now. The Air is my first (obviously). But that doesn't mean my next laptop might not be a regular PC laptop: if someone offers a laptop with features that rival an Air, I'll look at it for sure. But I doubt a competing product will exist for quite some time.
To say that I'm an Apple guy for laptops and a custom-built desktop kind of guy (Windows for that) is really just saying this:
I buy the best product for my dollar. I don't swear by any company. I will swear a company away if they prove to have poor business practices, and I may take certain things into consideration if a company has good business practices (ex. Apple's warranty service), but as far as products go... it's all about what is being offered. I don't like being biased about one thing or another. My little brother thought (and thinks) I was a fool for buying an Air. I, on the other hand, know that there is no other ultraportable which offers what the 11-inch Air has to offer.