Are you kidding me? You aren't going to see anything like that until the US get's their thumb out of their A$$ and stops the fragmentation, Verizon and Sprint's CDMA aren't compatible with each other, and ATT and t-Mobile operate on completely different spectrum. Hell , the US carriers aren't even deploying LTE on the same frequencies. Don't blame Apple on this one, blame the US cellular companies.
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Are you kidding me? You aren't going to see anything like that until the US get's their thumb out of their A$$ and stops the fragmentation, Verizon and Sprint's CDMA aren't compatible with each other, and ATT and t-Mobile operate on completely different spectrum. Hell , the US carriers aren't even deploying LTE on the same frequencies. Don't blame Apple on this one, blame the US cellular companies.
I was thinking virtual memory rather than virtual machine. OSX apps tend to be more memory hungry than ios apps. Bigger footprints too.
Didn't have a second USB port either. That doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Not having a DVD ROM is a bad thing. Apple needs to step up and support some read-only distribution media for large files. That whole "use DVD over the network" is a cute hack, but that doesn't do much for you if only have one computer or are stuck at a remote location away from your primary. An external drive is another large thing to carry. A SD card is smaller and lighter than a USB fob. The vast majority of the full size ones are easy to render read-only if you just need to reload some material later.
The cloud isn't some panacea. For many users in many circumstances and locations it will be faster to use sneaker net and move big files stored on physical media to the computer in question.
Because it is used in 10x as many millions devices as there are macs.
Not just cameras. Phones, GPS units , etc. Lots of devices with "extendable" flash memory are using SD cards.
Second you can make read-only SD cards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Optional_write-protect_tab
So if Apple nukes the all optical drives from all Macs in 2 years what are folks going to distribute there 200-1,000MB software software titles on? The cloud is a cop out. That means don't have an answer. I'm not sure the "read only" USB flash drive they have is the best answer either for high volume. ( none of the flash drives are really read-only.... you have to tweak them to make them that way. )
Additionally, the way Apple seems to choose the drives, it occupies the minimal internal volume because cards don't insert all the way. Certainly it is less internal volume than a CD. It is less volume many other alternatives that people throw out in these forums also.
Wrong.
Verizon and Sprint use the same CDMA setup. You can use a Sprint phone on Verizon. Hell, half the time most Sprint customers are on a Verizon tower and don't even know it.
The only difference between AT&T and T-Mobile is ONE of the 4 HSPA/UMTS frequencies on the 3G side is different. T-Mobile was late to the FCC spectrum sale party.
Their GSM networks are identical.
VM doesn't hog too much (and it will be much faster than pages to a HDD). OS plus VM may fit in that 10GB size you were claiming for OS to begin with.
God I want one of the tiny ones as my only laptop! Just love portability with my computers.
But sadly I think my needs would occasionally be too much for the little fella.
But sadly I think my needs would occasionally be too much for the little fella.
One more thought. I have run ios devices to within 10% or less of remaining memory with no issues. OSX devices like at least 15% or more free disk space in my experience to operate smoothly. This points to less than 50GB usable space on the low end unit. It might be fine for light or casual use but I could fill it up with a family trip or two in pictures and video alone.
Can you bootcamp windows 7 on these?
I mean, I am a sadist...No seriously- I need it for school.
Yes.
JMO, but the only valid issue so far is the dropped backlit keyboard.
cheers even to the haters............. they're lonely folks indeed.
JohnG
Why now? Well, that's what development is about. Kind of expecting more from a premium computer than what you got from the same company back in 2006 (if I consider the C2D and the clock speed of my white MB back then).
About the cloud... didn't you hear that 'The Cloud' was a myth?
A good point. We've used MBP's to within single digit GBs free due to my wife's media-hungry habits and they start performing very oddly with high disk utilization.
I just don't see the point of an 11" laptop.
First Apple kills the netbook market with the iPad, then it introduces a machine just as undersized and underpowered as all the other netbooks except its three times the price. Baffling.
For those thinking of buying the 13", get the extra RAM, it looks well and truly soldered on to me, something Apple claims to have learned from its iPods but actually used to do with the single RAM slot iBooks.
As for that 'super amazing' 30 days of standby, I refer you all to the penultimate PowerBook G3, which on a fully charged new battery would sleep quite happily for 6 weeks plus. Its possible other PPC machines were even better, but I distinctly recall testing it on my trusty old G3. Its only impressive because an 18 month old MBP will be lucky to last till morning on half a charge.
Honestly, I'm more underwhelmed than I have been in a long time. The new features of Lion and the App store have their benefits (I like the idea of centralised updates), but I can't help but think its all being dumbed down a bit. This would be more forgivable, as it will aid Apple getting into the enterprise more effectively, but they still need to put better infrastructure in place for that, by which I mean an equivalent of a Blackberry Enterprise Server to lord it over the company iOS devices. A business laptop that can be remote wiped would be appealing to big companies for sure. Would be good for the new Airs, but I guess Apple is never going to make significant inroads there while they insist on charging so much more than other vendors for computers. Their phones, tablets and mp3 players are all very competitively priced, maybe its time to sacrifice some margin on the Macs in order to boost sales. I bet they'd sell more than twice as many if they halved their profits.
First Apple kills the netbook market with the iPad, then it introduces a machine just as undersized and underpowered as all the other netbooks except its three times the price. Baffling.
For those thinking of buying the 13", get the extra RAM, it looks well and truly soldered on to me, something Apple claims to have learned from its iPods but actually used to do with the single RAM slot iBooks.
As for that 'super amazing' 30 days of standby, I refer you all to the penultimate PowerBook G3, which on a fully charged new battery would sleep quite happily for 6 weeks plus. Its possible other PPC machines were even better, but I distinctly recall testing it on my trusty old G3. Its only impressive because an 18 month old MBP will be lucky to last till morning on half a charge.
Honestly, I'm more underwhelmed than I have been in a long time. The new features of Lion and the App store have their benefits (I like the idea of centralised updates), but I can't help but think its all being dumbed down a bit. This would be more forgivable, as it will aid Apple getting into the enterprise more effectively, but they still need to put better infrastructure in place for that, by which I mean an equivalent of a Blackberry Enterprise Server to lord it over the company iOS devices. A business laptop that can be remote wiped would be appealing to big companies for sure. Would be good for the new Airs, but I guess Apple is never going to make significant inroads there while they insist on charging so much more than other vendors for computers. Their phones, tablets and mp3 players are all very competitively priced, maybe its time to sacrifice some margin on the Macs in order to boost sales. I bet they'd sell more than twice as many if they halved their profits.
By definition, footprint is an area (ie, 2D), not a volume (ie 3D), so they are comparable in terms of footprint. But based on your definition, the Vaio X has an even better "footprint" 10.95" (W) x 0.55" (H) x 7.29" (D) and thinner too. Of course, it has a 2.0Ghz atom.
That doesn't make it cheaper. For $100 you can buy a SSD and have a drive can use externally and faster processor that is sped up at least as much by the SSD. The MBA is not the only path to a SSD drive.
If want to shift to a discussion of value, fine. But being $100 less means cheaper.
