Big thumbs up for 11.6" MBA!

[naujoks]

I have to disagree on the fonts to be honest.

However, you may want to check out your battery life when running Windows because that will suffer greatly compared to running Mac OS X.

How do you know?

 

[elppa]

Thanks. I'm surprised, but impressed.

H.264 in a Flash wrapper is GPU accelerated in the most recent release of Flash Player (which I guess all Air owners have to download). It is fine on the 9400M and the graphics inside the Air are better.

 

[ImperialX]

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I have to disagree on the fonts to be honest.

However, you may want to check out your battery life when running Windows because that will suffer greatly compared to running Mac OS X.

How do you know?

OS X is optimized for battery conservation on Macs.

 

[naujoks]

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OS X is optimized for battery conservation on Macs.

Well, when I had the battery fully charged, Win 7 showed me over 6 hours of battery left. If that boils down to something like 4.5 hours in real life, then it wouldn't be that far off, if at all, on OS X.

 

[kazmac]

thanks

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I just saw them both, in the 5th Ave. store. The big one's yummy, and the smaller one's yummier.

They had them on separate tables, so you can't compare the screens side by side.

The vent is now hidden as a very thin slot along the length of the black plastic antennae cover. And as we learned from a recent patent filing, they now figure in any bit of venting they get through each socket or slot.

I'm in love!

I'll have to check these out extensively over the next few months. I have a feeling my physical issues won't get in the way of the new 11.6" MBA because they are so thin. I was pondering an iPad next year but since the MBAs were announced, I've thought what's the point?

But I'm thrilled people are so happy with the 11.6 even with the very light weight CPU.

Thanks for the info on the 5th Ave MBA layout. Looking forward to playing with them.

 

[pbellamy]

Yeah, but if the guy in the store told him they could upgrade the MBA to 4GB in the store, it's more likely they ordered a MBA with 4GB than that they'll actually open up a brand new 2GB MBA with non-replaceable memory

I was on the UWS store yesterday. They said they would be getting 4GB models in next week.

 

[teerexx52]

I tried an interesting experiment this morning with my 11.6 MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro 15" i7. I hooked up my external DVD burner to the Air and ripped a movie using Roxio's Popcorn and Mac DVD Ripper Pro. The time to extract and compress the DVD on both machines was near identical at 11 minutes. Then I burned the movie to a dvd using Popcorn on both machines. The time on the Air was about 11 minutes on the i7 pro about 7.5 minutes. Not nearly as great a difference as one would of thought I guess. Any thoughts out there?