Hey guys,
Two days ago I got a shiny, new Macbook Air. It's very nice and I love it. However now I've been seeing that Apple will release a 2012 refresh which I can totally believe in.
From a technical standpoint, Ivy Bridge will give only modest improvements because it's going to be a tweaked Sandy Bridge. The biggest improvement will come from the HD 4000... which I don't know. I tried playing Starcraft II on my MBA and I don't necessarily like how the CPU was reading 95C.
My biggest thing is USB 3.0. I have a USB 2.0 drive and it really sucks transferring things at 25MB/s. USB 3.0 will let me transfer things at desktop SATA speeds. Might come quite in handy as a fast backup medium.
Those are my two things. That, and I don't necessarily need the MBA right now. I got it to play around with it and I go to graduate school next fall. So I will need a new laptop later down the road, just not now.
The only downside is that I applied for the barclaycard. So no more 1 year interest free loan. But this won't be a problem because whenever the MBA comes out I can save the money up for it. That and I won't have a Mac laptop
until god knows when this year. And that I don't know when the 2012 will come out. Could be this summer or this fall methinks.
So what do you guys think?
Two days ago I got a shiny, new Macbook Air. It's very nice and I love it. However now I've been seeing that Apple will release a 2012 refresh which I can totally believe in.
From a technical standpoint, Ivy Bridge will give only modest improvements because it's going to be a tweaked Sandy Bridge. The biggest improvement will come from the HD 4000... which I don't know. I tried playing Starcraft II on my MBA and I don't necessarily like how the CPU was reading 95C.
My biggest thing is USB 3.0. I have a USB 2.0 drive and it really sucks transferring things at 25MB/s. USB 3.0 will let me transfer things at desktop SATA speeds. Might come quite in handy as a fast backup medium.
Those are my two things. That, and I don't necessarily need the MBA right now. I got it to play around with it and I go to graduate school next fall. So I will need a new laptop later down the road, just not now.
The only downside is that I applied for the barclaycard. So no more 1 year interest free loan. But this won't be a problem because whenever the MBA comes out I can save the money up for it. That and I won't have a Mac laptop
until god knows when this year. And that I don't know when the 2012 will come out. Could be this summer or this fall methinks. So what do you guys think?
