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Let's talk 2012 MacBook Air - what would you like to see?
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It came to the point where it will simply evolve internally
So lets hope for that crazy ivy bridge i7 model as a standart
So lets hope for that crazy ivy bridge i7 model as a standart
Googled this a bit a while ago since I hoped for the same thing. Sadly, the performance seems quite lackluster still. It was a 10-30% increase over the HD3000 available in sandy bridge (think the 30% was for the higher watt CPU's, so probably closer to 10%). Wouldn't mind a bit more boost
Higher res + resolution independence from osx lion
8 gig memory(although this is not THAT important as if you are running that much on ultra portable lappy, chances are, your precious one is burning.. and I don't want that.. I rather move my task to my iMac.
better screen(although this doesn't matter too much either as I really don't care for wider viewing angle when I am bringing mine to outside where other can see what the hell I am doing on the screen from far away from the side. hell no.
better battery(10+ hour would be freaking superb)
-- MOST important, can you please come out ASAP? Now that I have decided to hang onto my 2009 late MB, I am dying for the MBA to come out....
Obviously better GPU like everyone else is saying.
whew...... W/ other ultra portable notebook coming out left and right, I hope apple really keep pace w/ other company and not do this 4s crap they did w/ iPhone. (which I STILL got for both me and my wife)
IF mr.Cook screw this up again, man o man.. Rumors will be starting to fly around everywhere...
8 gig memory(although this is not THAT important as if you are running that much on ultra portable lappy, chances are, your precious one is burning.. and I don't want that.. I rather move my task to my iMac.
better screen(although this doesn't matter too much either as I really don't care for wider viewing angle when I am bringing mine to outside where other can see what the hell I am doing on the screen from far away from the side. hell no.
better battery(10+ hour would be freaking superb)
-- MOST important, can you please come out ASAP? Now that I have decided to hang onto my 2009 late MB, I am dying for the MBA to come out....
Obviously better GPU like everyone else is saying.
whew...... W/ other ultra portable notebook coming out left and right, I hope apple really keep pace w/ other company and not do this 4s crap they did w/ iPhone. (which I STILL got for both me and my wife)
IF mr.Cook screw this up again, man o man.. Rumors will be starting to fly around everywhere...
I'd like
8GB RAM
Better Brightness controls: The 11" MBA was so bright, it was painful.
More storage
and definitely more battery life.
When I tested the 2010 MBA by writing with the trackpad I was gobbling up 8-10% battery life an hour with nothing else running. If that could be cut down to 5% an hour, great.
8GB RAM
Better Brightness controls: The 11" MBA was so bright, it was painful.
More storage
and definitely more battery life.
When I tested the 2010 MBA by writing with the trackpad I was gobbling up 8-10% battery life an hour with nothing else running. If that could be cut down to 5% an hour, great.
My vote goes for FaceTime HD and longer battery life on the 11' in particular (have a 13' because of battery life but if I could get 7-8 hours on the 11', I would not think twice to upgrade to next year's model). Personally I am not bothered about better display or HD display. The one I have on my 2011 is perfectly good enough but having HD camera would be a real improvement.
This is a long shot, but I'd like a smaller bezel to fit a 12.5" 1440x900 screen in the smaller model, and a 13.5-14" 1600x900 screen in the larger model.
Beyond that, we know Ivy Bridge will be standard, meaning USB 3.0 is highly likely (it's built into Ivy Bridge). I don't expect any other changes to the form factor until at least 2013. However, we might see a 6GB or 8GB option, either of which would be welcome.
Beyond that, we know Ivy Bridge will be standard, meaning USB 3.0 is highly likely (it's built into Ivy Bridge). I don't expect any other changes to the form factor until at least 2013. However, we might see a 6GB or 8GB option, either of which would be welcome.
Thunderbolt dock would be awesome with this or an even better Thunderbolt display!
You can buy (well coming soon - Magma) Thunderbolt to PCI so you can add USB 3 & a graphics card to hook up to an external monitor. These are going to be good but you're looking at $1000+ when you've added a graphics card! Not really for the mass market right now!
Here's what I want:
8GB RAM option
64GB SSD gone and 512 an option, just for kicks
Better graphics
Battery life to 7+ on 11, 9+ on 13.
You present that to me on a 13 inch (8GB RAM and some type of better graphics, 256MB AMD?) and I'm all in.
8GB RAM option
64GB SSD gone and 512 an option, just for kicks
Better graphics
Battery life to 7+ on 11, 9+ on 13.
You present that to me on a 13 inch (8GB RAM and some type of better graphics, 256MB AMD?) and I'm all in.
I have a 2011 Air, and the only reason i would change it would be if the new one had 8GB of RAM but i doubt it, maybe for haswell
Regarding my needs the actual basic 11' MBA is close to perfection and primarily suffers from too short of a battery life.
Thus all I long for are the following improvements sorted from greatest to least importance.
The actual price should be left untoched.
Urgendly needed:
Ivy Bridge - most importantly for the reduced power consumption.
A boost in CPU & GPU power as well as USB 3.0 isn't needed but they are a nice bonus.
More powerful batteries and/or more batteries.
Steady improvements to both the hard- & software to further reduce the power consumption of the whole system.
Nice to have, not necesserily needed and unlikely:
Greater display resolution, maybe even reaching the iPad 2 ppi depth or more.
No more fan, making the MBA into a noiseless machine
4GB RAM
128GB SSD
Thus all I long for are the following improvements sorted from greatest to least importance.
The actual price should be left untoched.
Urgendly needed:
Ivy Bridge - most importantly for the reduced power consumption.
A boost in CPU & GPU power as well as USB 3.0 isn't needed but they are a nice bonus.
More powerful batteries and/or more batteries.
Steady improvements to both the hard- & software to further reduce the power consumption of the whole system.
Nice to have, not necesserily needed and unlikely:
Greater display resolution, maybe even reaching the iPad 2 ppi depth or more.
No more fan, making the MBA into a noiseless machine
4GB RAM
128GB SSD
I love my 2010 11" MBA, but here are some improvements I'm hoping for:
1) Better WiFi performance. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it's definitely worse than my other devices.
2) More hard drive space. I'm holding out for when the MBA can be optioned to 512GB. I've got the 128GB right now, and I'm at 17GB free with a 40GB partition and all my videos and half of my pictures stored on an external drive.
3) More RAM? I'll take 8GB as an option.
4) Bigger battery! I actually don't mind the battery so much, it seems to last a good 4-5 hours of usage, and that's generally all I need. But it would be nice to have a 7-8 hr. battery life to really have that cushion!
1) Better WiFi performance. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it's definitely worse than my other devices.
2) More hard drive space. I'm holding out for when the MBA can be optioned to 512GB. I've got the 128GB right now, and I'm at 17GB free with a 40GB partition and all my videos and half of my pictures stored on an external drive.
3) More RAM? I'll take 8GB as an option.
4) Bigger battery! I actually don't mind the battery so much, it seems to last a good 4-5 hours of usage, and that's generally all I need. But it would be nice to have a 7-8 hr. battery life to really have that cushion!
Just wondering, why is everyone mentioning that ivy bridge is going to the mba next year?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I haven't seen any ivy bridge cpu-powered laptops or desktops in the market yet and when sandy bridge came out back then, mba did not adopt it in the same year and they only refreshed it with a core2duo cpu (?). So isn't the chance of ivy bridge cpu coming out next year pretty low?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I haven't seen any ivy bridge cpu-powered laptops or desktops in the market yet and when sandy bridge came out back then, mba did not adopt it in the same year and they only refreshed it with a core2duo cpu (?). So isn't the chance of ivy bridge cpu coming out next year pretty low?
8 GB Ram
Improved battery life
USB 3
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Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs became available around the beginning of 2011. I am not sure what year you think Sandy Bridge became available. The ultra-low voltage SB variants only became available mid-way through this year and that's when the MBA was refreshed.
Improved battery life
USB 3
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Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs became available around the beginning of 2011. I am not sure what year you think Sandy Bridge became available. The ultra-low voltage SB variants only became available mid-way through this year and that's when the MBA was refreshed.
Win7 flies via Parallels in the current MBA. It may drive the swap file up a little, but its swapping to SSD which is just as fast. I would only want 8G of RAM if it didn't add to the price and reduce the batter life.
I am kind of in two minds about this when I can easily tether to a phone or the mifi type devices. Do we really need it?