Macbook Air 2014 Newbie Question

I'm sure that more technically minded people will be able to comment on this, but I've certainly noticed a slow-down on waking from sleep since installing Mavericks OSX. Not significant (in reality, it's probably less than a second) but my Air used to be almost immediate - at least to my perception.

It also takes a bit longer to connect to WiFi - again, I recall things being faster.

in the greater scheme of things, it's not something that keeps me awake at night.

 

If you close the lid, it will take a couple seconds to start sleeping. If you open it right back up, it will still be going to sleep, then it needs to wake up again, so it's expected that it will take a couple seconds.

If you open it after a few hours, then it basically has to wake up from what is called "hibernation" in Windows and it might take a couple seconds.

Otherwise it should be pretty quick. I have heard of it being slow for some people. I think it might depend on which programs you're running. Maybe some programs hold up the process of sleeping/waking. You should try quitting all your programs and seeing if sleep/wake is fast, and then run them again one-at-a-time to see which one is holding up the process.

 

Awesome deal! Did you stack a student discount or anything or did they just have it marked cheap?

As others have stated, if you shut the lid, then open it back up pretty quickly, it will stay black for a few seconds.

 

Screen quality

ive recently bought an i mac 512gbssd on education store and need a machine for the road. ive ruled out mb 15 due to weight so its a toss up between air and 13 retina. in the store the retina screen looked nice but the light weight and battery life of the air considering daily travelling is extremely tempting too even more than the retina. basically do you all think the air screen is a deal breaker?looking at i5/8gb/512gb ssd. finally is the i5 combo with 512 ssd ok ie would this processor handle a ssd of this size. thanks.

 

I have a MBA and I like the screen. I'm sure I'd like a retina screen more but it's not like I want to dig my eyeballs out with a spoon every time I look at my laptop.

 

I believe that Best Buy's systems no longer allow a student discount coupon to be used on an open box item. I tried it a couple of weeks ago and he said it wouldn't take anything off. As you experienced, the mover's does still work with open box items but at any rate, you got a great deal!