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MacBook Air Update Coming in Mid-July?

The Wait Continues...

I'm not even excited for this release anymore. I was going to buy an Air in May, then heard an update was going to happen "soon." I thought it would happen with the BTS announcement, because Apple usually locks in their product lineup for the Summer then. Then the BTS promotion became garbage for me (my wife REALLY wanted the free iPod Touch.) Now we're at the end of June with a few weeks still to go apparently. Great...

Apple just release the f$&king new MacBook Air already so I can give you my f$&king money and I can be f$&king happy with my purchase. Goddammit!!!

:mad:
 
Mr Fusion said:
I'm not even excited for this release anymore. I was going to buy an Air in May, then heard an update was going to happen "soon." I thought it would happen with the BTS announcement, because Apple usually locks in their product lineup for the Summer then. Then the BTS promotion became garbage for me (my wife REALLY wanted the free iPod Touch.) Now we're at the end of June with a few weeks still to go apparently. Great...

Apple just release the f$&king new MacBook Air already so I can give you my f$&king money and I can be f$&king happy with my purchase. Goddammit!!!

:mad:
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#firstworldproblems
 
Hard drive failures on the MBA and the issue of reinstalling Lion...

MBA does not have a hard-drive, as in a conventional sense. Although it is a SSD, it is not the conventional drive like a 2.5 or a 3.5". The drives in MBA is a Mini PCI Express form factor SSD drive.
See picture here. LknkqWKga2vIIUHD.huge.jpeg (Courtesy of iFixit)

Although, these can be replaced by a non-technician, my guess is most people would need to go to Apple to get it fixed anyway.

Chances are the Apple replacement SSD will already have a Lion recovery partition built-in so accessing MAS should not be an issue.
 
Mr Fusion said:
I'm not even excited for this release anymore. I was going to buy an Air in May, then heard an update was going to happen "soon." I thought it would happen with the BTS announcement, because Apple usually locks in their product lineup for the Summer then. Then the BTS promotion became garbage for me (my wife REALLY wanted the free iPod Touch.) Now we're at the end of June with a few weeks still to go apparently. Great...

Apple just release the f$&king new MacBook Air already so I can give you my f$&king money and I can be f$&king happy with my purchase. Goddammit!!!

:mad:
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Join the club. I waited about 18 months from the first introduction of the MBA for a better one (more RAM, bigger drive). I finally gave in mid last year and bought a refurbished one as I needed a light weight computer for travel. This was supposed to be an interim solution as I still need more RAM. Than they updated the Air to its current form - but left the backlit key board out. So still a compromised MBA in my opinion. So, probably with the new update they will leave out something else to still make it not perfect (for me)...
 
New Airs July 7!

Or at least new power adapters... :D

I ordered the below with a refurbished 11" Air 10 days ago and got this email this morning:

Dear Apple Education Customer,

Thank you for your recent order.

<snip>

Due to an unexpected delay, we are unable to ship the following item(s)
by the date that you were originally quoted:


MC747LL/A, APPLE 45W MAGSAFE POWER ADAPTER-USA
will now ship on or before
Jul 07, 2011
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*My school district shuts down purchases from July-September so I could wait no longer on the new models... Glad to be rid of the Dell 6510 monstrosity!
 
Arghhh....why does MR always feed us with tasty rumors???

Makes the hype so much more for me....

Arghhhhhh....

I'm going to play the Nyan Cat song until Apple releases the new MBAs.

That's my protest :) :p
 
Is the new sandy bridge revision worth it to those of us who have the late 2010 model? I have the ultimate 13 in edition. Are the intel graphics much worse than in the nvidia 320 graphics I have now?

Decisions...Decisions...
 
Mr Fusion said:
I'm not even excited for this release anymore. I was going to buy an Air in May, then heard an update was going to happen "soon." I thought it would happen with the BTS announcement, because Apple usually locks in their product lineup for the Summer then. Then the BTS promotion became garbage for me (my wife REALLY wanted the free iPod Touch.) Now we're at the end of June with a few weeks still to go apparently. Great...

Apple just release the f$&king new MacBook Air already so I can give you my f$&king money and I can be f$&king happy with my purchase. Goddammit!!!

:mad:
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im over waiting for this update, i think i will just grab the current model with the upgrade to 4g ram and be done with it, still get the nvidia that way also. im also wary on the first batch of any new realease os could have issues? am i wrong maybe but i think the current air will do all i need.
 
Backlit keyboard.

Backlit keyboard.

The Air is supposed to be a full blown Mac computer, no compromises. Having no backlit keyboard when the MBPs have 'em is a compromise!
 
Would it be possible to buy a Macbook Air right now and then return it in two weeks?

My laptop LCD screen cracked and I've been browsing the internet with a giant black line streaking down the middle =/
 
I'm really hoping most of the rumors so far aren't true about he Air because it almost seems like, other than the i5/i7 there isn't much different and I might as well get myself a refurbished 2010 Air.

I'm really hoping the graphics card doesn't get worse, a backlit keyboard, and basically something that actually makes me want the new 2011 Air and not be confused about whether I should get the 2010. I can afford the new one that will come out (hopefully it will have the lower price points) but I don't want to get it and think that I can save money by getting the 2010.

So here's hoping for a few surprises when the release is announced! If the battery life is a little better, the GPU hasn't worsened, there's a backlit keyboard, and the price points are $100 lower, then I'm sold. I don't need anything else.
 
They pick a Tuesday in the middle of the month and then say it could be changed. Gee whiz I wonder if this was made up as link bait?
 
Sinnthetic said:
Would it be possible to buy a Macbook Air right now and then return it in two weeks?

My laptop LCD screen cracked and I've been browsing the internet with a giant black line streaking down the middle =/
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For similar reasons, contemplating getting the current model off of Amazon.com and returning within 30 days... Not sure if it's a good idea or not.
 
I'm still amazed that everyone cares so much about the backlit keyboard. I guess it's a nice feature, but doesn't a Mac keyboard have the nubs on the f and j keys so you know where to type? To be fair, I do still need to look at the keyboard to type numbers if the keyboard doesn't have the 10-key pad. It certainly won't be a dealbreaker for me, though.
 
krimp said:
im over waiting for this update, i think i will just grab the current model with the upgrade to 4g ram and be done with it, still get the nvidia that way also. im also wary on the first batch of any new realease os could have issues? am i wrong maybe but i think the current air will do all i need.
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I'm in a similar situation, the current MBA's do what I will use them for with ease. My plan is to wait it out and see if the updated versions will be worth it, and if not, the older models (the ones that are current now) will go down in price. Waiting a month is going to stink, but if the biggest worry in my life is waiting to buy a new $1300+ computer, I think I'll be just fine.
 
The other problem with not including a recovery USB drive is the wasted space of the recovery partition (4-8 GB, right?). This is a lot of drive space for the 64 GB model. Including a USB drive would free up that space for the user.

I know Apple is creating an recovery partition when you upgrade to Lion, but I don't think anyone really knows for sure that they will take the same approach for machines that come with Lion pre-installed.
 
hotcocoa said:
The other problem with not including a recovery USB drive is the wasted space of the recovery partition (4-8 GB, right?). This is a lot of drive space for the 64 GB model. Including a USB drive would free up that space for the user.
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It's 1 GB. If you want to reinstall OS X, you have to redownload it first.
 
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