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that's a cool setup. to all the haters: why do you guys think money was invented? SO WE COULD BUY COOL STUFF!
 
I'm pretty sure all the haters are hating because they wish they had the means to do what the OP did.

I wish I had that amount of money laying around so I could do that he did. But I'm not gonna bag on someone on the internet--even though I could because the internet is an adult playground.
 
Not to turn this into a political discussion but one could argue that apple provides it's users with a product they want. The US government?.. not so much.

Well I hope you aren't using any of those things the government supplies you with then, since you don't want them.

Clean water
Clean air
Public Universities
Interstates
Many US Routes
Local municipal improvement projects
Social security
Interstate law enforcement
Interstate trade standards and enforcement
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment
Workers compensation
National Parks
Scientific research support (mostl research at all universities is financed by the federal government, the agencies are NSF, NEH, NEA...)
Public radio
Public television
Administration of the airwaves
Judicial arbitration
Patents
Copyright
Library of Congress
DARPA
ARPA
National defense
International and domestic intelligence gathering
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Nearly $3,000 on a 11" Air...wow.
 
As a followup, here's a photo of the new MBA beast running Garmin Mobile PC GPS on Boot Camp Windows 7 Pro x64 in my FJ Cruiser. I wish Mac OS had cool GPS programs like this.

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Lol.

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode :D ;)

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Enjoy your pimped out MBA :)
 
As a followup, here's a photo of the new MBA beast running Garmin Mobile PC GPS on Boot Camp Windows 7 Pro x64 in my FJ Cruiser. I wish Mac OS had cool GPS programs like this.

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Dam even ur car looks sick
Is everything stock in it?
 
Good on ya mate... Why not.. if you need it, spoil yourself..

I always apply the "Because you are worth it" line they sell L'Oréal to chicks... on myself... :)

Just a question, as I just today replaced my new MBA due to some issues with it, did you in any way cover your extra purchase? An insurance or whatever..

Not sure, if it might be worth it...

Enjoy.
 
What kind of pen is that in the center?
More pics please. Also pic of car and wife if you got one. Thanks.
 
Haters gonna hate, but you're still the one wih a 480GB SSD! Nice pimpin of your MBA :thumbsup:
 
I've been thinking of doing the same thing.

The OWC 480GB model is very tempting for sure. :)

And now with the Apple Thunderbolt Display, it's even more tempting.

FWIW, this is still way below early Apple laptop computers. I paid around $4,600 for my PowerBook 170. A year later I ungraded my Hard Disk to 120MB ($800), and then a year later to 213MB (at $700). MBAs are cheap by this standard! :)
 
Wow! Yes, I remember those days. I wish we had the $ we spent on all that early equipment. Oh well, got to move forward from where you are.

I've been thinking of doing the same thing.

The OWC 480GB model is very tempting for sure. :)

And now with the Apple Thunderbolt Display, it's even more tempting.

FWIW, this is still way below early Apple laptop computers. I paid around $4,600 for my PowerBook 170. A year later I ungraded my Hard Disk to 120MB ($800), and then a year later to 213MB (at $700). MBAs are cheap by this standard! :)
 
Wow! Yes, I remember those days. I wish we had the $ we spent on all that early equipment. Oh well, got to move forward from where you are.
Yep, I wish. :eek:

I paid $1,295 for 96K of RAM for my HP-71B.

In these terms, 480GB would cost $6,475,000,000.

Everything is cheap now by comparison.

The memory upgrades from OWA sure look nice.
 
Memory or ssd?
Back then, I don't remember an SSD existing.

The memory was really cool. it was like RAM, Hard Disk and calculator cross function.

For example, you could calculate variables for an equation, then run a variety of routines already in memory on that data, then return to calculator mode to work on the results. HP Basic provided for recursion and automatic dimensioning. Really sweet.

Anyhow, the nice thing about OWA upgrades is that they are fast. My guess is that it won't take long for the price to drop in the future.
 
As a followup, here's a photo of the new MBA beast running Garmin Mobile PC GPS on Boot Camp Windows 7 Pro x64 in my FJ Cruiser. I wish Mac OS had cool GPS programs like this.

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LOL, wouldn't an iPad work just as good with Navigon?
 
Well I hope you aren't using any of those things the government supplies you with then, since you don't want them.

Clean water
Clean air
Public Universities
Interstates
Many US Routes
Local municipal improvement projects
Social security
Interstate law enforcement
Interstate trade standards and enforcement
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment
Workers compensation
National Parks
Scientific research support (mostl research at all universities is financed by the federal government, the agencies are NSF, NEH, NEA...)
Public radio
Public television
Administration of the airwaves
Judicial arbitration
Patents
Copyright
Library of Congress
DARPA
ARPA
National defense
International and domestic intelligence gathering
...

If that's all they provided then we wouldn't be in a debt crisis lol. and a lot of those are provided by state not federal.
 
wow I didn't even know you could upgrade the memory, may go for a 240gb upgrade in the future if I ever need it. Although I have a 500gb external right now for anything extra like movies, the only things I have in my air is music, apps, documents, and photos.
 
wow I didn't even know you could upgrade the memory, may go for a 240gb upgrade in the future if I ever need it. Although I have a 500gb external right now for anything extra like movies, the only things I have in my air is music, apps, documents, and photos.

You can't upgrade the RAM, and officially Apple says the SSD is not user-upgradable, but a company called Other World Computing sells blade-type SSDs that work in the MacBook Airs. They are pricey drives. The 240GB is about $600. They have a 360GB drive for $750, and the 480GB for $1400. External storage is still a more economical solution if you have a lot of media or data that you can't fit on the standard 128GB or 256GB SSDs.
 
Wow! You really live in the Matrix! Most everything on this list is not "given" or "supplied" by the government. We pay for it. The government collects our money, takes their huge cut, then doles out a few tidbits. Control is the game.

Well I hope you aren't using any of those things the government supplies you with then, since you don't want them.

Clean water - The government and US military are the biggest polluters in the world and poison the public water supplies with fluoride.
Clean air - The government cleans the air? They relax pollution controls so their corporate sponsors can make billions.
Public Universities - Our tax money.
Interstates - Our tax money.
Many US Routes - Our tax money.
Local municipal improvement projects - Our tax money.
Social security - A government ponzi scheme. If we invested the same amount that we paid in ourselves, we would all be millionaires.
Interstate law enforcement - Mostly a scheme to fill prisons. Over 70% of prison inmates are incarcerated for crimes with NO victims. Prisons are profit making corporations and the game is to keep them full.
Interstate trade standards and enforcement = Scheme to get their cut of all commerce.
Medicare - Only benefits big pharmawho have the largest lobby on capitol hill.
Medicaid - Only benefits big pharma.
Unemployment - Our tax money.
Workers compensation - Our tax money.
National Parks - Our tax money.
Scientific research support (most research at all universities is financed by the federal government, the agencies are NSF, NEH, NEA...) - They only pay for research that benefits big corporate interests. All free energy research and simple, inexpensive, do-it-yourself cures are ruthlessly crushed. See patent 5,188,738 (cure for HIV and hepatitis) for a wake-up call. If that isn't enough see http://www.burzynskimovie.com/ Dr. Burzynsky invented an patented cure for cancer only to be attacked by the FDA.
Public radio - Our tax money yet they control content.
Public television - Our tax money yet they control content.
Administration of the airwaves = Control of the airwaves.
Judicial arbitration = Necessary because they passed so many laws that you can't live day-to-day without breaking some law.
Patents - Laundry list for corporate control of technology.
Copyright - Laundry list for government control of ideas.
Library of Congress - Given to the United States as a gift by Thomas Jefferson.
DARPA - Public money - government has total control.
ARPA - Public money - government has total control.
National defense - What a joke! You mean national offense. The pentagon alone is currently missing over 15 trillion dollars which is unaccounted for.
International and domestic intelligence gathering - Domestic spying on it's own citizens and loss of privacy.
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Macs and windows

Hi- this thread might be able to help me... I want my dad to get an 11" MBA for traveling
but his office (law office) uses this plug in phone system (I think it's called sisco) that is only compatible with Windows 7. Will installing windows on the Mac make the phone work with the computer or does he have to get a PC?
 
Hi- this thread might be able to help me... I want my dad to get an 11" MBA for traveling
but his office (law office) uses this plug in phone system (I think it's called sisco) that is only compatible with Windows 7. Will installing windows on the Mac make the phone work with the computer or does he have to get a PC?

If you install Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition, it's just like any other Windows PC and should work with your father's Cisco system. You need to boot into it separately. Alternatively, you can purchases Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, and operate Windows inside a "virtual machine" alongside OS X. Either way, it should work with the phone system.
 
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