I would love to see this sold as it would be perfect for my 3 year old so she can have her own MB. I'm tired of her stealing mine.
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New MBA 11.6" 500,000 To be manufactured b quantas
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i really hope so, if apple released an 11" mba, i would pick up that bad boy in a second. Although i seriously doubt it, just too small for job's aging eyes.
i really hope so, if apple released an 11" mba, i would pick up that bad boy in a second. Although i seriously doubt it, just too small for job's aging eyes.
11.6 is probable. Just cause jobs said that he hates netbooks doesnt mean jack haha and quantaz is very reliable.
Specs:
11.6 MBA
120 SATA, 250 SATA (optional + $), 128 gb SSD (optional + $)
intel or dedicated (9400m)
2gb ram, 4gb (optional+ $)
8 hr battery
ulv i3 1.6 ghz (hopefully)
2 usb (hopefully)
no firewire (probably)
unibody
1 kg (2.2 lbs)
My guessing...
Specs:
11.6 MBA
120 SATA, 250 SATA (optional + $), 128 gb SSD (optional + $)
intel or dedicated (9400m)
2gb ram, 4gb (optional+ $)
8 hr battery
ulv i3 1.6 ghz (hopefully)
2 usb (hopefully)
no firewire (probably)
unibody
1 kg (2.2 lbs)
My guessing...
Me too. I love my current MBA, but more RAM and slightly smaller would be *perfect* for me. I turn to my Mac Pro when I need to work hard.
Just to remind folks of what the competition can do for $900:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...ports-11-6-inch-screen-and-core-i7-processor/
Once Google or somebody else finally makes a decent OS and convinces hardware makers to break the iron Windows grip (Linux folks haven't been able to assemble a distribution that works for normal mortals on normal laptops, and at this point I'm giving up the hope that they ever will), Apple will be so dead.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...ports-11-6-inch-screen-and-core-i7-processor/
Once Google or somebody else finally makes a decent OS and convinces hardware makers to break the iron Windows grip (Linux folks haven't been able to assemble a distribution that works for normal mortals on normal laptops, and at this point I'm giving up the hope that they ever will), Apple will be so dead.
On the Contrary
I would have no problem with an 11.6" MBA, however, my needs are more fitted to a 15" model, I have an MBA, and my only problems with it are the 2Gb RAM, the 13.3" screen, and the plastic trackpad (previously argued for this, have since changed my mind after the acquisition of a 15" MBP).
I like my MBP, however, it is too heavy for everyday use. My MBA would be the perfect weight with the 15" MBP screen size.
I would have no problem with an 11.6" MBA, however, my needs are more fitted to a 15" model, I have an MBA, and my only problems with it are the 2Gb RAM, the 13.3" screen, and the plastic trackpad (previously argued for this, have since changed my mind after the acquisition of a 15" MBP).
I like my MBP, however, it is too heavy for everyday use. My MBA would be the perfect weight with the 15" MBP screen size.
Your link fails badly, the TimelineX apparently uses an i7 model never made by Intel
BTW the MBA CPU beats their low voltage chips
Pal, you're probably being a little too optimistic about the processor. If they're gonna give you an i3 then there's no 9400m and only IGP. If you get a 9400m then you're going with a core 2. There no 9400m and and i3, sad to say, although everyone wishes there were. There's just no space on the MBA, and even the 13' MBP is suffering the same fate. No core iX and dedicated graphics due to no space and heat issues.
The older among us will still remember OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS and so on. The younger might not even have heard of them. They were all better than Windows at the time.
There was a lesson in this: The choice of desktop operating systems depends largely on available applications. No Adobe suite and Maya on Linux = no creativity users. No MS Office on Linux, and bad MS Office on MacOS = no Linux in the secretary's office, and little MacOS there. No games on Linux = few home users of Linux.
Our own stubborn insistence on MacOS is due to the fact that we largely have the apps we need, don't do serious gaming, and we do not want to switch to an operating system with high-maintenance anti-virus programs.
Unless a Google OS would natively run the most important twenty PC or Mac applications, I don't think that it could overcome the critical threshold for desktop use anytime soon.
I agree with the caveat that I think that there would be a substantial (as in worth considering to the laptop makers) group of people, myself included, that would switch to Linux swiftly if it would actually work on laptops. Why it really doesn't, I don't know, but I suspect it's a combination of bad management in the hardware companies and perhaps certain strategical moves by MS that effectively bind the hardware companies to MS. That's all just speculation of course. Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts here even if they entail that I might be dependent on Apple's sluggish laptop upgrade cycle for years to come. This utter lack of true competition in such an important branch is just really mind-boggling.
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The TimelineX uses the very latest i7 made by Intel, unlike Apple who seem to announce new laptops using 6 month old chips. Original MBA excepted of course, since it was the only laptop in the world to use that CPU I know of.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=49664&processor=i7-680UM&spec-codes=SLBST
I'm hoping a new MBA comes out soon with some secret Intel chip again, but I begin to fear more and more that Apple have binned the concept and are going to come out with something a bit different.
Add +30% to said 'competition' to address what we know that Apple is typically able to command in mark-up (due to product differentiation) and we have a $1200 machine ... and now drop the bucks to upgrade it from a 2.5" HDD to an SSD and we see that the price really isn't all that far out of line with Apple's current (year old design) MBA
And in other metrics, we see that it did require Acer to go to the smaller screen (which of course also helps battery life quite a bit too) in order to come close to matching the MBA's current weight ... and if we maintain the same 13" screen of the current MBA, the Acer jumps by roughly 30% to roughly ("just under") 4lbs.
Well said, even if it is merely a longer & more detailed version of "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" (attributed to philosopher George Santayana; 1905).
A more contemporary (and somewhat brutal) illustration of this in practice comes from reviewing current marketshare reports - - what you'll find is that iOS has already passed Linux.
Even the most superficial examination of the digital marketplace is increasingly evident that the desktop OS is no longer the competitive playing field of opportunity, and that mobile OSs are where the puck is heading. To that end, the Google-lead Android market initiative is clearly intended to be a "chesspiece" move to try to block/counter Apple's current position far more than it is intended in of itself to be profitable (or, necessarily, even viable in the long term).
-hh
