Apple did a lot under the hood to the MacBook Airs. At the WWDC keynote it seemed like just a processor bump. This bodes well for the new rMBP's this fall.
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Teardown of New Mid-2013 MacBook Air Reveals Smaller SSD, Increased Battery Capacity
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No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
Than you shouldn't get yourself a Macbook Air, this is what Apple is trying to tell you!
I absolutely second that (see above). My problem was solved with iTunes Match/ iTunes in the Cloud. No need to carry all the stuff around all the time. Part is on my Air, anything else can be streamed.
Possible problem Air and Intel PCH
Hi:
I would like to know if this is affecting to new Haswell MacBook Air
http://us.hardware.info/news/34321/i...ntel-statement
I apologize for the crossposting
JP
Hi:
I would like to know if this is affecting to new Haswell MacBook Air
http://us.hardware.info/news/34321/i...ntel-statement
I apologize for the crossposting
JP
No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
Then get the AIr anyway, with an external spinning hard drive..
Why should you not put yourself off a good machine just because of an *over-sight*
ok,,,, so its an extra thing to carry, but we can all have cake and eat it too.
Actually you can 512 Gig for $300 on a BTO from Apple.
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No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
There's a 512GB SSD option but why not trim your library? I have a lot of movies but I store them on an external HDD because I don't need to travel with a year supply of movies.
Thanks for posting this, I currently have the 2011 13" MacBook Air and I was wondering how the 2013 MBA compares to it.
Of course, I'm not in the market for a new laptop just yet, but I'll likely be buying one in summer 2014.
No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
You can get a 13" MBA with 512GB SSD for about $1,600. More than enough for your iTunes library and still about 100GB left for everything else.
EDIT: I see someone has already posted this 2 comments up.
Movies and music is a perfect use for a WiFi NAS / Time Capsule somewhere in your home, just saying.No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
The idea behind those small-but-fast SSD's is that you only use them where you actually need the speed (the OS itself and its apps). For data storage where you don't need super bandwidth (you can easily stream HD over WiFi), you can put the storage elsewhere.
There's another advantage here, of course: shared storage even when your computer is turned off. And that includes sharing over the web, if you so wish.
So I'd rather spend $300 on some 2 TB WiFi storage and even save money than go for a 512 GB SSD for music and movies.
When i purchased my IBM s30 in 2001, the dealer offered an optional "full-day battery" which equaled 8 hours = normal workday (which btw. was outstanding for a laptop back then).
Apple has a good reputation for its pretty realistic runtime estimations.
Of all the current glossy Mac screens the reflections aren't as annoying.
To you maybe
Not that there is anything wrong with my mid '11 13" Air, but dang, I really want to upgrade to the new one. Between the reduced cost and outstanding battery life - which even if Apple is off by a couple of hours, it will still be fantastic.
This new Air may actually make me switch back to carrying my laptop when traveling, as opposed to the iPad I have been using. Or better yet, I'll bring both so I can get some real work done on the Air, not worrying about battery life, while using the iPad for demo purposes.
This new Air may actually make me switch back to carrying my laptop when traveling, as opposed to the iPad I have been using. Or better yet, I'll bring both so I can get some real work done on the Air, not worrying about battery life, while using the iPad for demo purposes.
You have one year warranty, three years with AppleCare. In the UK, two years if the problem was present when you purchased the device. So ask yourself: If there are bugs with Haswell chips, would Apple know about them or not? If Apple knew about them and they would affect customers, would Apple ship a product when they _know_ they have to fix it?
It was for when I moved to a dorm and no one wanted to lug my DVD collection. At that time, iTunes Match wasn't even thought of, let alone iTunes Match for movies.
Now of course, I'm fine. A laptop with a 1 TB hard drive, and I'm saving up for an rMBP. But I would love if the Air could have larger capacity drives
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400 GB is the whole Library. Music. Movies. iOS Apps. Audiobooks. iBooks.
I use home network storage like a time capsule share folder. Disadvantage is you can't take it with you offline, but I'd rather have an air
It seems odd to me to find it odd to want to carry around a decent sized media library. It seems even odder to think it's a good idea to store media content for consumption on fast expensive SSD's when HDD's will do the job just as well.
My cMBP has an SSD, a 1 TB HD, 16 gig of ram (all self-installed), and is far more portable and convenient than making it smaller at the expense of carrying extra hardware (HDD, ethernet dongle).
I love the cMBP and would buy another in a heartbeat when it's time to replace it. But if my choice were limited to an air or retinabook, I'd go for a cheap ugly PC laptop. Soldered ram and no 2.5" sata bay are both dealbreakers for me. An extra .25 inch is a non-issue.
I thought like you until I got the air. I never got a laptop or monitor that wasn't matte. I assure you the reflections are WAY lower on the air. I have never had a reflection problem.
I think the new imacs use a similar thing: only one pane of glass... or maybe its no air gap between them I dunno. Whatever the case is the high gloss and reflectivity is not present in the airs.
It's great to hear battery life like this, but does that mean we don't actually know how long the battery life will be with Mavericks installed? I'd be interested to see how much impact the energy improvements in OS X will have, plus being able to see how much power an app wastes ought to make it a lot easier for a user to manage their system.
There's a part of me that says these will never be retina. Don't know why Apple would want them to cannibalize the higher priced MBP13. Unless of course the MBP13 is slated to one day die.
No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
>HDD
>Macbook Air
Good luck.
No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
I will never comprehend this type of behavior.
You dont need a macbook air then.
