Simple, you're a fanboi. I am too, but I stopped making excuses for Apple's products being so far behind, or below, the competition. If you're really happy running the MINIMUM RAM for each OS, that's your business. I would find it disgusting trying to run OS X alone with any less RAM being allocated for Windows. To run Windows 7 and OS X 10.6, one needs 4 GB of RAM. Sure there are people running servers and doing crazy things with their MBA, but I find running OS X challenging enough with 2 GB of RAM in 2010.
The bottom line is there is no excuse for Apple having its products positioned so far behind its competitors, as it is right now, IN REGARDS TO THE MACS. Anyone that doesn't see it is a fanboi... and is blinded by Sir Jobs and mute to his every word. I love my MBA, but there is NO EXCUSE, in 2010, to have every Mac except the iMac positioned so far behind and below its competitors. It needs an update to every Mac except the iMac (and even needs one there with its low-end version).
Why doesn't Apple want to compete at the top? Why is it so happy with 5% share of the computer market? Apple needs to either actually dominate the high-end market with premium, relevant (which definitely requires current) products, that makes its customers feel they get exactly what they pay for with Macs. Right now, Apple has even its core Mac fan base upset with it. The MacBook Pro is the worst value the MBP has ever been, because it's so very far behind the competition with a sixteen month old graphics system and even shared RAM in its 13" models. There is nothing PRO about the current MacBook PRO. The MBA, while revolutionary when it was introduced, is quickly becoming irrelevant with competitors boasting 8 GB of RAM, hybrid graphics systems, triple the battery life, and Windows 7. The bottom line is system RAM is more important than Apple deemed it, and 2 GB is no longer relevant if it's trying to be a primary Mac doing great things.
I am getting to the point where there just isn't any reason to do this anymore. I am willing to pay Apple a lot of money to make the Mac I really want, and I am a disappointed AAPL shareholder knowing that Apple, Inc. isn't keeping its Mac customers happy. Apple needs to decide if it's going to do Macs right and keep them a fair value for the substantial premium and luxury costs, or tell its customers that it only cares about iPad, iPod, and iPhone sales. Right now, there are only two Macs people should even consider buying... one is a WhiteBook and the other is the iMac. I guess Apple is selling a lot of iMacs for sales to be acceptable with Pro Macs that are nine plus months old each. People aren't getting what they're paying for, and that is a huge problem. When people buy Macs, they justify the costs in their head, because they're normally getting what the expect to be the best computer available for the job. The problem is OS X alone isn't winning that battle anymore, so Apple needs to keep its Macs current and relevant.
I am a disappointed Apple Computer fan, and I feel that my AAPL stock would be a lot more valuable if Apple, Inc. kept its products current and relevant. If updates came every six months, that would be acceptable. But to see thousands of posts daily in the MBP threads reading that people are buying Vaio Zs and other PCs because they're sick of waiting for an update, and they realize that OS X has lost its edge over Windows with version 7. If anyone finds the current situation acceptable, I have to wonder why given the age of technology we're in, and the desire for pros, prosumers, and enthusiasts to spend money but they cannot with their favorite company because it doesn't update its products in a timely fashion. The bottom line is Apple fans aren't getting what they're paying for with year old Mac Pros, nearly ten month old MBPs and MBAs, nine month old iPhones, and seven month old iPods. No other company could do what Apple is doing, and what Apple is doing is killing its Mac and OS X brands all in the name of the iPad.
I am frustrated, and no 2 GB of RAM isn't acceptable in 2010. Remember that your MBA is sharing 256 MB of RAM to the GPU, and has LESS THAN 1 GB for each OS remaining isn't acceptable for a virtual machine environment between OS X 10.6 and Windows 7. These are the two current OSes and they have less than their required minimums each when one factors in the fact that 256 MB is being used by the GPU. Not acceptable and there is no excuse.
