All of this love for the MBA has me wondering if I will need to sell my 15.4" MBP HR AG beast. Guess I will have to test it all out to be sure.
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To owners of the the new MacBook Air
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I just LOVE my new MacBook Air 13" 
After using it for a while, I'm liking it even more and more every day.
After using it for a while, I'm liking it even more and more every day.
I'll ring in....the MBA is my first Mac and I really like it. The ease of use amazes me sometimes and I wonder why it's so difficult to do some things on a PC. The biggest thing for me is when you want to do something on the Mac it just works. There's no wondering what added driver you need, add on, etc. You just start it and go.
On a weightier note....I have a 3 year old HP laptop that has been great and really has never had any major issues. I have finished moving files over to my Mac and I re-formatted the PC last night. When I was moving the PC around it felt like I was picking up a concrete block. I've gotten so used to how light the MBA is that I couldn't believe the difference.
Go. Buy. One.
On a weightier note....I have a 3 year old HP laptop that has been great and really has never had any major issues. I have finished moving files over to my Mac and I re-formatted the PC last night. When I was moving the PC around it felt like I was picking up a concrete block. I've gotten so used to how light the MBA is that I couldn't believe the difference.
Go. Buy. One.
OK, so at least your data isn't hosed! But given that all email and web surfing will write to disk I'm still left wondering how long these things will last. Probably long enough to the next upgrade.
Well from what I have read the 100,000 or 1,000,000 write cycles is not just plain writes to the disk, it is writes to a single cell. So you could run out if you continuously wrote to one cell a million times but the SSD controller should spread the writing around so that it goes down evenly.
Here is a link from Engadget in which Toshiba comments on write cycles: link
So I don't think the uses of the MBA will cause their SSD's to wear out any time soon. Plus by the time it wears out the MBA will be way faster, and maybe even merged together with the MBP line
13" Ultimateincredible machine. I can leave my MBP 17" at home now and don't have to lug it to work every day. MBA is so thin, light, finely made, beautiful screen. Now we have stereo speakers, too, and a look (especially the bezel) that is a screaming great design in terms of shape, footprint, lines, etc. Temp is always around 110º F with fan never audible (usually under 2000 RPM). I don't do video; maybe that's why. Battery life incredible; 4-9 hours, depending on tasks (and Flash).
Over 20 years I've owned four desktops and four laptops and this is the best all around machine yet. Whereas my fully loaded MBP 17" is like a Rolls, this MBA Ultimate is like a Porsche...fast, sweet, beautiful lines, small footprint, finely machined, gorgeous inside and out, quiet, invisible. Couldn't be happier.
FYI: if you use the USB stick for a hardware test WITHOUT a power supply connected, you'll get this error:
4SNS/ 1 /400000001: IDOR-0.040
All the error means is that you don't have your MBA connected to a power supply. Nothing to worry about.
Over 20 years I've owned four desktops and four laptops and this is the best all around machine yet. Whereas my fully loaded MBP 17" is like a Rolls, this MBA Ultimate is like a Porsche...fast, sweet, beautiful lines, small footprint, finely machined, gorgeous inside and out, quiet, invisible. Couldn't be happier.
FYI: if you use the USB stick for a hardware test WITHOUT a power supply connected, you'll get this error:
4SNS/ 1 /400000001: IDOR-0.040
All the error means is that you don't have your MBA connected to a power supply. Nothing to worry about.
no need to rag on a PC to make the mba better. i find some things on osx that's slower/mindless compared to the intuitive things on a win7 machine.
the 13 MBP feels like a brick compared to the mba. what doesn't?
from "don't have one" to "have one and LOVE it"...
(to death)
Picked up a maxed-out 13.3" MBA yesterday and nothing but praise for it so far. Thin, light, fast. Was able to set up Remote Disc last night from my iMac intuitively and with no intruction to install iWorks.
It just works...
TR
I don't think he was ragging on anything; simply sharing his experience. Mine is similar.
(to death)
Picked up a maxed-out 13.3" MBA yesterday and nothing but praise for it so far. Thin, light, fast. Was able to set up Remote Disc last night from my iMac intuitively and with no intruction to install iWorks.
It just works...
TR
no need to rag on a PC to make the mba better. i find some things on osx that's slower/mindless compared to the intuitive things on a win7 machine.
the 13 MBP feels like a brick compared to the mba. what doesn't?
I don't think he was ragging on anything; simply sharing his experience. Mine is similar.
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Given that my current laptop is a 2003 PowerBook, I doubt it. By the time i get around to upgrading my hardware it's pretty much unsaleable (except, perhaps, to retro collectors)!
Given that my current laptop is a 2003 PowerBook, I doubt it. By the time i get around to upgrading my hardware it's pretty much unsaleable (except, perhaps, to retro collectors)!
man i wish i can be you.
since unibody launched, i have already owned and sold so many laptops. that includes 4 macbook pro and 4 macbook airs. i can't seem to make my mind, but now im glad with 17" uni and 11" mba.
