I take it you do not have iLife installed? Out of the box, straight from Apple, etc.
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Updated MacBook Air to Offer Minimum of 128 GB SSD and 4 GB RAM?
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Yeas, Windows is terrible at memory management and this is why all enterprises use it whilts OS/X is used only for Photoshop and e-mail.
Enterprise uses windows for many reasons. Technical superiority is not one of them.
Do you know how I know you're a manager at a 100+ person company?
You've got time to be reading and posting on this website like me lol.
I would add the option for a matte screen. This and the measly resolution is the reason i couldn't get myself to buy a new macbook air/pro.
replace mbp
if the battery is good may have to replace my 15" Mbp which only keep a charge for 2 hours if im lucky.
if the battery is good may have to replace my 15" Mbp which only keep a charge for 2 hours if im lucky.
I've got the 2GB 64GB 11" model and I'd like to report that it has been quite sufficient despite my initial concerns. It is never slow with Lion gestures or video or anything, and even with an XP VM running in one desktop I still have RAM free.
I am actually quite impressed with this little machine, I was even able to play Farming Simulator 2011 on Very High settings. But I would also like to add that it is NOT my main machine, my main production machine is an i7 8GB 15" Thinkpad.
However I am wondering if I am glad I have the NVIDIA model because I was playing with my friend's MBP 13" (i7, 4GB RAM) with the Intel HD 3000 graphics and it was performing noticeably poorly compared to the Air, even with YouTube. Not sure if he has other issues going on though.
I would really liked to have a backlit keyboard though, but I can't too much complain as I haven't had any problems without it.
I am actually quite impressed with this little machine, I was even able to play Farming Simulator 2011 on Very High settings. But I would also like to add that it is NOT my main machine, my main production machine is an i7 8GB 15" Thinkpad.
However I am wondering if I am glad I have the NVIDIA model because I was playing with my friend's MBP 13" (i7, 4GB RAM) with the Intel HD 3000 graphics and it was performing noticeably poorly compared to the Air, even with YouTube. Not sure if he has other issues going on though.
I would really liked to have a backlit keyboard though, but I can't too much complain as I haven't had any problems without it.
Yeas, Windows is terrible at memory management and this is why all enterprises use it whilts OS/X is used only for Photoshop and e-mail.
Using lots of memory isn't always a bad thing. For Windows it's a good thing. It makes everything faster.
It's gotten much better since the GM release. Also for devices that share the main memory for graphics RAM Lion will show that as 'wired' now when before it was excluded from Activity Monitor. This means that it might 'look' like more RAM is used up on the pie chart but instead of 1.75 it says 2.00.
You've got to be kidding! Trust me, whether you buy now or after the update it will not matter!
man i hope this is true, but all these rumors leading up to today are all just tease! i won't get my hopes up til i have it in hand
I think theres an issue with your friend's 13", as the HD3000 has performed identically to the 320m in my old C2D 13" from last year.
Well, honestly, I'm waiting to update from the exact same machine. After getting an imac a few years ago I haven't had the need to update the laptop until now. All heavy lifting was done on the imac and I just use the powerbook for light internet usage. So why update now? I'm planning on doing a lot of traveling for the next year+ so the imac is going into a box along with all of my other possessions. And the pb just doesn't cut it anymore as an only machine...not to mention it weighs as much as a uni textbook.
11.6 ultimate, here I come!
I would take that in to the Apple store so they could run a batter diagnostic... seems like a bad battery. They will most likely replace it for you even out of warranty if it comes up red on the diagnostic.
It's a thousand dollar laptop. And the price will remain the same for a year before refresh.
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It will be released Tuesday July 19 at 9:31 am according to my inside sources!
It will be released Tuesday July 19 at 9:31 am according to my inside sources!
For people that need some more serious computing power (likely 50% faster CPU and possibly double the RAM, ie, 8 GB, technically you can already add 16 GB) and use their laptop as their primary computer (256 GB is just not a lot once you add music, movies and images and some actual work files, eg, developer code, simulation data etc.).
(And not that those people would have to forgo the SSD, adding a second disk to a MBP is pretty easy.)
Is this your only (primary) machine? I have trouble believing that somebody can have this little of digital data (once you subtract the OS and the applications).
And I don't know, after a restart, starting my 20 common apps, I already use about 2.5 GB or RAM and after a few days that goes up to between 4 to 5 GB even without using any really RAM-heavy apps like Fusion or Aperture.
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