lol, i find it hilarious that anyone with a laptop dated only two years old feels that it is massively outdated. I kept my first Windows XP laptop for a good 7 years before replacing it. Yes it was massively out of date specs wise by the time i got rid of it, but was doing its job well up until the time its days come to an end.
It's the Apple Way...
In about one month people will say: "OMG you still have an iPhone 4S!"![]()
lol, i find it hilarious that anyone with a laptop dated only two years old feels that it is massively outdated....
For me, the backlit keys are pretty useless unless you work in the dark sixty percent of the time, every time. It's just a cosmetic feature to me. I shut mine off since I work with the light on. The only routine use would be for those lonely late night sessions to ease some tension..
Perhaps when the retina screen version arrives. But perhaps not, my MBA is more than good enough for my needs (despite the lack of backlit keys, it's just disappointing/ironic that Apple removed them for that one rev only).Time to upgrade =)
I bought the last but one rev of the PowerMac and ran it for ca. 5 or 6 years before upgrading, and even then I only upgraded because OSX and new apps wouldn't support the old CPU. It still works fine, but is forever stuck at 10.5.lol, i find it hilarious that anyone with a laptop dated only two years old feels that it is massively outdated. I kept my first Windows XP laptop for a good 7 years before replacing it. Yes it was massively out of date specs wise by the time i got rid of it, but was doing its job well up until the time its days come to an end.
lol, i find it hilarious that anyone with a laptop dated only two years old feels that it is massively outdated. I kept my first Windows XP laptop for a good 7 years before replacing it. Yes it was massively out of date specs wise by the time i got rid of it, but was doing its job well up until the time its days come to an end.
As someone who never looks at the keyboard, the backlit keyboard isn't important to me at all. Sure it looks cool, but that's about it.
Well, the 2010 air is a bit of a special case. It isn't really any more powerful then a rev B or rev C air, with exception to the GPU and the optional 4GB memory. So it can definitely feel slow in today's tasks since it's essentially running 4-5 year old hardware. A top-end laptop from 2010 would probably still be fairly usable today, especially if the RAM is upgradeable. ML can use >2GB on a fresh boot, so I would say having a large amount of memory can make a big difference as to whether or not an old laptop is usable
For me, it's worth a couple thousand every few years to have a computer that doesn't force me to slow down. That may not be the case for you, but I wouldn't knock others with different priorities.
It was a fresh install when I checked the startup usage. My current mac does have 16GB memory though. I have not checked startup usage on my rev B airWhat are you running on startup that means 2GB of RAM is allocated upon boot?
Well, the 2010 air is a bit of a special case. It isn't really any more powerful then a rev B or rev C air, with exception to the GPU and the optional 4GB memory. So it can definitely feel slow in today's tasks since it's essentially running 4-5 year old hardware.
My 2009 MBA has a backlit keyboard.