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Why is there a Macbook Air with 64GB of storage

I could use a 64GB as most of my media is in the cloud now. I'd have to get rid of the Windows install all on Air, but it'd be very do able. Spotify for music, Netflix/Hulu for video and Windows XP in Citrix XenApp none of which would take of the amount of space a standard local files would.

That said, I have a desktop as well and my Air would be largely for notes in class, writing papers and browsing the web along with streaming media.
 
I agree with OP, the 64GB is a useless piece of junk if you really want to save anything. Then, again Apple has a lot of these things, like ipad.
 
zap2 said:
I could use a 64GB as most of my media is in the cloud now. I'd have to get rid of the Windows install all on Air, but it'd be very do able. Spotify for music, Netflix/Hulu for video and Windows XP in Citrix XenApp none of which would take of the amount of space a standard local files would.

That said, I have a desktop as well and my Air would be largely for notes in class, writing papers and browsing the web along with streaming media.
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I guess that could work for some but not for me since I travel alot to countries where internet is spotty or is at dial up speeds and using internet based apps is out of the question for me as I need everything with me.
 
I could easily do 64GB.

I currently have the 256 model and 128gb of it is movies/video

And I guess I could technically have those stored on an external. The rest is pretty much 30gb of music/app that i sync to my iPhone

so if push came to shove, I could rock a 64gb air.
 
I have 256GB on my i7 Air and 64GB on my iPod Touch 4G since I have many HD videos etc but I could see 64GB on the Air if you don't need to store videos etc. With iCloud and other online storage that helps also.
 
for me 64 gig's would be overkill

my 2006 imac

Capacity 159.7 GB
Used 7.15 GB on disk (7,146,340,352 bytes)

i use my imac for web period...if i ever feel the need to own a ipod with tons of music and movies ect ill use the cloud...
 
All during my graduate school work in humanities I never came close to 64GBs.

As an academic laptop for the humanities it is more than enough.

I even argue that the iPad is about right for an undergraduate in humanities.

If you are an undergrad who insists on having a lot of movies and music...well then...
 
High performance flash memory is expensive. Apple wanted to hit the $999 price point. That's pretty much it.
 
3dflyboy1 said:
64GB is plenty of room for a lot of people. Similarly, the iPad has its own niche. Neither is a "useless piece of junk."
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according to the people who has an ipad at the ipad forum, they are having a major buyer remorse. The intrinsic value of that thing really diminishes exponentially.

64GB is the size of an iphone, not a laptop, WAKE UP!!!
 
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kulimer said:
according to the people who has an ipad at the ipad forum, they are having a major buyer remorse. The intrinsic value of that thing really diminishes exponentially.
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Umm...no?

kulimer said:
64GB is the size of an iphone, not a laptop, WAKE UP!!!
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The fact that apple is selling a laptop with 64GB disagrees with you. And it's selling quite well, for that matter.

Disregarding the iPhone, (this is the mba forum, after all) the baseline 64GB configuration is more than enough, as most people who have posted here have said.
 
kulimer said:
according to the people who has an ipad at the ipad forum, they are having a major buyer remorse. The intrinsic value of that thing really diminishes exponentially.

64GB is the size of an iphone, not a laptop, WAKE UP!!!
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Who are these people? I have been checking out the place for so long now but have yet to see anything of the sort. :confused:

Plus, even if that was the case, people experience buyer's remorse for all sorts of purchases, not just ipads. I am not exactly sure what you are trying to imply here.

And the point is exactly that - there are people like me who would be comfortable with a laptop having only 64gb of storage space, because while I use computers a lot, most of my files are small XX kb or mb ones. :)
 
Having another choice is important. 64 GB is enough to have the operation system, office programs. This is important for a person, like me, to do all tasks needed for a business.

However, in order not to be so "tight" I choose 128 gb.
 
Why is there a Macbook Air with 64GB of storage?

Perhaps for people that only need 64GB or less storage space on their computer? I think it's a fairly obvious answer. :confused:
 
The ipad2 is far better than the base mba. I picked up a base 2010 mba at bb a few months ago that still wonderfully had snow leopard on it. It had never even been registered, had been brought back three days after the buyer had bought it for whatever reason but i returned on the last day if the 14 day bb return policy. Why? The keyboard had absolutely NO tactile feel and was mushy. The case creaked, it seemed SO delicate, and i found myself looking at it like it was a litte jewel but was using my ipad all of the time and not touching the mba. I use a mac mini with apple bt kb and touchpad as my main desktop so the ipad rather than the mba is a better partner imo. And the base mbp is a much better deal and a far superior machine than the mba. Its a kids computer. By kid i mean backpack hs and college students. And i would assume they are the majority of mba buyers and members of the forum.
 
Nychot said:
. And i would assume they are the majority of mba buyers and members of the forum.
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You would assume wrong. I am 61 years old, a MBA forms the backbone of my home system coupled with a outboard 500g drive and 27 in monitor. I use the ipad for giving 120 slide size keynote presentations but I write them on the MBA.

Once again, another individual looking thru his own eyes and pronouncing judgement on everyone else. Total crap.
 
As others said, it would be hard to keep that price down at $999. Take a look at the Windows counterparts that are just now starting to see the light of day. You will not find a 128 GB SSD @ $999.

I could live on a 64 GB SSD, I keep all my music/photos/movies/tv shows on my desktop windows 7 PC.

It all depends on your situation! You could keep an external HDD too with all of your content. I have less than 1 GB of documents, that's for sure, and that's all I want on me 24/7.
 
As a photographer, I do not see a huge use for 64gb of space, but as a blogger, small time web designer, and adamant web surfer I can see the value when packed into a small space.


The 11 inch screen is adequate for web surfing, portability, and creation of most web content. I could easily take an air with me wherever I go knowing that it will fit in almost any bag I am likely to carry. 64GB is enough for this use.

I would use an air for taking notes in class, blogging, light photoshop and maybe a few games. 64gb is more than enough for this.

Would I be able to store my large photo library on it? No. Would I want to do heavy photo editing on an 11 inch screen? Hell no. That is what big brother iMac is for.
 
So you are one senior who uses the mba and i'm sure there are untold numbers of other geezers BUT not the majority i'm sure.



glen e said:
You would assume wrong. I am 61 years old, a MBA forms the backbone of my home system coupled with a outboard 500g drive and 27 in monitor. I use the ipad for giving 120 slide size keynote presentations but I write them on the MBA.

Once again, another individual looking thru his own eyes and pronouncing judgement on everyone else. Total crap.
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kvnkvnkvn said:
I guess that could work for some but not for me since I travel alot to countries where internet is spotty or is at dial up speeds and using internet based apps is out of the question for me as I need everything with me.
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That's reasonable, I'm just on a board for Apple putting out many different specced computers so they can fit more users needs both spec wise and price wise.

I'd love to see a 512GB MBA at one point in the near future.
 
The answer to your question is pretty obvious.

There is a 64GB MBA because people won't use it as their primary machine and won't store everything on it.

A better question is: Why is there a MBA with only 2GB of RAM?
 
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