What will Apple unveil at its Mac event today?
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New MacBook Air: seven hours’ battery life, 30 day standby, no hard drive . . .
Apple Reinvents Notebooks With New MacBook Air . . .
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/20mba.html
Apple Reinvents Notebooks With New MacBook Air . . .
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/20mba.html
Costs way too much!
The 1.86 GHz 13-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage starts at a suggested retail price of $1,299 (US)
$100 to add an extra 2 gigs of ram
$300 to get extra 128 gig SSD
Do you know what kind of Win7 powerhouse laptop you can get for $1700!?
Why use USB2.0 when USB 3.0 is here! I have it on my desktop computer.
The 1.86 GHz 13-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage starts at a suggested retail price of $1,299 (US)
$100 to add an extra 2 gigs of ram
$300 to get extra 128 gig SSD
Do you know what kind of Win7 powerhouse laptop you can get for $1700!?
Why use USB2.0 when USB 3.0 is here! I have it on my desktop computer.
I was just looking at the 11" version on line. It does look pretty sweet - perfect size for travelling. I can't use my work laptop for anything personal anymore & need to cary something for my personal files and internet access. I so wish it had a RJ45 jack for hard-wired lan - it was probably left out for packing considerations.
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Here's another comment I just re-read on Engadget.
"same 4mb cache, same memory controller/bus speed, same 32nm process. all it has done was increase clock speed which doesn't do crap to increase overall performance.
Any real performance increase comes from increasing cache sizes to lower cache misses, and from better memory buses to lower the penalty for these misses".
So basically all hype for increasing things that really don't do much, but look and sound good to those who don't know any better.
It's this mentality from Apple that holds me off from purchasing anything from them.
"same 4mb cache, same memory controller/bus speed, same 32nm process. all it has done was increase clock speed which doesn't do crap to increase overall performance.
Any real performance increase comes from increasing cache sizes to lower cache misses, and from better memory buses to lower the penalty for these misses".
So basically all hype for increasing things that really don't do much, but look and sound good to those who don't know any better.
It's this mentality from Apple that holds me off from purchasing anything from them.
All these comments from nobodies on engadget, what are they worth? Anybody who is 14 years old and knows a little about computers could have known that by reading the specs.
The target market is not for people looking for a high performance notebook. I don't know of any notebooks of similar size that would be suitable for video editing etc. With the SSD drive it will boot fast, hibernate quickly and start applications quickly.
The target market is not for people looking for a high performance notebook. I don't know of any notebooks of similar size that would be suitable for video editing etc. With the SSD drive it will boot fast, hibernate quickly and start applications quickly.
Yeah the no RJ45 is probably the biggest letdown to me as well. I'd like to see the 11.6" beside a pad of letter sized paper to see a size comparison.
I must admit I too was disappointed that there was no RJ45 jack. IMO this was clearly a mistake!
It doesn't have a SSD drive. It uses flash memory, similar to the iPhone and iPod Nano. I wonder if that memory is faster than SSD's.
It now has two USB ports, so yes you can use a ethernet USB adapter but you'll be capped at 100MB.
They're worth 2¢ like yours? The point was for the value (and in this thread for example, the lack of RJ45) the price you're paying is for what exactly? 2-inches less and an SSD drive for booting faster?
HP Envy that comes with a Core i5 and a dedicted ATI video card with 1G RAM?
The envy is 5 lbs! Not light at all. More of a MBP competitor. I would buy/build a notebook without SSD now, after having one there is no comparison.
Too bad the Envy i7 only gets 2 hours battery life and the i5 model not much better. Its like 2004 all over again. Talk about chasing specs vs actual engineering. HP needs to get a clue.Well I suppose that clarifies what you're paying substantially more for then, lighter weight and a different OS. lol
I think the target market here is traveling business man - what does that guy do: email, word, ppt and calendar - and perhaps the odd terb post...... Not much power required there, 2-3 lbs of instant on computing sounds about right.....
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