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I've had a MacBook Air since the day it originally came out, and it's been my favorite computer ever. This addresses all of my issues with it. As long as you
by sama 16y ago
I've had a MacBook Air since the day it originally came out, and it's been my favorite computer ever. This addresses all of my issues with it. As long as you don't need extreme computing power, you should get one. It's one of those cases where being twice as portable makes it ten times as useful.
- slantyyz 16y agoThe things that I always weigh first in hardware are screen res and disk i/o. For the type of work I do, I always rank CPU third (I used to evaluate hardware based on my ability to run VMs, but these days I find myself renting on-demand EC2 instances instead). I've been mighty disappointed by Apple laptop screen res prior to the latest generation of MBP's, but I have to admit, these new models impress me, and I've generally been quite dismissive of the Air line. I was recently entertaining the thought of replacing my 13" Macbook with a 15" MBP, but as it is, my full briefcase including a Macbook is already a shoulder killer. Given the evolution of my own use cases, I think I'd actually consider one of these guys as my next notebook.
- katovatzschyn 16y agoI tried MacBook Air and Envy 133 earlier, but I change to Thinkpad X301 and must say that other than very great OSX (use Linux so does not matter so much) I prefer Thinkpad now.
- slantyyz 16y agoThe one thing that I dislike about the latest small form factor ThinkPads is the USB docking stations. The older Thinkpads had one of those bottom mount docking stations. Mac users might dismiss docking stations, but they are --so-- handy if you're constantly moving around.
- drats 16y agoMy x200 12" appears to have the docking port on the bottom.
- slantyyz 16y agoInteresting. IIRC, the X301 dropped the bottom dock connector. One guy I know spent hours with support trying to get the USB dock to work. He ended up not using the dock. The dock on his previous X-series worked like a charm.
- vetinari 16y agoX201 has also dock port. I guess x300/x301 were only models without dock and the reaction to that was not that positive.
- jbarham 16y agoFWIW the X301 has since been discontinued, w/ the T410s being the closest equivalent.
- pg 16y agoDoes yours overheat? Mine did. Except for that it's close to ideal. (I managed to fix the overheating with http://coolbook.se http://coolbook.se, at least most of the time. It still overheats if I watch video for more than about 10 min.)
- bergie 16y agoMy MBA had lots of heat issues initially. When having a Skype call from waterpipe cafe terrace in Istanbul the Air would shut down when sun started shining. However, the Apple firmware update from autumn 2008 fixed most of that, and things were even better after I disabled Spotlight. Now I'm running Ubuntu on this and it doesn't get too hot to keep on lap any longer.
- cma 16y ago>As long as you don't need extreme computing power e.g. as long as you don't want to play a 720p flash video, say something off of Hulu Or has adobe finally started supporting hardware accelerated video on OSX?
- semanticist 16y agoThe current version of Flash 10.1 supports hardware accelerated video with the graphics card in the new MacBook Airs.