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I think the MacBook Air line will drop the "Air" name in the near future (maybe in a year or so) and become just the regular MacBook line. It seems more like it
by BigZaphod 16y ago
I think the MacBook Air line will drop the "Air" name in the near future (maybe in a year or so) and become just the regular MacBook line. It seems more like it was meant to be a test/bridge machine in Apple's quest to eliminate legacy ports, optical storage, and magnetic media. I'd bet that the market will make this choice easy for them as Airs begin to outsell standard MacBooks in the coming year. (Pure speculation, but from what I've seen of the reviews and general attitude toward the air from people I've talked to, it's now a serious machine that many are considering - some even considering switching to it from a MacBook Pro as the Air can do everything they need on a day-to-day basis. Time will tell...)
- mmastrac 16y agoIt's going to be a while before the specs on the Air match the bottom-of-the-barrel MacBook. I bought one of those for my family and aside from the SSD, it smokes the Air in performance. It's only 2.15kg too, vs. 1.05kg for the Air. I don't see the skinniness (sharpness?) of the Air as a benefit worth trading your memory and CPU speed for at this time. The MacBook we have performs well, but I think taking some of the oomph out of it would really hurt the experience.
- mlinsey 16y agoFor most everyday tasks that ordinary users do, the presence of the SSD will make the Air seem like the fastest computer they have ever used. Only desktop games and flash-heavy websites will highlight the relatively ancient CPU.
- archangel_one 16y agoI don't agree on "only" - another way of putting that is that the Air weighs less than half what the Pro does. The Pro isn't that heavy in absolute terms, but the Air is still going to be nicer to carry about the place - I'd seriously think about that if it was going to be a secondary computer.