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I'd probably take the Air, try it out, decide I didn't like it or Mac, and resell it. Buy the original thing I saw, or something else cheaper and nicer, and tre

by Jach 15y ago

I'd probably take the Air, try it out, decide I didn't like it or Mac, and resell it. Buy the original thing I saw, or something else cheaper and nicer, and treat myself to a large steak afterwards.

sjs 15y ago
No need to try it you've already made up your mind.
- Jach 15y ago
  Sure, but my mind has changed on things before, I like to give it the opportunity to change, so I'd probably try it. And yes, I would probably dislike it. If you had made the argument that I could resell it for more if it was sealed, I think that's a stronger reason not to try it.
Que 15y ago
I have had my new Macbook Air for about 3 weeks now, I am primarily a Windows developer. Let me tell you something, after 3 weeks with Lion (with VMWare Fusion for Visual Studio) I am fairly positive I will never buy or make a PC again. I cannot explain this, these are things I never thought I would even think let alone say. The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram. The gestures and infinite desktops on Lion make it so much more usable than a default Windows machine or any other Linux variant I use. I just wanted to chime in since you said >decide I didn't like it or Mac Which, trust me, if you care about productivity or are amazed by superior resource management, not liking it would simply be an unjust bias coming to fruition.
- mistermann 15y ago
  Does your i7 PC have an SSD drive in it?
  - Que 15y ago
    Yes, although it isn't the fastest possible. I don't notice a huge difference between the SSD in the primary PC and my 10k RPM Raptor I used to have as the OS disk. I am not aware of the specs of the SSD in the Macbook. This is exactly what I suspected was causing the perceived boost though.
- Tichy 15y ago
  Does your primary PC have a SSD?
- cytzol 15y ago
  > The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram. Which is... odd. I bought an Air in December, and stopped using it (gave it to a family member) because I couldn't stand how slow it was compared to my hand-built Windows desktop. I'm talking ~10 seconds after waking from sleep before it would even recognise that I was typing on the keyboard, and persistent beachballing whenever I had too many tabs or a VM open (again, for Visual Studio). The gestures were nice, but they're nothing my multi-button mouse didn't solve. I'm not saying your experiences are wrong, but... it's strange to see someone make the same transition that I did, only to have the opposite result.

by Jach 15y ago

I'd probably take the Air, try it out, decide I didn't like it or Mac, and resell it. Buy the original thing I saw, or something else cheaper and nicer, and treat myself to a large steak afterwards.

sjs 15y ago

No need to try it you've already made up your mind.

Jach 15y ago
Sure, but my mind has changed on things before, I like to give it the opportunity to change, so I'd probably try it. And yes, I would probably dislike it. If you had made the argument that I could resell it for more if it was sealed, I think that's a stronger reason not to try it.

Que 15y ago

I have had my new Macbook Air for about 3 weeks now, I am primarily a Windows developer. Let me tell you something, after 3 weeks with Lion (with VMWare Fusion for Visual Studio) I am fairly positive I will never buy or make a PC again. I cannot explain this, these are things I never thought I would even think let alone say. The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram. The gestures and infinite desktops on Lion make it so much more usable than a default Windows machine or any other Linux variant I use. I just wanted to chime in since you said >decide I didn't like it or Mac Which, trust me, if you care about productivity or are amazed by superior resource management, not liking it would simply be an unjust bias coming to fruition.

mistermann 15y ago
Does your i7 PC have an SSD drive in it?
- Que 15y ago
  Yes, although it isn't the fastest possible. I don't notice a huge difference between the SSD in the primary PC and my 10k RPM Raptor I used to have as the OS disk. I am not aware of the specs of the SSD in the Macbook. This is exactly what I suspected was causing the perceived boost though.
Tichy 15y ago
Does your primary PC have a SSD?
cytzol 15y ago
> The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram. Which is... odd. I bought an Air in December, and stopped using it (gave it to a family member) because I couldn't stand how slow it was compared to my hand-built Windows desktop. I'm talking ~10 seconds after waking from sleep before it would even recognise that I was typing on the keyboard, and persistent beachballing whenever I had too many tabs or a VM open (again, for Visual Studio). The gestures were nice, but they're nothing my multi-button mouse didn't solve. I'm not saying your experiences are wrong, but... it's strange to see someone make the same transition that I did, only to have the opposite result.