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At this point in the game, I'm expecting battery life to become the primary point of the Air, rather than weight and size alone. Many people don't need all the
by numbsafari 13y ago
At this point in the game, I'm expecting battery life to become the primary point of the Air, rather than weight and size alone.
Many people don't need all the high-end specs of the Pro, but they definitely want battery life.
I'm anticipating that the future of the MBA line either includes a shift to Intel Atom processors or a line of Apple ARM chips.
If they go with ARM, my gut tells me that they will either run iOS on these new MBAs or a version of OS X that only runs apps sold via the App Store. That's why I'm guessing they'll go with Atom (or whatever Intel is offering at the power-sipping end).
- roc 13y agoThe future for the Air is Apple getting serious about keyboard support in iOS. The MBA is a product that exists largely because tablets didn't (at the time). If you had a light workload and wanted an "all day" battery, that was your choice. Today, people buy it because keyboard support on tablets is dodgy and maybe you need one or two apps that don't have a mobile or web alternative. But in the time it would take for Apple to roll out an Atom or ARM switch, they could have much more easily and cleanly expanded the iPad up into the MBA's niche. I think the iPad Air name is foreshadowing.
- Nowyouknow 13y agoSee, my theory is that the Air is going to further be cannibalized by the iPad Air. I agree, it'll go the way of ARM and run some sort of iOS/OSX hybrid. Think Surface 2. I can't foresee the Macbook Air surviving as a laptop.