CrudeDiatribe
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The Chef said:
If you can find a USB adaptor, plug it into another computer and try to verify the drive; would confirm pretty quickly if it's the MBA or the HDDs.
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If you can find a USB adaptor, plug it into another computer and try to verify the drive; would confirm pretty quickly if it's the MBA or the HDDs.
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Hey, has anyone here installed bootcamp on one of the new Airs yet? I'm really really curious about performance on some back catalogue games like WoW and most source engine games. I can't for the life of me find any benchmarks for this stuff under windows.
You're right, a totally flat design would be nicer, although i'm not sure how feasible;Bboy AJ said:
Just lift your MacBook and loot at it edge-on. Now imagine that part where it deviates from the edge wall and curves, didn't exist. JUST the wall, with a flat belly.
With this design, I was doing some measurements on my MBP and I could see them getting down to exactly 1cm thick. Maybe 1.1.. but seriously, it's a design I definitely wouldn't mind seeing. Imagine an all-flat design, no curves except the round corners of course. Imagine how thin they may be able to make it this way, iPhone 4 style. It literally would feel like a block of aluminum.
Thinking about it now, I have a question for you all. How much would you miss the self-illuminating Apple logo on the back of MacBooks if it was removed? I could see them making a black Apple logo as they do on the iMacs, if they need to remove the illumination feature in order to make the screen piece thinner. Does the Air illuminate? How thin is the screen segment in comparison to the MBP's?
About the keyboard, I also have the shinning/greasing problem i've seen come up with gaffers a lot. I use the lint free cloth that comes with MB and individually scrub each key, works well enough for a few days. Trick is to always keep your hands (more importantly, fingertips) soapy clean. Even a swipe of your hand through your seemingly clean hair every now and then, will result in shine keys.Meus Renaissance said:
I wonder if there's a better matte material the could use for the keys, there has to be. It's such a non-issue that it's barely a non-issue, but it can be annoying for us neat freaks. The trackpad also has this effect, however unnoticeable. Just lift your MacBook and view the trackpad at an angle, revealing the reflection of the MB monitor, and you'll see it really is made of glass, as well as all the smudges and whatnot.
Also, will they update the key for expose/dashboard in future MacBooks/keyboards? Surely they don't plan to keep these two buttons.
We all know how useless dashboard is, definitely unworthy for a key imo, and now that we have mission control i'm not sure how relevant expose is for its own key.. maybe a mission control key instead of the dashboard one? Or am I alone in my inactive use of widgets? Found it to be a memory hog constantly being used even when not in use
I didn't know that.. oh and since everyone has already posted their hardware info, here's mine (MacBook Pro 15" 09 iirc, bought it sealed on craigslist, saved a few hundred);
[Magic Mous which I rarely use, and 1TB Toshiba HDD)
No Lion = no fancy info
due to my country dilemma if some of you remember form that thread), so more info;
Have my HDD currently partitioned to 260GB for Mac HD, and 60GB for Win 7 Bootcamp usage. I find myself with only a few gigs space on each lately, so i'm buying a 500GB soon.
Have had this MBP more than a year now, but it feels much longer than that. I love it, will never go back. Before I used a Viao but that broke down horribly over the years, then a thick Toshiba which also broke down and died. Thankfully my MBP is still going strong, despite nearly 24/7 usage out of it. I hope to upgrade when the refreshes hit if major enough (what's the rumors on that btw?), + along with a display.
[Magic Mous which I rarely use, and 1TB Toshiba HDD)
No Lion = no fancy info
due to my country dilemma if some of you remember form that thread), so more info;
Have my HDD currently partitioned to 260GB for Mac HD, and 60GB for Win 7 Bootcamp usage. I find myself with only a few gigs space on each lately, so i'm buying a 500GB soon.
Have had this MBP more than a year now, but it feels much longer than that. I love it, will never go back. Before I used a Viao but that broke down horribly over the years, then a thick Toshiba which also broke down and died. Thankfully my MBP is still going strong, despite nearly 24/7 usage out of it. I hope to upgrade when the refreshes hit if major enough (what's the rumors on that btw?), + along with a display.
AbsoluteZero
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Tedesco! said:
If you're using it with a notebook their dock-like capabilities are priceless.
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Gaming and Steam are just better on Windows. Period. And I really don't mind going through the trouble to install Bootcamp. So I'm really curious, and haven't seen anyone do it yet. Obviously it won't be my main gaming platform, but the thought of curling up in bed with a tiny laptop and still being able to do some gaming on it is a pretty good one. Minecraft under the sheets!sn1pes said:
I know all the games will run and be perfectly playable, I'm just curious what settings/res/perf combo is gonna be needed.
Synth_floyd
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I really feel like the current Macbook air is the end of laptop evolution. It's super thin, light, sexy, all flash storage and no optical drive. What other major features could they add, besides just making the processors more powerful (and I guess putting in a dedicated graphics card)? Obv the Macbook pros are going to be redesigned next year without an optical drive and likely some kind of optical/ssd combo. I wonder in the next few years what will differentiate the macbook pros and airs. Screen size? Processor power?
Xal-Shoota
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Im about to sell my souped up 07' Macbook Pro and get an iPad! Do you guys think I could get 800$ for ...
A 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro, has everything standard, includes a charger, buttons and keyboard in great shape...
- Added the 7200rpm Hard Drive
- Upgraded to 4 GB of ram from 2 GB
- Upgraded to Lion!
- Almost perfect condition, thanks to a speck case thats never been off of it!
Or is that still too much? I originally thought 600$ was fair until a mac-value site said its retail value was 1000$!
A 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro, has everything standard, includes a charger, buttons and keyboard in great shape...
- Added the 7200rpm Hard Drive
- Upgraded to 4 GB of ram from 2 GB
- Upgraded to Lion!
- Almost perfect condition, thanks to a speck case thats never been off of it!
Or is that still too much? I originally thought 600$ was fair until a mac-value site said its retail value was 1000$!
Take it back to the Apple store, i'm sure they will help you.Greyface said:Oh fuck something's wrong with my MBA trackpad. It doesn't depress properly anymore and I can only get a click by pressing a corner. The same phenomena happened to my old MBP; I'm cursed
@Synth_floyd, I feel the same but until I can get a decent priced MBA with 500GB SSD, I can't switch. Honestly, the minimum I can bear to have is 320 and it's killing me already.
Benjamin1981
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Ok i got my 27" iMac today. It is too damn big. My neck hurts because i have to move my head constantly to see everything that is going on the screen. Sounds crazy, i know. But i'm going back to a 24" cinema display.
And the screen has a yellow taint too which makes it even easier to send the imac back to Amazon.
And the screen has a yellow taint too which makes it even easier to send the imac back to Amazon.
Crazymoogle
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Is the 24" Cinema Display an old model? Don't see a hint of it on the canadian store...
Crazymoogle
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Jasoco said:
Yeah, that's what had me confused. They have the 27" thunderbolt but at a thousand dollars (inching towards $1200 thanks to our wonderful sales taxes), so I was looking to see if they had a smaller option. I mean, it's a nice display, but may as well shell out for the iMac at that price. Still leaning towards the 13" air, though.
LyleLanley
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shira said:
I can see why he'd want it, on my laptop I like to have all my music which for me at the moment is around 225GB. Add in photos, a few videos, all my apps and whatnot and it fills up really quickly.
Crazymoogle
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Jasoco said:
Single chip? Well that's a tricky question because there are different classes of flash. The stuff in your iPhone isn't exactly the same as the stuff in your MacBook. Density is still going up, but the average SSD is literally stacked with chips. I think the biggest MLC NAND die right now is 8GB? Stuff like the iPad uses much higher density chips (16 and soon 32) but they have other performance disadvantages and aren't cheap.
You probably aren't going to see TBs of laptop SSD storage until we discover new breakthroughs in lithography. We can probably hit 1TB in a 2.5" drive (probably plenty of chips though) and then it's really up to guys like Intel to figure out what's next when we hit 10nm.
Here is something for nostalgia purposes:
Count me as one of those who loved their Cube. My first Mac as a matter of fact.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/03Apple-Puts-Power-Mac-G4-Cube-on-Ice.html
Count me as one of those who loved their Cube. My first Mac as a matter of fact.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/07/03Apple-Puts-Power-Mac-G4-Cube-on-Ice.html
Battersea Power Station
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Anyone know of a good sub-$50 webcam?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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The 27" monitors are the exact same height as the previous 24" monitors they made. They're just wider.JackEtc said:
betweenthewheels
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Battersea Power Station said:
I'd like to know this as well.
Does macam work with newer webcams?
fierrotlepou
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So I'm about to buy some RAM for my high end 15" Macbook Pro. I need 8GB. Any ram you guys recommend? And maybe a link to the website or something. I'm a total noob!
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
NEOPARADIGM
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fierrotlepou
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NEOPARADIGM said:
That was fast, thanks. Too bad they don't deliver internationally.
Would this be good:
KINGSTON LAPTOPMEMORY 8 GB DDR3 1333MHZ KIT (2 X 4 GB)
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Or this:
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=82E796F8A5CA7304&cat=RAM
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I had the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema 720p and it worked great.Battersea Power Station said:
sweetvar26
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Okay, I need to ask this question, I always had it in my mind. This is not just a Macbook question but could be used for any laptop with a Lithium Ion battery.
If you use your laptop a lot, say around 5- 10 hours, some laptop might need couple of charges but in my case, the new Macbook Air requires one charge with an average life of around 5 hours. The question is, do I need to leave it plugged in all the time or do I have to keep using the battery and recharge it completely and then re-use it till it discharges again?
So it is more like, more battery cycles vs one or none battery cycle per day?
If you use your laptop a lot, say around 5- 10 hours, some laptop might need couple of charges but in my case, the new Macbook Air requires one charge with an average life of around 5 hours. The question is, do I need to leave it plugged in all the time or do I have to keep using the battery and recharge it completely and then re-use it till it discharges again?
So it is more like, more battery cycles vs one or none battery cycle per day?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Sentry said:
Just a little bit of additional height, but I guess I should clarify that it's just the iMacs that are the same physical height overall.
The additional space is almost all in the width since it went from 16:10 to 16:9.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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He probably is.Sentry said:
I just always think iMac with Apple monitors.fierrotlepou
Member
Okay guys, I need some help. I've asked before but wasn't really helped. I'm about to upgrade my new MBP with some RAM or an SSD drive. What should I do?
In case of RAM: Is CRUCIAL ram good or not? Also, I can't buy on newegg since it's US only.
In case of SSD: which ones? Crucial?
Thanks in advance.
In case of RAM: Is CRUCIAL ram good or not? Also, I can't buy on newegg since it's US only.
In case of SSD: which ones? Crucial?
Thanks in advance.
I've given up hope that there will be a retina display iPad this year and now have to make a choice:
- Keep 11" Air (1.4 GHz, 2 GB Memory, 64GB ssd) and add the new cheapest Mac Mini
- Sell 11" Air, get the new 13" Air with the best specs
- Sell 11" Air, get new Mac Mini with best specs and an iPad 2