Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand

Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by grecy on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:36PM (#11507807)

I have a 2012 Air and it's the best computer I've ever owned.

Coding, testing, Lightroom, Photoshop and some FCP, with >10 hours battery light and extremely light for carrying around every day.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by raarts on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:01PM (#11507952)

Same here. I 'my just waiting for the new Air. Slanted keyboard and battery life. Not interested at all in anything else. But I really want 16Gigs. Running Chrome and a few VM'S needs more RAM.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by cloudjacker on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:46PM (#11507866)

Ditto

I had hoped they would have released a 16gb RAM version sometime over the last 4 years, but alas no, here we are debating if it has been abandoned or not.

There are no compromises with this machine. Even the integrated graphics chip has seen improvements in both drivers and how newer frameworks use it. Its a beast. More RAM would future proof it for another four years.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by superuser2 on Friday April 15, 2016 @06:13PM (#11508008)

>There are no compromises with this machine.

Once you get used to Retina, that is unfortunately not true anymore.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by skrause on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:32AM (#11509831)

Are you sure it's a 2012 Air? Because I have one and with a brand new battery and light use you maybe get 7-8 hours battery life out of it.

The 2013 Air with the Haswell CPU is the one which gives you far more than 10 hours of battery life.

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Re:Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand by grecy on Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:10PM (#11516971)

Mine's a 2012, when it was new if I used it lightly it was getting 10 hours, it's a bit lower than that now.

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