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Re:MacBook Air hacked with internal EV-DO -- finally lives u... by codesurgeon on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @02:18AM (#177329)
> Combing from someone whose last two laptop purchases were 17 inch screens, this might not mean much.

I'd buy a second laptop as light and easy to take along as the Macbook Air is. With WLAN HotSpots popping up everywhere I roam, I don't mind the missing wireless connectivity too much.

It's just the availabe combo of slow harddrives that is killing the device for me :'( According to ArsTechnica's "No Spin" review, not even the SSD option saves you from frequent idling.

link to the review: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook-air-ssd-revi...

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Re:MacBook Air hacked with internal EV-DO -- finally lives u... by ivankirigin on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @01:32PM (#177649)
Having driven cross country twice in the past 5 months, I tell you that wifi is not nearly as common as you might hope. Edge network from an iPhone was absolutely necessary.
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Re:MacBook Air hacked with internal EV-DO -- finally lives u... by mattdennewitz on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @02:55PM (#177706)
theres nothing like checking in code between shows (on tour w/ my band) from a car flying down the highways of rural nebraska :)
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Re:MacBook Air hacked with internal EV-DO -- finally lives u... by ivankirigin on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @06:39PM (#177861)
I had to get wifi to support http://tipjoy.com while in Cheyenne Wyoming. While it's the biggest town in Wyoming, I'm pretty sure any single block in SF has more hotspots than the whole town.
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