The Air’s Spot in the Lineup

Re:The Air’s Spot in the Lineup by mmastrac on Monday October 25, 2010 @11:54PM (#1832882)

It's going to be a while before the specs on the Air match the bottom-of-the-barrel MacBook. I bought one of those for my family and aside from the SSD, it smokes the Air in performance. It's only 2.15kg too, vs. 1.05kg for the Air.

I don't see the skinniness (sharpness?) of the Air as a benefit worth trading your memory and CPU speed for at this time. The MacBook we have performs well, but I think taking some of the oomph out of it would really hurt the experience.

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Re:The Air’s Spot in the Lineup by mlinsey on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:13AM (#1832938)

For most everyday tasks that ordinary users do, the presence of the SSD will make the Air seem like the fastest computer they have ever used. Only desktop games and flash-heavy websites will highlight the relatively ancient CPU.

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Re:The Air’s Spot in the Lineup by archangel_one on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:21AM (#1833275)

I don't agree on "only" - another way of putting that is that the Air weighs less than half what the Pro does. The Pro isn't that heavy in absolute terms, but the Air is still going to be nicer to carry about the place - I'd seriously think about that if it was going to be a secondary computer.

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