New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by blinkingled on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @04:27PM (#2787274)

Are you sure you do that all at once without slowing down on a MBA with 2GB RAM? I just tried my regular use case - Mail, Firefox, MS Word and Excel plus Adium and it was 350Mb into swap and switching apps wasn't all that instantaneous.

What does your swap usage show (Activity Monitor - page outs with all that workload?

However with 4GB it shouldn't be that much of an issue for this workload. So I might just bite the bullet given the Sandy Bridge and TB upgrades!

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Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by tgood on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @08:23PM (#2788024)

I have for the last 12 days, and this was after using an iMac from years back which processed everything excessively. Right now my swap usage is 640 MB. Worth mentioning, I am returning it tomorrow to get the latest offering. Probably in the same setup.

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Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by chopsueyar on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @05:17PM (#2787460)

Especially $100 bucks more for an i7 chip.

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