Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air

Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by Jach on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:27AM (#2880361)

I'd probably take the Air, try it out, decide I didn't like it or Mac, and resell it. Buy the original thing I saw, or something else cheaper and nicer, and treat myself to a large steak afterwards.

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by Que on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:58AM (#2880419)

I have had my new Macbook Air for about 3 weeks now, I am primarily a Windows developer. Let me tell you something, after 3 weeks with Lion (with VMWare Fusion for Visual Studio) I am fairly positive I will never buy or make a PC again.

I cannot explain this, these are things I never thought I would even think let alone say. The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram.

The gestures and infinite desktops on Lion make it so much more usable than a default Windows machine or any other Linux variant I use.

I just wanted to chime in since you said >decide I didn't like it or Mac

Which, trust me, if you care about productivity or are amazed by superior resource management, not liking it would simply be an unjust bias coming to fruition.

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by cytzol on Saturday August 13, 2011 @08:09PM (#2882351)

> The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram.

Which is... odd. I bought an Air in December, and stopped using it (gave it to a family member) because I couldn't stand how slow it was compared to my hand-built Windows desktop. I'm talking ~10 seconds after waking from sleep before it would even recognise that I was typing on the keyboard, and persistent beachballing whenever I had too many tabs or a VM open (again, for Visual Studio). The gestures were nice, but they're nothing my multi-button mouse didn't solve.

I'm not saying your experiences are wrong, but... it's strange to see someone make the same transition that I did, only to have the opposite result.

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by mistermann on Saturday August 13, 2011 @02:52AM (#2880496)

Does your i7 PC have an SSD drive in it?

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by Que on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:25PM (#2881436)

Yes, although it isn't the fastest possible. I don't notice a huge difference between the SSD in the primary PC and my 10k RPM Raptor I used to have as the OS disk.

I am not aware of the specs of the SSD in the Macbook.

This is exactly what I suspected was causing the perceived boost though.

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by Tichy on Saturday August 13, 2011 @03:23AM (#2880544)

Does your primary PC have a SSD?

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by sjs on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:36AM (#2880388)

No need to try it you've already made up your mind.

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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by Jach on Saturday August 13, 2011 @02:00AM (#2880422)

Sure, but my mind has changed on things before, I like to give it the opportunity to change, so I'd probably try it. And yes, I would probably dislike it. If you had made the argument that I could resell it for more if it was sealed, I think that's a stronger reason not to try it.

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