Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air
by cytzol on Saturday August 13, 2011 @08:09PM
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> 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.
Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air
by mistermann on Saturday August 13, 2011 @02:52AM
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Does your i7 PC have an SSD drive in it?
Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air
by Que on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:25PM
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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.
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.