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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by ghshephard on Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:47AM (#5728714)
An alternative perspective - for people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker. Also, you really have to be a power user to need more than a MacBook Air can give you in terms of performance - my 2010 4GB 256 GB SSD MBair is plenty fast for me, and I'm probably pushing it harder than 95% of "road warriors" do.

It may be the case that people value the mobility so much that Apple isn't dropping the price on the MacBook Air. (Or, alternatively, people are no longer buying the heavier MacBook Pro, so they've dropped it's price.)

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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by cstross on Saturday May 18, 2013 @09:34AM (#5728847)
The rMBP premium doesn't just get you more power, though -- it gets you that lovely screen. If you have any eye trouble at all, a less-than-best quality panel is a real deal breaker.

(I speak as a former user of a 2010 4gb/256 SSD MBair myself. Couldn't go back to it, these days.)

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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by coldtea on Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:58AM (#5729136)
>An alternative perspective - for people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker.

I travel a lot, and even the 15" rMBP is not a "deal breaker".

It's funny how pathetic it would look to our fathers that we find 2.5 kg to much to carry around in a bag...

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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by chicagobob on Saturday May 18, 2013 @11:18AM (#5729193)
Agree 100%. I travel a lot and need more power. I currently have a 13" MBA, and am waiting to see what the next refresh offers, but am seriously looking at a 15" rMBP for my next machine. The screen is sooooo much better that the extra weight becomes a non issue (plus all the extra CPU power is huge too).
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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by manaskarekar on Saturday May 18, 2013 @12:20PM (#5729423)
"for people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker."

Just to put this into perspective, a medium sized t-shirt usually weighs 6-10 ounces (160-285 grams) approximately.

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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by smackfu on Saturday May 18, 2013 @12:30PM (#5729450)
OTOH, do you carry around a spare t-shirt in your laptop bag all the time?
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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by phamilton on Saturday May 18, 2013 @01:34PM (#5729639)
I often keep a hoodie in my bag.
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Re:MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU ref... by darkspaten on Saturday May 18, 2013 @11:44AM (#5729271)
> or people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker

I travel for business quite a bit (20-50,000 airmiles/year) and I traded in a 13" MBA for a 15" rMBP upon its release.

For me, it was an easy deal to exchange the laptop weight differential through unnecessary clothes or travel accessories for this gorgeous display and added (dev) computing power.

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