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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me Oh, for Heaven's sakes. The web pages that you linked to make it clear that lithium-ion batteries--and particularly the lithium-ion batteries used in the MacBook Air--are pretty much worry-free. You do not have …
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Btw, do you think Lion will be a bit slower than Snow Leopard on the MBA? Will it be a good idea to update, or will the MBA feel "lighter" on the current OSX version?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me [...] It certainly does not merit the FUD posted here. I don't know how Acrobat Pro works on Mac, that's why I asked. But I can talk you about the PC. On the PC, it registers as software to be initialized at …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The MBA chips are low voltage chips and they supposedly throttle down when they get hotter. This won't show up in short benchmark tests but will on CPU-intensive tasks. I'm not sure if anyone has tested this …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You should reread Post No. 4 and take RobM's comments to heart. The Geekbench scores for a 2.13 MacBook Air are nearly double the score of my PowerMac G5 at home. My G5 can do anything that an Intel-based Mac ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Three year old chip versus brand new chip. I meant the CPU performance of the Macbook Air compared to the CPU performance of a Macbook Pro with a similar CPU, not with a brand new chip. If the MBA is sl…
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I don't like what Apple is doing. They release yet another machine with bad graphics before they fixed the hardware problems in MacBooks. Believe me, I hate to say this, but I don't see any quality advantage of Apple products over PCs anymore. I'd s…
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Quote: Originally posted by gregmightdothat Actually, this is a problem with the money Bono and Bush have raised...a lot of it is funneled through "faith-based" channels that preach abstinence rather than safe sex practices, and spend a lot more …
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1-There's no detailed information about how these people help to fight AIDS. All organizations with good reputation provide details about their strategy. The only reputable name here is "Bono", or "U2". Sincerely, I don't know why I should trust Bon…
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If Steve Jobs gives green light to this project, I'll begin to see the Apple logo not as a symbol of good technology for creative people, but as a weak ideal of ethics that I disagree with. It's not the first time that Steve Jobs does stupid stuff i…
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Quote: Originally posted by kresh It's just a feel good thing. It makes people who would buy one feel like their $0.47 cents is really making a difference. So here you go and buy a red iPod, show it off to all your friends, while patting your…
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I'm sorry, but I believe this is a bad idea. First of all, you don't know where is your money going: I visited the official "red product" website, and it's still empty, without any real details about how they plan to help fight AIDS (oh yes, they ha…