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Quote: Originally Posted by RonHurley ?\tThe 5 Hour Battery Life quoted for the Air is with the Solid State drive. It will be interesting to see what the battery life is under real world conditions with the spinning hard drive Not sure on th…
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Odd that Appleinsider don't do a comparison to the Toshiba R500 as this is the most obvious comparison. They also mention, but don't do the specs in that table of the Toughbook Y or W series (ideally they should show both).
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism AnandTech may be wrong about this being a mini-Merom C2D. The developer notes for the MBA state that it supports SSE4, so this might be a Penryn in here.? http://developer.apple.com/documenta...loperNote.html…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NewMacConvert When I was graduating from college in 2006 I had noticed something around campus, tons of Macbooks. The little white things were popping up all over the place. I see the MacBook Air as a natural fit f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Me too. Remember the Macs that were taller than they were wide, matching a sheet of notebook paper. That made sense back then! Who would have thought the screen would be turn 90˚ and stretched out even wider.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism So you want a 4:3 notebook? I'd say that Apple knows that the public would look upon a 4:3 display as going backwards, not forwards. I love 4:3 as it optmizied for typing and surfing, but I do agree tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I complain about it just once and I'm bullying? The problem I have is that it looks really dumb when written. I think it sounds dumb when spoken too, but that's a different matter. I think it shows a difficul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Come on, Dudes! NYCMacFan is a guy on the internet so of course he understands what can and can't be done better than the dozens of Apple engineers who have been working on this project for the past year. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder You missed the possibility that that space is necessary to provide structural integrity. When you make something thinner, it's more apt to bend and flex. From what I've read, they needed some material …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM The real bottom line is that you either did not read or did not comprehend what I posted. You don't know what the change in backlight really does to the panel shape. Or whether or not there are other things i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM 1 & 2 They didn't show the guts of the screen side. There may be antennas and other things in that "wasted space". The screen backlight setup could be forcing a certain geometry. They might be showing a si…
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From Endgadget The speaker is mono only (not stereo), so your audio output will suffer a bit. The audio comes out of the keyboard holes in the right side, and it sounds a little funny. Does this mean that I spend $2,000 on a laptop that suppos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram How do you know that it's wasted space? Easy. 1. Tapering of case shows little is in there. 2. The look at the inside in Steve job's presentation. 3. The fact that the EXISTING macbook is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I think it will eventually, but the MacBook is a general purpose consumer notebook that, I suspect, is their only computer. Perhaps in a couple years it will be external but optical media is still very curren…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism These also don't have ful size keyboards, displays or low-voltage CPUs. They are slow and uncomfortable to use for long durations. IT'S NOT AN ULTRA-PORTABLE. IT'S AN ULTRA-LIGHT "REGULAR" PORTABLE.. Act…
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Okay a macbook is 13.3 with the same footprint but thicker. It's 5lbs. Let's say I wait a year for the LED screens to be there too. I then open it up. I throw out the innards of the superdrive. I yank the HDD and put in a 1.8inch one and have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xtrmtrk My 12" PowerBook G4 is probably the best piece of technology I've ever purchased; I travel extensively with it, and it's just perfect. I can watch DVDs in the middle of the Australian outback, I have 3 spare b…
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I just don't understand why the MBA doesn't match the competition in size/weight. Again, a Toshiba R500 is 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.77 and 2.375 lbs. Now the R500 is 12inch screen, but includes an optical drive and a ton of ports. Longer battery life and the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That would make sense. Tekserve is very good, and Dave, one of the owners I know, is a very honest guy. they do good work. This opens up the same option with any potential battery replacement. Hopefully th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I already said the difference was small, and it is. It's not going to be 40 grams for a 64 GB SSD, more like 20. Overall, even if it were 32 grams (an ounce) it would make no discernible difference to th…