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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Changes in Lion System Preferences As part of a trend that appears to feature multitouch gestures over mouse button clicks, the Exposé panel of System Preferences now presents a single hot key menu for…
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Well, my 11" MacBook Air arrived yesterday. I wired the money to Apple last Thursday (we don't like credit cards in europe *gg*) and it arrived on Monday. The MBA was shipped that day and waited for me when I got back from work.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe hs Window7 starter has maximum system requirements I know, it is only licensed to netbooks, but given the specs of the slate, wouldn't it qualify? Or is there a more specific list of maximum system requirements,…
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I wonder why HP didn't choose Win7 Starter (the netbook version of Win7). It would have given them the advantage of being able to install full-blown software, while needing less hardware power.
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Quote: Originally Posted by 11thIndian The proverbial "you" that is. ... it's very much a parallel to the comments I see about the Air. People in various groups decrying the machines deficiencies- when they're not deficiencies! It's called sp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism it's possible the C2D + Nvidia 320M could me more costly than te comparable chip-over-chip Core-i5/i7 if you look at Intel's price list. You could be right. I honestly don't know for sure, but I could imag…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 The problem is CoreiX (of the 18W TDP range) + IntelHD = really crippled Mac. Ultraportable or not. The last thing Apple will risk, IMO, is the MacBook Air being just an expensive netbook where you've go…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 IIRC after the "boinggg" sound (yes very technical here) you can hold down the eject key, or press and hold the trackpad/mouse button, and it will force-eject any discs in the drive. hmpf, could have thou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism When it comes to a physically mounted drive I can see the need for an eject button. Since Apple uses slot loading drives, not a tray loading drive with a nifty physical button on the door, they needed to have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Doesn't the MBA have the ability to mount external drives over wifi and thus would have them mounted thus require or at least justify a dismount / eject key? I could be totally wrong never having played w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PXT Whatever the Eject key on a Macbook Air actually does, it surely does not deserve its own hard key. Given that keyboard real estate is so precious why not drop it? You're right. I never though of this! No optica…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iDave If the base of the notebook is 11.25" wide, at 16:9 that means a depth of about 6.32". That allows about 1.5" for the trackpad. The 13" MBP trackpad is 3" deep. Of course, Apple can make the case as large as t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland How are the vertical traffic lights more practical? When clicking them it's less probable you might accidentally click a control. Why? Because the controls are off and away to the right, not just a hairs-breath…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn Your right, a 'touchpad' is not the same as a touchscreen. I wasn't implying that. The point is that they both support (the same) gestures. As for unergonomic, did you work with an iPad? This directly contr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland This is exactly my point. They needs "less breakthrough stuff" and more fixes to stuff that should have been seen to before. We don't use our computers for "breakthrough" features, we make far more use of the p…
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I agree with the mouse tracking. I have Win7 installed via BootCamp to play some games and the mouse responsiveness is a lot better. Mac OS X feels nearly sluggish in comparison. But that's only a small detail that fit into the "under the hood i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn But touch chances it all. Because to 'reach for your keyboard' is now the same distance (action) as to reach for your touch screen. So no time lost (if thats important) to be able to do anything, not just typing…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mario No, for productivity the keyboard is still king. [..] If you are proficient computer user you probably can touch type at least 80 wpm. [...] You can type up to 10 chars a second, and if those happen to be co…
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Funny, getting rid of scrollbars was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard that Mac OS X Lion will borrow some UI elements from iOS. They might also do something about how applications are launched. Maybe put them on the desktop like in …
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I think we all agree on some points here: 1. Apple needs to work on their drivers and Mac OS X to optimize it for gaming. That's very obvious when you play the same game on the same machine in Windows and Mac OS X. 2. Apple doesn't offer a Mac…