MacBook Air Review - Page 3 - iPhone 3G

kokogirl · 02-25-2008, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by rxmxsh

If you cruise over to the Apple forums, this seems to be a spotty issue, regardless of router. There are some workarounds that pelle have come up with though....

Can you recommend a good apple forum that I can lurk in? This is my only current forum. Workarounds will likely frustrate me, honestly. Thanks again.

Ramesh · 02-25-2008, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kokogirl

Can you recommend a good apple forum that I can lurk in? This is my only current forum. Workarounds will likely frustrate me, honestly. Thanks again.

On my phone, so no link... Go to Apple.com and go to support then discussions.

jpmihalk · 02-25-2008, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kokogirl

Can you recommend a good apple forum that I can lurk in? This is my only current forum. Workarounds will likely frustrate me, honestly. Thanks again.

http://discussions.apple.com/categor...categoryID=239

That's the official Apple MacBook Air forum.

kokogirl · 02-26-2008, 12:43 AM

Thanks guys. I will check it out.

morgan · 02-26-2008, 06:54 PM

The only problem i have with it is I wish that it had a CDrom. Great for college students who have a long walk from campus though.

pc88 · 03-02-2008, 03:18 PM

like you, my 1st macbook air had a stuck pixel on black only and it glows bright blue in the middle part (rightside) of the display, so on every movie, i see it. lucky for me, the mac genius at the nyc store agreed and i got a new one last night.

i am almost afraid to open it today but will examine it with a collection of solid colors soon. i have another 14 days to return this one.

speed:
i think the speed of the macair is enough even to play with vlc a 18gb file wirelessly stored on an external nas unit. the file was a 1920x1080 movie captured with a macbook pro in m2t format. playing on the macair was pretty fluid and at a display of a few feet, looked almost as good as that ultra thin sony oled display for $2,500.

pc

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Originally Posted by rxmxsh

Ok, I promised I would do a little write-up/review. Here it is:

Screen:
Well, I am writing this on my SECOND MBA because the first one had a bad pixel. And I actually found ANOTHER one on this machine too! WTH?! No one has the MBA's in stock, so I'm stuck with this one for now. The second one is as noticeable, and seems to only show up after being on for a bit. Aside from that, the screen is amazing! Very clear, vivid, and bright. The ambient sensor works great.

Result: 3.5/5 (would be higher, but 2 dead pixels irk me)

Keyboard:
After using a MBP, MB and and iMac's keyboard, I think this is my favorite keyboard. It's not "mushy", and it's very responsive. I personally like the low profile keys and the back-lit feature. A good, solid keyboard

Result: 5/5

Touchpad/Trackpad:
Definitely growing on me. It's very large, which is good and bad. Good from the sense of using it, bad from the sense that when I type, I inadvertently will touch the pad and move the cursor to some random spot. I thought I could disable the trackpad when I type, but I can't. Using better form, this is avoidable though. The new features are great. I like the triple finger swipe, which will go forward and back with one motion. This works within finder and safari, which is pretty cool. I find this very using while browsing for files and pictures.

Result: 4/5

Performance:
Being 1.6Ghz, it's not a screamer, but it's not that bad. It renders webpages quickly and launches programs at a reasonable speed. I haven't tried anything too intense, but I have run excel, word, etc, and those are fine. The 2 GB of RAM really help. It definitely runs faster than I thought it would, so that scored some points in my book.

Result: 4/5

Overall:
Not a bad machine. The remote disk really acts efficiently. It installs at a speed that doesn't feel slow. Installing office did take a while, but I was installing firefox, updates, and other programs all at once. During this time, I felt no lag. The thinness of this machine is really nice. Also, the charger is not as breakaway as the MBP's or MB's. I have to be mindful that it doesn't get caught on one of the dogs. I think it would break away, but I'm not so sure. It's light, and very, VERY thin.

The coolness factor does make the machine more attractive.

Overall 4.3/5 (not an average of the above scores)

If anyone has any questions, let me know. I wrote this while watching TV.

I may have forgotten a thing or two to include.

Atlas · 03-05-2008, 06:46 PM

I'm so torn. I just got the MacBook in white, coming from an IBM notebook, and hooked on Mac from now on. Now the MBA is out and I really want one. My wife even offered to keep the MB for "around the house" when not on her iMac.
Sorry, I digress.
The fact that there is only one usb is what's holding me back. The lack of optical drive is annoying but manageable. But, one usb?!
How do you get around needing the usb for ethernet in a non wifi office and print when the usb is being used?
I apologize for the rant but can't believe a state of the art laptop has such a, for me at least, crippling lack of needed hardware.
Traveling between three offices for work, and two do not have wifi, would make the MBA perfect(with another usb)

Ramesh · 03-05-2008, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Atlas

I'm so torn. I just got the MacBook in white, coming from an IBM notebook, and hooked on Mac from now on. Now the MBA is out and I really want one. My wife even offered to keep the MB for "around the house" when not on her iMac.
Sorry, I digress.
The fact that there is only one usb is what's holding me back. The lack of optical drive is annoying but manageable. But, one usb?!
How do you get around needing the usb for ethernet in a non wifi office and print when the usb is being used?
I apologize for the rant but can't believe a state of the art laptop has such a, for me at least, crippling lack of needed hardware.
Traveling between three offices for work, and two do not have wifi, would make the MBA perfect(with another usb)

Why not a hub?