Opinions on new MacBook Air
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Depends what you are doing, but yes, you will.
Currently trying to decide whether to sell my 2011 MBP and to grab a new MBA. The performance will be roughly the same, it's the battery life that truly appeals. Also trying to figure out how much I'd get, and how much I'd save by not upgrading now and selling in a few years time. I'd say the difference would be about £50, which is worth it for double the battery life!
My god I am tempted, I just don't know if I could justify it alongside my desktop. It will be useful at uni I suppose, the battery life is a big plus to me, I used to hate taking my laptop to uni for it to run out of battery within about two classes.
How are macs for upgrading yourself? I know some could update the RAM quite easily, but I don't know if that's the case any more.
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With the Airs it's pretty much WYSIWYG m8. No upgrading, too tightly packed in
In that case I'd probably upgrade to 8GB anyway, for the sake of £50-60.
About 2/3 of all the Apple hardware I've ever owned has had wifi problems out of the box. It comes with the territory.
Thankfully fixes usually arrive within a couple of weeks.
From what I've read, not really. Also the i7s appear to get slightly less battery life.
Id say sell the MBP and get the iMac, the Haswell for iMac is still a rumour but who knows
Not to the point that it'll make a noticeae difference. We're talking minutes here.
As usual, whether the i5 upgrade will be worth it will depend on whether or not the performance improvement of around 15% or so will be of benefit. The new 1.3GHz is roughly comparable to my 2011 MBP 13 (2.3GHz i5), so for me, I won't be upgrading to it. If the MBA becomes too slow, an extra 15% won't rely make all that much difference.
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Mine's still sitting in Germany waiting for the UK leg of its trip from China. been there since sunday 
The exact spec I have ordered can't wait for it to come coming from a 2010 Core 2 Duo MB Air! Ordered on Saturday and its only moved to preparing to Dispatch today I think and still has not been dispatched
. My estimated delivery date is 1-3 of July!
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Hope you're right.
As long as I get it by friday I don't mind , but the lack of UPS updates is frustrating.