Macbook Air + Windows
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No you don't. But what is the point in buying a MacBook and running only windows on it? Sounds silly to me.
Do yourself a favor and go buy a cheaper net-book that has Windows on it pre-installed and save yourself some cash in the process.
Do yourself a favor and go buy a cheaper net-book that has Windows on it pre-installed and save yourself some cash in the process.
Trouble is its soooo shiny, every time I pass the Apple store I have to play with it.
There is nothing I have seen on the market that is as thin for this sort of money.
Granted. But then at least try and use OS X first for around two weeks. If you just can't get on with it, then put Windows on.
I have just got a MacBook too, using it for around two weeks now and I can't imagine how I was stuck on Windows for so long. Windows Seven is great...OS X is just better and easier.
I say get the MacBook Air as yes, it's an awesome machine. Then use OS X first and all the issues you come up with on OS X - try get workarounds for them first before just giving up and going to Windows.
I have just got a MacBook too, using it for around two weeks now and I can't imagine how I was stuck on Windows for so long. Windows Seven is great...OS X is just better and easier.
I say get the MacBook Air as yes, it's an awesome machine. Then use OS X first and all the issues you come up with on OS X - try get workarounds for them first before just giving up and going to Windows.
Just try OS X for a while and you will see that it is a very logical OS that is very very easy to get to grips with. There are countless applications for the ones you think you might 'loose' from Windows, if there are which is rare, then you can get a program such as Parallels which will run a virtual machine of a windows install.
Comes in very handy when used with spaces because you can flick from OS to OS with the command and arrow buttons. Very cool
I have had Apple machines in the past (iBook G4, Mac Mini) but always had issues trying to be productive on them.
This would be a second laptop to replace my iPad, so OSX might work fine for leisure browsing and videos compared to .NET Microsoft Development!
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The easiest way would be to re-install a minimal OS X install and then use the rest of the space for Bootcamp running Windows 7.
Why you would want to do this escapes me. OS X is what makes the Air what it is. Instant sleep, 6 second boot, battery life are all there because OS X is so closely tied to the hardware.
Samsung make a thin laptop that looks a little like the Air. Get that if you just want to run Windows on a shiny thing...
Why you would want to do this escapes me. OS X is what makes the Air what it is. Instant sleep, 6 second boot, battery life are all there because OS X is so closely tied to the hardware.
Samsung make a thin laptop that looks a little like the Air. Get that if you just want to run Windows on a shiny thing...
Yup.
Nah.
OS X is nice, and I am interested to see if Lion is any less dull than the rumours suggest, but currently Windows 7 is my favourite OS as it feels snappier and cleaner than OS X.
[I am a Mac and Windows user, so this is not a fanboy thing, just giving an alternative opinion!
Each to their own, of course!]6 second boot?
My Macbook ran slightly warmer under Windows (Vista) and as mentioned your battery life will take a hit, but if you can deal with that then go for it. It's not like you'll be throwing your restore discs out so you can still try OSX as and when you want to.
Also until they dumped them at the end of life, more expensive as well.
Compared to the rest of the ultra portable machines, the Air is not a bad deal.
The closest Dell now is a the V130 Vostro which suffers poor battery life.
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Yeah from after POST OS X boots in around 6 (ish) seconds on an Air.
This video says 12 seconds but at lot of that is the EFI doing POST.
Strange, I have a macbook air 11 and maximum boot is 12-14 seconds. Same goes for others. What do you count as post post (if you know what I mean)?
Cleaner? That's a new one to me. I'd say OS X and its app ecosystem clearly have tighter UI design standards, and OS X generally keeps conceptual things in better order too (look at the uniformity of System Preferences vs. the sprawling Control Panel).
I do agree that Windows is snappy to use, maybe more so than OS X. But my experience is coloured by using it on beefy desktops vs laptops!
I am not saying OS X is bad. They are both very good OSs. The Control Panel is very well laid out in Vista and 7. Plus you can just use the search so you don't even need to open the CP!
Installing apps like OS X [drag and drop] for Windows would be great, but then again, even a lot of OS X apps have to be installed via a wizard just as in Windows.
