***Official MacBook Air Thread***

Thinking about it though, I want to game.

I'm defo gonna get a few k extra so the choices are.

Macbook Pro & High end Pc
Macbook Air & Mac pro

I'm thinking the first choice to be honest.
 
Isotope said:
Haha, point proven in one foul swoop.
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not really, different target market. Macbook pro is a primary machine, students would likely have one as their computer and not have another machine. Macbook air has to be a second mobile workstation for someone who has a more powerful machine in the office.

Then again, US students are a bit different, with a years tuition at a top flight university costing upwards of $40 000, they (or their parents) can probably afford $1500 on a laptop.
 
Anewbe4u said:
It will fit in my laptop bag, isn't this pretty much the point?
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So will most Laptops? and a Macbook Pro or standard is hardly big.

As for the post after, Mac for gaming = fail, get a PC with a 8800GT, Core2Duo and 2Gb ram. Sorted and no Mac £2000 or more is going to better it. (about £650 or so for the whole PC minus monitor I'd say roughly)
 
Jihad said:
So will most Laptops? and a Macbook Pro or standard is hardly big.

As for the post after, Mac for gaming = fail, get a PC with a 8800GT, Core2Duo and 2Gb ram. Sorted and no Mac £2000 or more is going to better it. (about £650 or so for the whole PC minus monitor I'd say roughly)
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Well, it won't beat a mac pro with the same graphics card. It's an expensive way to do things but if you could afford it then I'd go for the mac pro with an upgraded graphics card and the macbook air. It gives you the most portable laptop and the most powerful system back home, you'd get a reasonably powerful laptop and a reasonably powerful desktop...what advantage would that give?
 
bigredshark said:
Well, it won't beat a mac pro with the same graphics card.
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I can't see a Mac Pro with 26Gb ram and an 8 core Xeon being much better than a Core2Duo with 2/4Gb, providing you're not playing at 1024x768. :) (because no games even need that much yet)

Just look at how much quad core is used in games atm, that's right barely used at all.

Though obviously Supreme Commander may well benefit from the large amount of ram/cores, but that's one game.
 
No, it's not going to be a whole huge amount better but it'll likely be slightly quicker. The memory bandwidth on those boxes will help as well...

What it will be wonderful for is encoding. I have a box with 4x 3Ghz Xeons (so theoretically half the mac pro's cpu power) which rips DVD ISOs in handbrake at 350fps (under linux). Thats a full length feature in less than 10 minutes...

So the power is wasted on gaming but if you're doing CPU heavy work then it's worth it for that. I'd still prefer a really powerful desktop and a really portable laptop to average power in both...that suits the way I work but it won't suit everyone.
 
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