** The Official WWDC 2012 Thread **

When have they ever explicitly said that?

Apple are about pushing computing forward. Just like was said in the keynote, this is how they see the laptops of the future going.
 
Ah nice, I thought with the pro's being so sought after the airs may not be readily available too. Do the stores keep a stock of the various specs that you can choose? Looking at the base 13 inch with the increased ram to 8gb.

It'll be my first MacBook purchase so I thought it was worth checking before I drive to Manchester from stoke to purchase my new baby )
 
Goodie said:
Ah nice, I thought with the pro's being so sought after the airs may not be readily available too. Do the stores keep a stock of the various specs that you can choose? Looking at the base 13 inch with the increased ram to 8gb.

It'll be my first MacBook purchase so I thought it was worth checking before I drive to Manchester from stoke to purchase my new baby )
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They keep all the default configurations you see on the site. If you wanted the base with 8GB you're in for a wait.
 
JonB said:
Walk into an apple store, ask for required model, pay and then leave store?

They're available now. :)
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I phoned up asked about exchanging my week old one for new and they said yes we have the 13 , 1 hour later new macbook air upgrade and very happy customer:D:D !

the only one not held in large amounts will be the retina pros said the apple guy . hope this helps.
 
pioneer2000 said:
I don't get the fuss - the weight and size saving is far more useful than the ability to ugrade the ram... and storage wise, everything is going cloud / local server based so nobody needs huge SSD's.

Even 8GB will run anything and nothing is going to really change that for the forseeable future.
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Not for me. And I won't be the only one. If I want thin I'd get an Air. Won't be getting a new MBP as I can't upgrade it or be bothered with adapters and external ****.
 
pioneer2000 said:
I don't get the fuss - the weight and size saving is far more useful than the ability to ugrade the ram... and storage wise, everything is going cloud / local server based so nobody needs huge SSD's.

Even 8GB will run anything and nothing is going to really change that for the forseeable future.
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I would have to disagree.

with 8GB of RAM and Lion i still get page outs with only a small number of apps open. Xcode, photoshop, mail, ical and chrome (8-10 tabs)

i expect ML to be more of a memory hog than Lion.

If you're just running some basic apps like Word, then 8GB will be fine. However, you don't buy a £1700 laptop to run office and check your emails.
 
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kierenharrold said:
I would have to disagree.

with 8GB of RAM and Lion i still get page outs with only a small number of apps open. Xcode, photoshop, mail, ical and chrome (8-10 tabs)

i expect ML to be more of a memory hog than Lion.
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Of course Lion pages out. It's based on UNIX and thus it will page out unused RAM for apps that want active memory. I should imagine you'd see paging out with 16GB. My 2009 iMac pages out (12GB)

Personally seeing as memory management has improved in 10.7 from 10.6 I should think that 10.8 will be even better at managing memory. Still because it's soldered in I'd want 16GB in a MacBook Pro if I was buying one but that's because a: I'd work it hard and b: I'd be keeping it for five years.
 
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