This whole solid state storage thing amazes me! I've heard that some systems are the same speed as regular disks and others are vastly faster. Mine honestly feels damn speedy! What happened? Does anyone else remember digital electronics class or was that sort of storage not supposed to be possible because of heat and noise concerns.;) Funny how that never worked out and doesn't look like it will either anytime soon.
These are my two buzz phrases so far for 2010, (Radio is dead, and mechanical storage is dead. heh On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > hello, > > in case its not been mentioned, the new Air comes with a USB memory card 8Gb > which has the OS on it for reinstall purposes. > On 8 Nov 2010, at 09:12, Paul Erkens wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > This sounds very interesting. How would I go about sharing the drive on my > macbook, so that an air could use it to install its OS? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0...@charter.net> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:31 AM > Subject: Re: accessibility of MacBook Air > > > You can share the DVD drive of the macbook pro, and the macbook air can use > the shared drive. > On Nov 7, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > >> Mary, >> >> I got the fattest 11 inch air I could get with 128 gb storage and 4gb >> memory. Apple makes a great product, but you pay for it but then again, you >> get what you pay for. So when I purchase an apple device, I only do it if I >> can get the most I can for what I want. I concur, 64 GB is hardly enough. >> Now the 13 incher goes up to 256 G; LOL I just wrote K instead of GB; hmmm, >> do you think I am tired from travel? >> >> I just cannot say enough about this Air! but just as in the windows world a >> netbook is sexy, it might not be for everyone. However, it surely is for me. >> >> I will find out more about methodologies for updating the OS; I'm not >> concerned, because I still have a macBook Pro to which I can hook the Air, >> but I realize I am unique perhaps in that, so I will find out and let folks >> know what I learn unless somebody else already knows how to do it for sure. >> >> Marlaina >> On Nov 7, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >> Marlaina, >> Your comment about the IPad was interesting. I've been pondering the >> possible purchase of an IPad or the Air and seeing pluses and minuses for >> both. I assume you are using Pages on the Air for all that note taking? I'd >> be curious if others' experiences with the bluetooth keyboard and the IPad >> mirrored yours. What keyboard were you using? Did you say you got the air >> with just 64gb of storage? Or did you upgrade? the price goes up mighty fast >> when you do that, but 64gb doesn't seem sufficient. >> >> mary >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
