On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:25 AM, mmalc Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used an SSD-based Air over the holidays. One of the new ones ? > It's a wonderful machine, and much nippier than I might have expected > -- as others have reported, apps launch snappily. I didn't notice any > particular heistation when saving files locally, but installing the OS > and copying across large data sets (GBs+, such as my music...) did > take "a long time". That's about what I was anticipating. > My normal usage patterns, though, are perhaps somewhat different from > many others'. I "need" several boot partitions, and typically carry > tens of gigabytes of data around with me. I get by with 2 boot partitions, but also need 10s of Gigs of data > More importantly, I found > the screen surprisingly "cramped" (and to think that 1024x768 used to > be luxury...). I find it crampe too, but the thing is otherwise so pleasant to use. Its not just the weight. It feels different in lots of good ways. Another small thing is that *so far*, I don't like the new all in one trackpad, but find the pad and button on Wifey's air to be ideal. > I could probably live without the ethernet connection > (although I did get a USB "dongle"), and having the external CD-drive > would have been fine, but the combination of space and screen real > estate was a killer for me. Even if one carries the external Superdrive, the Air is still about 500g (more than a pound) lighter than a macbook and one goess SSD, then the requirement for carrying an external drive would be independent of which machine one chose. [...] > (If this hasn't put you off, I have a lightly-used SSD-based Air for > sale... ;-) Can you accept a purchase order in Euro from a German non-profit organisation ? Mark. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
