Re: MacBook Air updated
Thanks Daniel and Peter So - after digesting Daniel's advice and some other comments I've seen: The rumoured 12 inch macbook RD may suffer a little in battery life OR weight. It is also rumoured not to have a fan and to have a button-less touch pad. It will also be a brand-new product which may have some bugs to be ironed out. The just released macbook airs have a long battery life and are nice and light. They are a proven model - i love my 2011 model. Maybe I'm a peasant, but I don't see a big difference with the Retina Display on my work Macbook Pro and the normal display on my personal MBA. With Daniel's advice I'm starting to lean towards buying the Macbook Air and not waiting for the rumoured 12 inch macbook RD. Thanks Daniel cheers Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? On 1 May 2014, at 10:40 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Rod (Sorry for the delay in reply,…been a bit behind the eight ball at the moment,……) A hard one to call. Though it is rumoured to be a 12 model they're working on, it's hard to see where it would fit exactly. But it is rumoured to be a 12 model with a new case design, different trackpad, fabless design and retina display. I personally am not much of a revision one person. I always like to wait a revision before the bugs are ironed out,…especially when it comes to hardware. So I tend to wait to the next model of something new, before looking at it to consider to buy. Again, this is just me,… The other thing that kinda bugs me, is the Retina Display. Yes, they're nice and sharp and do a good job. But to me, it's a cut down resolution. I know you can run them higher etc, but to get the best out of it, like to increase the pixel resolution then reduce it down to make it best for retina. So the standard resolution on a 15 MacBook Pro for example, is less then what I like to work on. My MacBook Pro for example when I get it, I went with the higher specced Antiglare Screen, which works at 1680 x1050. If (when?) I have to upgrade to the MacBook Pro 15 Retina Display, it's best for Retina Display (i.e. native) is actually 1440x900. So in other words, less real working area for me to work in. Yes, I can increase it higher to work at an even higher resolution (1920x1200) but then it all gets very small in text size and from some of the reports I read puts more of a Drain on the Graphics System. (apparently the next revision of the MacBook Pro GPU will do a better job of this I'm lead to believe). So for me (for now anyway),….I find the normal displays better to work with. Again, your mileage may vary, and this may not affect you,…this is just my humble opinion for the use of my laptop ;) In saying that,…the 12 could be an absolute winner and does lots of cool things really well,…… :o) (if it actually is real and does appear,…hehe). I was saying to someone a while back, what Apple should do is make something like an iPad docking system. The base of the unit is a real computer,..and when you click in the iPad screen to it (however you do it), it turns into a full blown OSX machine with a large SSD, great power and graphics and all the ports we're used to. Then when you unplug the part that was the screen flicks over to iPad mode,..and runs iOS and works like just like an iPad does now. You then can sort of get a touch screen laptop with the best of both worlds in one machine. ;) Very cool. (There are a huge amount of holes in this scenario and lots of reasons why not to do it,…but I thought it would be cool anyway) :o) Oh, and yeh,..Retina Display on a MacBook Air would also eat into the battery life a little at the moment I would think as well. I think is part of the delay in the rumoured iWatch as well. If Apple are going to do it (and do it right), they want to realise a product that is great and works well and does everything perfectly,…not just bring something to market to match everyone else who is scrambling to get in first before Apple. And the battery life I think is a part issue as well (if some of the rumours are to be believed). Run a watch for a day and have to keep charging it at night?? Might annoy a lot of people. They want it to at least run a reasonable amount of time between charges. And I think the same can be said with any product at the moment. They want it to be great,..not just released. ;) Hope something there helps,….sorry about the ramble,…lol ;o) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry.
Re: MacBook Air updated
Hi Rod (Sorry for the delay in reply,…been a bit behind the eight ball at the moment,……) A hard one to call. Though it is rumoured to be a 12 model they're working on, it's hard to see where it would fit exactly. But it is rumoured to be a 12 model with a new case design, different trackpad, fabless design and retina display. I personally am not much of a revision one person. I always like to wait a revision before the bugs are ironed out,…especially when it comes to hardware. So I tend to wait to the next model of something new, before looking at it to consider to buy. Again, this is just me,… The other thing that kinda bugs me, is the Retina Display. Yes, they're nice and sharp and do a good job. But to me, it's a cut down resolution. I know you can run them higher etc, but to get the best out of it, like to increase the pixel resolution then reduce it down to make it best for retina. So the standard resolution on a 15 MacBook Pro for example, is less then what I like to work on. My MacBook Pro for example when I get it, I went with the higher specced Antiglare Screen, which works at 1680 x1050. If (when?) I have to upgrade to the MacBook Pro 15 Retina Display, it's best for Retina Display (i.e. native) is actually 1440x900. So in other words, less real working area for me to work in. Yes, I can increase it higher to work at an even higher resolution (1920x1200) but then it all gets very small in text size and from some of the reports I read puts more of a Drain on the Graphics System. (apparently the next revision of the MacBook Pro GPU will do a better job of this I'm lead to believe). So for me (for now anyway),….I find the normal displays better to work with. Again, your mileage may vary, and this may not affect you,…this is just my humble opinion for the use of my laptop ;) In saying that,…the 12 could be an absolute winner and does lots of cool things really well,…… :o) (if it actually is real and does appear,…hehe). I was saying to someone a while back, what Apple should do is make something like an iPad docking system. The base of the unit is a real computer,..and when you click in the iPad screen to it (however you do it), it turns into a full blown OSX machine with a large SSD, great power and graphics and all the ports we're used to. Then when you unplug the part that was the screen flicks over to iPad mode,..and runs iOS and works like just like an iPad does now. You then can sort of get a touch screen laptop with the best of both worlds in one machine. ;) Very cool. (There are a huge amount of holes in this scenario and lots of reasons why not to do it,…but I thought it would be cool anyway) :o) Oh, and yeh,..Retina Display on a MacBook Air would also eat into the battery life a little at the moment I would think as well. I think is part of the delay in the rumoured iWatch as well. If Apple are going to do it (and do it right), they want to realise a product that is great and works well and does everything perfectly,…not just bring something to market to match everyone else who is scrambling to get in first before Apple. And the battery life I think is a part issue as well (if some of the rumours are to be believed). Run a watch for a day and have to keep charging it at night?? Might annoy a lot of people. They want it to at least run a reasonable amount of time between charges. And I think the same can be said with any product at the moment. They want it to be great,..not just released. ;) Hope something there helps,….sorry about the ramble,…lol ;o) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 30/04/2014, at 8:15 PM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Dear Daniel and WAMUGers There is also rumoured to be a new macbook 12 inch coming in a few months. It is said to be thinner than the existing macbook air AND with a retina display. So does one wait for this model to arrive OR buy the just released macbook air What do you make of this comment: agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet). ta blitto agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet).agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet).agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for
Re: MacBook Air updated
On 1 May 2014, at 10:40 pm, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Rod (Sorry for the delay in reply,…been a bit behind the eight ball at the moment,……) A hard one to call. Though it is rumoured to be a 12 model they're working on, it's hard to see where it would fit exactly. But it is rumoured to be a 12 model with a new case design, different trackpad, fabless design and retina display. I personally am not much of a revision one person. I always like to wait a revision before the bugs are ironed out,…especially when it comes to hardware. So I tend to wait to the next model of something new, before looking at it to consider to buy. Again, this is just me,… The other thing that kinda bugs me, is the Retina Display. Yes, they're nice and sharp and do a good job. But to me, it's a cut down resolution. I know you can run them higher etc, but to get the best out of it, like to increase the pixel resolution then reduce it down to make it best for retina. So the standard resolution on a 15 MacBook Pro for example, is less then what I like to work on. My MacBook Pro for example when I get it, I went with the higher specced Antiglare Screen, which works at 1680 x1050. If (when?) I have to upgrade to the MacBook Pro 15 Retina Display, it's best for Retina Display (i.e. native) is actually 1440x900. So in other words, less real working area for me to work in. Yes, I can increase it higher to work at an even higher resolution (1920x1200) but then it all gets very small in text size and from some of the reports I read puts more of a Drain on the Graphics System. (apparently the next revision of the MacBook Pro GPU will do a better job of this I'm lead to believe). I must put my 2c worth in here Daniel. As the user of a Retina MB Pro for nearly two years, I can say that I routinely run my display at 1680 x 1050.This the setting which is midway between Best and More Space in the Display Preference Panel, and I find it very comfortable for everyday use. I do recommend, though, making use of some of the third party utilities out there to help with screen resolution. I'm using one called ResolutionTab, which exposes every resolution setting the Retina display is capable of, something which Apple's own software does not allow. I can effectively take the resolution all the way up to the maximum of 2880 x 1800, which is about the same as a 50 Plasma TV. It's not really comfortable to use at this resolution without a magnifying glass, but as long as you stick to the HiDPI settings (which go from 1920 x 1200 down to 720 x 450) the image is always crystal clear and quite comfortable to use. The only (yes, ONLY!) complaint I have about using the Retina display, and as someone who does a lot of colour matching on the screen, is that Apple have never updated the built-in Color Picker to work properly. Using the magnifying glass pixel picker, the individual pixels become blurred and run into each other, making it almost impossible to use. A work around is to use ResolutionTab to frop back temporarily to a non-HiDPI display whereupon the pixels become discrete again. Some software such as Pixelmator and others have their own colour pickers which overcome this problem to some extent. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: MacBook Air updated
Dear Daniel and WAMUGers There is also rumoured to be a new macbook 12 inch coming in a few months. It is said to be thinner than the existing macbook air AND with a retina display. So does one wait for this model to arrive OR buy the just released macbook air What do you make of this comment: agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet). ta blitto agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet).agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet).agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet).agreed. retina on MBA will kill battery life or make it heavier to account for larger battery. can't have both (yet). Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? On 29 Apr 2014, at 10:53 pm, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: MacBook Air was just updated tonight,.. Basically slightly faster processor (and slightly better battery life with new processor) and the price went down on some models by around AUD$50 You can see the new range here - http://store.apple.com/au/buy-mac/macbook-air And a bit of a read on the update here,…. (USD pricing on this site) http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/29/updated-macbook-airs-faster-haswell/ Enjoy Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
MacBook Air updated
MacBook Air was just updated tonight,.. Basically slightly faster processor (and slightly better battery life with new processor) and the price went down on some models by around AUD$50 You can see the new range here - http://store.apple.com/au/buy-mac/macbook-air And a bit of a read on the update here,…. (USD pricing on this site) http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/29/updated-macbook-airs-faster-haswell/ Enjoy Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
