Same here. Hardware spec in most new machines is good enough for most people. However my macbook doesn't feel cheaply made. i spend several hours per day typing on it, using the trackpad and looking at the screen.
If those components look or feel cheap and annoying to use, its going to piss me off.
A couple of hundred bucks over 3 years is not worth worrying about. And the MBA is not that much more expensive for similar spec, anyway.
This. The macbook air has a decent trackpad, keyboard and screen. You can get a decent keyboard and something close screen wise on a PC ultrabook but every trackpad I've used so far sucks.
It also looks pretty.
The PC Ultrabook is the same price. For me, its a no brainer. Even if I'm looking for a machine to run Windows on, I'd still buy a Macbook air rather than an Ultrabook PC.
Except you can't ignore the other one. All the x86 applications currently out there are NOT metro aware. if we need to write new apps, we can just compile them for ARM / android / ios.
... just did a trip through Europe and plenty of cities have a public bike system. You put your card in the machine and collect a bike, ride where you want and then return it to the nearest bike rack.
This encourages bike use by tourists, and probably others who are out and about and just decide to ride somewhere rather than catching a cab, on impulse.
You're not likely to go for an inpulse ride (like we did, plenty of times, including around Vienna at midnight), if you need to be carrying a helmet around with you.
On the contrary.... some of us realise that most hardware is "good enough". Is it wrong to want something that looks good and feels nice as well, given that I have the disposable income to pay for it? I've done 20 years of using PC clone home made systems - having something aesthetically pleasing is nice.
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And the next iteration of machines will be retina class (probably PC laptops, too) which makes the whole pixel counting thing irrelevant.
That machine is also 5-6 years old - hardly current.
But then, running Linux or FreeBSD on modern PC laptop hardware is often tricky also.
Because solid state storage is FAST and they're convenient to actually lug around with you? For most users doing most end user stuff, 4gb is plenty.
Same here. Hardware spec in most new machines is good enough for most people. However my macbook doesn't feel cheaply made. i spend several hours per day typing on it, using the trackpad and looking at the screen.
If those components look or feel cheap and annoying to use, its going to piss me off.
A couple of hundred bucks over 3 years is not worth worrying about. And the MBA is not that much more expensive for similar spec, anyway.
Have fun lugging that mouse around and finding a surface to use it on whenever you use the machine somewhere on the go.
Compare macbook pros sold to say, any other single PC laptop model.
Which is also wrong. They are priced at what people are willing to pay. If there is no identical machine at a cheaper price, they are at market rate.
This. The macbook air has a decent trackpad, keyboard and screen. You can get a decent keyboard and something close screen wise on a PC ultrabook but every trackpad I've used so far sucks.
It also looks pretty.
The PC Ultrabook is the same price. For me, its a no brainer. Even if I'm looking for a machine to run Windows on, I'd still buy a Macbook air rather than an Ultrabook PC.
Do you think office is written in x86 assembly or something? haha.
All the existing x86 apps you want to run are not metro, and will fall back to the classic UI.
Except you can't ignore the other one. All the x86 applications currently out there are NOT metro aware. if we need to write new apps, we can just compile them for ARM / android / ios.
Hi there, it is possible to run real x86 apps on a tablet without having to give up low power consuming ARM hardware. Say hello to VDI.
They were. Anecdotal evidence, but out of all the tablet owners I know (say, 10 of them), only one has a galaxy tab. In 10 inch form.
They still cross the road.
So you think pedestrians should wear helmets too?
This encourages bike use by tourists, and probably others who are out and about and just decide to ride somewhere rather than catching a cab, on impulse.
You're not likely to go for an inpulse ride (like we did, plenty of times, including around Vienna at midnight), if you need to be carrying a helmet around with you.
On the contrary.... some of us realise that most hardware is "good enough". Is it wrong to want something that looks good and feels nice as well, given that I have the disposable income to pay for it? I've done 20 years of using PC clone home made systems - having something aesthetically pleasing is nice.
No mod points, but keen to hear about this as well.
Do you still write code? Apple is the only vendor pushing Objective-C at the moment, do you think this is holding them back?
If you want slots, buy a phone with slots. Apple aren't catering to that market, and there are plenty who don't care.
Internode are already doing ipv6 and don't do this. ISPs arent in the business of being assholes for the sake of it.
Joining private networks from different companies both using 10/8 sucks.
To be fair, that sun server is likely now obsolete, and either retired or planning to be retired.
As ADSL is phased out (or ADSL3 comes out) and fibre (yes, non-us spelling) is rolled out people will need to upgrade endpoints anyway.
There are plenty of internode customers here in australia who are running ipv6 just fine without even knowing it.
To write them the same as IPv4, you'd need 16 octets. The current way they do it is fine. There's shorthand as well which IPv4 doesn't support.