Apple MacBook Air 13" Review -- Ultrabook, what?

[Julio Franco]

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[Jay Pfoutz]

Oh yeah! Ivy Bridge for the win. Been looking forward to this new processing unit all year.

Very neat article overall. I love the layout/design of it, in general. The photos are nicely placed.

 

[Guest]

Very state of the art laptop. But 256GB SSD is needed, and then you have to pay $1,499. Combine that with 8 GB of RAM, then you end up with $1,599.

 

[Guest]

Have you guys seen the ZenBook Prime? Pretty much the same and the same pricing if not more!

 

[Guest]

I keep going in between Zenbook Prime and Macbook Air to decide on one. The review was great and very informative in terms of Windows OS stand point. I really would love to see a Windows 7 based comparison between Zenbook Prime and Macbook Air.

By the way, I am also wondering if there are improvements on duration of the Windows boot-up/shutdown and sleep/wake-up time with Macbook Air 2012

 

[Guest]

It is pricey but you get what you pay for, svelt, lightweight, Apple (and windows if needed) netbook.
BTW, I think you meant iFixit and I don't take them as a credible review since they "click bait" to their site for taking Apple's products apart (and make money off Apple selling cheap tools and parts). If they can't sell you parts to fix something, they pan it.

 

[Julio Franco]

@Guests above. Personally I wouldn't buy an Apple laptop if I wanted to run Windows exclusively. The hardware is great and setting up Boot Camp is painlessly easy as Shawn mentioned in the review. However, if you are serious about your computing you are better served with a good Windows ultrabook. Apple drivers for Windows are somewhat rough, especially the display and trackpad drivers. Mac laptops also get considerably hotter and get less battery life under Windows -- that last part I'm not sure if it's Apple to blame or if OS X is more efficient than Windows, but it's the way it is.

 

[Guest]

Bootcamp virtualization is the one to blame for battery loss.

 

[Guest]

There was a recent article / editorial posted here about the "Apple Tax", and if you were to compare apples to apples (pardon the pun), then in many cases, the premium you pay for a MBP or MBA vs. a directly comparable Windows unit is not that much.

The ZenBook is basically the same specs and speed, costs about the same or greater (depending on where you shop), but has a totally inferior keyboard and trackpad to the MBA.

 

[ReederOnTheRun]

Some aspects of the MBA are simply awesome, but I just can't get over how expensive it is and how hard it is in general to use Apple products with Windows products. Plus I'd have to deal with there being less of my programs and games for Mac than Windows. Its actually pretty much the same reasons I never got into Linux too much (minus the expensive part).

 

[Guest]

If you want to use windows don't buy a Mac! They are made for Mac users not for windows and vice versa.... If those are you're two options and you like windows and you don't want to use Mac os x mountain lion then get the zen book it's cheaper and works better with

 

[Guest]

First of all, I'm not a gamer.
I will use my MBA to surf and edit RAW-photos in Lightroom and it works great so far.

I love the touchpad so much. Impressive that you can do so much more than just move the mouse pointer

The looks, the speed, the battery life is simply awesome.

I Love my Macbook Air!