Macbook Air for designing
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Was thinking of getting a 2nd travel unit. Is the Macbook Air running CS3 any good.
Or is best for a college student whom uses web and MS Office??
Just wondering if this has changed any since I last remembered. I heard its not the greatest. And that only runs well if your using one program at a time not to many layeres. I'm guessing its better then a netbook though.
Please enlighten me....
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- svenreed0
macbook pro
- ismith0
No™
- erikjonsson0
the air is for sales people walking around with it like a tray of champagne glasses. if you dont need to do that you can get any other mac book
- incorrect, the air is for facebook & myspace and to be used in public wi-fi spotsMeeklo
- no the iphoneerikjonsson
- hiatus0
but for MS Office, and the web its fine. Ok thanks.
- CyBrain0
Is it still more expensive and less powerful than Macbook Pro?
Oh and no CD/DVD drive.
- yeah, brilliant design there. no fuckin drive‽baseline_shift
- INTERROBANG!freeskihp
- baseline_shift0
look at the specs.
- jfletcher0
I had a friend who installed Win7 on an air and did his design work from that. Seemed to work *ok, but not if you're doing Flash or anything intensive. He was mostly just AI.
- rogersterling0
I have one. I use it when I travel. The CS3 runs smooth and powerful enough to cover most of your needs. As a second machine, lack of a disk drive doesn't bother me. It's a lot lighter than an MBP 13" so if you travel often, an MBA is definitely a great option. You pay more for the portability and it's the price people are willing to pay.
- you pay more for marketing, not for portability my friend.Meeklo
- raf0
I always found the hate Air kept getting on QBN since the day it was announced quite funny.
It is a perfect laptop for anyone who doesn't need a bigger screen than 1280x800. It is light, most of all.
Anyone who had to carry a 3Kg laptop in a bag for some time would appreciate it.- well, if it was priced accordingly there would be no hate, but marketing alone just doesn't justify the machineMeeklo
- CyBrain0
I have to disagree with any support for the Air.
It's $500 more than an MacBook,
slightly less powerful
it's hard drive is half the size.
it doesn't have a drive.These are facts that negate any reason to buy one.
Take a look. http://www.apple.com/mac/whichma…
- scrap_paper0
The air was developed as a "see what we can do" item. At this stage of the product development it is more a status icon then a functional laptop.
- previous0
a client gave it to me, I can't conceive of anyone buying one
- Meeklo0
the mac book air is just like the black U2 signature ipod, is the same reasoning behind it
- raf0
Designers think they're the reason Apple makes any products at all. Fact is, they're not even close to being Apple's main target demographic.
The Air is not for you. It has a very unique and desired feature: it is light, on top of being thin. For many people trading a bit of computing power for portability is a reasonable deal. It is for them.
It is expensive? First you prove you don't need it, now you're complaining about not being able to afford it?
This proves one thing again: it is not for you.
- And despite of addressing it 'you', I'm not directing this at the original poster :)raf
- hiatus0
well my 95lb sister needs something for college. and for $800 from a co-workers friend; sounds like its the machine for her. Besides I dont want to hear my sister complain about here Windows machine giving here issues and have to play tech support and customer service. I've had both 6-PC's and 8-MAC's in my life. Mac's run into less issues; the one big issue I had was buying a mac from CList and the monitor dyed on a purple imac. Had it a month.
You strong mo-fo can carry your 6lb. machine. I have a foot condition and hate carring my MB, so try not to.
taking the weight off is reason I'd get it. rather a small ext. drive if I need more space. I have all my shit on a different drive anyway. As for performance, if a filter takes 10-20-30 more sec. I can deal. I'm working remote and its probably a matter of get it done - then not. Incase the shit hits the fan anyway.
Again for $800 what the heck. If any of you luck peeps that got one and look at it and mock it to your friends want to get rid of yours. Send me a email(NYC) happy to get it off your, sometime next week. My wife/son need a new beater machine.
- MSL0
The MacBook Air runs CS3 perfectly well - CS4 runs very well on it. I don't get the bad press the Air gets, I use a 2.4ghz C2 Duo iMac in the studio and a 1.8Ghz Air at home and they aren't a million miles apart in terms of performance.
The Air will also run up to a 28" (i think) monitor too.
- i dont get the negative press either. sounds like the machine for me.
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- i dont get the negative press either. sounds like the machine for me.