It’s an ultra-portable, I guess, but it’s not in the same class as the Adamo, MBA or now defunct Voodoo Envy. That is 1GHz less than the maxed out 13” MBA. It starts with a single core Celeron and moves up to a 1.3GHz C2D. If you want to talk 13”, I like the styling of the Vostro but it isn’t close to the MBA. If it’s just a personal thing, then there is a lot of history of ultra-portables that are vastly more expensive for performance making the 11” MBA the cheapest such machine he’s tested, that I can find. I can’t find any, which makes me wonder how Anand can say the price is “a lot” when there is nothing to compare it to. solipsism - Saturday, Novemlink In regards to the comparisons, I was looking for 11” ultra-portables with CULVs.If you use the extended battery that puts it inline with the 11” MBA in terms of weight and usage, but not in terms of performance.Īnyway you can compare other ultra-portables? Reply How can Sony justify an Atom Z550 CPU + GM500 IGP for that price when the bulk of the cost has been reduced to a $30 CPU and IGP. The closest competitor seems to be the Sony Vaio X that started at $1300 (and $1500 if you wanted gold colored plastic), but coincidentally dropped their prices by $200 this past Monday, yet still more than the 11” MBA with a processor and IGP that cost 7x(?) as much. Who else is using the ULV C2Ds from Intel? These new MBAs might be new, but these chips aren’t new.
Note that the original MBA started out higher than this upgraded machine, and the competitors that followed with the SFF LV C2Ds were just as expensive, if not more. solipsism - Saturday, Novemlink Anand wrote, “.any way you look at it $1399 is a lot for a lightweight notebook.”įrankly, I don’t expect to pay less for an ultra-portabl than a regular notebook.Luckily we happened to come across such a system. But if you want the portability of the 11 and are looking to get as much performance as possible, it’s your only option. Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz (2.13GHz optional)ĢGB DDR3-1066 soldered on-board (4GB optional)Ĭombine the two upgrades and you’ve got a fairly expensive MacBook Air ($1399 if you’re keeping score).
Anything below that is tough to feel in real world use, but anything at or above that 10% mark usually feels quicker. The magic number for feeling a performance increase is 10%. In applications that are CPU bound, you may see close to that percentage in improved performance. However, 200MHz is a 14% increase in clock speed compared to the base model. Normally 200MHz isn’t much to write home about, especially not for $300 more than the standard 11. You get a 128GB SSD (up from 64GB) as well as the option to pay $100 for a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo. The base 11-inch MacBook Air can’t be upgraded aside from memory.
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The next upgrade is a bit harder to swallow.
And many Apple stores actually stock the upgraded 4GB model. If you’re planning on keeping your system for a while, the 4GB upgrade makes a lot of sense. Light web browsing and writing don’t need more than 2GB, but start editing videos, photos or open way too many apps at once and you’ll quickly want more memory. For $100 more than its $999 starting price, you can outfit the 11 with 4GB of memory instead of 2GB. My typical workflow was simply too slow on the 1.4GHz 11-inch system.Īpple offers two potentially important upgrades for the 11-inch MacBook Air that could alleviate some of my concerns. I liked carrying the 11-inch MBA, but I liked working on the 13-inch. The 13-inch was more of a regular, get-your-work done notebook - just in a very thin and very light chassis. I concluded the 11-inch was the pinnacle of portability, delivering the weight and form factor of a netbook but without the drive-you-crazy performance of an Atom. Last month we looked at Apple’s new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs.
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