Thread: MacBook Air

OK. Let's not get all fanboy here. Can anybody say FOSS?

Originally Posted by earcutter

Oh man I made the mistake of looking at that iPad Air after buying the Air... What a beautiful thing that is!! Both my kids have iPads - I went with an Android - what a mistake lol.

This Air that I got, at 11" is incredibly portable - I gave up a nice screen for that portability. I understand they may be coming out with the better screens in a couple of months - I just couldn't wait lol.

Just give up already, you know eventually you will, so why bother with a fight. Here is how it is - in this new world you would be buying the latest improved gadget as soon as it is released
So, no worries, sometime next year you'll have a new macbook air with a nice 'retina' display and a new shrunken processor (the exact same design as the current ones but made with 14nm die instead of 22nm, so a bit of extra speed and less power drain).

I've tried the ipads several times, including the current air, but I type too much so I've got no choice but MBP.

Still using FOSS, though - one of the first things I do on a new computer is install homebrew, pick the various gnu compilers and a lot of math software (octave, r, fftw, blas, lapack, etc.) Afterwards I move on to figuring out the newest idiosyncrasies that apple did with standard libraries and fixes for those... It could be worse, though - microsoft - with their compiler I had to put a wrapper around fwrite to compensate for what is probably a stupid internal buffer causing it to fail on modestly sized ouput.

You're going to love it. It's the best technology there is, IMHO. Enjoy!