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"But for pretty much everything I’ve done this past week — basically, my regular work and play habits"

browsing Twitter and writing blog posts?

As opposed to what, rotating particle accelerator dumps through N-space to correlate them against standard model predictions?

What, exactly, do you think people use laptops for? If you're doing something remarkably intensive like encoding video or writing massively scalable ETL code, and you're doing it on a laptop, you have failed at computers.

I actually do video and After Effects on my Macbook Pro, as well as all of my Photoshop work with huge multi-layered files, and it flies. I have a more powerful Quad-Core tower at work, but it's only a slight improvement in speed, and being mobile with my Macbook far outweights that. In fact, there are tons of people that do video editing on the fly with Macbooks. I wouldn't dare try it with a Macbook Air.

whats your point? browsing social networking sites is how most people spend their day and spare time

it is not a fair review of the performance diff between a pro and an air

for somebody who runs a traditional dev stack (eclipse/netbeans + 2+ browsers + compiler/vm + httpd + photoshop + database +++), or a gamer, or a student, a 10 or even 5% performance delta makes a big diff.

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