The 15-Inch MacBook Air

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8 points·noelsequeira··7 comments

He mentions the poor battery life of the 11" to the 13" air, but IIRC a non sandy bridge 11" is comparable to the sandy bridge 13" as far as battery life goes.

I was pretty jealous when my friend bought a new sandy bridge 11", but in retrospect I enjoy the battery life of my C2D ULV.

15-in would be nice, but a MBA powerful enough to run Windows in Parallels would be my dream laptop.

What's the limiting factor? (Genuinely curious.)

What are you trying to run in Windows? I have a new 13" MacBook Air and happily run a lot of different apps (no games though) in Windows inside Parallels. Ordinary interaction with Windows is fast. Only a few tasks feel slow, mostly things that would be slow anyway—large scale computation in SAS and Verilog synthesis.

To me, 13" seems the ideal size for a laptop. My Thinkpad E325 seems almost perfect.

wow.. probably just me, but I cant believe people go for that size. Using my 11'' inch MBA makes my 15'' MBP feel oversized. I just love having a computer of the size of an A4 paper sheet.

It's not just you. I intentionally went for the 11" MBA because I want a portable computer to be...portable. I'd rather have an external monitor, keyboard, and trackball at home and work, and keep the machine itself as lightweight and compact as possible.

It does matter a little bit if you're in a hotel or something, but the minor inconvenience of the smaller screen is outweighed by the savings in bulk and weight, at least for me. Obviously others have the opposite view. Different strokes, I guess.

Hmm... there could be a business opportunity for the hotel industry here. How about offering nice monitors and keyboards as in-room amenities?

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