Apple Store is up now. Update mini and air

[TheStu]

lol, specs whores

my older minis with an intel 1.8 2 gigs ram and an intel 2 ghz 2 gigs ram ram sl just fine

So does/did my old macbook, 1.83 Core Duo, 2GB.

But I went with 4GB in my Air since it isn't upgradeable down the road. The SSD is though, and you can get the 128GB stick off ebay for about $200, which is pretty reasonable considering SSD prices (the 120GB in my desktop cost about the same after rebates).

 

[HaukSwe]

How significant is the difference between the 13" with i5 and i7? I don't need the 256 gig SSD and rather upgrade that on my own later on,

Would mostly like an extra boost in Starcraft II and WoW,

 

[Printer Bandit]

How hot does a Macbook AIR 13" get? Can it be used on your lap?

 

[BD2003]

lol, specs whores

my older minis with an intel 1.8 2 gigs ram and an intel 2 ghz 2 gigs ram ram sl just fine

When you have it in a groove of the few same programs, then yeah it's fine and probably not noticeable. Trying to do anything else beyond that such as installing stuff, and it's basically grinding to an unresponsive halt. It's not just a little slow, it becomes practically unusable and swapping to such a slow drive doesn't help.

I'm sorry but there's just no excuse for a new $600 PC to be bottlenecked to such an extreme degree by $10 of RAM.

Isn't just about everything else from them minimum 4gb at this point?

 

[Eug]

Isn't just about everything else from them minimum 4gb at this point?

Pretty much, and for non-Apple stuff you get 4 GB in most stuff too except the el cheapo netbooks and some sub $500 laptops.

I wonder if some people do not realize that the memory in the MacBook Air is NOT user upgradable. As TheStu mentioned, it makes sense to get 4 GB for the MacBook Air just for this reason. If you're someone who thinks 2 GB is enough, you'd better be pretty damn sure because once you buy the Air you're stuck with whatever memory you got.

P.S. Has anyone see the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter for sale in-store anywhere?

 

[jalaram]

Mac Mini teardown by iFixit 8/10

 

[BD2003]

Mac Mini teardown by iFixit 8/10

Is it just me or does it look like the HDD is easier to replace than last years?

 

[TheStu]

Pretty much, and for non-Apple stuff you get 4 GB in most stuff too except the el cheapo netbooks and some sub $500 laptops.

I wonder if some people do not realize that the memory in the MacBook Air is NOT user upgradable. As TheStu mentioned, it makes sense to get 4 GB for the MacBook Air just for this reason. If you're someone who thinks 2 GB is enough, you'd better be pretty damn sure because once you buy the Air you're stuck with whatever memory you got.

P.S. Has anyone see the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter for sale in-store anywhere?

Nope, but as someone else has mentioned, Apple needs to sell whatever is in the Thunderbolt Display stat. Little box with USB/Firewire/ethernet/audio/display on it. Hell yea.

 

[jalaram]

Is it just me or does it look like the HDD is easier to replace than last years?

I don't know how it was last time, but it looks simple this time. I'm curious about how to add the 2nd HDD. Is it a standard cable?

The big question with this unibody Mac Mini: "Can I install a second hard drive myself?" The centimeter and a half of extra space seem to imply so.
There is definitely plenty of room for a second hard drive underneath the first. The only deterrent is the availability of a second SATA hard drive-to-logic board cable.

 

[lokiju]

How hot does a Macbook AIR 13" get? Can it be used on your lap?

I used it from a full charge till it had under 30 mins left of battery nonstop last night and it never felt warm to me.

I wasn't doing anything that was CPU intensive though.

Just installing some standard apps I like and setting things up how I like and neffing in between.

 

[dighn]

Just about as good as any other OS.

4GB should be enough for one VM and some codes. Plus SSD helps with swapping and indexing a lot so it wouldn't feel as sluggish.

well sounds good enough. like I said it's not my primary machine so I could run VMs on my desktop and remote in. should be getting mine (base 13") on Monday