The MacBook Air a Lesson in Ergonomic Design Done Well It also has 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L RAM that is not user-upgradeable and is the reason why I chose to max out my MacBook Air, also known as the ‘ultimate MacBook Air’ or ‘fully loaded MacBook Air’.

My particular unit ships with the dual-core Intel Core i7 processor has a 4MB shared 元 cache and can Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, this might not sound like much if the last MacBook you purchased was back in 2006 and was an Intel Core2Duo which clocked at 2.0GHz, but i7 is blazingly fast architecture and brilliant for audio production.

What won me over to the idea of purchasing a MacBook Air was having seen my partner’s i5 13” MacBook Air and the recent addition of Thunderbolt and USB 3.0.įor this particular review, I configured the MacBook Air to ship with a 256GB storage module as opposed to the 512GB storage module, my reasoning behind this was the reported faster read and write speeds on the 256GB module. In reality, we’re all different, we all use different tools in our careers and lifestyles, I also use Windows 7 and 8 for developing applications for Windows Phone and Windows, those are two great platforms too, and yes, I also develop apps for Android as well as iOS and Mac OS X. I’m a long-term Apple user, but I’m by no means a ‘fanboy’, I am quite happy to point out the problems in a product or company so that they can be solved rather than just bleat about which is supposedly better than a rival platform. Outside of Previous Magazine, I am a software developer, a designer, a musician and a producer. I completely believe that we’re in an age where a Mac of any description is probably overkill for 99% of people and believe that the iPad and iPhone are what 99% of people are going to be happy with if they are just consumers. people who earn an income through their usage of computers. This is a no-nonsense review much aimed at professional users, i.e.

Being able to take a compact yet fully featured computer with me everywhere on a daily basis has always been a dream as all aspects of my work are based around computers. The MacBook Air may not be the most powerful computer in the world, but what it lacks in specification, it more than makes up for in convenience.

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