New Macbook Air! What you think?

iSax1234 wrote in post #11133860
Photography wise I think this would be great for a photojournalist or anyone who doesn't need to do heavy edits.

If you were using Aperture 3 and/or Pixelmator it would probably perform very well since both of those apps make heavy use of the gpu, and the new Air's 320m is a pretty decent gpu, even for an integrated chip. Photoshop and Lightroom would do fine, too, so long as you weren't editing 15 mpx raw images with them.

I just got mine. 13" with 128gig with 2gb ram and 18g proc.

I plan to use it very little for photo editing, ill probably just put light room on it for some quick edits when in the field but aside from that, i'm mostly using it for school work and browsing.

You should try Aperture. It is much less dependent on the cpu than is Lightroom. I bet money it's a lot faster.

But I hate change!

My buddy made a good suggestion, he said pick up a high capacity fast SD card and use it for backup storage if need be. Since the SD card slot on the 13" goes directly into the mobo the card will read and write at the max speed of the card. I don't completely understand the relationship but he does haha

Air vs. Iphone

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have you tried LR with it yet? i dont expect it to run LR flawlessly but is it at least serviceable?

I'm sure it runs Lightroom fine. I run Aperture 3 on my previous gen MacBook Air. No speed demon, but everything works fine with my 5Dii files.

I haven't installed it yet. I plan to do it in the morning. I did the good ole' drain the battery down all the way and charge method today, currently its charging so I'll let it sit. I know its partially a rumor but i'm superstitious to it lol

Tony-S wrote in post #11148017
I'm sure it runs Lightroom fine. I run Aperture 3 on my previous gen MacBook Air. No speed demon, but everything works fine with my 5Dii files.

thats good to know. i might get the 11.6 version with 4GB for my travelling needs.

Drakeskakes wrote in post #11148082
I haven't installed it yet. I plan to do it in the morning. I did the good ole' drain the battery down all the way and charge method today, currently its charging so I'll let it sit. I know its partially a rumor but i'm superstitious to it lol

report back when you get the chance to test them. both the LR and battery haha

For everyone complaining about the use of Core 2 Duo processors...if they went with i3 or i5 they would have been limited to using Intel's crappy integrated GPU's. A C2D CPU mated with the Nvidia GPU is going to yield much better performance. I really don't know why everyone is so down on the C2Ds....I've got them in both of my older MBPs (Classic 17" with 2.33 C2D and early unibody 2.53GHz 15") and I use these machines for editing HD video in Final Cut Pro.

Heck, if you got the TOTL 13" air you'd have a decent extremely portable backup video editing machine.

zero85ZEN wrote in post #11148525
if they went with i3 or i5 they would have been limited to using Intel's crappy integrated GPU's.

that's not true. you can totally nvidia/amd a i3/5. in fact you can even do a that same graphic switch thing like the i5/7 macbook for performance or battery life.

it's more the question of
1) c2d + nvidia
2) i3/5 + integrated
3) i3/5 + nvidia
4) i3/5 + integrated + nvidia

and what's the $$$, battery life, cpu performance and graphics performance ratios out of those combos.

And the SSD makes things even better

Great product but to me its overpriced.

HyperYagami wrote in post #11148577
that's not true. you can totally nvidia/amd a i3/5. in fact you can even do a that same graphic switch thing like the i5/7 macbook for performance or battery life.

The problem is that Intel has refused to license the i-series chips for use with NVidia's chipsets. This is distinct from NVidia's gpus; the NVidia chipsets have nearly everything on the die, including memory controller, wi-fi, SATA controller and graphics. This is why Apple has not moved to the i-series for its MBA, MB or Minis. They want the far superior NVidia chipset to control the computer, not Intel's that has rather anemic gpu performance compared to NVidia's. It's also the source of rumors that Apple has been testing AMD cpus for some of their low-end Macs because they could then use NVidia's chipsets.