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I get a new PC every 2 years and for the last decade that has been a Vaio.
I'm now lookng for something new and its been 26 months since my last Vaio.
so... I'm looking for some insight to getting a mac, perhaps an Air given these times of storing everything in the "cloud". I do have a Macbook which is perhaps 5 years old and which has given me access to even the latest betas but.. is it now time for me to convert completely?
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Posted: 2011-06-12 10:57:26
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YES!
I made the jump to an iMac a good 5 years ago, got a new 27" iMac a month or so ago and it's all good!
Someone I know and you know, said DO IT!
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Posted: 2011-06-25 18:47:02
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Seems that everyone I know has got the new 27" iMac!
I'm going to hold off ans wait for the new Air specs and decide then. I want to be able to do iPhone dev on it comfortably, but portability is also important and the Macbook pro is just too heavy at a tad over 2kg
Also, the new Vaio Z series is coming this week. I have a Z series now at 1.4kg and the new ones are said to be 1.3kg but still the highest spec vaio. so that'll be my other choice
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Posted: 2011-06-25 19:15:32
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@masseur: as you have both then you already know the advantage or disadvantage on both platform. I've both... a high-end PC for gaming, seeing movie etc and a mac book pro 2010, both are fine. mac is simple. as you developer on mac platform then you must go to mac completely. Air is fine... hold few days. New Air is coming...
One thing I don't like about the new OS "lion". it won't available on a physical disk. so if you want to install it then first have to install your previous OS then update to lion through the internet... which around 4GB size. that is totally pain on a slow net connection. and you have to do it every time you are gonna install it. I always prefer clean install. So I won't purchase it until apple provide it on a physical standalone disk.
You should also wait until apple start to ship their computers with "lion" and a recovery disk with lion.
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Posted: 2011-06-29 22:28:33
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@adnansanni
Are you positive you have to download it every time you want a fresh install.
Doesn't sound like an oversight Apple would make.
Still need a disk to boot from... just because people have upgraded from Leopard/Snow Leopard doesn't necessarily mean they'll have the disks for those to hand.
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Posted: 2011-06-29 23:36:49
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Hi @arien617, as fer as I know, yes I have to download it every time until they give a standalone .dmg file.
You should check these two link
Lion Clean Install Requires Snow Leopard Disk? and
Upgrade to OS X Lion
Until they give a fresh disk of installer, I won't update to it. I'll stick with Snow Leopard.
@masseur: there are a rumor that macbook air will be refresh on mid-july.
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Posted: 2011-06-30 00:04:50
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@adnansanni
According to that first link there is a recovery partition, which should suffice in most cases.
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Posted: 2011-06-30 00:18:49
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Yeah that is right but what if your total hard disk fail? What if you have more than one computer to install lion?
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Posted: 2011-07-01 00:49:00
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Obviously not ideal, but it's alright in most cases.
Besides, I'm sure Apple retail would be helpful if you really are stuck.
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Posted: 2011-07-02 13:32:04
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I've gone for the Vaio and made an order just 10 mins ago.
appreciate the replies but suspect that in a couple more years my choice will finally be for the macbook pro/air etc.
thanks!
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Posted: 2011-07-06 04:23:35
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