At the beginning of February we needed some extra laptops at the office so I called up a local Mac store to pick up the last macbook air they had in stock, sacrificing my higher powered macbook pro to developers. Yup, taking one for the team. The transition wasn’t 100% smooth and I wouldn’t recommend it for non-technical people:
-the macbook air kept dropping our office wireless connection, a Netscreen 5GT Wireless. This is a pretty sweet little router so it was quite surprising. Add in that I didn’t have an ethernet adapter yet and it was pretty frustrating.
-it however did work fine with a flashed linksys at home, and an airport express + Time Capsule.
-Initiating a wireless transfer of my user account from my old laptop to the new kept cutting out after 5 minutes
I ended up transferring all my docs via a usb external hard drive. I started from scratch on the Air in terms of my applications/settings.
The weight is awesome, it’s sexy, good enough for a business user who lives in the shell as well. I have it backing up to the Time Capsule at work via ethernet (this took a long time as it’s only 100 Mb with the adapter). It has however made many hard drive “clicking noises” while Time Machine is working. Very scary.
All in all - not recommended for non-technical users and not what I would have expected as an “Apple experience”.
It sure is pretty though….
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