Recommendation for Macbook Air 11"/13" equivalent

I see the thread got magically cleaned up.

Sad because I wish other people had seen my statement.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I see the thread got magically cleaned up.

Sad because I wish other people had seen my statement.
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Rightly so, some people were way out of line here.

You're statement is still valid, I saw it :)
 
Dion Wired has a bunch of these small laptops on display in the R4500-R8000 range.. All of them should run office just fine.
 
Appreciate all the replies. Plenty of leads/suggestions to follow up. Will spend a morning having a look at manufacturers websites, before starting on the usual suspects for pricing.

Thanks again!
 
Thats such a small screen size. Not normal for PC. All the notebooks you will get are ganna suck. If you want something thats smaller and less powerful than a regular sized notebook you should either get a MBA or something like the Samsung 9.
 
ghoti said:
Thats such a small screen size. Not normal for PC. All the notebooks you will get are ganna suck. If you want something thats smaller and less powerful than a regular sized notebook you should either get a MBA or something like the Samsung 9.
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Samsung Series 9 still has nothing on an Air/rMBP as far as build quality, screen, trackpad etc. go. Just the other day I was using one, and it was still a pain in comparison.

Apple has had their current Air/rMBP design out for quite some time now. I just don't understand why Windows laptop manufacturers cannot compete.
 
I doubt you will beat Apple for quality, especially once you start comparing prices with Windows options and they've got pretty decent resale value too. My wife now uses my old MBA 13" for her work and is enjoying it a lot. I'm a bit miffed by the short warranties on offer from Apple, you can get an 2 year extension, but its a local warranty and not recognised by Apple themselves and costs a lot of money. Factor in with Apple that if you need repairs done to your laptop you will be stuck without a week which can be inconvenience if you can't be stuck without a laptop.

Might be worthwhile waiting to see whether Apple will launch a Retina MBA (rumoured to be soon). Retina screens are definitely worth it, never thought I'd enjoy a laptop screen till I got 15" rMBP.

Of the compact Windows notebooks I've seen the Dell XPS 13 was very nice and the Lenovo Yoga 2 isn't too bad either, though a bit more basic, but its pretty cheap.
 
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kamikazi said:
I doubt you will beat Apple for quality, especially once you start comparing prices with Windows options and they've got pretty decent resale value too. My wife now uses my old MBA 13" for her work and is enjoying it a lot. I'm a bit miffed by the short warranties on offer from Apple, you can get an 2 year extension, but its a local warranty and not recognised by Apple themselves and costs a lot of money. Factor in with Apple that if you need repairs done to your laptop you will be stuck without a week which can be inconvenience if you can't be stuck without a laptop.

Might be worthwhile waiting to see whether Apple will launch a Retina MBA (rumoured to be soon). Retina screens are definitely worth it, never thought I'd enjoy a laptop screen till I got 15" rMBP.

Of the compact Windows notebooks I've seen the Dell XPS 13 was very nice and the Lenovo Yoga 2 isn't too bad either, though a bit more basic, but its pretty cheap.
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+1
 
kamikazi said:
I doubt you will beat Apple for quality, especially once you start comparing prices with Windows options and they've got pretty decent resale value too. My wife now uses my old MBA 13" for her work and is enjoying it a lot. I'm a bit miffed by the short warranties on offer from Apple, you can get an 2 year extension, but its a local warranty and not recognised by Apple themselves and costs a lot of money. Factor in with Apple that if you need repairs done to your laptop you will be stuck without a week which can be inconvenience if you can't be stuck without a laptop.

Might be worthwhile waiting to see whether Apple will launch a Retina MBA (rumoured to be soon). Retina screens are definitely worth it, never thought I'd enjoy a laptop screen till I got 15" rMBP.

Of the compact Windows notebooks I've seen the Dell XPS 13 was very nice and the Lenovo Yoga 2 isn't too bad either, though a bit more basic, but its pretty cheap.
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I'm not one for extended warranties but I made sure to get Apple Care with my recent purchase of a MBP retina.
 
kamikazi said:
I doubt you will beat Apple for quality, especially once you start comparing prices with Windows options and they've got pretty decent resale value too. My wife now uses my old MBA 13" for her work and is enjoying it a lot. I'm a bit miffed by the short warranties on offer from Apple, you can get an 2 year extension, but its a local warranty and not recognised by Apple themselves and costs a lot of money. Factor in with Apple that if you need repairs done to your laptop you will be stuck without a week which can be inconvenience if you can't be stuck without a laptop.

Might be worthwhile waiting to see whether Apple will launch a Retina MBA (rumoured to be soon). Retina screens are definitely worth it, never thought I'd enjoy a laptop screen till I got 15" rMBP.

Of the compact Windows notebooks I've seen the Dell XPS 13 was very nice and the Lenovo Yoga 2 isn't too bad either, though a bit more basic, but its pretty cheap.
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The extra warranty is rather pricey, but its probably best to take it.
Also with osx, you're going to want at least 8 gigs of ram, with the air you cant upgrade the ram after you've bought it.
 
Pegasus said:
The extra warranty is rather pricey, but its probably best to take it.
Also with osx, you're going to want at least 8 gigs of ram, with the air you cant upgrade the ram after you've bought it.
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Are you sure you're not muddling OS X and Windows?
 
PostmanPot said:
Are you sure you're not muddling OS X and Windows?
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Nope.
I just upgraded my macmini from 4 gigs to 16 gigs ram.

With 4 gigs, I had only 37 megs of ram available at startup.
And little bouncing dock icons and spinning disks when u want to open something.
 
Pegasus said:
Nope.
I just upgraded my macmini from 4 gigs to 16 gigs ram.

With 4 gigs, I had only 37 megs of ram available at startup.
And little bouncing dock icons and spinning disks when u want to open something.
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Then I think a reinstall was in order.

Also depends on what apps you were using. For most people, 4GB is more than enough.
 
PostmanPot said:
Then I think a reinstall was in order.

Also depends on what apps you were using. For most people, 4GB is more than enough.
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I found that Google Chrome is the biggest culprit, it also took up a lot of disk space, like in 6 gigs of space.
 
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