William, the Air ships with a USB thumb drive with the OSx on it, so you can do everything you can do with any other Mac that comes with a recovery disc.
the Air is indeed twice the cost of the basic WiFi only iPad. but the top of the line iPad is only like £100 / US$200 less than the Air 11in. so it depends on what you are comparing. the basic iPad has only 16Gb of RAM, the Air has 128Gb, the Air is superior in every measurable tech spec going. When you line up an iPad with a blue tooth keyboard or one of those Zag Mate cases, the Air is now smaller if you consider the 11in version. If I disable WiFi and Blue tooth and dim the screen on the Air 11in to 0%, and only type I get 11 plus hours out of my Air. if I leave WiFi on and have e-mails from 5 mail accounts retrieving on the minute, and surf the net, I get about 3 and a half hours out of it. I think this covers your points. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @NeilBarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 7 Mar 2011, at 07:54, William Windels wrote: Hello all, I have also some toughest about this discussion. At the moment, I have a macbook and a iphone4. I was planning to buy a ipad2 when it came out but, after reading this tread, perhaps I am changing my mind. The most important thing I have read here is: pages isn't working well on the ipad with voiceover, it's more comfortable to type on a macbook air then on a ipad , but you can use a external keyboard with the ipad? The wight and size is quiet the same. But , I have also some toughest against a macbook air: You can have 2 ipads for the price of a basic macbook air what about the battery life of a macbook air And, perhaps the most important reason against a macbook air: since there is no cdrom/dvdrom drive in the macbook air, it's impossible perhaps to reinstall the os or to do a permission or disc repair of the system from the dvd or it's perhaps much more difficult to reset the system based on a time-machine backup. Of course , with a ipad , this isn't possible also but a ios-device has no need for this. I am looking forward to your reactions. Best regards, William Windels Op 4-mrt-2011, om 14:48 heeft Denise Avant het volgende geschreven: > hello all, > i am contemplating getting another apple device. i need something that is > light to take when i travel. i was thinking of the ipad 2 because you can get > pages to write with. the only problem here is that there is no port for > external media like a usb drive, is there? > my other alternative is that i can get the macbook air. but its a little > bigger. i really don't need a screen. but i would have a port for external > media. of course i would miss all of those apps you can have on the ipad. > that can be negated by the fact that i have an iphone. > well, i would be interested in hearing from those with the air. i know the > ipad 2 is not out yet, but i'm sure there are some first generation ipad > users here. > thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
