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On 7/16/13 3:36 PM, Scott Davert wrote:
Hi all. I assume if I want to upgrade my MacBook Air, I have to send it back to Apple? Thanks, Scott On 7/16/13, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:That's my thinking too. I'll upgrade from the baseline processor to a mid-level, then get 8GB ram and a 256 SSD (ccan't really afford a 512 ssd) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com> To: "Macvisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 7:58 PM Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade options Hi, For the majority of folks, The difference between the midlevel and high end processor won’t be noticed much. I would much rather spend my money on RAM and an SSD. The performance upgrade is noticeable, and immediate. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:Windows does a lot of disk read/write and folks I know who went with an SSD seem to have things start up much faster. I generally try to overbuy on the parts I can't upgrade as I keep my machines for a long time to justify the cost (7 years or more). Today's high end is tomorrow's minimum bar. CB On 7/14/13 7:08 PM, Phil Halton wrote:I currently have an iMac with quad core I5 processor, 8gb ram, and 7200rpm HD. Running fusion5/win7 with Jaws I find it totally responsive, no lag at all. I guess that's why I'm so happy with windows in a virtual machine. And, I'm using the default fusion5 settings of 1 core and 2gb ram assigned to the VM. I'll most likely trick out the Air with 8GB and 256GB ssd. It's the processor I'm wondering about. My experience with hardware upgrades, especially processors, is that moving up one or two grades is worth the money, but moving up to the utmost upgrade generally doesn't return much for the money involved. So, I'll probably bump up the processor a bit from the base-line I5 1.3 GHZ. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Hogue" <harryhog...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 1:45 PM Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade optionsHi Phil, I have only ever worked with a MacBook Pro running 4gb of ram and with a 320 hard drive (not an SSD). From my experience, the virtual machine setup with usable for tiems when you only want to run Windows for a few minutes, in somewhat limited situations. What I have found, however, is that after setting up Boot Camp on my computer, I see no difference in performance whatsoever. I have been running my system under Windows exclusively over the past week or so for school-related things that I need Microsoft Word for, and it is though I were running on a PC. I always found Fusion with Windows and JAWS, or any other screen-reader, to be very sluggish, especially if I had other programs running in the background, no matter how much I increased available memory to the VM through Fusion settings. Now, this is only my opinion and thoughts, of course. It very well may be that for most people this set up works perfectly fine. Indeed, I made it work for me for around a year or so. However, for day-to-day reliable performance, I found I needed Windows under Boot Camp, and again, thank you to all on this list who helped me to achieve that. Your patience was and is very kind and appreciated. I considered upgrading my RAM, etc. and certainly increased RAM may help, but I'm not certain how much. I know that VoiceOver likes to say "Busy, busy, busy" in programs sometimes, and I remember that I have had the same issues with that as someone who had 2 gb of ram. But ram is always supposed to be the biggest factor in immediate increased performance. Thanks, Harry On 7/14/13, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote:I want to be able to run fusion/win7 on a macbook air with as little degradation of performance as possible. What would you think would be the minimum upgrades necessary to a Macbook Air 13 inch? I assume 8GB memory, 256 SSD, and a processor upgrade of some kind - what would the list recommend for processor? Also, what advantages do the Macbook Pro have over the Air? is it worth considering a Pro over an Air model? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. 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