Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread CJ Daniel
Juliet, Always a good idea to buy as much storage & processing power as possible. Although, I admit that future development of the cloud may change the need for on-board storage capacity. But, upgraded RAM & processors may have an effect on your Mac's ability to keep up with OSX releases down

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes David, I'd say that you're remembering correct. The MacBook Pro 17" was the largest laptop Apple produced and they stopped it a number of years ago. Nice powerful machine but a beast to carry. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:04 PM, David Chittenden

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread David Chittenden
I may be miss remembering, but I believe the largest one was 17 inches. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Jul 2014, at 10:10, Jessica D wrote: > > I never knew their was a 17 inch MacBook Pro. > > Sent from my iPad > >

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello, I have a Mac Air 2013, with 8 GB RAM, an Intel 7, and 512 gb drive. I'm running Win 8.1 in bootcamp. When partitioning the hard drive in bootcamp, it ended up with 94 on the Windows side. Here is a list of items installed to give one an idea of the space used. It includes JAWS 15, Kurzwe

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Jessica D
I never knew their was a 17 inch MacBook Pro. Sent from my iPad > On Jul 2, 2014, at 6:08 PM, David Chittenden wrote: > > In an Apple store two years ago, we measured the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and > found it to be the exact same size as the MacBook Air 11" keyboard. We then > compared it a

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread David Chittenden
In an Apple store two years ago, we measured the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and found it to be the exact same size as the MacBook Air 11" keyboard. We then compared it against the other MacBook computers, and found it is the exact same keyboard, even on the MacBook Pro 17". David Chittenden, MSc

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Alex Hall
I'd definitely go for 8gb of ram if you plan on running Windows a lot, but my 4gb MBA performs well enough; it'd just be nice to have the extra. The processor speed is not as important, in my non-professional opinion, and the storage depends on how much you'll put on the drive. Windows itself ta

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Kayaker
Hi, I agree with David's comments below. I would absolutely upgrade the RAM. The SSD upgrade depends solely on your use case. Can you split both the Mac and PC data in that size? If not, upgrade. I'm not sure what the value added is for the Apple BT keyboard. It's about the same size as the

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
The three things you mention may help with performance a bit, but are by no means necessary, that should work fine. Original message: Hi all, I am looking at purchasing a Mac book Air 13-inch model with 256 GB haed drive. I am planning to run windows via VMware fusion. Would it be necessary in t

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Either the 11 or 13 inch will be perfect for what you need. Really, the only gain from the 13 is some extra batter life and much more weight to carry around, I'd go for the 11 personally, unless the 13 has something you specifically need. It would be very highly advisable to upgrade your R

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Phil Halton
I recently bought a MacBook air for just this purpose being able to run Windows infusion. I bought the model 13 inch 250 6K hard drive actually a flash drive, 8 gig ram, and the upgraded I seven processor. This is what was suggested for me. It's a muscle machine and you'll love it. Sent from my

question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread Juliette
Hi all, I am looking at purchasing a Mac book Air 13-inch model with 256 GB haed drive. I am planning to run windows via VMware fusion. Would it be necessary in this case to do any or all of the following: 1. Upgrade the hard drive to 512 GB? 2. Upgrade the RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB? 3. Upgrade the