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Forum: Marine Electronics 23-04-2014, 17:11
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

One thing apple does that is somewhat a negative for your old devices, is force updates through interface changes. Thunderbolt for instance is intended to be your "one interface to rule them all",...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-04-2014, 17:26
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

Games, yes as always they are targeted at the max power available.

8Gb is nice for a windows dev pc with sql etc. but as I say I run quite happily with 2… The only time it is unresponsive is...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-04-2014, 15:41
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

The air doesn't have a DVI or HDMI out port, so unless the display has a thunderbolt port you will need an adaptor. i.e. TV's probably will only have DVI/HDMI.

Also, the air for sale now is the...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-04-2014, 15:37
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

Interesting, my MBA has only 4Gb and since I mostly run a windows VM with 2Gb runs pretty well with only 2Gb available.

Under the surface it is linux, it doesn't need 16Gb of ram to run, video and...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-04-2014, 00:52
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

Not that this is a Win/Mac thread but for a laugh I should add (after saying having restarted 10 times and 1 hang in 2.5 years) the Windows Virtual Machine (basically ideal fake hardware) has been...
Forum: Marine Electronics 21-04-2014, 00:38
Replies: 90
Views: 10,483
Posted By sparau
Re: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air?

There aren't many, if any discrete devices on a Pro either.

But the air, being a smaller form factor has more issues with heat if you work it hard especially in tropical climes. e.g. forget...
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