On 13 Mar 2011, at 14:18, Stephen Watson wrote: > Hi all, > > I just felt I had to comment on a few things. I wandered into the Apple Store > the other day and was playing around with the MacBook Air, just out of > curiosity you understand ... > > What I found was extraordinary, I thought. I launched several applications > such as Aperture, Garageband, Pages and Numbers - apps which I use regularly > and on my dear old iMac take some time to start - and the time from first tap > to having a running application on the Air in just a second or two wiped the > floor with every other non-Air Mac I tried in the store (OK, I didn't try the > Mac Pro), including the 27" 4GB i7 iMac! I'm sure once an app is launched and > the Mac is required to do some serious heavy lifting and processor intensive > work rather than simply loading stuff from disk it's probably quite a > different matter. Nonetheless, it just goes to show that clever design and an > SSD can produce incredibly gratifying results in such a beautifully compact > package. > > And whilst I'm gushing I have to say that the new GarageBand for iPad is > amazing! I'm using it on the "iPad Classic" :-) and it just made my jaw drop > and put a very silly grin on my face and all for less than a pint of fine ale > ... > > Aren't Apple great? > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > "We need to be hungry for life and less hungry for money" - Unknown > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >
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