Is the MBA for me?

Hi guys, I'm in the market for a new macbook as my old one is going down hill. I'm going for a 13" air with i7 or the pro with i7. I'm wondering how these two will stack up. The majority of my work is document editing, importing/exporting photos, then playing music and surfing the web. How does the air handle having 4-5 programs running at once? I've read it is faster than the pro at everyday tasks because of the ssd? I almost always have at least 3 programs running at once. My only other concern is that I want to run windows on it with a flight simulator. I have been runnning vm ware with the sim installed and its extremely taxing on my normal macbook. Can the air handle this? Running windows alone is taxing let alone a flight sim. Would runnning it through bootcamp be easier on the computer? If somebody wants to try for me its a phoenix flight simulator and a demo can be found at http://www.phoenix-simv3.com/downloads.asp
Also will an air be more durable than a pro? Unfortunately my computers get used and abused. The size/weight of the air is a plus for me since it is hauled to jobs and school but not a huge deal. So what do you guys think will suit me best.
Thanks, Tyler

Screen resolution is one concern. Pro on a 15 in can be upgraded to 1680x1050, and anti-glare.
Also check out relative performance of systems (http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/) to see if price/performance helps make the decision.
Graphics processors are also better in Pro vs Air (I do not have the link to relative "graphics" performance comparisons).
Also, theory says that Pro can actually take 16 GB RAM, once the price for a 16 GB kit drops below $1000.
And Air does not have an internal optical drive.
But it is lighter, and some find even the smalled Pro is a bit hefty to carry.
And battery life is longer on Air generally then Pro.

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The MBA for the following:

I am a blogger, webmaster, writer and programmer and am thinking about the MBA for the following:
* Adobe Dreamweaver
* Adobe Flash
* Blogging (writing/editing/etc. - for two blogs)
* Core animation (graphics)
* E-Mail
* Dashcode
* Surfing with multiple tabs open (for tech news gathering)
* XCode
Would the MBA (HD version I guess) be suitable for these tasks?
Thanks,
-Dan Uff

Based on the current benchmarks and reviews, I would say the MBA could +in theory+ do all that, but I think you would be highly disappointed with its performance. You may be ok if you did only one of the things you listed at a time, but I'm getting the feeling that this isn't the way you would like to use your notebook.
The biggest weakness of the MBA is the inability to upgrade the RAM beyond 2GB, as well as the slower parallel ATA interface the HDD uses. Bottom line - the MBA wasn't really designed for anything beyond light use (writing, note taking, email, web browsing) But if portability>performance (for you), then I'd suggest seeing how the MBA fares by heading down to an Apple Store and putting one through its paces before committing to buying one.
I just see so many posts here where people with a laundry list of expectations from a notebook are ready to drop ~$1800 for an MBA when from a practical standpoint, that kind of money would be better spent on a higher performing MB or MBP. (IMO)
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In the market for a MBA 13" and cant decide between 128gb vs 256gb. Help please?

I am in the market for a MBA 13" and cant decide between the 128gb vs 256gb. I will be finishing up grad school within the year and plan on purchasing an iMac to use as the main computer. I would be using the MBA for internet access, some word docs, viewing pdf files, etc. Nothing really heavy, no video/sound editing, or photography type funtions. I would however like to mess with the garage band program but am new to apple and dont have any experience with it. Itunes library is currently about 600 songs and very few pics. I was originally planning on the macbook pro 13" until I talked to a sales person at the apple store who introduced me to the idea of a MBA. I really like the price point of the 128gb vs 256gb but just want to make sure that I am being realistic with size. Help please?

I've worked part time for an Apple reseller for a very long time and sold a lot of low end computers to people who thought they were going to use the computer for just email and surfing, maybe writing the Christmas letter. It didn't take me long to realize that a lot of those customers were coming back within a year or 18 months to upgrade their computer or replace it with a more powerful one.
Based on this experience, I try very hard not to let someone walk out of the store with the low end MBA if that's the only computer in the household. It can't be upgraded. Since the 2011 MBA shipped I've seen another trend developing - it has happened in my own household, with a lot of the people I work with, and customers too. Despite having another computer, even one that in terms of specs is more powerful than the MBA, a lot of people have turned their MBA into their main computer. With that in mind, the 128GB drive really is the bare minimum and it will be costly to upgrade - not to mention voiding the warranty.

What are the uses for Macbook pro and Macbook air?

Hi! I am deciding between MBA and MBP and need to know what the different uses for each one was. Like what would you use the MBA for and what would you use the MBP for?? All opinions welcome!!

They're actually pretty comparible in what they can do if you're talking about the base model of both (say 13") with 4GB RAM. At that level, the Pro has the advantage if you're going to watch or burn DVD's or CD's, as the Air has no optical drive. But otherwise, they're pretty much the same--full-sized, backlit keyboard, camera, beautiful screen, etc. If you're going for more than a basic 13" Pro, then things start to change. For example, you can get up to 8GB RAM on the Pro, and a huge hard drive, you can also get a 15" or 17" size. You will be paying a lot for these, but, obviously, if you're going to be working on, say, making videos (which you may then want burn onto disk) the Pro is very much what you'll want.
However, if you don't need or want any of that--if, for example, you plan to do the usual programs (word processing, games, web surfing, music, etc.), then you really won't see much difference between the two. At 4GB RAM and a 13" screen, the big difference is going to be thickness and weight, not power. And in this the Air will have the advantage--it's really amazingly slim, light and with a SSD, faster (you pay extra--a lot extra--to get SSD on the Pro).
Just to make the point, I switched from a 13" Pro to an 11" Air. My hard drive size is half what it was with a Pro, but I was barely taking up half of that amount on the Pro, and so have plenty of room on my 128GB Air (you can get 256GB for the 11" if you order it online). Absolutely everything my Pro did, my Air does (sans optical drive), only faster and lighter and more compact--meaning it takes up less table space, slips in and out of my bag faster, balances on my lap easier, etc. But there was no interruption of service--I switched pretyt seamlessly from 13" Pro to 11" Air.
The Pro offers you more options for power, screen size, HD size and optical drive. But it's really pretty surprising how few of us need that much power, that much room, or the optical drive. It's very freeing to realize that less can be more than enough.

I joined iTunes Match on my MBP and added our MBA to the same Match account. What should the iTunes Media Folder Location be for iTunes on the MBA?

The iTunes libraries on both machines appear to be in sync, though I don't know if Home Sharing or iTunes Match is to thank for the consistency. But the iTunes Media Folder locations are different on the MBP and MBA, and I don't know if they should point to the same storage location (it's been on a drive connected to our Airport for years). I also don't know what options for Copying Files and Keeping iTunes Organized should be on the MBA. I certainly don't want the media files duplicated yet the devices sharing a cloud version.
I hoped the MBA would act like an iOS device using iTunes Match in that music would stream unless downloaded. Then downloaded music would have to be managed (deleted from the MBA's iTunes) for space reasons at some regular intervals-- just like we now do on the iPhones and iPad. The library entry for the song would remain... just the locally stored file would be deleted and the iCloud download would change back to the download symbol.
But if a purchase is made from the iTunes store on the MBA, the file is stored on the local MBA machine as well as the external drive because the MBP receives the song via Home Sharing and downloads the file.

Each iTunes client will expect a discrete iTunes library location. The iTunes Match service will allow the libraries to be automatically synchronised along with any IOS devices that are also registered for iTunes Match.
Following making a secure backup for any given library it is possible, once Songs have been 'matched' or 'uploaded' to remove the local copies and play the Songs from the Cloud. The behaviour on IOS devices is different, they will download each Song as it is played.
Note: Apple is very clear that the responsibility for maintaining music files remains with the user - so it remains essential to ensure that you have your own Songs secure backed up prior to relying on the Cloud. Should there be an issue with the Cloud resulting in loss of Songs you will need your own secure backup.

What can I migrate from my 13" MacBook (white 2007) to a new MacBook Air 13" using an ethernet cable and a USB ethernet adaptor for the MBA?

I have, on order, a 13" MacBook Air (128Gb) and intend using Migration Assistant to transfer data from my 4 year old MacBook 13" (White) on set up.
I have ordered an Apple USB Ethernet adaptor and have today purchased an Ethernet cable.
I will want to transfer;
Mail........Mailboxes, their contents and account settings. In fact the lot except the application itself.
Safari..... Bookmarks, Cookies, Saved Passwords etc. As above
Google Chrome.........same
Address Book
iCal
iTunes
iPhoto
Documents. Excel, Word, Powerpoint & pdf's (a clean install of Office for Mac 2011 will take place on the MBA)
MacBook and applications are currently up to date and I've read about disabling the energy saver to sleep option.
Is it all that simple or am I missing something?
Can Account Information in Mail be migrated?
Will saved links be transferred in Safari (especially that of my ISP's customer area)? You have no idea what navigating around Orange France is like !
Sorry if I sound a little naïve but I'm English, retired and living in France and the nearest Apple Store is a 3 hour drive away so I'm doing it all myself.
Thanks
Richard

Use Setup Assistant when your new Mac first starts up. See Using Setup Assistant on Lion (it's a bit more complete).
Unless you choose to omit things, that will set your new Mac up exactly like the old one, except for a few preferences, etc., that may be different for the different hardware.
If your old Mac isn't running Lion, there will be some other differences, too. See Changes in Lion from Snow Leopard.

Creating a bootable Volume for the MBA

This post is kinda a follow-on to post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1386691&tstart=0
I used Disk Utility to re-partition my internal SSD so that I could clone my Time Machine backup USB disk Volume to it using SD! version 2.5 (Leopard compatible). After this I disconnected the Time Machine USB disk from the MBA and re-connected another LaCie 40GB USB disk instead.
I now did a remote boot from my G5's optical device and used the Installer to restore the SSD Time Machine clone to the direct attached LaCie disk. This went smoothly.
I then restarted the MBA and held down the Option key and was able to select the attached LaCie USB disk and the MBA booted up nicely from it.
So, now I have an alternative external means of booting my MBA is the internal SSD goes south or get corrupted in weird manner.

Spinland wrote:
Then what CSound1 said: use CCC to clone your drive to another disk for safekeeping, then install Lion and enjoy. All of your apps will still be there after the upgrade.
Have you checked to make sure your apps are Lion compatible? This guide can help you find out:
http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/are-your-apps-lion-compatible-how-to-check/
Hi Spinland
That is not what I said exactly ......
1 Clone the SL (internal) to the external.
2 Boot from the external and install Lion on it.
3 Run Lion from the clone until you know it works (and you can identify any incompatible apps).
4 Clone the Lion external back to the internal.
5 You're done.

Need advise: Is the MBA right for me?

I currently have a MB, I am thiniking about the MBA but don't know if it would work for me. Here is what I would have to be able to do (every day) with the MBA:
- Access internet and email (WIFI or verizon USB card)
-Use iChat and Skype
-Have parallels or VM fusion with WindowXP
-I need about 300 pix in iPhoto (not editing just family stuff)
-Have about 1000 songs in iTunes
-need to access data from a USB portable drive.
-Need to be able to watch a DVD from time to time.
I guess the usual traveler stuff.... Also for those of you travelers, using the MBA, how do you protect your computer (airport, airplane etc) from damages?
Thank you.
Frederic

Here are comments based upon my experience having had one for months:
Wifi is unreliable and this is a big disappointment. My AT&T 881U (cellular broadband usb modem) works great and I use that when not at home. Wifi seems to work great when you have a router that just has 802.11n connected devices using WPA/WPA2. You won't find these at public hotspots.
iChat and Skype work without problems, even the video chat is great. Camera needs good lighting but considering it is video chat, work well. Sound is very good even without a headset.
I'm running Fusion with a WinXP guest os. It works. The MBA runs hot, disk intensive programs like virus scans take quite a long time. It won't break any speed records but I'm able to use MS Project, MS OneNote, Outlook (VPN to company network).
iPhoto works great. Have about 500 pics of the kids and the screen is very nice.
I keep my iTunes songs on a home server and run iTunes on the MBA. No problems, works well with about 6000 songs. All ripped from CD and encoded with a high (extreme preset) mp3 bitrate.
I haven't tried it with flash memory.
People have reported on this forum, even with the latest software update, playing videos causes the MBA to run hot. The shuts down one processor core and the machine runs too slow for playback.
Best bag for me has been the Incase for a MBA. I wanted a bag with a shoulder strap as I carry mine around NYC and need free hands for coffee and blackberry This case is light and thin.
Regards-Michael G.

Is the MBA 256gb right for me?

Hello all,
Let me start by saying Im going to be buying a Macbook soon and Im leaning toward the MBA because of the portability and speed it offers. This will be my first Mac. I am a High School Teacher and Im also going to school myself so I need portability, but money is also tight. Primary uses will be for Word Documents, Spreadsheets, Internet surfing, Emails with PDF downloads and a "homebase" for my iTunes account. I cant think of any use where I would need a CD drive.
I guess my question is, will the MBA be enough for me or should I opt for the Macbook Pro? Any suggestions?
Also, Macrumors says the MBA is due for an update soon? Should I hold off my purchase? My HP is on its way out!
Thank you for any help you have to offer!

MBA should do you just fine--do make sure you get 4gb RAM. The Pro is really for people who either need that disk drive, or might need something larger/expandable in the future. That doesn't seem likely with you (i.e. they're doing heavy duty programs, animation, videos, etc.--or might be doing that in the future.). And though some may say otherwise, having switched from a Pro myself, I can say that I very much notice the weight difference--and how much easier and faster it is to slip my computer in and out of the bag. Also that I can carry around a thinner bag You can't imagine the bulky backpacks I had before I got the air. Packing and unpacking are very speedy as I can manage my MBA with one hand, which means I get where I'm going and get to work that much faster. You might think that a pound or so less in weight and half-the-thickness wouldn't matter, but it really can be a huge difference.
As for whether you need anything bigger or more powerful: the thing you have to remember is that the common wisdom for computers of yesteryear really doesn't apply any more. That wisdom was to get the biggest and fastest, because everything in your life was going to be on it--mail, documents, programs, pictures, music, movies, games....
But the fact is, between what we put on our phones, renting rather than buying movies, external hard drives (always a good idea to have so you can back everything up in case!), clouds, the internet, iPods, iPads, etc, most of us really don't need ourlaptops to be able to hold everything. And, in addition, many of those things have significantly shrunk in recent years, while hard drives and SSD on laptops have gotten larger. So music takes up far less space than it once did on hard drives, yet you've got more hard drive than you did back when the music was taking up so much space.
Which all means you really can have a laptop as thin and light as the MBA that does all you'd want a laptop to do. Just check how much HD you'll need for all you want to put on it. If the amount is less than 256g--i.e. you'll be able to put it all on and have some wiggle room--you're golden.

After completed as an MBA HR & System, Which module is the best for freshers ??

Hi, I am Samrat Saha. I completed my post graduation as an MBA (HR&System). I did BCA in my graduation and did Higher secondary in commerce. I want to build my career in SAP. But I have some questions::
1. If i go for SAP then which module is the best for me..??
2. As a fresher is companies showing any interest to recruit..??
3. I hard a Course from Victoria University, Melborn, That Is "Master of Business (Enterprise Resource planning System) with SAP".. Is this Master degree worthy to do??
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Hello Samrat,
It is not possible to provide guidance on what career path you should take. This is a conversation you need to have with a Career Planner or perhaps one of your professors. You should follow the path you are most interested in, be it a functional role or a technical role. Ideally you may want to consider getting some work experience in both fields, and then determine which area you wish to pursue.
You state you have an MBA in HR & System....System what?? System development? Technology? Programming? Data Warehousing? Even HR is a vast area within the SAP world. We have Payroll, Recruiting, Self Services, Compensation, Time Management, Learning Management Systems, etc. Most consultants select one or two areas to pursue. There is no such thing as a single person who knows the complete SAP HR solution...it's just too big!
I will suggest that you consider taking an SAP HR course so that you can get an idea as to how large the application is. There are lots of courses available in e-learning. I would recommend either SAPHRE or HR050E to start. Once you have completed one of these, you'll be in a better position to decide what you want to do, or at least decide what you don't want to do.
Good Luck!

Using an ipod as an external HDD for the MBA and also as an ipod

I have 120gb of media that I would like to carry on an ipod which I then connect to an MBA.
Is it possible for the MBA to use the ipod as an external HDD to store media on, and also use the ipod as an ipod?

With the exception of the iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle, yes. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131

I'm running Lion on a Late 2008 MacBook Air. With no other applications running, I can no longer Check for Software Updates. It gets abut half way through the checking process and then freezes. The MBA passes Disk Utility. Thoughts?

I'm running Lion on a Late 2008 MacBook Air.
With no other applications running, I can no longer Check for Software Updates. It gets about half way through the checking process and then freezes.
The MBA passes Disk Utility. Thoughts?
Thanks
Jim Taylor

How long do you leave it?
Mine can sometimes sit for quite a while (maybe 10 minutes??) before it finally finishes.
You could look at the relevant logs via Console (Utilities folder) to see if Software Update is complaining about anything.
charlie

I'm confused...think the MBA had anything to do with this?

Hiya,
All righty...well, it's been about a week since I've had my MBA, and I have to say, this computer is awesome. However, I've had this very odd Internet problem and I'm not sure if it's the MBA'S fault--or, rather, my fault, given the way I used the MBA at home, in this case--that this happened. I don't know if anyone here would have any idea of what happened, regardless of whether it was actually connected to the MBA and what I did with it to get it online, but here goes....
I currently don't have working wi-fi so I'm stuck with one computer that can go online via ethernet and the DSL modem at home. When I went online with my MBA for the first time this week, I just unplugged the Ethernet from the home PC and plugged it into the MBA with the usb-to-ethernet dongle. The Internet worked fine on the MBA. And for a few hours, the Internet also worked fine on the regular home PC as well. But the next time I turned the PC on, something strange happened: Almost no Internet pages would load on Firefox or IE. Oddly enough, MSN worked, and YouTube worked, of all websites, but neither browser wanted to load up any other kind of webpage.
At first I figured that spyware/adware must've had something to do with this, so I started running my usual virus/spyware/adware checks to see if they would find anything. In the meantime, I plugged the Ethernet cable into the MBA and assumed the Internet would work just fine on it. It didn't--it had the exact same problem as the home PC! It was very odd--I was having the same problem across two different computers and two different platforms.
Long story short, my spyware/adware/virus checks on the PC came up clean. I was able to get one of my more computer-savvy friends to come over to my house and help fix the problem. We worked with the home PC and tweaked the firewall slightly. Oddly enough, after we tweaked the firewall on the home PC and got the Internet to work properly on it, the Internet also started working fine on the MBA as well when we tried plugging it in. My friend was left as confused as I was about all this--we really don't know what caused this problem to start with, since I hadn't encountered this problem at all until I plugged the MBA into the DSL modem. My friend's best guess is that perhaps, something in my PC had "told" the modem to not allow either computer to properly access the Web after I plugged in the MBA, but he really wasn't sure because he'd never encountered a problem like this.
All in all, I've had an exciting but very strange week. For anyone more computer savvy out there--anyone encounter this kind of problem before? I'll be happy to provide other details on the kind of PC I'm using, along with security programs and my current Internet setup. If needed, I'll get more specific about what me and my friend had done to attempt fixing the problem too.

Hiya!
Thanks for the suggestions, Sagesse and Brian. Um...actually, on the day this had happened, my DSL modem got restarted at least three times--twice in my own attempt to fix it and once when I brought in my neighbor to help me fix the computer. I think I've got quite a bit more time to explain specifically what I and my neighbor did, so here goes....
First, as I said earlier, I plugged the MBA into my DSL modem and the Internet worked great. It worked great for a day or so before the Internet went wonky on me last Monday.
When I plugged the modem into my PC and booted up last Monday, then saw the Internet wasn't working right at all, the first thing I did was turn off and unplug my modem from my PC and from the wall for about five minutes. (Overkill, I know now--the neighbor who helped me fix my connection told me that all I needed was a minute and I didn't necessarily need to unplug it.) That didn't work. So I did the following in the next day or so till I could get ahold of my neighbor:
--ran spyware/adware scans using Spybot, Ad-Aware, Spyware Doctor. I found two cookies, all in all, and quarantining them both didn't solve the problem.
--ran McAfee's virus scan, which came up clean
--launched Windows Live Messenger--when it didn't log me on and launched its troubleshooting utility instead, I tried letting that run so it could try telling me what the problem was. It kept saying there was a problem with my hosts file, and I clicked on "Repair" several times to get the utility to fix the problem, but no dice--it just didn't work.
--I checked my network connections in Windows and found my Ethernet connection, then clicked on "Repair" and tried to have Windows attempt to fix the problem for me. It sort of helped--I could log onto Windows Live Messenger, but my Internet browsers (IE and Firefox) were acting very strangely. Basically, only one of the two browsers would semi-work. For example...after having Windows attempt to repair my connection, I opened up Firefox and it didn't work at all--nothing would load properly on it. Then, out of curiosity, I opened IE and tried going to a variety of sites--a couple of banking websites that require login information to access personal banking info, cnn.com, consumerist.com, gizmodo.com, youtube.com--and out of all of those, only youtube loaded properly. IE definitely didn't like anything requiring a login. It didn't like "complicated" sites like CNN's or AOL's site either--when I tried loading either page, what I got were really simple-looking sites that resembled the kinds of pages I'd see on my BlackBerry when I'd load the mobile versions of either site on it. And it got weirder after a few hours of just leaving the computer alone--after a while, IE didn't want to work properly, but Firefox would suddenly start working somewhat, but it would act the same way IE did when it was working.
--When none of this stuff worked, I finally tried resetting my firewall back to its default settings. This didn't improve things for me either.
After trying all this out on Monday and some of Tuesday, I finally got ahold of my neighbor. After hearing how freaked out I was at all of this, he suggested that we go out and get some lunch in the neighborhood so we could talk, I could calm down, and I could tell him all about what had happened. We settled on a place with a wi-fi hotspot and I brought the MBA along--we both agreed that if the MBA worked perfectly fine at this restaurant we went to, then the problem I was having was most likely isolated to my house. Lo and behold, the MBA worked just fine outside of my home, so we were more certain now: The problem was at my home.
After lunch, my neighbor went back to his house and brought me a spare modem and a spare Internet cable in case there really was a problem with my own modem. And then he got a look at my PC and did some of the same things I already did. He turned my modem off and on, and that didn't work. He tried taking advantage of Windows Messenger Live's troubleshooting utility to have it attempt to fix my problem. (No dice--didn't work.) He tried repairing my Network connection. (Didn't work either.) And then he went into my firewall and started tinkering around with it. We learned one big thing about McAfee's free firewall that AOL provides: It is COMPLICATED. And no wonder, we both figured, as we stumbled through screen after screen, trying to figure out what might've been wrong: We figured that McAfee probably made things really hard to understand on purpose so that I'd be forced to go talk to them--and to talk to them, I'd have to pay for it.
My neighbor accidentally fixed the problem in an attempt to turn off my firewall, actually. He clicked this one checkbox in a list of "ignored problems" and assumed he had turned off the firewall. But he didn't--he fixed the problem instead. We don't actually understand how the item he had checked ("Firewall protection is disabled," which was originally not checkmarked and was not an ignored problem until we checkmarked it...) had solved anything. But the Internet just started working fine on either browser, and we don't understand how that fixed anything at all, but okay...that's for McAfee to answer, not the folks here. As my neighbor and I tested out IE and Firefox, loading up various sites, he said that the only thing he could guess in terms of what happened was, maybe my PC had "told" the DSL modem to not let any computer go online after I plugged in my MBA. And even that was a pretty wild guess for him--he admitted it readily--but he couldn't understand how that could have really been the problem here.
And...for now, that's all that's happened with my Internet connection. I got my connection fixed Tuesday night, after about two hours of me and my neighbor stumbling through Windows and, in particular, McAfee's security suite. I haven't had any problems with the Internet since then, but I'm still baffled at what had happened to start with. At this point, I still don't think this happened because of the MBA specifically, but I don't know what did happen to cause this problem. I do know that I had never had this kind of problem before until I plugged the MBA in, though. So in a vague way, I think the MBA had something to do with all this. I don't know what, though. :S
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Is there a way of transferring a purchased app from my iMac to my MBA if the MBA does not have internet connection?

I am relatively new to the Mac world, and so please excuse me if this sounds like a dumb question. I have a iMac running 10.6.8 and hard wired, not wireless.
I recently purchased a MAB with the intention of NOT hooking it to the internet but just stand alone, for writing purposes. I needed an app for it, so I purchased it through the app store on the iMac with the intent of transferring to the MAB via flash drive. Now in retrospect, its probably not the way its supposed to happen, due to licence rules, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the app on my MAB or will I have to get it online to do a transfer from the iMac?
Thank you in advance your suggestions.

Apple is relying heavily on the Mac App store to make purchases and install applications. Of course, this requires an Internet connection for all purchases and installs. If you connect the MBA to the App store online, you should be able to download an install an additional copy, provided the MBA and the iMac share ownership information (registration, Apple ID).
Apple's long term plan will just about require all systems to have Internet access to function in app installation and updating, if you buy the Apps from Apple..
Alternatively, some Apps can be copied in whole, by simply copying the particular App folder in the Applications folder of your iMac system, then pasting that App folder in the corresponding Applications folder on your MBA. The rest can't. The reason; they install library and other files elsewhere on the computer. It all depends on the Developer's structure of the App.
You can try the App file copying, and if it does not work, you will simply have to establish an Internet connection for your Air, and use the App store.

Does the MBA have an optical audio out (toslink)?

Does the MBA have an optical audio out (toslink)?

The MacBook Pro and iMacs have digital audio out routed through the headphone jack. A physical converter (costing a few cents) must be used to connect a regular TOSLINK cable.
The MacBook Air apparently does not have this feature.
As to true Thunderbolt 'adaptors' I have yet to see any hit the market. I would suggest not holding your breath while waiting for useful Thunderbolt technology to appear--one day perhaps, but not now. I would love to be proven wrong about this--I could really use the Thunderbolt<->FW800 adapter

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