Order New 2011 Airs or 2010 Version
I am looking at buying a 11" Macbook Air for my wife and 13" Macbook Air for myself. MacMall is doing great deals on the 2010 version. So I'm wondering if I should save money and buy the 2010 versions or order the new versions with 256 gb hard drives and the i7 processors. How does Lion perform on the 2010 versions? If I bought the older versions, they would both have 4gb of ram. My wife will be using hers for iPhoto, Safari, e-mail, movies etc. I'll be using mine mainly for writing and also Logos. I have another laptop, a PC laptop I use for work (fully loaded HP DV6 with i7 etc.).
Any advice would be appreciated.
I'm kinda torn on this one. I have the 2010 Air. I actually bought it after the 2011 came out and places still had 2010 stock. At the time, I was concerned with the possibility of the intigrated GPU in the 2011 model being underpowered (vs. the dedicated GPU in the 2010 Air). I was also seeing quite a bit of comments regarding heat with the 2011 Airs (my 2010 runs quite cool). I'm not really sure if that was due to the GPU/CPU integration on the 2011 model, or some other cause... but there just wasn't enough info at the time to make me comfortable with the 2011 model. I have installed Lion on my Air without any issues (whether or not I like Lion is another story... but it does run on the 2010 model without a problem).
Having said all that... I have considered from time to time upgrading to the 2011 model. Now that it's been out for a while, most people seem to be fairly happy. I did notice a lot more comments here in the support forums for the 2011 models though. We used to see maybe 10 or 15 comments a day (which is practically nothing). With the introduction of the 2011 model, we're seeing about as many comments as we do for the MB Pros. I'm not sure if that's indicative of there actually being more problems or if sales have skyrocketed. I know many of those posts are also more related to Lion than the Air itself.
If you were talking about making the decision between the two and paying the same price, I'd definately go with the 2011 model. You get the backlit keyboard, more powerful CPU, and the (as of yet underutilized) Thunderbolt port. However, if you're getting a great deal on a 2010 model, for your wife's usage (as you've indicated it to be), the 2010 will be fine. As I had indicated, it runs Lion just fine, but you'll also have the option to keep it with Snow Leopard if you wish which would be a major benefit for many. Snow Leopard is not an option for the 2011 model.
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Ok, either my question was too long or nobody seems to have an answer. Sad, either way
Here's something I found out in the meantime, maybe this is interesting for somebody or maybe - problem's not totally solved - enough info for any of you to give me further advice.
When I start Logic Core Audio driver de-activated, I can open old songs. Then I save them in a new folder with all audio files and a new name. And I remove all EXS24 instruments as well as the Space Designer. I quit Logic, re-open with Core Audio activated and I can open the song.
Problem no.1: EXS24 instruments don't find the appropriate samples, but EXSMananger Pro did help me with this. Same problem with Space Designer, which doesn't find the impulse responses, connected to a certain preset.
Two questions, every idea would be great!
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