序言：
由于越来越多的资料来自英文，偶现在会开始尝试混合英语与中文的blog。
并且减少翻译。大家只能尝试着看吧。英语不好的同志可以当做练习。
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Well, here we go. I never be a fan of MAC in my whole life. I do believe MAC is a beautiful toy not a a tool which you will use everyday for heavy duty work.
Following is the prove from Jason D.
Silver
The MacBook Air has no
clothes
There. I said it.
After using the MacBook Air intensely since it arrived in February, I am
beginning to feel the limitations of its pokey 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM.
I knew what I was getting into going in, but I was convinced that I could make
it work. Initially the tradeoff of less CPU and RAM was worth shaving two pounds
off my daily notebook heft but as I use the MBA more and more I’m increasingly
frustrated by its molasses-like performance.
(I’m not complaining about the 80GB hard drive, either. With some careful
data gymnastics I’ve found it pretty easy to live within 80GB, with the
exception of Parallels disk images. Those, my friend, are a bear. To hell with
music and photo libraries damnit! I need Windows XP!)
Take my morning routine, for example. Every weekday I launch Flock and open a bookmark of 14 sites
in tabs, then I launch NetNewsWire, then Adium, then Mail. This process easily
pegs both processors and sometimes make Flock totally unresponsive for several
minutes. I sometimes have to force quit and re-launch Flock to get it working
again and have to wait a few minutes for everything to refresh.
Granted, it’s a tall order.
Loading multiple Web pages, RSS feeds and IMAP accounts is undoubtedly
resource intensive, but it’s not video effects rendering or high-end Photoshop
plug-in work for Pete’s sake! It’s mostly network access. I wouldn’t expect it
to completely hobble an Intel Core 2 Duo running on an 802.11g (sometimes n)
network. But maybe I’m pushing the limits?
When I add the dismal performance of
Excel 2008 and Parallels (hello beachball!) to the mix, the MBA performance
is starting to become a liability that I never had before with my MacBook
Pro.
Perhaps it’s the applications? Maybe Flock is a resource hog. Maybe I need to
purge the gunk from all my IMAP folders. Maybe I need to repair permissions.
Re-install everything from scratch? Nuke and pave?
As I re-read what I just typed I can’t help but think that I have a mild case
of battered MBA-owner syndrome. “No officer, I don’t want to press charges
against the MacBook Air. I fell down the stairs. Honest.”
I stand behind my diary posts about the MacBook Air though. It’s a great machine
for light-duty users, frequent fliers and Mac-daddy executives, but for resource
intensive users I recommend a top-end MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM.
Is the paltry 2GB of RAM, 1.6GHz processor and 80GB hard drive inside the
MacBook Air planned obsolescence? I can’t help but think so.