Christmas present for myself: Macbook Air

**dj_stick** · Dec 22, 2008, 03:49 AM

As I hinted a couple of times around the forums earlier, I've given myself a brand new Macbook Air for Christmas.

It's not one of the new nVidia based models, it's in fact the same model Zardon reviewed here. Sort of an impulse buy, but when I saw them going for abit over AU$500 off their original retail price, I couldn't help myself, as I've wanted one for quite a while, but can't really fork out close to AU$3000 for the newest models

1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2Gb Ram, 80Gb Hdd

The thing is incredibly light, and although the specs don't compare to my desktop mac pro, it doesn't feel underpowered or slow, though I've yet to test it for anything more than web/email/msn.

The multi-touch trackpad is great, navigating through finder/safari is a breeze, I only wish Opera would work with these gestures.

The one down-side is that it can get quite hot at times, which I need to be careful of, especially now in the middle of summer.

I've managed to install Office '08, Logic Pro and a few utilities, while still having about half of the hard-disk space free - a little app called XSlimmer really helped me here, stripped out all the non-essential components of my Universal Binary applications like PowerPC support and other languages - on average reduces the filesize of an application by about half, or in the case of safari, drops the file size from 33mb to just over 8mb.

More thoughts and pics to come as I continue to play with my newest toy.

BlueMak · Dec 22, 2008, 03:53 AM

Well done, may you enjoy it for many years to come.

Callandor · Dec 22, 2008, 03:55 AM

Nice one dude, have fun with that little beaut.

Lowfat · Dec 22, 2008, 05:25 AM

Have you used Office '08 before? I find it absolutely horribly slow and so does everyone I know. I still use it but I really should look in to going back to Open Office.

Necrosis · Dec 22, 2008, 06:17 AM

Congrats on the new toy. Don't worry I'll send some of the artic temps your way here in Ohio if you like.

Falstaff · Dec 22, 2008, 06:24 AM

they lowered the price here to for some reason...
enjoy your air like Mac..LOL

tanka12345 · Dec 22, 2008, 07:31 AM

Enjoy your Christmas present from 'Santa'!

Zardon · Dec 22, 2008, 08:16 AM

my favourite piece of hardware in 2008!

No need to say "enjoy", cause I know you will!

I think you should have waited on Dell's though ! YouTube - MacBook Air Parody

BlueMak · Dec 22, 2008, 08:28 AM

I prefer this one YouTube - F@#$ing MacBook

**dj_stick** · Dec 22, 2008, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

my favourite piece of hardware in 2008!

No need to say "enjoy", cause I know you will!

I think you should have waited on Dell's though ! YouTube - MacBook Air Parody

saw that one yesterday, had a good laugh at it

still not sure that i need the air, but hell, i've just finished studying, got mostly HDs for my course, so I might aswell reward myself

GigaWatt · Dec 22, 2008, 01:37 PM

wow, that thing is thin...

, congrats and have a blast using it...

CoolZone · Dec 22, 2008, 09:43 PM

have fun with it!

BlueMak · Dec 22, 2008, 10:38 PM

Are macbook air available in other colours?

Zardon · Dec 22, 2008, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueMak

Are macbook air available in other colours?

from apple direct? no.

however there are many other options from third parties, such as this.

The MacBook Air, now in color - Gadgetell

**dj_stick** · Dec 23, 2008, 12:56 AM

i'm tempted to sell my dj cd players now and buy a serato scratch rig for digital dj'ing...

GigaWatt · Dec 23, 2008, 01:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_stick

i'm tempted to sell my dj cd players now and buy a serato scratch rig for digital dj'ing...

off topic: just out of quriosity, what kind of DJ CD players do you have?

i have the Pioneer CDJ-100S... they have served me for about 5 years now... still read CDs as the day i bought them

... but one of them has a jog weel problem, the jog weel is kinda skipping when you turn it, you have to turn it and turn it to get to the correct timing on the timer, whereas the other one just needs a few degrees to the left or to the right to get the timer just right :-S.

back on topic: you could buy the Final Scratch kit... a friend of mine has it

... i gotta admit, it's awesome

... used it a couple of times in combination with Technics MKII... it sounds really great, and the scratch effects are pretty genuine (close to an original analogue vinyl scratch).

BlueMak · Dec 23, 2008, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

from apple direct? no.

however there are many other options from third parties, such as this.

The MacBook Air, now in color - Gadgetell

Solid orange the whole thing, with metal orange the apple logo...mmm beauty!

So, anyone here wants to make me a gift?

dj_stick, don't forget to take the appropriate photo (I am better than you mere mortals) and post it here

I am glad for you.

**dj_stick** · Dec 23, 2008, 03:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GigaWatt

off topic: just out of quriosity, what kind of DJ CD players do you have?

i have the Pioneer CDJ-100S... they have served me for about 5 years now... still read CDs as the day i bought them

... but one of them has a jog weel problem, the jog weel is kinda skipping when you turn it, you have to turn it and turn it to get to the correct timing on the timer, whereas the other one just needs a few degrees to the left or to the right to get the timer just right :-S.

back on topic: you could buy the Final Scratch kit... a friend of mine has it

... i gotta admit, it's awesome

... used it a couple of times in combination with Technics MKII... it sounds really great, and the scratch effects are pretty genuine (close to an original analogue vinyl scratch).

i've got two Tascam CD-DJ1s and TT-M1 adaptors (little wheels that sit on my vinyl turntables to control the cd players) - theyre a little unreliable about reading cds at times though, might just need a good clean, but I want the serato system

I'm looking at the serato system over final scratch, simply because I think Serato have better time & pitch algorithms, their "Pitch 'n' Time Pro" came out as one of the best time-stretching plugins for logic/pro tools, so I'm assuming this level of quality filters down to scratch live.

**dj_stick** · Dec 26, 2008, 12:12 AM

hmmm i find myself missing the home/end/pg up/pg dn keys a bit when navigating websites, the multi-touch trackpad helps a little there, i guess i have to get used to it

i tihnk i'll buy an apple remote for it later on today

Knight_Breed · Dec 26, 2008, 02:03 AM

Well posted in the wrong section initially but hey great gift

swimtech · Dec 26, 2008, 06:00 PM

Nice - Merry Christmas DJ! Glad you treated yourself to it!

Zardon · Dec 26, 2008, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_stick

i tihnk i'll buy an apple remote for it later on today

Well worth it. front row is great.

use the mini DVI out to a big HD and its a formidable little media center too (if you have a decent sized external HDD). handles HD content great and the quality of the digital output is very impressive.

**dj_stick** · Dec 26, 2008, 10:15 PM

going to be testing that function out NYE at my gf's, we're just having a quiet one as we're both working the next day, but I'm loading a few DVDs (don't have any HD media/content) onto it and will be playing it through a stadnard definition 32" plasma display

Rahazan · Dec 27, 2008, 12:10 AM

I saw one of these in my local Mac shop. Damn that thing is slim!

Good luck with it

**dj_stick** · Jan 16, 2009, 01:36 AM

sorry to bump, but i though it might aswell post an "action" shot

macbook air running my new BCD3000 DJ controller

SFOSOK · Jan 16, 2009, 06:21 AM

YouTube - MacBook Air Ad (Parody)

Why the Hell Not?

lepel · Jan 16, 2009, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

from apple direct? no.

however there are many other options from third parties, such as this.

The MacBook Air, now in color - Gadgetell

Whoa, it looks so sexy in black. Check it out!
ImageShack - Image Hosting :: prtscrcapturese8.jpg

Cow_160483 · Jan 16, 2009, 12:17 PM

Nice Christmas present dj_sick have fun with that baby.

**dj_stick** · Jan 22, 2009, 01:31 AM

photo link above fixed

Mac Daddy · Jan 22, 2009, 12:24 PM

Thanks for the pic link fix DJ and looking good ... and rather small in that setup

Dec 22, 2008, 03:53 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 9,329 Rep Power: 168 System Specs	re: Christmas present for myself: Macbook Air Well done, may you enjoy it for many years to come. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

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Callandor HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Saskatoon, Canada Posts: 4,293 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	re: Christmas present for myself: Macbook Air Nice one dude, have fun with that little beaut.

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BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 9,329 Rep Power: 168 System Specs	Re: Christmas present for myself: Macbook Air I prefer this one YouTube - F@#$ing MacBook __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

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BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 9,329 Rep Power: 168 System Specs	Re: Christmas present for myself: Macbook Air Are macbook air available in other colours? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

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