My MacBook Air has arrived, a few days before VMware Fusion 4 got out and a very early preview of Windows 8 got released.
Time to move my iOS dev env from my Mac Mini Server dev env over to this fully loaded 13.3 inch MacBook Air model (A1369 with 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 / 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM / 256GB Flash Storage).
A few initial observations on the MacBook Air:
- I’m the kind of guy that has a plan B in case of disaster recovery. Like many PCs, this MacBook Air does not include any recovery media. Recovering OS X Lion is done through a recovery partition (costing precious SSD space), or if that fails: over the internet.
Of course you can create your own recovery media using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, which is a 1 megabyte dmg download. - Another funny thing is that the WiFi antenna of the MacBook Air is far less strong than my ThinkPad W701: while both can connect to the FreeDowntownWifi network, the MacBook Air has trouble transferring data. Apparantly the aluminum unibody design has some drawbacks on antenna performance.
Not having a physical Ethernet connection on the MacBook Air doesn’t help either :)
Oh well, will install it at the Embarcadero office later this week.
A few things on VMware Fusion 4:
- It runs the Windows 8 preview
- It runs the FireMonkey OS X apps (a VM hackingtosh on a PC won’t do as the virtualized VMware video adapter is not up to par for FireMonkey OpenGL support)
Time to have a lot of fun :)
–jeroen
Via: VMware: VMware Support Insider: Fusion 4 is here!.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1369
