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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? MacBook Air Anyone? Post 302509340 by Scott on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 02:32:59 PM
Old 03-30-2011
I was toying between that and an MBP 15", and went for the MBP in the end.

Main reasons where
  • Extra oomph of the quad core i7, extra memory and Radeon 1GB GPU
  • More ports and internal optical drive
  • Larger storage
  • Larger screen
  • Thought it would handle better under load
  • Bang for your buck

My friend, however (an Oracle DBA) went for the 13" Air and says it's great. Incredibly snappy and responsive (think he says it boots in 12 seconds, and has a great battery life). He's got VM Fusion installed, has Linux (CentOS or Mint, I don't recall) and will install Oracle in it. I wait to see his impressions of how "snappy" it is when all that's running!

The Air is expensive. The base model comes with only 2 GB, and the optical drive is extra. But it is really light - great for travelling, and the display is better than the 13" MBP.

It's a gorgeous little thing, and had I not needed the extra "oomph" I absolutely would have gone for one of them.
 

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UVSCOM(4)                                                  BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                  UVSCOM(4)

NAME
uvscom -- USB support for SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapters driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device uvscom device ucom Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): uvscom_load="YES" HARDWARE
The uvscom driver supports the following adapters: o DDI Pocket Air H" C@rd o DDI Pocket Air H" C@rd 64 o NTT P-in o NTT P-in m@ster DESCRIPTION
The uvscom driver provides support for the SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U chip. Slipper U is a PC Card to USB converter for data communication card adapters. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). SEE ALSO
tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4) HISTORY
The uvscom driver first appeared in FreeBSD and later in NetBSD 1.6. This manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> in April 2002. BSD November 22, 2006 BSD
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