The New MacBook Air

While Logos on iPad is disappointing in my opinion, I think the new MacBook Air announced today might be the best solution of making Logos portable. In Short, it is instant on, making your Logos always ready. And I think its flash memory might increase the performance in a certain sense (and decrease the performance in other sense, e.g. the slower CPU.). And it costs USD999, which is even cheaper than some of the Logos Library.

What do you think? Is it a great idea to mobile Bible study with Logos?

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Joshua Moran

I believe the 13" 2.13 option is the way to go with maxed memory. Otherwise you may be disappointed. Remember the iPad app is really just a reader that cannot hold all the resources onboard

Kolen Cheung

I believe the 13" 2.13 option is the way to go with maxed memory.

Yes but it costs $1,699.00. (with 2GB RAM).

I believe the 13" 2.13 option is the way to go with maxed memory. Otherwise you may be disappointed. Remember the iPad app is really just a reader that cannot hold all the resources onboard

Agree. Logos on iPad is really just a reader, not a Bible study app.

Greg

I actually hadn't thought of it in that way yet...

Someone
needs to get one and post their experience here on the forums! Or sneak
into an Apple Store, download their library, and do it that way!

Kolen Cheung

I think the main advantage is "instant on" and portability. So, I would prefer the cheapest one so that it is financially affordable and small and light enough to carry around. It is about the size of the iPad, 25% larger and 45% heavier. So, no matter one is in traffic, waiting for bus, waiting for the red light, etc. one can have a Bible Study. So convenient.

mab

I think that new machine looks wonderful, but I have to think it wasn't made for L4M. I could be wrong, but you could do an iMac with some muscle that would better suit Logos and extensive read time. On the go, yeah maybe but we're talking serious dollars. You could extend your library and buy a fast Win latop for the same number of Benjamins.

Kevin A. Purcell

I actually hadn't thought of it in that way yet...

Someone
needs to get one and post their experience here on the forums! Or sneak
into an Apple Store, download their library, and do it that way!

On it. Mine will arrive by next Wed.

Andy Platte

Watch out this Link for the new MBA

http://www.macworld.com/article/155067/2010/10/firstlook_10inch_air.html?lsrc=top_1

And see the Air in the Air!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcarlson/5100992046/

Dennis Miller

Why not just get a regular Macbook pro with a faster processor and larger memory and storage capacity for about the same price. Is having to wait a minute or so for the thing to boot really that big of a deal to settle for something less?

Kevin A. Purcell

Why not just get a regular Macbook pro with a faster processor and larger memory and storage capacity for about the same price. Is having to wait a minute or so for the thing to boot really that big of a deal to settle for something less?

As Ben said, Portability. I have a thick and heavy HP and it weights about 6 lbs. I have to carry the power adapter too since it dies after about 3-4 hours. Pretty good, but not 7 like the 13-inch. So now I'm going to carry around my iPad and my notebook and they will weigh less than my HP combined.

If you don't want portability, then definitely don't go MBA.

Wilson Hines

Why not just get a regular Macbook pro with a faster processor and larger memory and storage capacity for about the same price. Is having to wait a minute or so for the thing to boot really that big of a deal to settle for something less?

As Ben said, Portability. I have a thick and heavy HP and it weights about 6 lbs. I have to carry the power adapter too since it dies after about 3-4 hours. Pretty good, but not 7 like the 13-inch. So now I'm going to carry around my iPad and my notebook and they will weigh less than my HP combined.

If you don't want portability, then definitely don't go MBA.

In regards to portability, I have the 13" MBPro that came out in the last refresh in May. Before that, I had a Gateway Win 7 computer that weighed over 10 lbs. This computer is so light compared to anything else (other than the Air) it's just ridicules.

As far as speed is concerned: I know the MBA has a slightly slower processor, but with the performance of a friend of mines Air with a SSD I would gladfully accept the 13" Air even over my 13" MBPro. That SSD makes up for the 200 MHz slower processor - no question in my mind.

Kevin A. Purcell

As far as speed is concerned: I know the MBA has a slightly slower processor, but with the performance of a friend of mines Air with a SSD I would gladfully accept the 13" Air even over my 13" MBPro. That SSD makes up for the 200 MHz slower processor - no question in my mind.

I've never used another MB until yesterday I was in Best Buy and played around with the fastest, most powerful system they had. And mine is faster on some tasks and just as fast on others. That one had a Core i5 processor but only a 5400 rpm hard drive.

In my experience with Logos, it handles almost everything with aplomb, except notes. Notes was a problem on Windows too. It does seem slightly more sluggish in Mac than on Windows. But as someone said that is because the Mac version is slightly behind the Windows version in optimization.

Douglas W. Brown

Update? I would like to see what you think now of the speed of the macbook air (using logos 4) after you have been using it for a little while

Kevin A. Purcell

Strangely I'm posting on my Windows desktop. But today is the first day I have used my PC extensively since getting the MBA.

1. The MBA is a GREAT computer. I love this thing. So light and despite the specs very fast. My only frustration is the storage space. 128GB is hard to deal with when I'm used to having a 1TB drive on my desktop and a 500GB drive on my notebook. But the display is beautiful and the resolution is great. I can get a lot of stuff on the screen. Now that I've been running OS X for 5 straight days I am getting the hang of it. Still some things that are second nature to me are hard to do because I have to think about it, but I'm getting there. I had a chance to compare my MBA to a MB Pro running a Core i5 and 4GB of Ram and because the MB Pro was running a typical hard drive, my MBA was actually a tiny bit more responsive.

2. Logos on MBA is pretty good. I just updated to the latest beta. It seems more responsive the the SR that I had. Just ran a Passage Guide on three versus and it found all the commentary results in 20 secs. Same passage Exegetical guide was much faster and with everything open. Start up is also faster than previous. release. Compared to Windows? Don't have firm numbers, but just counting in my head things are at least as fast and somtimes faster. My Exegetical Guide took 8 seconds on Mac and 10 on Windows. My Passage guide to 20 seconds on Mac and 20 second on PC just to give me the first set of commentaries. Add another 20 seconds when I ask it to get rest. A search of the entire library for grace for some reason didn't find as many results on my Mac as it did on my PC even though I show exactly same book count on each.

So, my initial results are that I am very impressed and the better display makes Logos on the new MBA a win over the PC side. The new beta doesn't have all the features. My initial look is where is the sentence diagrammer. Have to wait again for it if I'm going to use the MBA for study. But I sort of got used to doing that in Word, so will have to do that still on MBA. Do we have a time frame for when it might be added?