Originally Posted by
deniah
Can't see why 95% of users would be bottlenecked by the Air's computing power. For atleast a decade now most personal computers have passed the point of sufficiency for average private computing uses.
Just depends on who you hang out with, and what you do. "95% of users" has no relevancy on any particular user, and even for "general use" the Flyertalk population tends to attract a lot of heavy users.
IME, with the same processor as the highest model MBA 13", Chrome and Firefox sometimes bog down painfully on Javascript-heavy or image-heavy web sites. Other than that, there's not much that constitutes "general use" that will likely tax those things, although there's plenty of heavy professional use (very large Excel sheets, for one) that might come up for some non-technical/non-graphic-arts users.
People's level of patience varies highly, as well.
Originally Posted by
zebranz
I traded my 17" Powerbook for 15" Mac Book Air when they came out over a year ago.
There is no 15"
MacBook Air. Do you mean 13" Macbook Air, or the thinner 15" retina MacBook Pro? They haven't sold a Powerbook since 2006 or something, so I hope you mean 17" Macbook Pro. Otherwise, no wonder the new one feels faster than a G4!