Macbook Air

[bgrau]

Finally, I could manage to get a genuine Intel Mac, and a nice bargain on ebay allowed me so.

 

MacBook Air 13" mid 2011.

 

My first Mac experience was through emulators such as SheepShaver and pearPC in a Windows computer, in 2003+

 

Then I purchased a Mac Mini and iBook in 2004 only to see Apple abandon the PowerPC platform a couple years later, together with these I got myself the wheel Ipod 40 GB, and then the Ipod photos.

 

After that, I could not afford Mac products anymore, and so thanks to the Hackintosh community, still enjoyed the Mac experience with Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard on an Intel Dimension 8300 Pentium 4.

 

I could afford later on the cheapest iPod touch 4th generation with 8GB storage, and not long ago the iPad Mini 2 with retina, amazing device, which made me wish to get a MacBook.

Selling some of my old gear, I found this great deal on ebay for the MacBook Air, and grabbed it.

 

Now I could get my hands on installing Windows with BootCamp, I was always curious how they did it, and oh boy, it is seamless, with both windows seeing the Mac Drive, and vice versa.

Even second hand, it is still pricey, but the quality is great, and now no reason to feel guilty using Hackintosh, as this way,  I paid the Apple Mac tax .

 

 

[Nemorosus]

It is pricey, but you know that the price is for something at least. The best designed machines on the market right now. I'm eager to get a MacBook Pro, but that won't happen anytime soon, unless Santa sends me some cash from the sky haha!

 

Congrats on the Air.

[bgrau]

Macbook Air with other OSes.

 

So far, I managed to get 

 

Linux Ubuntu 14.04 and Android 4.4.2 running off the SDXC slot.

 

Linux just by pressing the Options key and in the menu it appears as a Windows entry.

 

Android by using windows 8 bootcamp, with easyBCD.

 

Chrome OS is yet to crack, as I cannot make the Macbook to boot directly to the SDXC or the USB, this is an Apple hardware limitation.

 

Linux Ubuntu 14.04 makes use of all the hardware which is great.

 

Android almost, only Bluetooth does not work, but a BT usb dongle worked, and the trackpad only allows navigation no clicking, so an external usb or BT mouse is needed.

 

Windows2GO 32bit usb also works well, though I had to scavenge some bootcamp Windows 7 32bit drivers.

 

In all much better than Acer Chromebook C720P for using other OSes.