Then you should have start the thread with a title like: MBA owners, why do you think the iPad is a bad idea? I bet the result would be exactly the opposite.
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Advantages of Ipad over MBA
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Then you should have start the thread with a title like: MBA owners, why do you think the iPad is a bad idea? I bet the result would be exactly the opposite.
An MBA can cost like $100k over 2 years, but it does give you more business knowledge and connections than getting an iPad would.
I'm just sorry that you were victimized by the defensive mischaracterization of your original post by a poster who should have known better. It was compounded when a moderator in the fullness of his wisdom (?) actually followed the emotional suggestion that your thread should be removed from the MBA Forum.
I have an iPad and like it a lot despite its limitations. I love the MBA, although it wouldn't work for me because of its limited of 2Gb of RAM. For what the MBA would do for me, it would not be as good a choice as the much cheaper, smaller, and lighter iPad has turned out to be.
Wow!!! 
I'm going to think twice about ever starting a thread around here again. You can get into some real trouble for that!
I'm going to think twice about ever starting a thread around here again. You can get into some real trouble for that!
In the interest of fairness, let's review the question the OP asked: "Advantages of iPad over MBA." As noted in my last post I pointed out a few of them: the iPad is much smaller and lighter than the MBA and doesn't have a lid. Thus, it's a clearly better choice than the MBA for use while one is standing up and walking around. The iPad is also much, much cheaper than the MBA. Those are all clear advantages, at least it seems so to me. That said, though the MBA is an elegant and full featured computer -- for anyone who can get buy on only 2Gb of RAM. The iPad, in stark contrast, is not a full featured computer, although it is a cleverly designed mobile computing device.
As you can see from most of the other posts to this thread who have weighed in on the charge that the OP's post was a troll, most have agreed with me that the charge was emotional and ridiculous. It seems to me that one would have to have been drinking a whole bunch of MBA Kool-Aid to contend that the OP's question was in any way unreasonable, much less a troll.
Wow!!!
I'm going to think twice about ever starting a thread around here again. You can get into some real trouble for that!
Just keep it out of the MBA section. Scottsdale is usually there, but he does pop out sometimes...
Just don't make threads about the MBA, then maybe you will be safe.
OK. If I buy a MBA and want to use the MBA section will I be required to get sensitivity training first?
ROFL! Maybe sensitivity training wouldn't be a bad idea. What surprised me most about this contretemps, next only to it having been started by one of our more knowledgeable posters, was how uncharacteristic it was for an MBA Forum thread. Over in the MBP Forum, some of the posters act like adolescents and, I suspect, some are. In the MBA Forum, though, the cohort has seemed to be a little more mature and less frequently emotional than some in the MBP Forum. I think that Apple's long delay in updating the MBA has made a lot of MBA owners, and MBA owner wannabes a little nuts.
More seriously, count me among the MBA owner wannabes. I would buy an MBA tomorrow if Apple would only give it enough RAM.I never saw the MBA community before today. I was only introduced to it after this post was moved to the iPad forums. I thought there were some pretty zealous fanboys here, but my god, the MBA forums make everyone else look like clear, open minded, civil people.
Yeah, I came across it via new threads search, and after reading the hostility aimed at the OP (for what I thought was a reasonable post), my jaw just dropped to the floor.
I have a Rev C MBA, and a 32GB iPad WiFi.
In a week, I will have the 64GB iPad 3G, and my current one goes to my wife. Likewise, as soon as Apple releases the next generation MBA, I will replace my current MBA, and she gets to inherit my Rev C.
If she could only choose one of the devices, she would take the MBA. I would do the same. I love my iPad (especially on my frequent flights)... but as of today, it is not a laptop replacement for me. The MBA is by far the finest laptop that I have ever owned. I also own a 15" MBP for work (I will soon be replacing it with a 13" MBP). I am ditching the 15" MBP and replacing it with the 13" MBP because I find the 15" too big and bulky for my tastes. I wish my employer would provide the MBA instead.
My wife and I also have a 27" i7 iMac that we share. That holds the master copy of all our data and is double backed up (local and cloud). Everything on our laptops (or iPads) are synced to the cloud, and hence to our iMac and is automatically part of our backup set.
/Jim
In a week, I will have the 64GB iPad 3G, and my current one goes to my wife. Likewise, as soon as Apple releases the next generation MBA, I will replace my current MBA, and she gets to inherit my Rev C.
If she could only choose one of the devices, she would take the MBA. I would do the same. I love my iPad (especially on my frequent flights)... but as of today, it is not a laptop replacement for me. The MBA is by far the finest laptop that I have ever owned. I also own a 15" MBP for work (I will soon be replacing it with a 13" MBP). I am ditching the 15" MBP and replacing it with the 13" MBP because I find the 15" too big and bulky for my tastes. I wish my employer would provide the MBA instead.
My wife and I also have a 27" i7 iMac that we share. That holds the master copy of all our data and is double backed up (local and cloud). Everything on our laptops (or iPads) are synced to the cloud, and hence to our iMac and is automatically part of our backup set.
/Jim
I kind of agree here.... I visit these forums on/off. Sometimes frequently sometimes not for months. I've read and enjoyed a lot of your posts and commentary Scottsdale and I have to say I'm really surprised at your reaction to this post. Really surprised.
Walk away for a bit - take a breather - get some sun and talk to other people face to face. These are just a computers. This is just a public forum where people go to talk about computers.
Man...
btw - I'm here, an MBA owner, interested in this EXACT subject.
Although several posters have argued that the iPad is a viable replacement for a real computer, I agree with you that it really isn't a laptop replacement. I, too, use my MBP for the bulk of my work, in my case a 17 inch model. I have thought about getting the new 13 inch MBP because it appears to me that if I added RAM, it could do everything my old 17 inch MBP does but in a smaller, lighter package.
I keep waiting for Apple to put enough RAM in an upgraded MBA to allow me to get one. Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom seems to be that the upgraded MBA will have only 4Gb of RAM, which won't work for me. Thus, the heavier and far less sleek 13 inch MBP may end up being the way I have to go.
All of this MBA talk is central to the title of this thread, of course, which leaves me shaking my head over why it got moved to the iPad Forum. I won't contemplate it further, though, for this way lies madness.
That's an excellent, excellent set up.
My wife and I are taking the same direction although we're finding ourselves using MacBook Pro's more now instead of our Air's because the Air for our needs is lacking in power. My Mac Pro acts like your 27" iMac - which I'd also very much like to own - quite screen!
My point all along. The original post was so vague, and it was in the wrong section the way it was worded.
In addition, there are already COUNTLESS threads of iPad over MBA. Why cannot any of those be used? Why do we need to start a new thread for a ONE SENTENCE THREAD? The OP used no care in his wording, no effort in his desire to make a NEW TOPIC that hadn't already been done before, no proper review of threads already available, no understanding of different sections available at Mac Rumors, and all of this leads to a WORTHLESS, POINTLESS, ALREADY BEEN DONE BEFORE thread. Why waste the space?
There are plenty of rules in these forums over starting bogus repetitive threads just like this. The OP offered nothing new.
I believe that the thread should have been completely removed as a waste of space rather than moved to the iPad section. Every replier to this thread put more time and thought into it even if it were debating where the thread should be than the original poster put into the original post.
People, stop complaining about people who want a better Mac Rumors forum. Go read the rules on the need for starting a new thread. I don't waste peoples time with new one sentence threads that offer nothing new to debate and have already been done before.
I agree with your statements. I've been looking at an MBA and considered it several times, but in the end the 2GB RAM limit is simply too constraining from my usage perspective. It was quite unfortunate that the MBA was not updated a couple of weeks ago, together with the rest of Apple's laptops. I am not quite certain what Apple's product strategy here is. They have a product with a killer design, but at this stage it is simply begging for a refresh.
I also found these comments useful. Also, I am truly puzzled by the tone of responses by what turned out to be the main contributor to this thread (and whom I respect for his many insightful contributions in other threads on MR.)
Sorry. I was trying to get rid of the double post here. I shall not mix Grand Marnier on rocks and MR again. Well....
Lets not forget we are comparing a brand new device with a laptop that hasn't had a real update for a long time. Lets see what the updated air is capable of.