Mac Air battery life and other question

1. nickravo@gmail.com - 18 July 2008

   I'm thinking of buying one to lighten by traveling load, but I take long and long-haul flights (Miami-LA a lot and LA-Sydney several times a year). I'm usually but not always in business class, so I get a power plug. But if I am in coach, which is bad enough, laptop battery life is everything. I've been carrying two or three extras with my MacBook, just in case I get stuffed in steerage.

   So, realistically, how much battery life should I expect if I want to:

   1) Just catch up on e-mail and write Word and Excel documents? 2) Watch a movie I have downloaded?

   Next question: Are there good external batteries that don't weigh so much as to defeat he purpose of buying a Mac Air?

   One last question: is this dual core? I mean, can I also load Windows and run Outlook?

   Thanks in advance.

2. Michelle Steiner - 19 July 2008

   Previously, "nickravo@gmail.com wrote:

   One last question: is this dual core? I mean, can I also load Windows and run Outlook?

   Yes, you can, but that has nothing to do with whether it's dual core. BTW, it is dual core.

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3. Mike Rosenberg - 19 July 2008

   Just to expand on Michelle's response, the fact that a Mac has an Intel processor instead of a PowerPC processor means it can run Windows without using an emulation program. Dual core means you have two processors in a single unit. I'm using a Quad core PowerPC G5, which has two dual core units, but it's not an Intel Mac so it cannot run Windows without Virtual PC or the equivalent.

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4. nickravo@gmail.com - 22 July 2008

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   And battery life, external batteries?

5. nickravo@gmail.com - 4 August 2008

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   So, realistically, how bad is the battery life?