Ars said for his 1.4ghz and 2gb, 5 youtube videos nearly maxed out the cores ... how does your new MBA perform? what would you expect of each config? is there a time component where eventually 3 looped videos would start to stutter?
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"I then played four YouTube videos simultaneously to get the processors pegged around 75-80 percent, and five videos got the machine pushing both cores into 90 percent usage for a while. Obviously, most of the video wasn't playing well at this point, but the cores seemed to max out around 72-75°C, mostly because the fans kicked on after around 2-3 minutes."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2010/10/116-macbook-air-ars-answers-your-burning-questions.ars/2
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"I then played four YouTube videos simultaneously to get the processors pegged around 75-80 percent, and five videos got the machine pushing both cores into 90 percent usage for a while. Obviously, most of the video wasn't playing well at this point, but the cores seemed to max out around 72-75°C, mostly because the fans kicked on after around 2-3 minutes."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2010/10/116-macbook-air-ars-answers-your-burning-questions.ars/2
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