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Congratulations! Can you post your average battery life with the i7? I've ordered the same one.
My wife and I went to the store at Altamonte (Orlando) today to get her a new MBA. She has been using a 2007 MBP which has had a hard drive failure and I told her to pick one out for an anniversary present (it was yesterday). I had been planning to get one myself to replace a mid 2010 MBP if it came out with an upgraded internal card reader (to SDXC). It did, and Altamonte had 13/I7/8/512s in stock, but not showing online. I don't know if this was because of the delivery schedule or something else, but I happily picked one up for myself.
First time in six years I've had a clean new machine as the 2010 was used when I got it.I'm glad to have the maxed storage, as I'm reading that the SSD is soldered in and not upgradable.
Ford
My wife and I went to the store at Altamonte (Orlando) today to get her a new MBA. She has been using a 2007 MBP which has had a hard drive failure and I told her to pick one out for an anniversary present (it was yesterday). I had been planning to get one myself to replace a mid 2010 MBP if it came out with an upgraded internal card reader (to SDXC). It did, and Altamonte had 13/I7/8/512s in stock, but not showing online. I don't know if this was because of the delivery schedule or something else, but I happily picked one up for myself.
I'm glad to have the maxed storage, as I'm reading that the SSD is soldered in and not upgradable.
Ford
Congratulations! What's the battery reading with the i7, any heat or fan noise on regular use?
I got it home and plugged the charger in, thinking it probably had at best a partial charge. WRONG, I decided to look at the charge level and unplugged and put the charge percentage meter on the top bar. Charged for only a couple of minutes and it read 100%!
I've left it off and went to the App store to reload programs I've already bought, and put all of them back on. Aperture, iWork, Evernote, Pixelmator, Unarchiver, and Kindle, and have been surfing since then, 8 hours or so interspersed with dinner and packing for a trip. All this was WiFi and it's still at 46%. Pretty darned impressive to this old cracker.
My untrained observation says that the downloads are faster than the 2010 MBP, so I'm a happy camper.
Ford
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I forgot the fan noise/heat. None (but I've got CHS) and less heat by far than the 2007 of my wife or the 2010.
Ford
I got it home and plugged the charger in, thinking it probably had at best a partial charge. WRONG, I decided to look at the charge level and unplugged and put the charge percentage meter on the top bar. Charged for only a couple of minutes and it read 100%!
I've left it off and went to the App store to reload programs I've already bought, and put all of them back on. Aperture, iWork, Evernote, Pixelmator, Unarchiver, and Kindle, and have been surfing since then, 8 hours or so interspersed with dinner and packing for a trip. All this was WiFi and it's still at 46%. Pretty darned impressive to this old cracker.
My untrained observation says that the downloads are faster than the 2010 MBP, so I'm a happy camper.
Ford
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I forgot the fan noise/heat. None (but I've got CHS) and less heat by far than the 2007 of my wife or the 2010.
Ford
Thanks for the info could you check what screen you have please.
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
i too got a fully loaded today from valley fair in san jose. i am getting 15+ hrs battery life for light browsing in a dark room (15% brightness).
under heavy load (running 2 operating systems using vmware, 50~100% cpu) i am getting 7-8 hrs.
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no, it's 512gb (just bought in store today). i actually wanted a 512gb. what i didn't want was the i7 (negligible perf increase imo)
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this is after one hour of usage on battery, no kidding
http://oi43.tinypic.com/90t1j5.jpg
I wish people would stop posting this. The SSD IS NOT soldered in.
Since Apple has changed the SSD, again, there aren't any aftermarket SSDs yet, but I am sure OWC will offer one in the near future.
Haven't run the battery down completely yet. I've been using it for a little over an hour this morning; web browsing with a little video streaming, email, and texting; 65 minutes and 8% battery usage.
Picked up a 13" Ultimate last night at the Sherway Gardens location in Toronto. Love it! Great compliment for my 17" MBP.
That's what I'm seeing on Geebench.
Now we just need to wait for reports on battery and heat temperatures on i5 vs i7.
For anyone in the Dallas area:
I was going crazy waiting on my 11" i5/8GB/512GB MBA to get delivered (Macmall is waiting on shipments from Apple) so I figured I would just pay the extra for the ultimate 11" with i7 and buy from an Apple Store. Willow Bend didn't have any maxed-out 11s, and said no stores in the region had any in stock or even any in transit.
Always worth a phone call I guess, but I thought I'd pass on what I found out this afternoon.
I was going crazy waiting on my 11" i5/8GB/512GB MBA to get delivered (Macmall is waiting on shipments from Apple) so I figured I would just pay the extra for the ultimate 11" with i7 and buy from an Apple Store. Willow Bend didn't have any maxed-out 11s, and said no stores in the region had any in stock or even any in transit.
Always worth a phone call I guess, but I thought I'd pass on what I found out this afternoon.
I appreciate the geekbench observation shows what the i7 is capable of but geekbench and real world is quite different.
If you have ever watched your real time cpu usage you will see the only time you ever max out your CPU is if your disk I/O is going nuts because you are trying to copy massive amounts of data and you dont have enough ram so cpu threads are hanging and trying to play catch up as the data is paged out... or the program you are using has a bug / leak.
Alternatively you might be using a graphics / video editing program which can make use of multi-threading.
95% of the apps most people use only a single thread and the majority only use 20-30% CPU during computation with very quick spikes higher.
More encoding / decoding apps are now making use of multi-threading and only the top end stuff supports quad core. Unless you are doing a lot of encoding / decoding / video work you really wont notice the difference.
Benchmarks do tell a different story but real world you would be hard pushed. Encoding a 2 hour movie, you might complete the task 5min, maybe 10 mins quicker on the i7. Background faces calculation in iphoto might be slightly quicker. Front end use you wouldn't notice the difference. iPhone movie imports to iMovie would be marginally quicker etc.
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I agree that for the average user their experience may not be very different. If I had a 2013 Lexus and only drove it to/from work on the same 30 MPH speed limit roads, I wouldn't notice a huge difference from a 2000 Geo Metro. But that doesn't mean there isn't a meaningful difference between those two.
That analogy does not seem fair to the hardware it's being compared to. The i5 is not a "2000 geo" to the i7's "2013 Lexus."
Real world driving experience (suspension ride, comfort, gas mileage, features, etc) comparisons of those two vehicles are far beyond the 33% figure you proposed at any speed.
You also can't purchase a 2013 Lexus for an 8.8% price increase of a 2000 Geo.
Real world driving experience (suspension ride, comfort, gas mileage, features, etc) comparisons of those two vehicles are far beyond the 33% figure you proposed at any speed.
You also can't purchase a 2013 Lexus for an 8.8% price increase of a 2000 Geo.