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Any comparison MBP i5 10th gen with MacBook Air i7?
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You should look at all the reviews on you tube comparing the two. Also posted in the 2020 MBP review thread.
My take is below, some might consider more or less;
MBP
4 ports
Better speakers with sub woofer
Brighter screen
Better CPU & iGPU results
better thermals when being pushed
MBA
No touch bar
Longer battery life for light use
More comfortable to type on wedge design.
$170 cheaper via Apple education store.
My take is below, some might consider more or less;
MBP
4 ports
Better speakers with sub woofer
Brighter screen
Better CPU & iGPU results
better thermals when being pushed
MBA
No touch bar
Longer battery life for light use
More comfortable to type on wedge design.
$170 cheaper via Apple education store.
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One's aimed at supporting substantial sustained CPU loads, the other is aimed at brief, bursty CPU usage.
Different tools for different purposes.
BTW - IMHO the i7 is a waste on the MBA, at least for most people.
Is the i7 on the MbA better than the i5 10th gen MBA in terms of CPU power ?
I run plenty of excel sheets and some home video editing.
I run plenty of excel sheets and some home video editing.
I seriously doubt any increase in performance between the i5 and i7 in MacBook Air would be appreciated in daily use.
With respect to the original question though, the i5 Pro is leagues ahead of the i7 Air in terms of raw performance. Totally different CPUs.
There are also people writing about fans (and heat) being potential issues on the i7 MacBook Air. Apparently they are noisy if the turbo kicks in.
What do you think ? Is this true ?
What do you think ? Is this true ?
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I had the 2020 MBA i7 and just got it refunded to the credit card yesterday. I now have the 10th gen i7 mbp. No comparison for what I do. Regular surfing isn’t much of a difference but it’s 40% faster when doing raw file dslr exports than the MacBook Air. It’s able to maintain over 2 ghz under load with all 4 cores. The i7 mba is around 1.1-1.2 ghz instead. Remember the i7 is only 3-4% faster than the i5 in real life.
if you’re not going to stress the machine the mba is a fine machine for most people. But if you’re going to add the i7 you’re getting too close to mbp pricing to make it worthwhile. Even the base MacBook Pro will be faster except in gpu.
Ghz only upgrades within a processor group of the same generation with similar thermal envelope mainly benefits the seller, not you. If you need more processor power, you typically need more cores. There are some things that can't really benefit from parallelism due to inherent sequential dependencies or data access patterns. Even those benefit very little from fractional upgrades.
Ram can make a difference. Storage is good. Fractional ghz increments are a waste of money in virtually all cases.
Not a lot of talk about this, but I agree 100%. The taper at the front of the Air really sits a lot more nicely with the wrist than that square edge of the Pro.