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kofman13

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May 6, 2009
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I have crappy base model 2019 intel i5 8 gb ram MacBook Pro 13 inch. It's slow on sequoia, bad battery life, loud fan all the time. crappy keyboard. I want to upgrade to base model M4 MBA because of all the great sales. I know overall it will be faster as I have apple silicon M1 Max Mac Studio. But there I am spoiled with a cooling fan inside, and 32gb ram.

I know the M4 in the AIR is miles ahead in terms of speed of my i5 MacBook Pro but is there any use case where it would fall behind my current MacBook purely because it has no cooling fan?
 
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