Anyone regret getting the 2015 MBA ?

[motrek]

If you actually read the specs, thunderbolt 2, faster SSD, and intel 6000 graphics are fairly substantial additions.

Depends on what you do with your computer.

ThunderBolt 2--I don't think I know anybody with even a single TB device, much less a TB 2 device. So I would expect this is a pretty irrelevant difference to most people.

Faster SSD--it's only faster in terms of sustained throughput, which most people won't even notice. How often are you waiting on your computer to read/write gigabytes of data to the internal drive? (Because as soon as an external drive is involved, that will be the limiting factor in terms of read/write speed.)

Intel HD 6000 graphics--only relevant if you play modern, intensive 3-D games. And if you do that, you're probably not using a MacBook Air to do it.

 

[poematik13]

Depends on what you do with your computer.

ThunderBolt 2--I don't think I know anybody with even a single TB device, much less a TB 2 device. So I would expect this is a pretty irrelevant difference to most people.

Faster SSD--it's only faster in terms of sustained throughput, which most people won't even notice. How often are you waiting on your computer to read/write gigabytes of data to the internal drive? (Because as soon as an external drive is involved, that will be the limiting factor in terms of read/write speed.)

Intel HD 6000 graphics--only relevant if you play modern, intensive 3-D games. And if you do that, you're probably not using a MacBook Air to do it.

maybe an ipad is better suited to people of your type.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Yup. Got the 13" with 2.2 i7, 8 GB, and 128 GB SSD. I didn't go for the 256 GB because I don't really plan to put much on it anyway. Mostly browsing and stuff.

 

[motrek]

maybe an ipad is better suited to people of your type.

I do app development and scientific computing, so, no, an iPad is not well suited to people of my "type."

My projects range between maybe 5MB and 50MB. So the slower SSD in a 2013 MBA is still able to read my biggest project into memory in about 100 milliseconds, i.e., literally faster than the blink of an eye.

And of course I don't need ThunderBolt to copy my projects around, e.g., to external drives. USB 3 is able to copy 50MB in a fraction of a second.

And while some of my apps are 3-D and would run faster with the newer HD 6000 GPU, I'm targeting the slower GPUs of iOS devices, so there's a question of whether or not I even want my animations to run faster on my laptop.

But now I'm curious, what do you do that makes use of all these new features?