True. I hope this is just a software/driver issue, cause of the new cpu/gpu.
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Does the 2020 MBA's fan run a lot? How hot is the laptop?
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True. I hope this is just a software/driver issue, cause of the new cpu/gpu.
YouTube videos didn’t make the fan come on, but I finally cracked it with a zoom conference with 4 other people \ 
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no idea but mine is an i5/8gb/512gb version and it seems well behaved compared to some others I’ve read about.
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no idea but mine is an i5/8gb/512gb version and it seems well behaved compared to some others I’ve read about.
YouTube videos didn’t make the fan come on, but I finally cracked it with a zoom conference with 4 other people \
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no idea but mine is an i5/8gb/512gb version and it seems well behaved compared to some others I’ve read about.
No fan when watching a video is good to hear but weird in comparison to other reviews 😄
Fan when having a zoom conference is something I could live with.
Definately not normal. They may have a rogue program up that's glitching and taking up all the resources which can happen. Best thing to do is check activity monitor to see if this is the case.
That seems to be some folk's primary use-case... 🤷♂️
I'm starting to really hate Youtubers...
Just safari for me.
Another thing I’d say after spending a day with it, is that 256gb could potentially be too small for quite a lot of people (my main computer is a pc with several multi tb drives so ive not really had to think about disk space for a while). I’ve already used 160 odd gb and have only downloaded a fairly streamlined set of apps (mainly photoshop, lightroom, logic and a few other things like Spotify and football manager). Those wanting to do video stuff or who have massive photo collections would definitely want to get one of the bigger drives.
Another thing I’d say after spending a day with it, is that 256gb could potentially be too small for quite a lot of people (my main computer is a pc with several multi tb drives so ive not really had to think about disk space for a while). I’ve already used 160 odd gb and have only downloaded a fairly streamlined set of apps (mainly photoshop, lightroom, logic and a few other things like Spotify and football manager). Those wanting to do video stuff or who have massive photo collections would definitely want to get one of the bigger drives.
Kinda blows my mind how little of a score increase these airs are showing from my 2017 12" MacBook that's smaller and still passively cooled.
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I’m still looking forward to mine, but it’s a little sad that things like zoom or a video cause it to heat up. My 2017 iPad Pro has no problems with any of those tasks...yes, I know they are different, but the video plays beautifully on the iPad. And it barely warms up.
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YouTube videos didn’t make the fan come on, but I finally cracked it with a zoom conference with 4 other people \
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no idea but mine is an i5/8gb/512gb version and it seems well behaved compared to some others I’ve read about.
FWIW a Zoom conference will make a MacBook Pro's fans spin up.
My class starts on Tuesday so my Air will be put to the real test. Zoom conference with about 30ish people for 3 hours, plus Slack and Mural collaboration tools, Safari and Outlook. I think it can take.
It's almost 2.5x as fast – you don't think that's much of a score increase?
FWIW a Zoom conference will make a MacBook Pro's fans spin up.
My class starts on Tuesday so my Air will be put to the real test. Zoom conference with about 30ish people for 3 hours, plus Slack and Mural collaboration tools, Safari and Outlook. I think it can take.
Zoom (alone) never made my work-issued MBA 2017's fans spin up noticeably, even with a 1080p tv plugged in and using the dual display function.
Processing the local recording at the end though... that definitely did. Now that i'm screen recording one of the screens with the built in MacOS screenshot tools, though, it's a different story. Louder than my 2018 mac mini using handbrake 🥵
Good point, I haven't used Zoom solo. I usually have Photoshop and about 60+ Chrome tabs open.
Oh, I did not know about this MacOS screenshot tool. I haven't updated my Pro's to Catalina yet. Does this record audio from Zoom as well?
Yeah, you get a choice of audio inputs to record. I've actually got it set up to capture audio i share to zoom (ie when i share my computer audio to zoom, it captures that without any microphone input) because i'm recording kids dancing with me to songs we practiced in school - so it produces a really cool video track that's silent for most of the lesson (i toss those bits, the 1080p files are quite big) then has decent quality audio of the whole class in a gallery view. you could also set it to record from microphones etc, but zoom is already capturing that for me with their own recordings, so I prefer this way.
Two fairly solid days using it and the fans have come on three times now - during setup, during a zoom conference, and during a match on FM20. Have been using logic today to record guitars (and add various effects like reverb and compression) and put down some drum tracks and a few other VSTs and no fans during any of that. Outside of those apps I've watched a few things on Apple TV, used Lightroom quite a lot this morning. I guess I'm not really pushing outside the capability envelope of the machine but I'm using it for what I bought it for so far, and it's working really well.
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Also when did everyone start using the phrase 'use-case' all the time? Sounds so IT BS bingo lol
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Also when did everyone start using the phrase 'use-case' all the time? Sounds so IT BS bingo lol
I have been thinking of upgrading to 16GB. How is your machine performing with 8GB?
It’s been fine,
It’s been fine - I don’t really use anything where 16gb would be worth it or make any difference though.
Just received my i5/16/256. Still setting up, but the fans were going crazy during a short session of Minecraft and a Microsoft teams meeting. I was using the application, with video both incoming and outgoing. CPU usage dropped after cutting my video. And then switched over to Outlook 365 Microsoft teams and shut down the application. CPU usage dropped From 120% to about 40%. It seems like their application is not written well for running on the Mac. . It seems like call their application is not written well for running on the Mac. I used chrome well running play online version of teams.
I have also been running Minecraft on a 2012 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, core I seveI have also been running Minecraft on a 2012 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, corE i7. The fans ramp up on that as well.
I have also been running Minecraft on a 2012 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, core I seveI have also been running Minecraft on a 2012 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, corE i7. The fans ramp up on that as well.
Random question (maybe I'm ignorant), but run anything Microsoft? I've used Numbers and Pages for a long time, and love that they sync so neatly on my other devices. I haven't used any Microsoft Products in about 11 years. In the gap between my Microsoft and iWorks usage, I used OpenOffice for a few years, and loved how easy it was. Seems like Microsoft products are resource hogs.
I hear you, and I’m sure I would be happy using pages (though I do think Excel is superior to Numbers), the issue for me is that my office uses Microsoft...so it’s hard to use the Apple product unless it is strictly for a personal purpose.
I do note that there are several processes using up a bunch of CPU time...
routined
photoanalysisd
rountined
installd
com.apple.photos.imageconversionservice
nsurlsessiond
and more...even while nothing else is active! some seem to be related to Photos...and syncing those...not sure about most of the others.
Could you do the same thing, running Minecraft and testing outlook, but after the setting up time? MacOS is indexing files and things like that. It is intense task. Maybe playing Minecraft while background task was setting up things was very demanding. I would love to know, how it will be after indexing all files and after successfully set device.
Microsoft thing is in the past. Always working with multiple Excels and Word at a time, and no fan even on old 2012 MBP. The only downside is that Excel lacks some high-end features for Macs, while it exists for Windows. Kind of a footprint of an old war between Mac and Win.
Also there a lot of war is going on the other side - with Google. No 4k youtube in Safari, problems with some codecs while editing video and so on.