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Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
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Actually, I do. Educate me?
if you hold the cmd key and stroke any apple model computer's 3.5mm headphone jack from about 9:00-11:00PM, it will FaceTime a victoria's secret model's computer while they prepare for bed.
It's Anand (a given name)
I fail to see 12 hours here though. They also state that it is in power saving and the brightness is 200 nits, whereas Apple uses 75% brightness, which should be in the 230 area (if the rMB's display is similar to the Pros, anyway). Still, not too shabby for a windows laptop.
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the website is still called Anandtech and is named after it's founder Anand,
you're picking one single chart and metric. Please read the entire article.
but you're right, if you average out all the results, the dell QHD display didn't quite hit the 12 hour battery mark, but ranged from 9.75 hours to 11 hours in various tests. and have updated my analysis as accordingly
Let us not forget the past:
1997 PowerBook 3400
7.2 lbs
2.4" H x 11.5" W x 9.5" D
240 MHz PowerPC 603ev
Built-in Memory 16 MB
Maximum Memory 144 MB
Media 1.44 MB floppy, Optional 6x or 12x CD-ROM
Built-in Display 12.1" Active Matrix 16-bit SVGA LCD
Resolutions 800 x 600
Graphics Memory 2 MB
Wi-Fi: None
Bluetooth: None
Ethernet: Optional 10BASE-T
Modem: Optional 33.6k
ADB: 1
Serial Port: 1
SCSI: HDI-30
Audio In 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack, 1 - Built-in microphone
Audio Out 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, 4 - Built in speakers
$6,500
So, get over it.
1997 PowerBook 3400
7.2 lbs
2.4" H x 11.5" W x 9.5" D
240 MHz PowerPC 603ev
Built-in Memory 16 MB
Maximum Memory 144 MB
Media 1.44 MB floppy, Optional 6x or 12x CD-ROM
Built-in Display 12.1" Active Matrix 16-bit SVGA LCD
Resolutions 800 x 600
Graphics Memory 2 MB
Wi-Fi: None
Bluetooth: None
Ethernet: Optional 10BASE-T
Modem: Optional 33.6k
ADB: 1
Serial Port: 1
SCSI: HDI-30
Audio In 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack, 1 - Built-in microphone
Audio Out 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, 4 - Built in speakers
$6,500
So, get over it.
For a $1300 laptop with no ports in 2015? Absolutely pathetic. The MBA is still the best value in the lineup.
Sure, that's easy. It had an 80gb spinner -- oops, wait. It had 2gb of RAM! Uh, sorry. Wait, I know! It had a $1800 price tag!!!
Ok, you win.
You forgot one thing: it had Steve Jobs announcing it on stage.
If Steve had announced this machine people here would be drooling over it and calling it an engineering marvel.
you cannot justify that an overpriced laptop from 18 years ago is anywhere comparable to todays' market.
you also forget the fact that at around the same time as this, Apple was in <5% of the worlds installed computer base, was facing financial disaster and was on the verge of going bankrupt.
Do you really think it is anyways comparible?
All that needs to happen now is for the Airs to be updated to Retina.
Those machines are now the awesome sauce.
The new Macbook is just like what the first Air was, underpowered and expensive.
Actually - wouldn't be surprised to see a 14" new Macbook at some point too.
I'm actually happy with the naming. The Macbook is the underpowered machine, the Air means more than just its weight now, its light and fast.
Those machines are now the awesome sauce.
The new Macbook is just like what the first Air was, underpowered and expensive.
Actually - wouldn't be surprised to see a 14" new Macbook at some point too.
I'm actually happy with the naming. The Macbook is the underpowered machine, the Air means more than just its weight now, its light and fast.
If they did, they did. It's ok. But we need to realize that the odds that we know their business better than they do is pretty d@mned slim.
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Updating the MBA line with a retina display is the one thing that I think we can pretty much guarantee will _not_ happen. It would not be surprising to see a 14" version of the rMB, though.
The RAM and SSD don't effect CPU core performance. At least, I didn't think they did.
You mentioned SSD and RAM. I only insinuated that some ARM processors are benching these numbers now and they're 64-bit too.
Didn't mention OS or RAM or SSD or anything of the sort. That was all you.
Obviously the platforms are different. But the numbers are closer is all i was saying.
People pay $700 for iPads and iPhones all day long. I think this will sell just fine. I see the price coming down a bit after the newness wears off but I doubt a flop by any measure.
IMO, the price may help sales. People are conditioned to desire "the best" whatever that means to them. Sure, a loss leader will fly off the shelves, but I think a significant number of folks will decide between the best compact laptop or the best performance laptop. Lower the price to a point and only the MBP will sell. Take away the Air and things change. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
I have plenty of disposable income. My wife even gives me some of it... sometimes.
There's no way in heck I would spend $1300 for a laptop that's basically equivalent to the 2011 MBA sitting in my laptop bag.The type of person you're describing here is totally opposite of the vast, vast majority of computer users you described earlier. I mean, that venn diagram would look like two circles with no intersection. I'm being facetious, but not by much. This is just my opinion, but that computer is nowhere near a $1300 value. Thinness doesn't cost that much. Well, in this case it does, but I don't think it should. But that's just me.
Lots of professionals will buy it, but not as a primary machine.
When I go on vacation I take a tube of Tide to Go. I don't do my laundry with it at home!
2011 feels like yesterday. Unfortunately for the Macbook it is 4 years ago, and that in the tech industry is a lifetime. What f'ng joke.
Oh, I apologize. I thought your quote was in reference to my entire post.
Arm-based processors may match Intel's in synthetic benchmarks, but I still think there are technological differences between them that makes comparisons somewhat moot. However, I am no hardware engineer.
Best value? The MBA line is an embarrassment, albeit one that still sells incredibly well. I say that as the former owner of one 13" MBA and two 11" MBAs. While we're moaning about obsolete tech, what kind of brass does a company have to have to sell notebooks with a TN panel, and not just any TN panel but a cr@ppy TN panel, for these prices in 2015? It if didn't have the Apple logo on the cover, it wouldn't sell at half the Apple price.
You said:
"And the battery life is what? 5 hours?"
Did you pull the number out your rear? No, you didn't explicitly "quote" it but quoted in the sense of retell or parrot.
I think that goes to show how far Apple's chips have come while Intel has lagged. It'll be interesting to see how the A9 compares to Skylake.
I completely agree with that. Maybe we're at a turning point...maybe not? It will take a year or two to know how this shakes out. Interesting, either way. Bring me some popcorn, please?
The problem is that it's a couple hundred dollars too expensive for an iPad Pro. For similar performance, you could just buy an iPad Air 2 and one of them fancy schmancy BT keyboards and call it a day. It has more storage space, but for the "intended audience" you're referring to, that surely shouldn't be an issue?
how well did that sell?
if Apple's goal is to go back to how they did in 1997, then Bravo!
i believe that this is where most of the shock in the rMB is coming from
The MacBook air line, aside from the display is an absolutely fantastic product. It's great performing, good space, good specs, great expandibility in it's segment with USB3, Thunderbolt and SD on the larger of the two.
the actual dimensions between the rMB and the 11MBA is i believe < 5cubic cm of space and less than .25kg difference. There is very negligble, to zero true space savings.
Most people expected this to get a better display. It would have easily made the MacBook air the crowning king of the ultraportables in virtually every metric.
instead, the MBA gets a CPU refresh (that everyone else in the Ultraportables will have) and is left unchanged, and a new, slower, less options, less expansion and more limited computer is released with that better display for a far far higher base price.
its confusing and doesn't (at least from our consumer perspective) make a lot of sense.
yes, its a good machine for the casual computer user, but no more or less so than the MBA with an upgraded screen would have provided.