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Early Benchmarks Reveal New MacBook Air Rivaling High-End 2010 MacBook Pro

Sell It!

adrian.oconnor said:
My late-2010 MBA 13 is all of a sudden feeling quite sluggish. And the keyboard is decidedly unlit. Oh, what to do...

;)
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Sell it!

I cannot believe my luck - I just sold my late 2010 MBA 13 yesterday with the hopes of a new MBA being released soon.

I originally paid $1339 for it on MacMall.com and I sold it for $1075 -

Every dollar is now going to the new 2011 MBA 13 (256gb) - and I'll get $50 off for the Educational discount...

It says it'll be on my doorstep either July 22 or July 23...

Yay!
 
Scottsdale said:
That is amazing how well the CPU fares even in ULV CPUs. The 11" MBA seems like a much more capable system than before as it competes identically with the 13" MBA now. Before they had different CPUs in that 11 had ULV and 13 has LV CPUs. And the clock speed was 50% faster in the 13" MBA as well.
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Scottsdale, I have a sneaking feeling that Apple might be running the Core i7-2677M in the 11" MBA at a lower frequency to tackle any heat issues.
 
PlipPlop said:
IS Geekbench available for PC? I want to put these Macs to shame.
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I hear three Billy goats attempting to cross your bridge....



Looking at your post history PlipPlop you clearly have an anti Apple Agenda, so one wonders why do you spend time posting in an Apple forum other than to troll posters.
 
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Scottsdale said:
I want to know how the graphics perform. It's nowhere to be seen at apple.com, as Apple is using the CPU to show performance and has apparently eliminated all mention of the graphics system in terms of results vs. prior generation.

I want to see some graphics benchmarks and read some reviews from people using all different types of apps. How does the Intel IGP fare vs. the 13" MBP? How does it fare vs. the Nvidia 320m in the last generation MBA? How does it fare vs. the Nvidia 9400m in the prior generation air to that? How about vs. the Samsung Series 9? Give me some real world information, about how the graphics do with a variety of apps and games...

Sure, we knew the CPU would be fast, but how is the graphics system???

That is amazing how well the CPU fares even in ULV CPUs. The 11" MBA seems like a much more capable system than before as it competes identically with the 13" MBA now. Before they had different CPUs in that 11 had ULV and 13 has LV CPUs. And the clock speed was 50% faster in the 13" MBA as well.
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I think we can safely assume it sucks since Apple would plaster benchies all over their site if the GPU was any good. But it's still a very nice machine. The CPU, memory subsystem and drive are all very good. The presumably weak GPU doesn't hurt this kind of machine too much.
 
Damnit.

Were I a less ethically minded person I'd have an accident with my 15" 2010 i7 MBP, it's fully insured.

Unfortunately I'm afflicted with honesty :(
 
Mord said:
Damnit.

Were I a less ethically minded person I'd have an accident with my 15" 2010 i7 MBP, it's fully insured.

Unfortunately I'm afflicted with honesty :(
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Youre being ripped off by your insurance company. Even if an accident were to happen to your laptop, or it got stolen, they would find every possible way to either not reimburse you at all or reimburse you as little as possible.

Theyre scam artists; money for nothing.

Do it if you know they'll pay through all the way. Don't worry, they have a ton of cash thats come out of your pocket and people like you.
 
wikus said:
Youre being ripped off by your insurance company. Even if an accident were to happen to your laptop, or it got stolen, they would find every possible way to either not reimburse you at all or reimburse you as little as possible.

Theyre scam artists; money for nothing.

Do it if you know they'll pay through all the way. Don't worry, they have a ton of cash thats come out of your pocket and people like you.
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I don't pay the premiums, I got it paid for by a grant as I'm a university student with specific learning disabilities.

I'd never pay for such cover myself.
 
Those are impressive performance numbers. I wish they offered a matte screen, as well as a larger screen opening angle. Oh well.
 
Steve Jobs' means it, literally, when he says that the MBA is 'the future of laptops'.
 
Their website states so by omission

fpnc said:
Well, it looks like shouldbeworking may be correct. There is a thread on Apple's support forums where this question was raised and someone reported that they called Apple and the support genius confirmed that the new MacBook Airs don't support either turbo boost or hyperthreading. Seems a bit odd and obviously it isn't 100% confirmed as yet.

In any case, the new Airs definitely have a faster CPU than the previous models.
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Mac minis and airs were both redesigned for this release, minis got turbo boost (as did previous sandy models), the airs did not:

mac mini: http://www.apple.com/macmini/features.html

mac air: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html

I imagine that turbo boost would have really made it pointless to upgrade the processor from the i5 to the i7, maybe they removed it to keep a little bottleneck in the processor speed on the low end model. Plus it leaves room for an update next year.
 
toddybody said:
I'm most excited for the MBP (IB) refresh. Standard Quad Core (3D Transistors look fantastic), new gen of AMD mGPUs, no ODD and .75 inch body, standard SSD...and most of all, the much needed resolution bump. 1280x800 on the 13" MBP is a total joke. I can't believe Apple got away with that one.
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I don't know where you get off thinking it will be .75" Even without optical drive, it has to be as thick as it is to get proper airflow.
 
PlipPlop said:
IS Geekbench available for PC? I want to put these Macs to shame.
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What bothers me is the discrepancy in performance between operating systems. The performance on my MacBook increased very slightly with each successive version of OS X (2700-2900) and a little more moving to Snow Leopard (~3000). The scores do not match what you can churn out in Windows though. The dramatic difference is in memory performance.

My hardware has not changed since 2007. I take these Geekbench scores as a grain of salt. I really do want to have faith in the results.
 
MacRumorUser said:
I hear three Billy goats attempting to cross your bridge....



Looking at your post history PlipPlop you clearly have an anti Apple Agenda, so one wonders why do you spend time posting in an Apple forum other than to troll posters.
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I have 2 Newtons, a Perfoma 600 and an old Apple Scsi hardisk. My opinion is as valid as anyone elses.
 
shouldbeworking said:
Mac minis and airs were both redesigned for this release, minis got turbo boost (as did previous sandy models), the airs did not:

mac mini: http://www.apple.com/macmini/features.html

mac air: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html

I imagine that turbo boost would have really made it pointless to upgrade the processor from the i5 to the i7, maybe they removed it to keep a little bottleneck in the processor speed on the low end model. Plus it leaves room for an update next year.
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This is disappointing. I have always considered buying a MBA. They look great and are really portable. I love my MBP too much to sell it for a non-Turbo Boost machine, though. I just hope that next year's MBP doesn't have a disk drive. I feel that this is a big possibility since the new Mac minis don't have one. Apple even explains that "you don't need one" on their website.
 
Good upgrade, shame about using intel hd 3000, but was inevitable.

If something like AMD Radeon HD 6630M found in the new mac mini was an option I would have purchased one.

no open gl support on the intel 3000,
cuda support (nvidia card) would be ideal...

I would like to at least do simple auto cad, c4d work and merge them later to form complicated scenes.
(Rhino + 3ds Max under bootcamp) (I have my i7 iMac 8gb ram, for heavier loads...)
I wouldn't bother even opening those apps on the intel 3000...

There is definitely a market to fill between 13 MBA and 15 MBP... Lets see what the MBP refresh brings... 15" wedge design, keep the quad core, 8gb ram dedicated gpu ahhhhh I can dream!
 
BeauPaul said:
I actually prefer glossy and every big azz monitor I have ever used since mac started making computers were glossy
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Pro's know how to set up their lighting, of course if your word processor maybe you should get something like an acer
 
Forgive me for asking what might be a stupid question...

I'm planning on upgrading from my iMac 2.4 C2D; I now need a laptop. Apart from web browsing, word processing and email, I use my computer for photography - iPhoto, PS Lightroom and PS Elements - I had been thinking along the lines of a 13" 2.3 MBP.

My brain tells me that a 1.6 MBA should be much slower than my 2.4 iMac, and way slower than the 2.3 i5, but if I understand this thread correctly, I am wrong.

The form factor of the Air is very appealing, am I being mean in assuming it wouldn't be able to handle Lightroom? If it performed similarly to my iMac then I'd be tempted to go for it over the MBP; if these geekbench numbers are right in saying that the 2011 MBA would be an all-round better performer than my 2008 iMac then I'm ready to click "Buy Now"...
 
wikus said:
Youre being ripped off by your insurance company. Even if an accident were to happen to your laptop, or it got stolen, they would find every possible way to either not reimburse you at all or reimburse you as little as possible.

Theyre scam artists; money for nothing.

Do it if you know they'll pay through all the way. Don't worry, they have a ton of cash thats come out of your pocket and people like you.
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Hmm, you don't know much about insurance do you. The insurance industry as a whole is micromanaged to the smallest detail, so the claim that "they would find every possible way to either not reimburse you at all or reimburse you as little as possible" is simply not true. It's akin to James Harrison claiming the NFL is racist. Both statements are laughable at best and made out of ignorance.

I hate paying insurance premiums as much as the next guy, but at least I know what I'm paying into.
 
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