I love the new Safari, but I use Chrome every day for it's developer tools. Run just fine to me, but yes it did get slower.
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I love the new Safari, but I use Chrome every day for it's developer tools. Run just fine to me, but yes it did get slower.
I am still going to purchase the MacBook, however is stead of getting the 1.1/256 I have decided to get the 1.2/512. I know this will fit my needs. As I only plan to surf the web, watch you tube from time to time, email and also play sims from time to time.
1.1 vs 1.2 is negligible to me. I'm going with 256 as it'll be more than I need for this type of device. I have a 64gb iphone and don't think I've ever had more than 20gb on it. Most of my media consumption is streamed, not stored. 256 (minus whatever OS X eats up) should be more than enough for my personal needs.
Exactly.
On the Surface Pro 3 you have to avoid Chrome at all costs - it kills battery like there is no tomorrow and works the CPU way too hard for what it does.
Looking forward to getting my hands on the new rMB.
Correct I had a SP3 and Chrome on it sucked. It also crushed the battery life compared to IE. IE is greatly improved on the SP3 especially the touch version. Even surprised me.
My wife and (adult) sons think I'm crazy - they use Chrome on everything. I have beaten my head on all the browsers. My Windows machines run IE and my Macs run Safari. Perfect? - nope. Best alternative? - yes, imho.
The reviews didn't change my mind, my wife did 
Conversation went something like:
me: "honey, I want a new macbook"
her: "we can't afford it, is it better than the macbook pro you just bought"?
[2014 15" w/ 750m]
me: "not even remotely close"
her: "it's a complete waste of money, you don't need it"
me: "ok, I may crack later but for now I'm gonna wait."
her: "I might crack you when I steal your macbook lol Muahahha"
me: "ordered"
I had to share this one... it **NEVER** happens like this
Conversation went something like:
me: "honey, I want a new macbook"
her: "we can't afford it, is it better than the macbook pro you just bought"?
[2014 15" w/ 750m]
me: "not even remotely close"
her: "it's a complete waste of money, you don't need it"
me: "ok, I may crack later but for now I'm gonna wait."
her: "I might crack you when I steal your macbook lol Muahahha"
me: "ordered"
I had to share this one... it **NEVER** happens like this
What concerns me is that I also love the touch version of IE on 8.1 but in Windows 10 preview they've dropped it, and IE has been killed off in favour of Spartan which is so full of bugs you can't even call it a 0.9 beta version. How on earth that will be ready for the prime time come later this year is beyond me.
At this stage, it also appears Win 10 is being made to favour desktops and that the whole tablet experience on the Surface Pro 3 is going to become a mash-up.
I don't want to be Microsoft's beta tester anymore. Love my SP3, but would love MS just for once to stick with something and drop the inconsistencies.
I'm leaning towards going back to OSX and running Windows in a Parallels VM. Best of both worlds.
Might pick up a newer Surface 3 (non pro) with atom for the pen functionality later on if I miss writing too much.
No the reviews didn't change my mind. I ordered one this morning, I have to wait a hella long time to receive it though 4 - 6 weeks!
I think it will be well worth the wait.
I use it for dev tools and noticed this slowness.
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Yes that is correct. I get the most problems with flash it seems. I think they should take flash out of their browser. Maybe thatll help performance and stability.
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Agree with you 100%.. Even I was perplexed while deciding which storage space to buy among 128GB and 256GB.. After a lot of deliberation, I went ahead with 128GB and 1 TB external HD. Most of my media consumption these days is online streamed.
When I first saw the MacBook I wanted to buy one immediately. Then I changed my mind basically because of three things: The high price (in Germany the basic model costs 1449), the low display resolution (lower than on the MacBook Air 11") and the cpu.
The reviews mentioned that speed was no problem, so that is one issue less for me. The display resolution is probably an issue, and I will have to see how that looks like in real life. The steep price is something I will have to think about in the next days. I love th design and I love gadgets ins general, so I don't know. I will wait with my decision for a couple of days.
The reviews mentioned that speed was no problem, so that is one issue less for me. The display resolution is probably an issue, and I will have to see how that looks like in real life. The steep price is something I will have to think about in the next days. I love th design and I love gadgets ins general, so I don't know. I will wait with my decision for a couple of days.
No,the problem is it run's like a 2011 Mac Book Air,but way hotter! (and this was testing the 1.1...have to wonder about the heat from the 1.3!)
Supposedly the heat should be lower on the 1.2 if it is running at 5w vs 6w for the 1.1. I'll be interested to see if AnandTech gets all 3 or at least the high end version to see if they run into the same throttling issue that they highlighted in their article earlier this week.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about the lower resolution? The higher resolution over the 11" is probably the main selling point.
Not me because it seemed like some of the reviews were more about reviewing the product for what it wasn't than what it was. If you wanted a MBA with retina display or need lots of power and ports I don't need to you to review this product because it's obvious you're probably not going to like it.
The native resolution of the MB (2304 x 1440) is higher than the MBA (1366 x 768), but the MB uses 4px to produce 1px at standard setting, so the MB becomes 1152 x 720, i.e. less real estate than the MBA 11", but much sharper.
You can use scaled resolutions on the MB to get more real estate and still have the retina sharpness. The most real estate on the MB is 1440 x 900.
Third party tools will enable the 2304 x 1440 native resolution but it is unusable due tiny text.
Really? So I can't even try out 2304 x 1440 without buying some utility software???
I know, but I wouldn't call this a disadvantage vs the 11" Air. It offers more flexibility. From what I've read, the new MacBook is shipping set to the 1200x800 resolution, FWIW.