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Yes chrome 20 tabs which I able access smoothly in MacBook Pro 2017 with i5 dual core and 8 gb ram.
Three weeks in: I've had four spontaneous hard reboots on my 2020 MBA so far, usually while doing light work and watching a Youtube video. Not sure if this is hardware or software.
Get your **** together, Apple.
Get your **** together, Apple.
Personally while I always use a mouse when working on a Windows PC, I've never had any desire to use on with a macbook. Trackpad just works so much better on a mac than it does on any lenovo or dell I've used.
I use an Apple Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard when in clamshell mode. I prefer the consistency of user interface.
That said, consider the Apple Magic Mouse if you need an external bluetooth mouse.
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Do an SMC / PRAM reset, see if it repeats, then wipe/reload and see if it repeats.
Guessing possibly hardware. Yours is the first report of that I've seen. Haven't had any instances on my month-old MBA.
Yeah, I also think you may have a lemon. Have had mine for around four weeks now and it just works.
I haven't had any since I received it in April.
I do more than light stuff on this, have run games and virtual machines (and some older games IN virtual machines, lol).
I'd make sure your software is up to date, and if it is, RMA time.
I'm so scared now that I've ordered the i5. Either this will be a real issue or some users are super picky. I hope it's the second for my own sake...
If you ordered from someplace with easy returns then you're good. Give it a couple days keeping it open and plugged in for all the indexing and stuff to finish up then have at it.
Also update the OS as soon as you get it - there's a post on the 10.15.5 thread claiming the update resolved a fans-running issue for one person.
Ugh, I couldn't even use Google Meet after installing a Mojave update. It apparently did something to the camera that made Meet crash after a few minutes. My Mac required a hard shutdown to "recover." I saw posts online about a Catalina upgrade being helpful and I rely on Google Meet so I installed it. It helped in that my Mac hasn't crashed again during a conference, but it does make the Mac run hot and the fan run constantly (both in Chrome and Safari). I recently saw other tips to shut off hardware acceleration in Chrome preferences and will be trying that. Also, I installed the Catalina 10.15.5 update. Fingers crossed.
I would appreciate ANY info to help resolve Google Meet making my Mac race — I tend to use Chrome but would consider other browsers for Meet if needed.
I have had my i7/16/256 for about 36 hours now. Initial start up and indexing migrating Time Machine 120GB, then backing up on Time Machine and CCC, it was a 15 hour day of non stop usage. It ran between 60-70C while doing all of this. It uploaded 10,000 photos over 24 hours. I did run the bench marks during this indexing and it did hit 100C and the fans became audible sometimes loud. It was indexing while I did this and 60C was as low as I have seen it go.
Then coming morning it was done indexing per the activity monitor. It was a cool 38C. I re-ran the bench marks and of course they are meant to push it to the max like Cinebench R20 and yes it hits 100C but the fans was not as audible. I had a MS Team Center video conference today with 134 people. It ran in the low
60's C for the 40 minute meeting. It runs 40's C for my typical internet usage and office work.
I read all the heat issues and all I can say is 10.15.5 must be a miracle worker because this is as cool of a laptop as my previous MBP 2017 15". I am so glad I went MBA this time vs MBP.....
Then coming morning it was done indexing per the activity monitor. It was a cool 38C. I re-ran the bench marks and of course they are meant to push it to the max like Cinebench R20 and yes it hits 100C but the fans was not as audible. I had a MS Team Center video conference today with 134 people. It ran in the low
60's C for the 40 minute meeting. It runs 40's C for my typical internet usage and office work.
I read all the heat issues and all I can say is 10.15.5 must be a miracle worker because this is as cool of a laptop as my previous MBP 2017 15". I am so glad I went MBA this time vs MBP.....
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I have had my computer for a few days now. I went from using a MacMacBook 2011 to this 2020 Air. I really like my 2011 MacBook, but it was definitely time to get a new computer. It was getting really irritating to do much on the Internet with it in any web browser. Chrome was a no go, as it would grind the computer down to a halt. Firefox also was slow, as was safari. Safari worked Better, so I used it.
It would also take me anywhere between 1 or 2 hours to edit a PowerPoint presentation for my church’s contemporary service. This involved opening two tabs in SafarI, opening TextEdit, and opening PowerPoint. I would open my email from the pastor to get the Scripture, open a second tab in Safari and go to Biblegateway, then look up the Scripture, paste it into textedit, copy it from TextEdit into the previous week’s PowerPoint. I had to copy and paste it into TextEdit because copying it from the website and pasting into PowerPoint directly did not work.
Then I would go into my email and find The email from the worship leader. I would download his PowerPoint files for the songs he was doing that week, then I would open each of those files, and copy each song one at a time into the worship PowerPoint, replacing the previous week’s songs with the current week. Then I would check over the whole thing, then save as it.
Doing that would take quite a while for PowerPoint and Safari to come up. I would often get a little beach balling. It was taking far longer than it should have.
The thing that really told me I needed a new computer was zoom. For some reason, whether or not the microphone in my computer had gone bad, or because of some incompatibility between my computer and zoom, whenever I had my microphone not muted, there would be a horrible loud echoing from my microphone that everyone in the zoom meeting could hear. I would have to keep my microphone muted and just type in the chat if I had something to say. That was rather inconvenient. Since we will be meeting via zoom for the long term, I needed something that would work with zoom. I also was concerned that the microphone issue could have been an indicator that parts of my computer were starting to fail.
At any rate, I am a fairly light user, I think. Besides the above uses, I like to play a few older games on my computer from time to time. I also use pages or word to type up documents, and occasionally use numbers or excel for spreadsheets. I keep my photos and music on my computer as well, and sometimes will watch a dvd. I used to use computers to communicate with friends using chat apps, but it has been a long time since I used those.
I say all this so that those reading this can see what type of computer user I am so that they can see how useful my review would be compared with their own usage.
My New computer is a MacBook Air 2020, gold color i5 model. I have made no modifications to it, and it is running Catalina version 10.15.5. I do not use an external monitor with it. During the entire time that I have been checking all my apps, the only time the fans have come on was when I had bluestacks running, and was trying to launch elves vs. dwarves on it so I could have my alliance bank up. Elves vs. dwarves froze at the intro screen, and would not get any farther. I tried it multiple times. Bluestacks itself was fine. It was just when trying to launch evd that it caused The fans to spin a lot.
There are of course apps that I cannot launch due to the inability to open 32 bit apps, as well as apps requiring Wine. Most Of those apps have developers work at getting them compatible with Catalina. In the meantime, if I want to use those apps, I will need to use my 2011 MacBook.
I do have to say that it is much faster than my old computer. The old computer had a spinning hard drive, and had 4 GB of ram. This new comp has a solid state drive, and 8GB of ram. The new computer turns on much faster, and programs launch much quicker. I have had no beach balling either.
One other Point is that I normally use my computer on a desk. If I use it in my lap, then I sit The computer on a lap desk so that it rests on a hard surface, and I am not blocking any of the air vents.
By the way, I purchased my computer directly from Apple.com. I read some of the amazon 1 star reviews and have to wonder if some people could possibly have received knock offs or computers that did not pass quality control. Where people bought their computer from might have something to do with why there seem to be so many differences in experience from low quality to high.
I will post an update after I have had more of a chance to use the new computer.
It would also take me anywhere between 1 or 2 hours to edit a PowerPoint presentation for my church’s contemporary service. This involved opening two tabs in SafarI, opening TextEdit, and opening PowerPoint. I would open my email from the pastor to get the Scripture, open a second tab in Safari and go to Biblegateway, then look up the Scripture, paste it into textedit, copy it from TextEdit into the previous week’s PowerPoint. I had to copy and paste it into TextEdit because copying it from the website and pasting into PowerPoint directly did not work.
Then I would go into my email and find The email from the worship leader. I would download his PowerPoint files for the songs he was doing that week, then I would open each of those files, and copy each song one at a time into the worship PowerPoint, replacing the previous week’s songs with the current week. Then I would check over the whole thing, then save as it.
Doing that would take quite a while for PowerPoint and Safari to come up. I would often get a little beach balling. It was taking far longer than it should have.
The thing that really told me I needed a new computer was zoom. For some reason, whether or not the microphone in my computer had gone bad, or because of some incompatibility between my computer and zoom, whenever I had my microphone not muted, there would be a horrible loud echoing from my microphone that everyone in the zoom meeting could hear. I would have to keep my microphone muted and just type in the chat if I had something to say. That was rather inconvenient. Since we will be meeting via zoom for the long term, I needed something that would work with zoom. I also was concerned that the microphone issue could have been an indicator that parts of my computer were starting to fail.
At any rate, I am a fairly light user, I think. Besides the above uses, I like to play a few older games on my computer from time to time. I also use pages or word to type up documents, and occasionally use numbers or excel for spreadsheets. I keep my photos and music on my computer as well, and sometimes will watch a dvd. I used to use computers to communicate with friends using chat apps, but it has been a long time since I used those.
I say all this so that those reading this can see what type of computer user I am so that they can see how useful my review would be compared with their own usage.
My New computer is a MacBook Air 2020, gold color i5 model. I have made no modifications to it, and it is running Catalina version 10.15.5. I do not use an external monitor with it. During the entire time that I have been checking all my apps, the only time the fans have come on was when I had bluestacks running, and was trying to launch elves vs. dwarves on it so I could have my alliance bank up. Elves vs. dwarves froze at the intro screen, and would not get any farther. I tried it multiple times. Bluestacks itself was fine. It was just when trying to launch evd that it caused The fans to spin a lot.
There are of course apps that I cannot launch due to the inability to open 32 bit apps, as well as apps requiring Wine. Most Of those apps have developers work at getting them compatible with Catalina. In the meantime, if I want to use those apps, I will need to use my 2011 MacBook.
I do have to say that it is much faster than my old computer. The old computer had a spinning hard drive, and had 4 GB of ram. This new comp has a solid state drive, and 8GB of ram. The new computer turns on much faster, and programs launch much quicker. I have had no beach balling either.
One other Point is that I normally use my computer on a desk. If I use it in my lap, then I sit The computer on a lap desk so that it rests on a hard surface, and I am not blocking any of the air vents.
By the way, I purchased my computer directly from Apple.com. I read some of the amazon 1 star reviews and have to wonder if some people could possibly have received knock offs or computers that did not pass quality control. Where people bought their computer from might have something to do with why there seem to be so many differences in experience from low quality to high.
I will post an update after I have had more of a chance to use the new computer.
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Its not the extra few hundreds euro that i care, special when you keep it for many years, and its not gonna be the main Mac for the studio - more like for outside the studio and while traveling...
Im sure the new MBP (with the 10th Gen CPU) will be much more powerful, but still wondering how far possible to push the new MBA.
well, the consensus seems to be you can push it quite a bit, if you don't mind the fan running constantly
My fans have hardly ever come on so far, and mine is the i5.
You probably meant 'hardly heard it' cause when it run at minimal rpm you can't hear it.
Try this: watch YouTube 15-30 minutes then touch the casing above the keyboard just below the 'MacBook Air' text (basically the middle of the top). If you're using safari then you can feel it warm, using Chrome then you can feel it is much hotter.
Fine. If we are being precise, then, sure, the fan might be coming on sometimes, but so low that I cannot hear it at all. I hear nothing coming from my computer when it is on. It’s not that I almost don’t hear it. I don’t hear it at all. It’s as if the fan does not come on.
As far as temperature, I am sure there are things I can do on the computer that would raise the temperature, but that would be true of all computers and electric devices. It is impossible to have a computer that never feels slightly warm ever. To expect it to never feel a little warm would be an impossible expectation.
The point is that I do not feel it being too warm to type on, or feel it really heating up to an uncomfortable level. In the normal course of its operation, it feels cooler to the touch than either my old hp laptop (over 10 years old) or my old MacBook, also over 10 years old. I would sometimes feel both of those getting warm in a certain place (not overly hot or uncomfortably hot), especially in the summer, and putting a laptop cooling fan underneath them would always take care of that problem.
Good enjoy then.
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Yes it is silent, if that's good for your use case it is perfect. Enjoy your MBA
I'm picking mine up tomorrow from the local Apple Store, so I'll be able to test the performance in the evening.
I've had some time to put Powerpoint through its paces, and I haven't seen any noticeable slowdowns. I have tried adding and manipulating photos in slides, importing graphs and charts, switching designs on the fly, and other manipulations. I'm going to be running some other apps this week to see how well this laptop performs.
i've had my i5/16gb/512ssd for almost a week now. i love it, but by battery is trash - i'm lucky to get 4.5hrs with just safari and spotify running at 70% brightness. do i have a dud?
Take a look in Activity Monitor and see what's using the most resources. Might be an errant app.
"Safari" doesn't really tell us much. Are you reading wikipedia for 4.5hrs or streaming Youtube for 4.5hrs?
no youtube or videos at all. literally just browsing the web in safari and streaming music via spotify. nothing else.