How about the keyboard? Are they the exact same as the Pro and Air? I remember the keyboard on the air was a lot thinner
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MacBook Air or PRO?
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I chose Air, but for me non of them for now. First, I updated to top Intel MBP13 recently. Second, today we heard nothing about arm windows support. That really disappoints me.
Given how well iPad's run without a fan I'm really leaning towards the air. Most of my use is also sat on the sofa where the mac also sits on the sofa so not too good for a laptop with a fan.
Nursing. There was a significant amount of research and writing involved, which required the RAM and processing power of the MacBook Pro. Overall, I was a heavy MacBook Pro user.
I have used up to 3 ports on my MacBook Pro 13 TB when I did have it. I cnanot do with just two ports. This is not going to be for me. And please, no one try suggesting a dock or something. The Pro should have had 4 ports. Next-gen chips will bring that, probably, along with more power.
They might have removed two ports to stop people from taxing the chips too much to start comparisons they might not like.
They might have removed two ports to stop people from taxing the chips too much to start comparisons they might not like.
Yes, both have the same keyboard but the Pro replaces the top line of function keys with the Touch Bar.
I”m thinking this is just the two port model and the 4 port one will be announced later which will use a more powerful CPU and GPU. Maybe announced at the same time as the 16”?
the Intel 13" macbook air and the base Intel 13" Macbook pro also had 2 ports
The 4 ports macbook pro will come next year with M2 chip that supports 4 usb4/thunderbolt ports, M1 doesnt
Fans can also suck in dust and cause heat issues. Fans can also develop faults / annoying clicking noises.
I'm not concerned with brightness, just color accuracy. Are the colors the same with both the Air and Pro?
I don't think they've removed any ports at all. What they've done is they've only replaced the previous low-end Intel Macbook Pros, which were all 2-port, 16GB max machines. The high-end Intel chips remain in the line-up. The real question to me is whether we'll see high-end 13" pros with higher core CPUS and more RAM / ports in the spring / summer, or whether we'll have to wait for Fall 2021 (when I expect the Intel models will disappear entirely in laptops).
EDIT: Serban55 beat me to it. I agree with him.
They both support the same P3 color spectrum. Only difference appears to be brightness
for someone that use linux or windows10 arm under virtualisation, its important to go 16
I do 3d modeling a Ps /Ai... but I still don't get the point if there are the same processor.
Overall it's just autonomy, Touch Bar and what's more? Same display, same RAM, same storage. I'm more confuse.
Read the specs pages.
Both show as having P3 gamut -- which exceeds sRGB and generally will exceed most output media colorspace.
Yes, I have enjoyed the particular displeasure of my 15" MBP 2011's fans going all Boeing on me in the middle of a very quiet room with me presenting to people on that aircraft.
Even with otherwise identical processors, the one with active cooling allows for more sustained CPU loading than the one with passive cooling. Modern CPUs self-throttle to avoid overtemperature.
I don't understand tech terms like that - I was looking for a layman's definition and was wondering if I was missing something that wasn't laid out in the spec page. I have my answer now, though.
No, the fans started making noise in the middle of a presentation. Had to get the fans replaced after that.
Just bought an M1 Air with 16GB and 1TD. Arrives in a week. Amazing. Haven‘t been so excited about a laptop in years! Anyone want to by an 11inch Air!