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MacBook Air 'Sandy Bridge' Update in June?
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Glad that for once I developed some patience. A certain sale here when sandy bridge arrives on the air.
Glad that for once I developed some patience. A certain sale here when sandy bridge arrives on the air.
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Will this have any effect on battery life? From what people are saying doesn't seem like much of a bump performance wise compared to the current nvidia combo. Probably will wait till 4 gb ram is standard and Lion comes out.
Will this have any effect on battery life? From what people are saying doesn't seem like much of a bump performance wise compared to the current nvidia combo. Probably will wait till 4 gb ram is standard and Lion comes out.
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If people want to wait 4 months and get more for their money, it's asinine for someone to try and talk them out of it. It's 4 months. The whole "if you're always waiting for the technology just over the hill, you'll never buy anything" argument just doesn't work for a 4-month wait.
I guess Misery loves company.
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Besides, C|NET has been wrong about facts LOTS of times. And what's it with C|Net's dude/girl?
I just now understood the air's quote "The future of Macbooks".
No more plastic macbook, no more macbook pro, ONLY THE AIR WILL SURVIVE!
all jokes aside, im worried that apple may drop their white+mbp 13" and keep air 11-13 and pro 15-17.
No more plastic macbook, no more macbook pro, ONLY THE AIR WILL SURVIVE!
all jokes aside, im worried that apple may drop their white+mbp 13" and keep air 11-13 and pro 15-17.
I think they are thicker than the non-backlit keyboards and won't fit in a MacBook Air.
Battery life would get better. One of the reasons that Intel's graphics has lagged in performance is that lower power was higher on the design priority list than many of the features that Nvidia/ATI-AMD added to their solutions. So Intel's solution was more competitive on perf/watt than on performance alone. When matched up on chip implementation tech generation versus the others they are as "hopelessly bad" as many folks around here characterize them. ( $/perf was also has been higher on the design priority list than Nvidia/ATI . )
The performance would be a backwards slide on higher end 3D graphics though. Back to the previous MBA (mid-2009 or worse ) era of graphics. That's way waiting till a better "two chip" solution appear later in the year would be a smarter design choice for the MBA. Churning the design "just because" is very misguided. Nor would it be too surprising to see Apple milk the current C2D/Nvidia solution for another 6+ months from its launch date until May-June 2012 if nothing this Summer/Fall is has better $/perf and perf/watt ratios.
wow -- you use an ELEVEN-INCH computer as your main machine for GRAPHIC DESIGN?! Wow! I'm not saying it can't crunch the data, but I do design too, but my Mac Pro has a 27-inch monitor attached to it. And I selfishly still want a second 27-inch.
Do you tether your notebook to something bigger? Just curious!
Apple fanboys will say, "Uncle Steve and his team will find a way and make us open our wallets."
Right now apple had 3s of sku on 13 in model.
Macbook
Macbook pro
Macbook air
One of them has to go...
Any word on what the TDP for these MacBook Air compatible Sandy Bridge processors might be?
The current 11.6" Core 2 Duo TDP is 10Watts and runs noticeably cooler an much quieter than the 17W of the 13" MBA.
I currently have both here side by side and was surprised (and disappointed) to find how much hotter (and noiser) the 13" runs.
The current 11.6" Core 2 Duo TDP is 10Watts and runs noticeably cooler an much quieter than the 17W of the 13" MBA.
I currently have both here side by side and was surprised (and disappointed) to find how much hotter (and noiser) the 13" runs.
so... you're saying that the next macbook pro 13" will be worse than the current... awright bro, i believe you!
its computer time.
I hope AAPL starts spending more time on thinking up cutting edge COMPUTERS. We have the iToys, now it is time push the limits on core computer products.
I hope AAPL starts spending more time on thinking up cutting edge COMPUTERS. We have the iToys, now it is time push the limits on core computer products.
Cost may have played a role also. The 2009 MBA had backlit keyboards (all the way back to the original MBA). Granted it is thicker than the current 13" MBA but some of the contributor to thickness was the hard drive also. (for the 11" version there is nothing to look back to). It is simpler, costs less, and slightly less power consuming to leave it out. I suspect it was also harder to insert into the 11" version and so leaving it out of the 13" one was more consistent (in addition to the previous listed perks from Apple's perspective). Backlit keyboards is once again a "MacBook Pro" feature.
wow -- you use an ELEVEN-INCH computer as your main machine for GRAPHIC DESIGN?! Wow! I'm not saying it can't crunch the data, but I do design too, but my Mac Pro has a 27-inch monitor attached to it. And I selfishly still want a second 27-inch.
Do you tether your notebook to something bigger? Just curious!
Yes I tether it to a 23" LG HD monitor. I would love a 27" Apple monitor (or two), but LG is one of my clients and I won't squawk at free technology.
I also have, from time to time, needed to work on just the Air's screen, but I'm a GD Ninja and the 11" real estate causes me little issue.
D.
17W includes the IGP. Add another ~4 Watts for the PCH.Any word on what the TDP for these MacBook Air compatible Sandy Bridge processors might be?
The current 11.6" Core 2 Duo TDP is 10Watts and runs noticeably cooler an much quieter than the 17W of the 13" MBA.
I currently have both here side by side and was surprised (and disappointed) to find how much hotter (and noiser) the 13" runs.
The next MBP 13" could easily have discrete graphics just like the other MBP brethren if they drop the DVD drive and replace it with discrete chip and an additional fan (just like the other models). If Apple is going to declare war on DVD/CDs ( flash memory based emergency boot and OS restore device, Mac App Store , etc.) then there should be internal volume in the MBP 13" for a discrete chip, VRAM, and additional cooling.
Additionally, a MBP 13" with a discrete GPU will further differentiate that model from the MBA 13". If need more graphics performance.... buy the MBP 13". Similar to how MBP 13" differentiated from the MB 13".
In the MBA there is not because they chose to minimize volume. So there is no space to "recover" to add multiple new components.