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New 2018 MacBook Air Shown Off in Unboxing Videos on YouTube

Amorun said:
It does. There were screenshots of it’s inkv

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It actually does, and this could simply be the worst about it: we can get a machine not powerful enough, but noisy enough - the worst from 2 worlds.
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Really? noisy enough? every single 13" TB MBP have 2 fans and they are dead silent at light and medium usage (at light usage and idle the fans are not working, 0RPM)
So only under load the fan probably will start and get some noise but i prefer a fan to have a cool Mac with a little noise than a hot mac
I exchanged my i9+560X for an base i7 2.2ghz+555X for a much colder operations under heavy load 95C vs 81C
 
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oh look, clueless morons on youtube trying to get views. And macrumors republishing trash. Next....
 
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EugW said:
Nobody has confirmed this yet with Apple. A round thing in the picture doesn't definitively confirm the fan.


No, not even close. I replaced my MacBook Pro with a MacBook. No issues with performance for my business applications. And Retina is great.
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There is a fan. GSX hasn't been updated with the 2018 models announced yesterday but 2017 Air's have a fan. No reason to think 2018 won't have one either. It would fry if it had no fan.
 
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fokmik said:
Really? noisy enough? every single 13" TB MBP have 2 fans and they are dead silent at light and medium usage (at light usage and idle the fans are not working, 0RPM)
So only under load the fan probably will start and get some noise but i prefer a fan to have a cool Mac with a little noise than a hot mac
I exchanged my i9+560X for an base i7 2.2ghz+555X for a much colder operations under heavy load 95C vs 81C
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My own experience tells me old version of Macbook Air can be noisy and hot at the same time. You are absolutely right: 13’’ TB MBP has a unique configuration of a cooling system, starting with location of perforations and to 2 fans, but i have a doubt new MBA will be equally silent.
 
Black Magic said:
Is it fair to say that the MacBook Air and the MacBook are equivalent to the Netbooks back in the day? The only difference is Apple still charges a grand regardless of the crappy specs.
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No. Netbooks simply were not very capable of running the full version of the latest OS. Even the dual core Atom equipped ones with nVidia integrated graphics could not run Windows 7 Pro well back in 2011. Windows XP yes, but by that point is was near EOL. I had one and even with its max 2GB RAM it still did a poor job of running Win 7. However that old Asus netbook was still useful for helping me see and recover the data from my dead HP notebook when transitioning to a MBP. I simply threw the old drive into an external chassis.

The MacBook and MacBook Air on the other hand can do everything as long as it doesn't require strong multi-core performance and/or GPU horsepower.
 
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AbSoluTc said:
There is a fan. GSX hasn't been updated with the 2018 models announced yesterday but 2017 Air's have a fan. No reason to think 2018 won't have one either. It would fry if it had no fan.
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No, current Intel chips don't fry without a fan. They throttle.

The 2018 is COMPLETELY different design than the 2017 Air. The 2017 Airs use U chips, while the 2018 Airs use Y chips, and in this case they max out at 7 Watts, which is still less than half of the standard 15 W U chips.

There could be a fan, but your reasoning as to why there must be a fan is completely wrong.
 
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It will
Amorun said:
My own experience tells me old version of Macbook Air can be noisy and hot at the same time. You are absolutely right: 13’’ TB MBP has a unique configuration of a cooling system, starting with location of perforations and to 2 fans, but i have a doubt new MBA will be equally silent.
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it will be colder and more silent than older macbook air be sure..cpu are 7.5W and no longer 15W like the old version
And the fans now are asymmetrical for lower db noise
 
EugW said:
The first woman is pleasant to listen to. The latter two are annoying as hell, stereotypical YouTubers in the negative sense.


The main difference between the MacBook Air 2018 and the MacBook 2017 is basically Thunderbolt and an extra port, and the bigger screen.

ie. The MacBook Air 2018 is the 13" MacBook.
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Fully agree, so much better than shouting and being obnoxious as most others.
 
Black Magic said:
Is it fair to say that the MacBook Air and the MacBook are equivalent to the Netbooks back in the day? The only difference is Apple still charges a grand regardless of the crappy specs.
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People were crying for an iPad with MacOS and got the MacBook. These people are happy. Maybe the product is not targeting you?
 
I appreciate Apple for doing this, the MKBHD, iJustine and Jonathan Morris have too much of a monopoly on unboxing. iJustine in particular is bordering too much on crazy, cult worship behavior for Apple products.

Out of the three reviews posted here, only the first one I like. Her voice is soothing, but, if you are reading a site like Macrumors, apart from the golden Apple stickers, you likely knew everything she mentioned.

I am really itching to to get the new MacBook Air; its not really a need, since my Early 2015 MBP is still doing well, but I am still keeping it on Sierra for compatibility. But, I would like to get something that’s running the latest macOS.
 
lec0rsaire said:
I was thinking more Marques and Dave Lee than those guys. I never watch their stuff. I'm pretty sure most of their views are from young kids and teens who can't resist the clickbait.
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MKB is pretty terrible and generic now too. As an example, he said the iPhone X had a good screen made by Samsung and simply said, "Good job Samsung." Terrible analysis.
 
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Wow. This HD 617 is GT2 with 24 EUs vs. the GT3 48 EUs of the Broadwell iGPUs. The result is that even though this HD 617 is 2-3 generations newer the performance is still significantly worse than the HD6000 in the old MacBook Air. Now this may be compensated for by new stuff in Amber Lake but I would expect worse GPU performance for anything requiring any sort of acceleration. This is more 12" MacBook performance than old MBA/base MBP performance.

Of course all of this can be rendered irrelevant with the addition of an eGPU which this MacBook Air is capable of. You're stuck with the integrated GPU on the older Air. So overall this will not be a bad machine and it should have much better battery life than a 13" MBP.
 
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As a 2018 13" MPB and a 12" 2017 MB owner, I am trying to figure out where this device fits in the picture for people? Especially since they raised the price.
 
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