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New MacBook Air Announced With Magic Keyboard, Up to 2x Faster Performance, and Lower $999 Starting Price
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Intel’s Ice Lake CPUs are very low clock speed compared to their Coffee Lake counterparts. This is due to the troublesome 10nm process Intel is using to get these CPUs out the door and into customers hands. The iGPU is much better along with having LPDDR4/x support, but you pay for it in clock speed, which tends to offset the IPC gains.
ok. I'm on it. Oh yeah, and while I'm here, which side did you want the magsafe port?
Both sides, of course - you have to get it to look as even as possible.
The fact they can fit this new scissor mechanism in the same classic puts to bed the “to make it thinner” conspiracy...
This is a good, well priced upgrade. I can't help but wonder if there is a catch... did they cheap out on SSD speed or panel quality?
That said, I have no problem with a lower screen Gamut or Brightness than the "pro". It is a trade I am happy to make for a good keyboard and no-touchbar.
It will still be a great screen compared with the old Air.
Apple have really delivered on this one. Well done. 👍👍👍👍
That said, I have no problem with a lower screen Gamut or Brightness than the "pro". It is a trade I am happy to make for a good keyboard and no-touchbar.
It will still be a great screen compared with the old Air.
Apple have really delivered on this one. Well done. 👍👍👍👍
I still very much want a laptop with the Touch Bar, but beyond that I agree with you. This upgrade may be the strongest signal yet that the current MBP 13 is not long for this world (and probably will get a 14" screen in its new life).
Is the screen on this new Air comparable to the one on the base model Mid 2014 Macbook Pro or would it likely be better? Also would the quad-core i5/16GB RAM/256GB be a good upgrade from it as I'm not a fan of the touchbar at all.
Audio or video or photograph editing are the use cases. Gaming is never a Mac strength and there is not an appreciable graphics difference between models.
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I could be wrong, but I think Apple is looking straight at a giant recession and decided to price their most popular laptop as competitively as possible. They need to generate sales volume, even if they have to cut their usually high margins. I am not saying they are selling these things at a loss, but they need to get customers’ attention whilst they are hunkered down.
My best guess.
Because the camera in the phone in the palm of your hands is 7mm thick, and the camera on your laptop is 2mm thick.
Could Apple give MacBooks a better camera? Maybe.
Could it be anywhere near as good as the front-facing camera on an iPhone? Nope. Not without making the lid needlessly thick.
Been needing to replace my nearly dead 2012 Air and now I have to be responsible and not buy given the state of the world and fears about employment and income. Plus a newborn...
Ooooh, quad-core comes to the Air! Maybe for my next Mac laptop (which I hope to buy later this year, provided I have a decent source of income, like one of the I.T. jobs I recently applied for.) Given what I may do with it at times (like maybe edit HD video up to 1080p on Final Cut Pro X) I might go for quad-core i5 model with 512 GB SSD, with the RAM upgraded to 16 GB.
Or I can just configure online the model that has that processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD for $1300. But having an additional 256 GB of storage couldn't hurt...
Or I can just configure online the model that has that processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD for $1300. But having an additional 256 GB of storage couldn't hurt...
Xcode (clang and swiftc) takes good advantage of cores. You probably want a Mac with at least four.
I can finally upgrade from my 2010 MBP. I'm very excited!
Should I upgrade to the quad core i5 or 16 gigs of ram? I'll mostly be doing basic things. I might use Parallels once in a blue moon. I'm also thinking about getting an audio interface to plug in my guitar and mess around with Garage Band and maybe some other apps.
Should I upgrade to the quad core i5 or 16 gigs of ram? I'll mostly be doing basic things. I might use Parallels once in a blue moon. I'm also thinking about getting an audio interface to plug in my guitar and mess around with Garage Band and maybe some other apps.
I'd say 1 and 2. You can always store non essential files on a USB drive.
For AoE2 why not just use crossover? WINE will handle it just fine, and no need to fully boot into Windows for it. It's not like AoE is massive graphics heavy these days...
Without adding an opinion either way - the revised MacBook Air is 0.5mm thicker.
I have no idea how you do it. I have 16gb ram and it doesn’t matter what browser I’m on it lags like crazy after 50 or 60 tabs. I can do double that, easy, on my iMac with the same amount of ram.