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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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Naw, I’ve tried using other MBP and it’s the same issue. 50-60 tabs and it starts dragging. I should be able to do three times that.
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We have a medical record system that is browser based. Every test (bloodwork, radiograph report, vaccine titter, etc) ever run opens in a new tab. So 8-14 patients with even only a few years of data and it adds up quick.
Well that is a memory issue, you probably need more than 32GB RAM for that kind of use. I work in IT and have seen 10 users use over 256GB RAM combined when working with large numbers of tabs like that (on a terminal server). As to why your iMac is better with 16GB, I don't know without looking at the differences between the models and who you work. But from my experience 16GB of RAM is not enough for your kind of usage.
Likely, but I don’t think it’s the whole story. Thing is, I don’t have the issue with my iMac or with my Windows 10 machine both which have 16 GB. I used to be ok with the Surface Pro 4 with 8GB, but then one day it started having issues. That’s when I got the MBP.
My point was these are normal tasks, and a $1000 machine *should* be able to handle it, but higher priced ones struggle. So wouldn’t assume the Air can breeze through regular usage.
This is a great update for most users. I'm not in the market at the moment for a new computer. Hopefully in a year or two, once I am in the market for one, Apple will have Sapphire Rapids MacBooks with DDR5 SDRAM.
While the base functionally is built into the I/O PCH support chip coupled to the Ice Lake class . A system vendor still has to buy a PHYS solution from Intel to fully implement WiFi 6. If Apple passed up buying Intel's solution (e.g., their custom tweaks to Wifi/Bluetooth connections for automagical "Handoff" ) then they wouldn't necessarily get WiFi 6.
If they bought the complete Intel solution that would be strange. (even several AMD based systems buy Intel's WiFI 6 solution to roll out latest WiFi. Apple seems likely doing something quirky here. )
If history repeats itself, Apple will probably release a new feature and say "Hey, if your Mac has WIFI 6, you can have this feature. Otherwise, go pound."
They did this with continuity / handoff which pissed many of 2011 MBA users. I could totally see them doing this again just so the 2020 MBA buyer will have reason to upgrade to the 2021 or 2022 MBA.
Continuity uses Bluetooth LE and mesh Wi-Fi capabilities. They may have been able to emulate a poorer version on older hardware, but it's not like it was an arbitrary cutoff.
Exactly the MacBook I've been waiting for, at exactly the moment I feel scared to spend the money on it.
This! Some really solid updates announced today. A week ago I would have bought the new Macbook Air for my daughters school work, and iPad Pro to replace my wife's old iPad Air 2. Today I don't know if schools will be open soon, and job security has evaporated, so we will make do with what we have.
The new AoE can run in up to 4k resolution. AoE Definitive Edition has been modernized and improved. It has much higher system requirements.
I would buy this if it had just one more port. It's a shame to pay for the MBP just for an extra port, but that' literally the only reason I need the MBP vs. this. I'd prefer the MBA for the lower weight/profile, lack of touch bar but inclusion of touch ID, and longer battery life.
Although keep in mind you can always use an external hard drive when necessary. You won't be able to upgrade #1 & 2.
Nice update. I just wish I could run Mojave instead of Catalina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_Alternate_Mode_for_USB_Type-C
No DisplayLink drivers and "simulating". Just a straightforward adapter that does little more than physically adapting to the different connector.
Nice work. I think you’re right.
[I hope so too; I just ordered the i5 version with 16GiB of RAM to (finally) replace my 2014 i7 15.4“ MacBook Pro]
This could be a nice lightweight solution for me as a developer who is always traveling internationally with backpack and heavy MBP15. The 15/16 are very heavy when you have other stuff jammed in your backpack.
With these specs it seems the performance is on par with my 2015 MBP15. I only worry about the GPU in the MBA but surely it's just as good as my MBP.
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With these specs it seems the performance is on par with my 2015 MBP15. I only worry about the GPU in the MBA but surely it's just as good as my MBP.
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Shouldn’t you be closing these tabs in between patients coming in? Data protection or doctor-patient confidentiality?
That’s one way to avoid the issue
So, how much faster is the new 2020 base MBA processor compared to the 2019 base MBA processor?
It was an arbitrary cutoff.
There is no sensible reason as to why continuity/handoff has to rely on Bluetooth LE and mesh WI-FI capabilities. That's just Apple "arbitrarily" decided on. Any bluetooth with combination of WIFi would have sufficed the feature's "real" requirement. The fact the Continuity tool works for machine without LE and mesh WIFI is proof enough.
Does the quad core in the new air match the performance of a newer 13” MBP? Trying to decide if it would be worth upgrading my 2015 13” MBP
No, because they can’t read it and I don’t have time to pull them up and between patients.