Why not? Apple need to sustain their sales somehow. They need to be pro active in order to prevent big losses. My bet is, people are buying more computers than usual right now.
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New MacBook Air Possible as Early as Next Week
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Good point. Microsoft offering Teams free for 6 months, there’s a big push on how to serve those who have to stay at home.
Agreed!
Still, I'm really interested in this update. I'm hoping for a Quad Core MacBook Air with improved graphics and the new keyboard. If so, I will be upgrading!
The online store will still be available for those who just know they want the product and do not need to see it physically beforehand.
And if it is just a spec refresh (so same design) then there would be no reason to go look at it in person beforehand.
A quad core would be really nice, I too was hoping the previous gen would have one, but I couldn't wait any longer.
Something about the design of this one, even the trackpad, I love it. I have a 15 inch pro and I find it way to big, heavy, and more awkward to type on for some reason. I think it might have something to do with the Air having move of a slant to it where you rest your palms that make the keyboard more tolerable. The trackpad also feels way better when I click it.. not sure why, I have the same settings as the pro and the pro just feels kind of clunky.
I would have hoped that a new MBA would get one of the following Ice Lake chips which are both listed as 9 W parts: i5 1030G7 (4 core, 0.8-3.5 GHz, Iris Plus), i7 1060G7 (4 core, 1-3.8 GHz, Iris Plus). Knowing Apple they will probably go with the i3 1000G4 (2 core, 1.1-3.2 GHz, cut down Iris Plus).
If delivery dates slipping is anything to go by, at least in the UK the Air and base model 13" MacBook Pro have slipped out to delivery between the 24th and 26th March, and are out of stock/ running glow from third party sellers, while the high end 13" model is available for delivery Monday 16th and most retailers have plenty of stock.
Looks like the same is also true in the US where the Air and 15W Pro are rated as 3-5 business days, while the 28W Pro is listed as 'in stock'. So I guess that dovetails nicely with this rumour, just add the 15W (formerly non-touchbar) in as well, and it was updated at the same time as the Air last July so looks set to go.
I’d “stock up” with an external keyboard right now if you haven’t already got one. If things get as bad as Italy (and there are reasons to believe it might, though I require hope they don’t) then stores will shut down. If your keyboard dies right then you might be very unhappy.
I have a 2017 15" MBP that I also rarely use, but I did buy one of those "keyboard skins" that fits over it. Fits perfectly and I don't really notice it when typing and it will keep anything from getting in under the keys.
The Buyer's Guide doesn't take rumors into account; it works purely based on actual past product cycles. So, it's "neutral" right now because, typically, a MacBook Air doesn't get updates more often.
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Apple SSDs consist of two things:
- Apple's controller, which sits inside the SoC. On iOS devices, that would be the Apple A13, A12X, etc. On Macs, it's the Apple T2.
- the bare flash memory chips.
SanDisk isn't gonna stop making 64 GB chips any time soon. Why would they?
The Buyer's Guide doesn't take rumors into account; it works purely based on actual past product cycles. So, it's "neutral" right now because, typically, a MacBook Air doesn't get updates more often.
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Apple SSDs consist of two things:
In the case of the 128 GB MacBook Air, that's actually two 64 GB SanDisk chips. The yellow ones:
- Apple's controller, which sits inside the SoC. On iOS devices, that would be the Apple A13, A12X, etc. On Macs, it's the Apple T2.
- the bare flash memory chips.
SanDisk isn't gonna stop making 64 GB chips any time soon. Why would they?
thanks for clarify this. Forgot that ssd’s are made of several “memory parts”. In fact bigger ssd’s are faster than smallers (raid0 type function). Anyway its still unfair that poorest ssd’s nowadays are 500gb,while 1tb can be bought for 100€. Wtf, apple is stuck at 128gb from more than 5 years and charge 500€ for 1tb ssd! Ok its apple, its elite blablabla. Im hearing this from too much time.and not only me. IT branch evolves from month to month (if not day to day) while apple is everly stuck at same point... sad, more than ridicolous
Apple's flash and RAM prices are high but not as high as you might think.
They typically use MLC flash (instead of cheaper TLC) and most importantly they use very fast flash.
You won't find a 1 TB SSD with 3 GB/s (yes that's Gigabytes, not bits) throughput for 100 bucks...
3gb/s ssd's in an apple system??? where/when?? my samsung X5 (maybe the most expensive ever commercial ssd on the earth, but still cheaper than those installed on mac's) performs better than the one installed in my air 2018 (faster than 2019). if you want to go faster (a lot more) you need nvme 4.0 that is still far more cheaper than apple ssd's. i'm an apple user from more than 10 years and from that time i always hear that only idiots buys apple because apple is expensive, apple gives you less than a pc/android can give you for a half of the price etc etc. of course i dont care, i love the apple ecosystem and ill never back to pc nor switch to android, however i not always defend apple. there are a lot of lacks in last times, but the thing that drives me crazy more than other things is the fact, that, at least on this forum, is that everytime i say something bad about apple, i find an "army" ready to defend apple at all costs, like if i have wrote on the head "android/pc". result: i think "androidians/pcists" thinks right things about us. sad but true
Every MacBook Pro since late 2016 has supported sequential read speeds of over 3 GByte/s.
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I'm not defending, I'm giving you perspective.
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again... same results u can get with almost any nvme around. not mentioning this:
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dont seems to be 3gb... X5 is rated less but performs better than this
what apple declares is not always the reality, like any ssd manufacturer
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dont seems to be 3gb... X5 is rated less but performs better than this
what apple declares is not always the reality, like any ssd manufacturer
Lol. Ok man. You win, maybe they finally got the butterfly keyboard to break less quickly — just in time to dump it completely in 2020 MacBooks.
We'll see. At the very least, failure rates seem to have gone down significantly. Regardless, the reputation seems to be burnt for good.
Ok now that's plain dishonest of you.
Why pick out the Blackmagic result (which at the time obviously wasn't capable of displaying speeds beyond 2000 MB/s), while omitting the QuickBench result (which perfectly confirms the read speed Apple claimed for the device, and for smaller burst sizes even vastly exceeds the claimed write speed) from the very same 9to5mac article?
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Of course what Apple (like, I would hope, any SSD manufacturer) claims is the reality.
That just doesn't mean you'll always reach those speeds no matter what! That's why they say "up to".
I never said you couldn't get similar or higher speeds with other PCIe/NVMe SSDs.. But certainly not with the "1tb […] for 100€" ones you mentioned...