Hi everyone--I'm strongly considering getting a MBA at some point this year and I've been lurking around this forum for a few weeks looking for an answer to one of my major concerns.
Since this will be a laptop primarily for home use, one of my primary uses is streaming videos from Hulu or Netflix from my bed before I go to sleep. I currently have a mid-2000 2.0 GHz Macbook (1 GB Ram) and it performs most of what I need it to do well still. But when streaming videos, the CPU heats up past 170 degrees F and stops streaming smoothly.
On this forum, I've seen conflicting bits of advice on how well MBA handles streaming video. But part of me thinks if the iPad can do it, the MBA should be able to do it well too. And at my local Mac retailer, the dude told me that MBAs tend to stay cooler than other Mac laptops due to the SSD.
Thanks for the advice!
Since this will be a laptop primarily for home use, one of my primary uses is streaming videos from Hulu or Netflix from my bed before I go to sleep. I currently have a mid-2000 2.0 GHz Macbook (1 GB Ram) and it performs most of what I need it to do well still. But when streaming videos, the CPU heats up past 170 degrees F and stops streaming smoothly.
On this forum, I've seen conflicting bits of advice on how well MBA handles streaming video. But part of me thinks if the iPad can do it, the MBA should be able to do it well too. And at my local Mac retailer, the dude told me that MBAs tend to stay cooler than other Mac laptops due to the SSD.
Thanks for the advice!
