24 hours is all day and night.
Not in Alaska! It's all day, all the time right now.
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To borrow a line from Lethal Weapon, "Intel here has forgotten more about applying thermal paste to helper chips then you or I will ever know".
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Teardown of New Mid-2013 MacBook Air Reveals Smaller SSD, Increased Battery Capacity
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Not in Alaska! It's all day, all the time right now.
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To borrow a line from Lethal Weapon, "Intel here has forgotten more about applying thermal paste to helper chips then you or I will ever know".
thank you for a great review
I appreciate your very thorough and detailed review: the battery life, horse power and cooler running system sound great. One question: did you get an Ultimate configuration at the store?
I hope I can continue to hold off on buying a new Mac until next year. My iMac is showing its age even with the 12gb of RAM installed (2 months away from being 3 years old.)
I appreciate your very thorough and detailed review: the battery life, horse power and cooler running system sound great. One question: did you get an Ultimate configuration at the store?
I hope I can continue to hold off on buying a new Mac until next year. My iMac is showing its age even with the 12gb of RAM installed (2 months away from being 3 years old.)
Why would anyone be buying a 13 inch Macbook Air as the 13 inch Retina Macbook pro which has almost the same size and weight but better performance and Retina display (the price difference isn't that big).......especially if the 13 inch Retina get upgraded to Haswell this year too.
Pro / Air
Height 1.9* / 1.7
Wide 31.4 / 32.5
Dept 21.9 / 22.7
Weight 1.62 / 1.35 (Kg)
* expected to be reduced to 1.8 inch.
My prediction for next year: only one line of Macbooks (Retina) including an 11 inch version.
Pro / Air
Height 1.9* / 1.7
Wide 31.4 / 32.5
Dept 21.9 / 22.7
Weight 1.62 / 1.35 (Kg)
* expected to be reduced to 1.8 inch.
My prediction for next year: only one line of Macbooks (Retina) including an 11 inch version.
It's an odd request when there is a 512 GB upper limit on storage. The selling point of the Air is hardly it's gigantic storage possibilities. Although I think 512 GB is phenomenal in this form factor, unbelievable really.
That is Silly. You are buying an Apple product. Moreover, Apple normally sources the Flash from multiple vendors. Samsung itself sources most of its components from third parties.
Haswell is only modestly faster than a similar processor of the MBP. The MBP runs at a far higher clock rate.......so it is faster ( 2.5 versus 1.3 Ghz). Difference is mainly in battery life.
Next to this I wrote "if the MBP get upgraded to Haswell too"......yes and PCIe-SSD and 802.11ac.....
Geek Benchmark score
2013 MA 7097
2013 MBPr 7931 (i7)
2013 MBPr 6829 (i5)
Already similar / faster even before the upgrade to Haswell!
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Thank you. I only would like to know if the PCH in Air has the problem or not. I don't want to buy a faulty product.
JP
No problem with Samsung commodity parts...however, Samsung built products are a different story all together. I wouldn't care if the Samsung product used only parts from other manufacturers, the issue is their choice of build quality and design for me.
It looks like the Air 11" will be perfect for me to tote around for some small photo edits when I do some shoots. Looking forward to it .. Retina, while it would be nice .. isn't a must as I am going to do the editing on a desktop with a large LCD monitor.
There are many of us who have this or similar problems. My iTunes library is about 1.2TB, and I still have 1000+ CDs to rip and haven't even started on movies / TV shows, etc.
I would not expect to carry all of that around on each of my portable iDevices, but would appreciate 1) larger capacities to get a larger fraction of my content synched and 2) better tools to manage what is and is not synched.
Right now, I just manually manage everything, but I guess I should explore the "synch only certain playlists" options for concern #2
No thanks. I need something with hard drive capacity. Casual System would be fine, but I have a HUGE iTunes Library of just under 400 GB, mostly movies.
Let me have an Air with a large capacity HDD or SSD then we will talk
I've never understood the compulsion of people to complain that the MBA is not capable of doing things that it was never designed to do.
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That's not the GPU, but the PCH. The GPU is in the same die as the CPU, this is the chipset.
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At what voltage?
Except that in this case, it may actually be accurate. I mean, there's no way that in a business setting you're using the computer for 12 hrs solid, so with breaks here and there you could potentially get 16 hours of use out of it.
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8.4, so my battery is ~82 Wh, vs 54Wh for the MBA battery, but the batter in the MBA can't be a third the size.
Come on... You sounds like guy who is only willing to buy Mac Mini to install Windows to play FarCry 3 and claim it's perfectly capable but lack of fps...
If you want to edit footage, get iMac/Mac Pro. If you're on the fly and have to use laptop to accomplish works temporary, then 500GB will be good enough. I edit my 1080i on a 256GB hard drive on the fly with a machine that's not even an SSD.
Work your way around it. It's laptop. If you want something that's movable but still able to handle these tasks, get iMac with the iLuggage... I did it once to do a video presentation.
There are always limitation to any hardware, get around with it. Even with the people who is complaining about Mac Pro at the moment, we'll have to get around with that when it released as well!
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I'll pull the internal SSD and replace it with a OWC unit ASAP.
So 2 antennas instead of 4 on the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module... same as the 2012 models, no 3x3:3.
DSL3510L Cactus Ridge 4C Thunderbolt controller... same as the 2012 models, no Redwood Ridge / DisplayPort 1.2 support.
The SDXC card reader controller looks to have gone from a Genesys Logic GL812 to GL3219, neither of which is listed on their site (probably custom for Apple) but we might infer from other Genesys Logic part numbers that the new version has a USB 3.0 interface instead of just USB 2.0.
The RAM is all in just 4 packages versus 16 for the 2012 model.
There appears to be a new Broadcom microcontroller on board that comes with it's own SDRAM package (512MB) which is curious.
DSL3510L Cactus Ridge 4C Thunderbolt controller... same as the 2012 models, no Redwood Ridge / DisplayPort 1.2 support.
The SDXC card reader controller looks to have gone from a Genesys Logic GL812 to GL3219, neither of which is listed on their site (probably custom for Apple) but we might infer from other Genesys Logic part numbers that the new version has a USB 3.0 interface instead of just USB 2.0.
The RAM is all in just 4 packages versus 16 for the 2012 model.
There appears to be a new Broadcom microcontroller on board that comes with it's own SDRAM package (512MB) which is curious.
