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Waiting for the 2020 MacBook Air

400 nits brightness for 2020 MacBook Air. The MacBook Pro has 500 nits brightness. Very subtle.

I was gonna to get the Costco $899 surface laptop 3 256gb/core i5/8gb ($300 off). But a student discount for $1099-100 2020 MacBook Air with similar specs core i5/256gb/8gb makes it’s no brainer to go back to MacBook Air

I sold my 2013 $1400 MacBook Air I got with the upgraded 256gb ssd/8gb ram for $350 to co worker last year.
 
Three questions:

1. Is 13.3 inch screen the old 13 or the new "14"? If old 13, what happened to 14?

2. Touch ID. What does one do if you want two people (or more) to be able to use it?

3. If touch ID stops working, does one still have a password option?
 
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i was planning to get the air with i5 and 8, but considering upgrading to i7 and 8 or i5 and 16. any advice?
 
Falhófnir said:
What sorts of things will you be doing with it?
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I'm wondering the same thing. I'll mostly be doing basic things. Once in a while I'll use Parallels. I also plan to get an audio interface to plug in my guitar and mess around with Garage Band and maybe some other music apps as well.
 
jparker402 said:
Three questions:

1. Is 13.3 inch screen the old 13 or the new "14"? If old 13, what happened to 14?

2. Touch ID. What does one do if you want two people (or more) to be able to use it?

3. If touch ID stops working, does one still have a password option?
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2. It automatically switches user accounts

3. Yes, just like on iPhone
 
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jparker402 said:
Three questions:

1. Is 13.3 inch screen the old 13 or the new "14"? If old 13, what happened to 14?

2. Touch ID. What does one do if you want two people (or more) to be able to use it?

3. If touch ID stops working, does one still have a password option?
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1) is the new macbook air that will remain the 13" mac, the future 13" macbook pro will go to 14.1"
2) you can add 2 people with 2 different settings, and it will auto switch based on your fingerprint
3) it will ask for your password
 
Does anyone know the CPU for the i5 and i7 models? I just got a used 2019 13" MBP with the 2.4 Ghz i5 I5-8279U for $1k, but am thinking about returning it to get the new MBA. Wonder how much slower the CPUs would be?
 
jparker402 said:
Three questions:

1. Is 13.3 inch screen the old 13 or the new "14"? If old 13, what happened to 14?

2. Touch ID. What does one do if you want two people (or more) to be able to use it?

3. If touch ID stops working, does one still have a password option?
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Yes the '13 inch' machines have always been 13.3" diagonals. The 14" rumour is linked to mini LED technology which isn't meant to be coming until the end of the year.

Ericdjensen said:
I'm wondering the same thing. I'll mostly be doing basic things. Once in a while I'll use Parallels. I also plan to get an audio interface to plug in my guitar and mess around with Garage Band and maybe some other music apps as well.
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I would say you might benefit from the i5 for the quad core if you're using parallels. The extra RAM might also be handy depending on how much you're doing with that. I wouldn't necessarily say either are absolutely essential, though. If your current machine is 8GB and does your parallels stuff ok I would maybe say the stock $1,299 i5 model would be ideal.
 
ayres said:
I'm curious to see the real-world performance differences between the different cpus.
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i3 -> i5 probably quite significant, it jumps from dual core to quad core, 4 thread to 8 thread and G4 to G7 graphics. By now most applications will be able to take advantage of 4 cores.
i5 -> i7 probably not a great deal of difference, still 4c/8t and G7 just binned and clocked slightly higher.
 
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agreed. still though, i'm curious. for us casual users who would rather put our money towards storage...

Falhófnir said:
i3 -> i5 probably quite significant, it jumps from dual core to quad core, 4 thread to 8 thread and G4 to G7 graphics. By now most applications will be able to take advantage of 4 cores.
i5 -> i7 probably not a great deal of difference, still 4c/8t and G7 just binned and clocked slightly higher.
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Ericdjensen said:
I'm wondering the same thing. I'll mostly be doing basic things. Once in a while I'll use Parallels. I also plan to get an audio interface to plug in my guitar and mess around with Garage Band and maybe some other music apps as well.
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really nothing that taxing. I just routinely find myself running multiple apps...photos, outlook, excel, word...lightroom. i think my mind is still stuck in the day when swap files were needed when you ran out of memory. so much is stored remotely that I didn't think I needed the larger SSD. I hate making decisions
 
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I read that it would have the same size as the previous model. Will cases of MBA 2019 thus fit the new 2020 model? I just ordered a Twelve South BookArc, which is apparently not being listed as compatible on Apple’s website (which is weird because it’s a simple vertical stand, compatible with MBA 2019...) I hope it will fit...
 
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Falhófnir said:
i3 -> i5 probably quite significant, it jumps from dual core to quad core, 4 thread to 8 thread and G4 to G7 graphics. By now most applications will be able to take advantage of 4 cores.
i5 -> i7 probably not a great deal of difference, still 4c/8t and G7 just binned and clocked slightly higher.
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Larger cache on i7 also contributes to some improved performance: 8MB vs 6MB
 
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iMacBooked said:
I read that it would have the same size as the previous model. Will cases of MBA 2019 thus fit the new 2020 model? I just ordered a Twelve South BookArc, which is apparently not being listed as compatible on Apple’s website (which is weird because it’s a simple vertical stand, compatible with MBA 2019...) I hope it will fit...
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Should be fine as there are no design changes.
 
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Can someone compare the ssd speeds when they get theirs? I know they cheaped out on the ssd from 2018 to 2019.
 
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According to the latest Intel leaks the new MacBook Air could come out during the first quarter of 2020 and these are the models on the Ice Lake Y lineup and therefore suitable for it: .....
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The thread start lists 5 possible processors. Have you sorted out which 3 are on offer?
 
Is i5 option comes with G7 Iris Plus graphics with 64CUs?
If it is, there is no point for me to upgrade to i7.
Just standard 256Gb SSD model with 16Gb RAM and I am ready to pull the trigger on space grey one
 
Any idea how the performance of the i5, 8gb, 512gb ssd model would be like? Thinking of getting that one for web development.
 
Nice update. As someone who has an iMac on the desk, I'm very tempted to get one of these for everything else, but my only hesitation is wanting to see how the revised 13" MBP lineup looks.
 
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