- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Actually: - 2 cores - 1.1 GHz In 2020...
Intel’s 10nm chips have very low base clocks. They’re almost always in some sort of boost mode.
New MacBook Air
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#132- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'
Definitely going from 2015 MacBook Air to this new one for my personal at-home coding laptop, as long as I like the keyboard when trying it out.
I had really been wanting to upgrade for Retina & better processor but I knew they would upgrade the processor and fix the keyboard if I waited for 2020... no reason to wait now.
I don't run any crazy fat Docker stacks for my own stuff at home, so this is perfect.
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Yes. It’s miserable with any substantial JS project. Those extra cores should help with the new model.
I thought NodeJS was single-threaded?
NodeJS is, but neither modules nor backends have to be.
It's quite common to spin up a bunch of docker containers that provide databases and backends locally.
This is the point at which the MBA stops being a productive environment. I'm not saying this has to be the case for every project, but if your team uses local dev environments, it's quasi standard procedure at this point.
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#134- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Except
- 16GB RAM
Re: New MacBook Air
#135bought macbook pro in 2017. Due to the issue with double typing keyboard I always regret everyday. And there is screen issue also. Probably they will charge $300. Looks like I did the worst investment in my life.
I bought a 13 inch Macbook Pro in 2017 and within six months of normal use the spacebar and other other key were intermittent. I was fortunately able to get it fixed under warranty. However I've been using since then with no need for servicing and the keys are at this moment perfect. Various keys have become intermittent since then but I found a trick that so far has fixed it every time. The key mechanism seems to be…
> The key mechanism seems to be VERY robust and can take a lot of pounding. Usually the particles jamming the mechanism (e.g. food crumbs) can be broken up by repeatedly banging hard on the offending key.
I've done something similar by holding the base of an electric toothbrush against a misbehaving key that couldn't be cleared by some other technique. The high-frequency vibrations seem to do a decent job of breaking up or dislodging whatever's stuck.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. It’s miserable with any substantial JS project. Those extra cores should help with the new model.
I thought NodeJS was single-threaded?
It is but running a single threaded build process with resource contention from chrome, vs code, slack, etc etc will improve with more cores.
If you are using make to call Babel or other JS build tools you can use the jobs flag to parallelize it and again the cores will help.
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This is a dumb question, but you're talking about using docker, right? Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers? That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation?
It's not a VM, which is the point of docker in the first place. I agree, though, that it's next to unusable on a low-power dual-core system like the MBA if only for limited RAM.
docker on mac does indeed leverage a VM as the docker host, since a Linux kernel is required
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Do you mean the start menu? I never open it, just use Win + number for pinned apps. Windows is not perfect but it excels in many regards nowadays and the last years, Macs were really expensive and risky. They were too expensive to just have a fall-back machine lying around (if you make serious money with you gear, every hour counts). I have 3x 2.5lb notebooks here, if one needs to be sent in, so what. Edit: just open…
Regardless of using the start menu or not, there's a lot of background tracking (for user behaviour and ads) that needs to be disabled by registry edits. In addition to those, there's probably more that cannot be disabled.
Replacing /Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts isn't black magic and truly works wonders even for the more paranoid ;)
What I don't understand about this, however, are people being paranoid about W10 while they're happily accepting Google and friends to infiltrate their lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You are of course exempt if you don't use any cloud-based services that you don't host yourself :D
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You can get a quad core i7
Which is still a 1.2 GHz base clock.
Because wasting energy on a 4 GHz base clock is completely pointless (and so is your criticism) if you can adjust frequency as needed. 99% of the time 1GHz is sufficient. It’s only when you launch the browser that a faster CPU is useful, not when you’re reading through a website
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#140Apple got some custom chips from Intel again. https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/ ==== 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core i3, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, with 4MB L3 cache Configurable to 1.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz, with 6MB L3 cache; or 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, with 8MB L3 cache 8GB of 3733MHz LPDDR4X onboard memory Intel Iris Plus Graphics ==== https://ark.…
Hold up! Aren't Apple just using 10th gen Ice Lake CPUs?
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/197123/...
Ticks all the boxes as far as I can tell.