- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Except - 16GB RAM Can you even run Eclipse with just 16GB?!
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New MacBook Air
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Re: New MacBook Air
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it. As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say a…
I think it's the marketing copy most people are taking issue with with. They tried a new design, which was horrible to use and had a high failure rate. They continued to claim the new keyboard was amazing, and stubbornly continued to use this crappy keyboard long after the problems were apparent. And now they are touting a "normal" keyboard mechanism as if they've invented something new and wonderful... only Apple co…
> They tried a new design, which was horrible to use
I actually liked typing on the butterfly switches, the only thing I did not like was the left/right arrow keys being bigger.
Re: New MacBook Air
#143- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Except - 16GB RAM Can you even run Eclipse with just 16GB?!
Exactly. I'm deciding between 32GB or even 64Gb, just to be on the safe side. Because nowadays you're running Slack, Spotify, several messengers, Firefox, Chrome, IntelliJ, Docker and Kubernetes on your local machine.
Re: New MacBook Air
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's the marketing copy most people are taking issue with with. They tried a new design, which was horrible to use and had a high failure rate. They continued to claim the new keyboard was amazing, and stubbornly continued to use this crappy keyboard long after the problems were apparent. And now they are touting a "normal" keyboard mechanism as if they've invented something new and wonderful... only Apple co…
"The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience." What in that says "invented" "new" or even "wonderful?" It seems like you're reading into the text what isn't even there.
> What in that says "invented" "new" or even "wonderful?"
Uh... "refined"?
Re: New MacBook Air
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
how's your Rust compile time in this?
i don't know how is he able to compile rust. I have 2 core MBP 13inch 2017 macbook pro. Rust compilation takes like 15 seconds for small changes in actix project. For amethyst game library i wouldn't even try.
Yeah.. given my age, perhaps I'm quite relaxed about compilation times...
Re: New MacBook Air
#146- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Except - 16GB RAM Can you even run Eclipse with just 16GB?!
I can't tell if you're joking, but I have a 2018 Mac Mini with just 8GB of RAM, and I often run Eclipse, IntelliJ, and PyCharm at the same time (along with multiple browsers and other stuff), and performance is fine.
I was actually surprised by this--when I first started using this computer, I thought for sure I would need to add more RAM, which for the 2018 model is too complicated to do yourself (at least to me it seemed too risky).
Re: New MacBook Air
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> Doesn't docker spin up an entire vm for containers? (It generally does not. Instead it uses more lightweight isolation primtives. That has always been one of its main selling points.) EDIT: see reply > That does seem pretty heavy for a MBA of any generation? It very much depends on what you are running inside the containers. I regularly have a dev environment with ~8 relatively lightweight containers running on my…
Docker for Mac very much uses a VM. It's as lightweight as it can be (using the OS-supplied hypervisor, not something third party), but still a VM.
Re: New MacBook Air
#148Still no touchscreen.
Re: New MacBook Air
#149Now give me a 14.1 inch MacBook Pro with this keyboard, 32 or 64GB of ram and 8 real cores. ... I think though this new MacBook Air is going to be my next portable
This announcement should mean that the current 13" Pro will soon be replaced by a 14" Pro with magic keyboard and higher power processor options, otherwise there will be too much overlap between product lines. But Apple has been content in the past to have overlapping product lines, so they might not.
Re: New MacBook Air
#150The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.
Ok. How should they communicate this? "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry." I don't understand what the issue is with Apple trying to sell their products. It sounds like people here are upset that marketing and sales exists, and that they use language to try to make their products seem impressive, and that consumers aren't rational when it comes to buying things.
To be fair the butterfly keyboard was pretty nice after you got used to it but unnforrtunattelyyyyy itt enndddeed iin fffaiiilurree foorrr moosst off usss. I batted mine back to the apple store after 3 weeks. Thank goodness it was the Christmas no questions asked period.