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Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by bjoli »

partisan wrote: post #65
bjoli wrote: post #38

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Their (very) old keyboards are still amazing to type on. They went from high quality mechanical switches to bad rubber domes to okish rubber domes. The current magic keyboard is actually not bad, but I would still prefer the old alps switches.

I completely agree. My 2014 MacBook Pro purchased refurbished still has the best keyboard of all the devices I use. The Lenovo X1 I use for work is a close second. What I noticed in the image that made me excited about this device is the function keys. If the 16in MBP had function keys, I probably would have purchased one already. I do wonder if the top spec of the new MBA is going to hold up to my usage though.

The mechanical ones are ancient by that standard. The Alps switches ones are pre transparent imac :)

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by robin_reala »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #110
wyclif wrote: post #88

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Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'

My personal laptop is an 11" Air mid-2013 and I still use and love it. I especially love the keyboard on it because the keys have height, feel closer to a mechanical keyboard, and don't capture as much dust and dirt as the flat keys on my newer touchbar 2016 pro work laptop This is good news from Apple as I was not into any of their more recent laptops but I'll probably upgrade to this one I only wish they had a 11"…

Same for me, although it’s a 2012 11". The 13" model here is actually somewhere in between the old 11" and 13" for size.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by abacadaba »

api wrote: post #50
snemvalts wrote: post #37

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i think most people prefer to not sell their souls for advertising when it comes to their desktop environments.

Yeah, the presence of ads on anything I've paid for instantly classifies it as "junk." Windows is now junk.

Shame, really. Not even a viable option for personal use.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by squiggleblaz »

mgolawala wrote: post #180
GordonS wrote: post #103

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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…

It’s marketing man. Next you will be complaining that the burgers look a lot better on the billboards compared to when you unwrap them, or that the shirt looked a lot better on the mannequin than when you put it on, or that car ads always show their car speeding on an open road instead of stuck in a traffic jam during the morning commute. Ignore the marketingese and don’t let it bother you so much. The important thin…

I dunno, we expect people to be honest in every other aspect of their life. Why shouldn't marketers be honest too?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by anentropic »

qayxc wrote: post #153
anentropic wrote: post #47

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anyone know which model of Iris Plus graphics it has?

My best guess is that they are using an i3-1000G4 for the base model. The i5 option could be an i5-1035G4 with a cTDP of 12W or even an i5-1030G7 with a cTDP-up of 12W and an increased base clock. The description of the i7 matches an i7-1060G7 at 9W TDP. HTH

Ah right, the Iris model goes with the CPU model

"Configurable to 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, with 8MB L3 cache" and "3733MHz LPDDR4X onboard memory"

so it's probably one of these: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...

which means it's Iris Plus "G7" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology#Gene...

...which appears to be the fastest integrated GPU Intel have done yet, according to the GFLOPS on wikipedia above

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by inapis »

nikanj wrote: post #201
ehutch79 wrote: post #69

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kasey: For deployment that makes sense, but for development, that seems like a lot of work to be happening. If you change a small bit of css, the whole container is rebuilt? That seems super inefficient to me? My backends arn't JS, but I still couldn't imagine rebuilding a container everytime I changed a piece of code. Right now I change a file, django picks up the change and reloads. No noticeable delay.

Because JS. And somehow we the developers convinced each other that -any- attention to performance whatsoever is "premature optimization".

This has got nothing to do with JS. Plenty of devs (me included) work on frontend and backend JS without containers and everything is instant for us. OP has a special use case or build pipeline necessitating such complexity.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ZeroCool2u » 

  > 720p FaceTime HD camera
  > 8GB 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory
I know cost usually isn't the top priority for people buying Apple products, but both of these starting specs seem pretty disappointing considering the price and for 2020. Perhaps someone realized keeping the cam resolution down is an effective method of capping FaceTime call costs. I will say, I am happy to see the transition to LPDDR4.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by robin_reala »

londons_explore wrote: post #4

So the question is, will these fail when an eyelash falls into them and cost $1000 to repair?

To be fair to Apple, it’s $0: https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...

Although it would have been better for them to be more solid in the first place for you.

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