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Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by codewhsprr »

trymas wrote: post #5

Anyone can comment on how Apple Silicon (M) MacBook Airs deal with heat? It’s fan-less design, so how does it compare with MacBook Pros with same M chips? Does it throttle often? Can you have it comfortably on your lap in summer? Or unless you’re running 1-hour long 4K rendering or machine learning training sessions - you’d never notice? UPDATE: what I am getting at - if you are developer and don’t care about screen…

Ran the Mac native copy of No Man’s Sky on a 16GB m3 Air last year. 1080p and on default visual settings

The laptop never got hot, game never stuttered (beyond NMS glitching engine which exists on windows too). Slight bit of increased warmth, but my phones gotten hotter browsing bloated websites.

I don’t blame Microsoft for looking at bailing on consoles. iPhones will be more powerful in a couple more cycles.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs »

If you have an Air and use Intellij IDEA or any other Jetbrains IDE can you let me know how the performance is?

This really looks like an amazing computer if it can handle long IDEA hours on medium projects.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by earthnail »

trymas wrote: post #5

Anyone can comment on how Apple Silicon (M) MacBook Airs deal with heat? It’s fan-less design, so how does it compare with MacBook Pros with same M chips? Does it throttle often? Can you have it comfortably on your lap in summer? Or unless you’re running 1-hour long 4K rendering or machine learning training sessions - you’d never notice? UPDATE: what I am getting at - if you are developer and don’t care about screen…

Have an M2 Air. Never think about heat. In my experience it‘s just not an issue.

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Post by kubb »

trymas wrote: post #5

Anyone can comment on how Apple Silicon (M) MacBook Airs deal with heat? It’s fan-less design, so how does it compare with MacBook Pros with same M chips? Does it throttle often? Can you have it comfortably on your lap in summer? Or unless you’re running 1-hour long 4K rendering or machine learning training sessions - you’d never notice? UPDATE: what I am getting at - if you are developer and don’t care about screen…

My M2 Air doesn’t even get hot. But I’m not running intensive computing on it.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by earthnail »

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #12

If you have an Air and use Intellij IDEA or any other Jetbrains IDE can you let me know how the performance is? This really looks like an amazing computer if it can handle long IDEA hours on medium projects.

Using RubyMine on an M2. Performance is great.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by dartharva »

Where does this obsession of making it as thin as possible even come from?

I am pretty sure almost everyone will gladly trade the "thinness" for a few standard USB and HDMI ports.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by kotaKat »

permanent wrote: post #3

This is amazing, yet silly to state "Up to 23x faster performance [4]" [4] against, 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air

As someone that migrated to the M1 Macbook Air from a Mid-2014 Macbook Pro... the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target, amusingly.

If they'd just give me onboard mobile connectivity, I'd upgrade to the next Air sooner, otherwise this thing will run until it dies... and maybe some day they'll start comparing performance against their original M1.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by ohgr »

metayrnc wrote: post #6

After getting the initial M1 Air, I am still struggling to find a reason to replace it. Still going strong with no hiccups!

Yeah that. I only got rid of mine because I wanted the nice mini-LED screen on the 14" MBP. No plans to replace that one any time soon!
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