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Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by WonderAlmighty »

kotaKat wrote: post #19
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.

The page up to 2x faster than M1, but it's not worth upgrading from for the average person, your laptop should last longer than 4 years hence why they market to Intel Mac users.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by jghn »

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.

I have an M1 for reference, with only 8GB RAM which is the real limiter here. I *can* use Jetbrains IDEs and I *can* build/develop software on it. It's a bit sluggish but doable. I try to not code on that machine, but sometimes it's the only machine I have available when I need to look at something.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by whynotminot »

hwc wrote: post #7

Other than battery mass and screen size, is there a significant difference between the new Macbook Air and the low-end Macbook Pro?

The better screen and better keyboard are probably the most day to day practical reasons to upgrade. But that’s countered by the extra weight and thickness of the Pro, too. So it’s really a choice of mobility versus usage ergonomics.

The Pro is also fan cooled, but with Apple Silicon I’m not sure that matters all that much at this performance band. If you need fan cooled performance you probably want to start thinking about a Pro level SoC, at which point you’re all in on a Pro machine anyway.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by codesnik »

ge96 wrote: post #21
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…

I have a 2020 Macbook Air M1, use it for xcode, it struggles to build a basic react native based app with watch-widget, but man it is slick, I love thin laptops. I have a carbon X1 too Struggle as in the build takes 3+ mins In general though it's cool, maybe when charging it gets warm but I use it on a desk mostly A general gripe I have switching devices is the keyboard layout ha cmd+c vs. ctrl+c Stick to an ext keyb…

you can remap modifier keys if you so inclined in keyboard settings, without additional software, and have separate settings per internal and external keyboard.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by nickthegreek »

dartharva wrote: post #18

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.

On the Air model? Its whole thing is being light and thin. On the Pro model, sure.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by whynotminot »

AdamN wrote: post #26
hwc wrote: post #7

Other than battery mass and screen size, is there a significant difference between the new Macbook Air and the low-end Macbook Pro?

There are quite a few little differences like screen brightness, number of displays in can drive, faster unified memory, etc... https://www.macrumors.com/guide/macbook-air-vs-macbook-pro/

There is no difference in the number of screens supported when it comes to the base M4 chip.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by dmazin »

mettamage wrote: post #27
jghn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. Each year I tell myself I'll get the new one. Each year when the new one comes out I notice that for what I use it for my M1 Air is still completely fine.

The real win for me is that Macbook Pro M1 64 GB are now sold on market places within my price range. So yea, same.

What do you feel is a good price for that?
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