Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID

Post by hazz99 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 4:05 AM UTC

sreque wrote: post #273

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I bought my first 15" MBP in 2006 after Apple switched to Intel. I was a student back then and I got it for about 1800 EUR. It was a beautiful machine, I could replace the battery myself without unscrewing anything, and if I wanted to upgrade the memory or HDD I could do that easily. Now here we are 12 years and a couple of Macs later. The current MBP is a bit more beautiful than the first one I got, it's noticeably…

I don't know how anyone could reasonably conclude Apple's software is vastly superior. Apple has always been and continues to be a hardware-first company; their software always lags behind. In the past two days I've had to reboot my mac twice because the headhone jack stopped working. At my previous job, the terminal program segfaulted at least once a week. Bluetooth is notoriously flaky and requires frequent reboots…

Post by WillPostForFood » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 6:27 AM UTC

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>> It's getting better every year, as peripherals and other devices switch over to USB-C. Speaking for normal people, though, how often do they turn over their devices and peripherals? When I bought my laptop over a year ago, I made sure it had USB-C/TB3 from a future-proofing perspective, but I have yet to actually buy any device that connects to it via USB-C, and I don't foresee myself buying many either. On the ot…

Normal people don't plug shit into their computers. Neither do I, for that matter.

Post by Dunedan » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

finchisko wrote: post #184

Am I the only one, who is excited and considering buying this thing? I'm still on 2012 Air. It's good device, but showing it's age (slow CPU and only 4GB of Ram, the screen resolution is joke). But new Air seems very compelling to me. I'll miss the magsafe though. Also I would like to know if the SSD can be upgraded later (unofficially of course). 2012 Air SSD can be replaced, using cheap reduction (from proprietary…

Post by Dunedan » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:47 AM UTC

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koolba wrote: post #2

Summarizing a bit: * Starting price of $1,199 * 13" display with trimmed bezels * 2.75 lbs * Higher resolution screen ("Over 4M pixels") * HD front facing camera * No Touch Bar (Yay!) * No USB ports (Boo!) Assuming it doesn't have any odd dust or logic board issues cropping up in the next couple months, I can see myself getting one of these.

I have a newer MBP ( with touchbar, ugh ) and I'm quite jealous of this form factor and setup. I probably could perform most of my work on this just as well and it would have been heck of a lot cheaper.

Post by Dunedan » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:00 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #341

tqi wrote: post #283

Been a long time since I bought a new computer. How should I think about / compare the processor options of the new MBA[1] and the non-touchbar MBP[2]? I've seen the passmark results, but have no idea how to interpret. [1]: 8th Gen 1.6-GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 [2]: 7th Gen 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5

I've been scratching my head on that point too. Apple's spec page list the MBA processor to have "4MB L3 cache", while the MBP non-touch bar processor is listed as having "64MB of eDRAM". I mean, 64 sounds better than 4, but are these things even comparable? is eDram something you have next to L3 cache or instead?