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What's the use case for the faster macbook air? lol

• falcolas 10y ago
  Lighter, great running time on the battery, fast enough for many use cases, still has active cooling for running batches of ffmpeg or big compile jobs, and inexpensive.
  • Jyefet 10y ago
    Oh I agree - I was making the point that the use case is the same for the macbook air vs "The Macbook" ... But the Macbook Air is faster and superior.
    • shinratdr 10y ago
      It's really not. The MacBook Air is "superior" in two objective specs: speed & price. That's honestly it, and it's not even that much faster. It also has more ports & a more traditional keyboard/trackpad, but those are subjective differences. The two people I know with them can barely tell the difference between the Air keyboard and their MacBook keyboard, didn't realize the Force Touch trackpad wasn't a physical click, and only ever plug their computer into a charger or a projector which required an adapter on the Air anyways. The MacBook blows the Air out of the water in every other way. Design, weight, thickness it's not even a contest. The screen is orders of magnitude better. Battery life is better, sleep/wake response is better, power draw is lower, charging is faster.
      • Jyefet 10y ago
        We don't agree to disagree... we just so happen to disagree...
      • falcolas 10y ago
        The active cooling honestly gives the air the edge, as it were. The aggressive throttling when it overheats is frustrating when it occurs. The plus for the MacBook is that it doesn't occur all that often.