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It's been almost a decade since I had a CPU on my personal computer that seemed so slow somehow that I would have been considering an upgrade specifically to a

• spudlyo 16y ago
  Have you ever tried to stream a full-screen movie on Netflix using an MBA? It can't keep up, it's very annoying. I thought there was full-screen GPU acceleration for Silverlight, but it wasn't helped in my experience.
• jonhendry 16y ago
  Same here. It was a 2001 white iBook. 500 MHz G3. With modern machines, I think the main cue isn't slow perceived performance, but the sound of my laptop's fans ramping up, indicating that it's working hard. That said, my boss' MBA is awfully leisurely at times. That may be due to the OS throttling or halting the CPU in order to keep the temperature down.