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Given that 15 minutes later, in the iPad part of the event, they claimed the new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is
by andr 8y ago
Given that 15 minutes later, in the iPad part of the event, they claimed the new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is on the wall. For me, the next Macbook to be excited about, would be one with an ARM processor.
Still, really disappointing that for the new Air they do not allow you to go to 1TB SSD, but they won't allow you upgrade from a dual-core i5. Feels like a political decision more than a technical one.
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoIf Apple could sell you a quad-core CPU as an purchase-time $1000 upsell they would. They don't because it doesn't fit the power budget.
- philjohn 8y agoAnd thermal envelope budget.
- ngcazz 8y agoWouldn't that be an equivalent way of putting it?
- Dunedan 8y agoI'm pretty sure there would enough power budget, as the new Macbook Air has a similar volume than the 13" MacBook Pro and the MacBook Pro is already offered with quad-core CPUs. My guess is that they want to have a clear differentiation between MacBook Air (= Dual-Core) and 13" MacBook Pro (= Quad-Core).
- kristianp 8y agoOnly two cores for the air is bad. I would guess that only Apple will be selling a machine with a 2 core 8th gen i5. I can't see one on ark, they're all 4 core: https://ark.intel.com/products/series/122597/8th-Generation-Intel-Core-i5-Processors#@mobile https://ark.intel.com/products/series/122597/8th-Generation-...
- Dunedan 8y agoAnandtech is suspecting that Apple is using an unannounced 5W TDP Amber-Lake CPU in the new MacBook Air [1]. That'd be an interesting choice as it'd bring the CPU performance closer to the 12" MacBook, than to the 13" MacBook Pro. That sounds especially plausible as Apple claims that the MacBook Air has a ~20% longer battery life than the 13" MacBook Pro, albeit having a ~8% smaller battery. [1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13531/apple-2018-macbook-air-announced https://www.anandtech.com/show/13531/apple-2018-macbook-air-...
- ksec 8y agoAnd now confirmed.
- Lio 8y agoWhat's interesting to me is that the current Dell XPS 13 (9370) is physically just a little bit bigger than an 11" MacBook Air and quad-core i7. Its CPU and GPU aren't as fast as the new 13" MBP but as a rival to the MacBook Air it's very competitive. I have a Developer Edition for evaluation and keep it in an old MacBook Air 11" case.
- mariopt 8y agoEven worse is the iMac lineup. In 2018, you've great 6 and 8 cores cpus in the market and it is still an overpriced quad core cpu. The new Mac mini seems decent but still expensive for the package.
- wyldfire 8y ago> new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is on the wall ... For me, the next Macbook to be excited about, would be one with an ARM processor. With Windows laptop vendors making Snapdragon-based laptop designs, it's almost a certainty that the market will shift here. Those windows laptops are intended to keep executing code, stay connected to networks when you shut the lid (like your phone does). That must be some enormous battery-life gains.
- minhazm423 8y ago>Given that 15 minutes later, in the iPad part of the event, they claimed the new iPad is faster than 92% of all notebooks sold in the last year, the writing is on the wall. For me, the next Macbook to be excited about, would be one with an ARM processor. hey not a huge technocrat when it comes to pc parts, but could u explain that part to me? what is the writing on the wall? what is arm exactly? and what makes u think its better than whats being offered currently and that it will be in a macbook soon?
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- kbenson 8y agoARM based processors which are used in most mobile devices and use a different instruction set, as opposed to x86 based processors, such as those available from Intel and AMD. Apple licensed the ARM technology and builds their own chips using it, and really good chips at that. So good, that some people are now calling for Apple to release an ARM based laptop (which has been done by others, but not to much popularity). There would be advantages (power savings) and disadvantages (most existing MacOS software wouldn't work until recompiled at a minimum)
- beat 8y agoOdds are they already have ARM-based Macs in house, with all the cross-compilation stuff worked out. The reason they haven't made the switch yet isn't because of work they haven't done. Back when they switched from the PowerPC chips to x86, it was revealed that they had been building experimental x86 Macs in-house for years. That's just good planning.
- kbenson 8y agoOh, I'm fairly sure they've tested all their MacOS core software that comes with the OS (and the OS), but all the third party stuff and things in the MacOS app store likely need a lot more time. (at least for those that weren't already shipping iPhone/iPad versions).
- cs02rm0 8y agoIt won't be a MacBook. They'll just sell you a $200 keyboard for the iPad pro and expect that to be good enough. I've long been convinced the intention is to kill off the MacBook lineup.
- reaperducer 8y agothey do not allow you to go to 1TB SSD, but they won't allow you upgrade from a dual-core i5. Feels like a political decision more than a technical one. Smells like a battery life compromise to me.