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Very interesting post. I actually have been feeling almost the opposite lately. My work laptop is a 2017 MacBook Pro, and a couple months ago I dusted off my o
by losvedir 6y ago
Very interesting post. I actually have been feeling almost the opposite lately.
My work laptop is a 2017 MacBook Pro, and a couple months ago I dusted off my old personal laptop, a Mid-2013 MacBook Air to work on a side project.
The thing that blew me away is the Air feels a lot snappier! I honestly don't know what it is, and think I must have done something to my work laptop. I notice it most with VSCode, which seems to respond with less latency to interactions than on the Air.
I was idly thinking about upgrading the machine to the newest Air, but I'm sort of worried that whatever slowness is infecting my 2017 Pro might also apply to the new Airs. I'm not really a hardware guy but could it be, like, a different sort of SSD or RAM or something?
- abellerose 6y agoWhat version of macOS are you running on the mid-2013 macbook air?
- rcarmo 6y agoEven though the Code team has gone to excruciating lengths to reduce input latency, there is a lot of cruft in any OS. I have noticed that Windows and Linux have, in general, quicker _perceived_ response time than macOS, which I partially attributed to smoother animations and an overall sense that the machine is doing a _lot_ in the background (Spotlight, for instance, has been a constant pain.)