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> - slow, low capacity SSD Low capacity, sure. It's hardly slow though — it is still likely going to be orders of magnitude faster than what the vast majority
by neilalexander 4y ago
> - slow, low capacity SSD
Low capacity, sure. It's hardly slow though — it is still likely going to be orders of magnitude faster than what the vast majority of people buying this machine will really need out of the entry level Mac.
As always, HN seem to look at things through a very specific lens. The Air has never been marketed as the purely performance machine for purely performance needs. That's what the Pro line is for.
- balfirevic 4y ago> it is still likely going to be orders of magnitude faster than what the vast majority of people buying this machine will really need out of the entry level Mac. It's going to be 100x faster than what those people need?
- powerhour 4y agoMinimum 100x, yeah. I'd wager the majority of users will use their MBA as a web browser and the occasional PDF reader.
- dmitriid 4y ago> As always, HN seem to look at things through a very specific lens. The Air has never been marketed as the purely performance machine for purely performance needs It's not a "specific lens". It's a laptop that costs over a thousand dollars. Somehow it doesn't deserve a native resolution display, not-cheap keyboard keys, support for more than one external display etc.
- Tagbert 4y agoYou can certainly run it in native resolution, but it doesn’t default to that setting.