The new 12inch Macbook
Mar 22, 2015, 11:35 am
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Apr 2, 2015, 11:00 am
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One of the first benchmarks came in. It isn't pretty, this thing looks like it is a bit of a... dog.
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Apr 2, 2015, 11:19 am
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One of the first benchmarks came in. It isn't pretty, this thing looks like it is a bit of a... dog.
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Apr 2, 2015, 11:23 am
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One of the first benchmarks came in. It isn't pretty, this thing looks like it is a bit of a... dog.
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Early Benchmarks Put Retina MacBook CPU Performance in Range of 2011 MacBook Air
Core M is great for battery life, but given its limitations, you might as well just get a Chromebook since browsing is all it really can manage.
Apr 2, 2015, 11:36 am
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We know the CPU performance doesn't compare to any of the regular non M i5 or i7 chips, but the experienced performance of these new machines is not going be anywhere near that of the 4 yr old MBA or other machines. The fact that the memory and SSD's are operating at about 4-10X of the 2011 MBA will make the machine very 'quick'..
crunching vidoes, apply USM, no, it's about raw processing power but pretty much anything other than that it'll run very quick.
Not buying one, but it's not as dire as the one data point would imply
crunching vidoes, apply USM, no, it's about raw processing power but pretty much anything other than that it'll run very quick.
Not buying one, but it's not as dire as the one data point would imply
Apr 2, 2015, 11:41 am
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It all comes down to how you're going to use the machine. For most people that level of performance is perfectly acceptable. Some, of course, are probably better served by the MacBook Pro. Future iterations of the MacBook will probably correct the more glaring issues (like having only one USB-C port).
Apr 2, 2015, 12:21 pm
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If someone is using it for just that they would be better served by a Chromebook, or a Macbook Air. Apple should have brought back the iBook name if the performance is this poor. There will be undoubtedly someone that buys one of those beasts and gets upset with the fact that it is slow. Of course it will sell just fine, and won't be a boondoggle of a product, maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing if Apple had a flop one of these days.
Apr 3, 2015, 12:06 am
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I think the review sites are talking about it matching the performance of the mid-2011 MacBook Air. I'm using one of those and performance is fine. I mean, I'm not going to price a book of multi-euro swaptions or do prepayment analysis of CMOs, but it's fine for most content creation, light development work, and traditional business software. It runs VMware fine too - again this if for light development and regular business software use.
Apr 3, 2015, 11:10 am
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I think the review sites are talking about it matching the performance of the mid-2011 MacBook Air. I'm using one of those and performance is fine. I mean, I'm not going to price a book of multi-euro swaptions or do prepayment analysis of CMOs, but it's fine for most content creation, light development work, and traditional business software. It runs VMware fine too - again this if for light development and regular business software use.
Apr 3, 2015, 11:50 am
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It will be interesting to see how the performance compares to the new Surface 3. Apple and Microsoft obviously had the same design goals with both devices (fanless, low power consumption) but Apple went with the Core M while Microsoft went with the new Atom.
Apr 3, 2015, 4:06 pm
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Apr 3, 2015, 4:09 pm
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To me that is a plus to be honest. I can't remember the last time I used one of the ports on my Macbook Pro besides a USB. In the 4 years I've owned it I have used the thunderbolt port and the Firewire 800 each one time. I would love to have it slimmer and lose the ports.
Apr 3, 2015, 5:48 pm
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The latest Atoms sound good. My cheap as chips T100 (Bay Trail Atom) makes light work of MS Office. That's not to say all is wonderful. What happens when you open a raw file, in Adobe Camera Raw/Photoshop, from something like a Pentax 645D, on the MacBook 12? I'm guessing things will be a little slow. As for editing 4K video.....