New MacBook Air

Re:New MacBook Air by Scarbutt on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:17PM (#22618260)

Practically, that means that the new Air will not be capable of running sustained workloads much above its base clock speed, which makes it unsuitable for many programming-related tasks.

Does that still holds when using the power adapter?

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Re:New MacBook Air by rpdillon on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:34PM (#22618454)

OP's comment was about thermal dissipation, which, if anything, would be a more difficult problem with the power adapter (since the processor doesn't need to be throttled to conserve battery, for example). So, yes.

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Re:New MacBook Air by Scarbutt on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:39PM (#22618514)

Thanks, I guess the question then is, for how long can the mid and max clock rates be sustained.

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