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Re:New MacBook Air by chrisseaton on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:21PM (#22618976)
I thought the same thing, but then I got a MacBook Air and couldn't believe how slow it was in practice. I didn't know if it was thermals or memory bandwidth or something, but Java compiles which used to take 5 minutes would suddenly take 30 minutes and it just wasn't even really tractable to use.
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Re:New MacBook Air by ksec on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:39PM (#22623107)
Generally speaking If you need any heavy computational workload for more than a few min the MacBook Air doesn't fit. The 3.4Ghz Boost only works in seconds and it long run it could only sustain at about 2 Ghz.

Not to mention previous MacBook Air were Dual Core only.

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