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So so temped to order one but I really need the 16" screen size, hoping they come out soon.
Poll: *** The official 2020 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M1 chip and everything!) ***
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Soldato
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Hold off. I’m in the same boat. I’m waiting. The bigger pro are going to be insane, I’m hoping the next gen have the built in wireless charging for the phones so I can use it as a charging station when travelling.
One charging brick and cable for everything would be huge for me.
Soldato
Mines just been dispatched eta 20th Jan. will see how much I use it compared to my iPad and go from there.
love my old iPad Pro 12 inch but sometimes it’s frustrating typing on it and still some websites don’t format correctly.
love my old iPad Pro 12 inch but sometimes it’s frustrating typing on it and still some websites don’t format correctly.
Is that because the sites are trying to give you the mobile version? Have you tried asking it to show you the desktop version when that happens?
Soldato
Yep tried all that. iPads are great but they do have their limitations. That’s the reason why I’m trying an air again.
Associate
So tempted to order a Pro to replace my ten year old Air...
Associate
I see a couple of youtube videos on this, i really cant see them adding that function this year.
Soldato
Very tempted by a Macbook Pro, is 8GB of RAM enough? I think I'm fine with the 256GB of storage
Caporegime
What’s your usage?
Soldato
Mostly I'll probably be remoted into other machines, on top of that fairly light video editing and a bit of Photoshop
Caporegime
Go 16GB tbh.
Soldato
Mine arrives tomorrow
Don
I'm still utterly gobsmacked by this machine. I've not been so impressed with a piece of tech hardware since the first iPhone, or the 3DFX Voodoo.
Last night I played World of Warcraft for 3 hours at 60fps on battery. When I finished I had 65% battery remaining. The machine was slightly warm.
Very very excited for the 16" models if they are going to be - as reports are saying - massively more powerful.
Last night I played World of Warcraft for 3 hours at 60fps on battery. When I finished I had 65% battery remaining. The machine was slightly warm.
Very very excited for the 16" models if they are going to be - as reports are saying - massively more powerful.
Soldato
This is what's blown my mind, I know WoW isn't the pinnacle of the most demanding game, but it's a decently heavy game with a lot of effects in general, especially retail - and this is being handled on an iGPU which is crazy.
To be fair you can tweak the game so that it'll run on the slowest machine or tax the fastest, so I'm not sure that 'played warcraft at 60fps' necessarily says a lot about the power of the machine. I'm not saying it isn't powerful, of course, just that it shouldn't be enough to blow your mind without knowing the settings used
Soldato
To be fair you can tweak the game so that it'll run on the slowest machine or tax the fastest, so I'm not sure that 'played warcraft at 60fps' necessarily says a lot about the power of the machine. I'm not saying it isn't powerful, of course, just that it shouldn't be enough to blow your mind without knowing the settings used
Playing Shadowlands zones at 60fps isn't going to happen on a normal standard internal GPU, even at potato quality. I sadly know this because I have just spent a month living with a standard internal GPU because I couldn't get a GPU and I had to send my Mac Mini back.
Don
I play at detail level 6 on the Mac (Most stuff on high)
UI at full resolution, game render scale at 1280x800. Loads of addons such as ElvUI.
UI at full resolution, game render scale at 1280x800. Loads of addons such as ElvUI.
Man of Honour
Works fine on Laptop, disappointed with the GFX compared to my BlackMagik Pro on my 5120x1440 49"
Definitely slower, but c'est la vie. Fingers crossed the 16" has multi-core GFX
Definitely slower, but c'est la vie. Fingers crossed the 16" has multi-core GFX
Associate
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but can it run cyberpunk?
Caporegime
