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[Επίσημο] MacBook Air @2020
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<blockquote data-quote="Γιαννης Σπυρου" data-source="post: 1058577900" data-attributes="member: 513"><p>εδω υπαρχει μια πρωτη λιστα με native ARM (universal) εφαρμογες που ηδη υπαρχουν...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/universal-and-native-apple-silicon-apps.2267176/" target="_blank">https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/universal-and-native-apple-silicon-apps.2267176/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ειναι τα 8 GB αρκετα ? Το ελπιζω...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/18/opinion-is-the-base-macbook-air-m1-8gb-powerful-enough-for-you/" target="_blank">https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/18/opinion-is-the-base-macbook-air-m1-8gb-powerful-enough-for-you/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">In one experiment I did yesterday, I tried to push it to the absolute limits to see at what point it would slow down. So I opened up 12 apps at once. No sign of slowing down. Added 2 x86 apps emulated with Rosetta 2. No sign of slowing. Added an app running full screen to see if it would drop frames switching between screens. Nope. Added a Safari window with 24 tabs. Nothing. So I added six Safari windows, </span><em>each playing videos at 2160p</em><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">, Spotify in the background, and tried to take a screenshot. Only then did the computer finally grind a halt. I was greeted with the familiar rainbow spinning wheel of death.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Incredibly, even pushing the machine to this extreme, I was still able to recover normal lag-free usage. All I had to do was (very slowly because the machine was barely operational), close each YouTube 4K video playing one at a time. With each one closed the base MacBook Air came slightly back to life, and with the last, it was back to performing as normal, even with the rest of the things still open.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">To put the cherry on top of this subjective analysis, I can also note that two other subjective things β heat and noise β when doing all of this stress testing is completely different from the experience of using an i9 16-inch MacBook Pro. Whereas that machine would be spinning a fan at full speed, loud enough to be heard across the room, this one didn’t even get noticeably warm. And obviously, the base MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 chip doesn’t even have a physical fan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">The cherry on top of the cherry is that, as all the reviews have noted, the battery life on this machine is stupid good. I’m sitting here typing this, more than halfway through my workday, with more than 60% battery remaining. As I mentioned, I’m not exactly going easy on it.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Γιαννης Σπυρου, post: 1058577900, member: 513"] εδω υπαρχει μια πρωτη λιστα με native ARM (universal) εφαρμογες που ηδη υπαρχουν... [URL]https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/universal-and-native-apple-silicon-apps.2267176/[/URL] Ειναι τα 8 GB αρκετα ? Το ελπιζω... [URL]https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/18/opinion-is-the-base-macbook-air-m1-8gb-powerful-enough-for-you/[/URL] [SIZE=2] [FONT=Roboto]In one experiment I did yesterday, I tried to push it to the absolute limits to see at what point it would slow down. So I opened up 12 apps at once. No sign of slowing down. Added 2 x86 apps emulated with Rosetta 2. No sign of slowing. Added an app running full screen to see if it would drop frames switching between screens. Nope. Added a Safari window with 24 tabs. Nothing. So I added six Safari windows, [/FONT][I]each playing videos at 2160p[/I][FONT=Roboto], Spotify in the background, and tried to take a screenshot. Only then did the computer finally grind a halt. I was greeted with the familiar rainbow spinning wheel of death. [/FONT][FONT=Roboto]Incredibly, even pushing the machine to this extreme, I was still able to recover normal lag-free usage. All I had to do was (very slowly because the machine was barely operational), close each YouTube 4K video playing one at a time. With each one closed the base MacBook Air came slightly back to life, and with the last, it was back to performing as normal, even with the rest of the things still open. [/FONT][FONT=Roboto]To put the cherry on top of this subjective analysis, I can also note that two other subjective things β heat and noise β when doing all of this stress testing is completely different from the experience of using an i9 16-inch MacBook Pro. Whereas that machine would be spinning a fan at full speed, loud enough to be heard across the room, this one didn’t even get noticeably warm. And obviously, the base MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 chip doesn’t even have a physical fan. [/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Roboto] [/FONT][FONT=Roboto]The cherry on top of the cherry is that, as all the reviews have noted, the battery life on this machine is stupid good. I’m sitting here typing this, more than halfway through my workday, with more than 60% battery remaining. As I mentioned, I’m not exactly going easy on it.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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