And not setting your legs on fire!
Poll: *** The official 2020 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M1 chip and everything!) ***
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Don
So, after charging to 100% before setting up I did the following.
Installed all my usual stuff (BTT, Office, Fusion 360, Blender, Meshroom, Photoshop, Chrome, Steam, World of Warcraft etc etc.)
Played around with Fusion 360 to test performance
Fired up WoW and wandered around a bit
Sat for 3 hours browsing the web
Shut the lid
Took it to work this morning and I've been installing more stuff continuously since about 08:30 this morning.
Battery percentage remaining? 77%
Utterly epic.
Installed all my usual stuff (BTT, Office, Fusion 360, Blender, Meshroom, Photoshop, Chrome, Steam, World of Warcraft etc etc.)
Played around with Fusion 360 to test performance
Fired up WoW and wandered around a bit
Sat for 3 hours browsing the web
Shut the lid
Took it to work this morning and I've been installing more stuff continuously since about 08:30 this morning.
Battery percentage remaining? 77%
Utterly epic.
Don
Just been playing Dirt Rally. Erm....... Solid 60fps all the way. I'm stunned. This is through Rosetta too.
Charging is impressively quick - I let the battery run down to 20% (nearly two full days use) and slapped it on charge at 12:30. Not even two hours later, my MBA is fully charged.
You'll probably regret not waiting unless you truly need one now
Definitely going to wait I think, I have no real need for one now or in the future
, I have a work laptop and do all my work on a virtualized workstation so this machine is just for browsing and twitch!
Soldato
This MacBook Air is my first Apple computer and I am impressed with it. I will always have a PC for gaming but I shall be Apple laptopping from now on.
I last charged the battery on the 8th and now it's at 50%. I am a light user but this is doing things I would normally boot up my PC to do, and no I don't mean porn, that's what the iPad is for. Easier to clean.
Definitely going to wait I think, I have no real need for one now or in the future
I'm going to need one in Feb, but might buy a used 2015 model off eBay for a few hundred to keep me going until the M1x MacBook which is rumoured to be incredible. Apparently being launched mid 2021
Did yours just detect the right resolution right away? Mine isn't giving me that resolution at all and I can't seem to force the resolution either. I got one of those iiyama's 34" screens and it seems to no recognise the right monitor at all.
Mid 2021 would be good for the finances
And the M1 isn't?
Associate
Yep, no issues at all. Using a LG 34UM88C with a fairly generic USB C dongle that does HDMI, ethernet, SD card, etc.
Soldato
So I decided to do a battery test overnight. I fully charged the Air and using the brightness setting I use mainly, unless it’s an exceptionally bright day where I might go one bar higher, I started a 4K video running in full screen. The video was a fireplace that lasts for 10 hours which I started at 2130. When I got up 9 hours later, the battery was down to 45%
Far from a scientific test but I am impressed with that.
Far from a scientific test but I am impressed with that.
Soldato
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