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In Reply to: RE: So, as it turns out... posted by AbeCollins on May 11, 2016 at 17:14:10
Skylake or no.
Skylake 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with all the newest and fastest RAM and SSD, you bet!
Mid 2011 MacBook Air is still chugging along but as it was my first MacBook and I used it for travel mostly at first, I went bottom-of-the-line in speed and storage (1.7 GHz, 4GB memory, 128GB SSD).
Five years in it could use a new battery but other than that...
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MBA 11, late 2010, 1.6 GHZ Core 2 Due ULV, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD
Like you, I got mine for traveling. I was spending 1/4 time away in the UK in stints up to 2 months and wanted a personal laptop to put in my bag.
It still runs perfectly fine and I use it every day at home. I've got a Windows Boot Camp partition on it, I've had Linux VMs on it, I've done some light gaming on it. The only performance limit I've really hit is video transcoding which is slow as molasses. Fortunately I have a fast desktop at home for that. Otherwise, the old MBA is perfectly usable as a primary computer in 2016.
If they release a new MBA with a retina display, I'm in. The Macbook is too limited in connectivity and the keyboard isn't so great. The MBA hit the sweet spot between thinness and functionality.
I'm waiting for a MBA refresh too. I have a mid 2011 MBA 11-inch 1.6GHz dual-Core i5 with 4GB RAM, originally 128GB SSD but I upgraded with third-party 240GB SSD from OWC a few years back. It's a great little laptop for travel which is I what I use it for, mainly email and work related web apps.
The MBA is not quite robust enough as my daily driver. For that, I'm using a mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) 2.5GHz dual-Core i5 with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. I run various VMs including Solaris 10, Solaris 11, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows 10. It's on my desk and tied to a 23" LCD, bluetooth keyboard & mouse most of the time.
A 13-inch MBA would be nice but I'm waiting to see what Apple has in store next.
The quiet upgrade to Skylake in the MacBook was just an example. We also saw the rapid adoption of PCI based SSD (vs SATA) in Apple's laptop line which substantially increased disk performance, also w/o fanfare.
Me too, I'm waiting to see what they have in store for the MBA and MBP.
I'd rather be Apple than IBM these days. IBM has reported year-over-year revenue declines for 16 straight quarters, and its earnings are still declining.
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