• Mstraa
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    1 year ago

    I’m really hyped too! But for now my company mb pro 16" i9 will do the trick.

  • red@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Still wondering - my company uses Macbook Pros for everything, and as a Principal IT Systems Engineer, I’m certainly a power user. However, I mostly work on systems remotely, i.e. just SSH sessions or CLI tools to work on servers, so I don’t really need this power. But so far, a Macbook Air was way too lightweight and the screen too small to work productively.

    But with the Macbook Air 15, I might as well request this instead of the latest Macbook Pro 16 when I’m due for a new device next year. Not really sure I care about any of the differences in spec - other than maybe the extra ports and the ability to connect a second external monitor, but I guess I can life with both. And while the Macbook Pro 16 has considerably better specs, My 2019 (Intel-based) Macbook Pro 16 seems about on par and spec-wise I’m still more than happy - just battery life and heat are problems.

  • simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The caveat: the Air still gets hot. It was hotter in the area right above the function row than I wanted to touch during pretty much all of my benchmark testing. The keyboard, while usable, was toasty.

    Ah man, I was under the impression that these laptops wouldn’t get that hot with the new chips.

  • BioHall@lemmy.pt
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    1 year ago

    Once you get to 16gb ram and 512gb of ssd, it gets so damn close to the 14 mbp and then you get a much better machine. If only the base model didn’t have a paltry 8gb of ram, which for these days is just not enough imo.