I am older, but never understood this weight thing-make it out of metal(Aluminum is fine. I do want to be able to work on the devise myself. I think the first company that builds a laptop that's easy to work on, and can guarantee supply parts for, at least 7 years, might be able to win over guys like me-who want consistancy? I want to turn it on, and do work. It does gave three fans, but they are quiet. It big(17" and I don't care about the weight), but it has been basically running 5 hrs/day for more than a decade.
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I sometimes wonder if this form over function is a bad idea? Wouldn't the average consumer like a product that was easily serviceable? I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro s25-S607. I keep a piece of cardboard handy for when I want to use my machine in bed. If you use any of these machines on a bed, a couch, on top of a pillow, or on your lap, they'll get hotter. One thing a lot of people don't understand is the thermal design expects to be on a flat surface so that there is some air under the machine, in the small gap created by the rubber feet. I have a Unibody 15" MBP from 20011 or so that has absolutely no heat problems, have used several generations of 11" and 13" Air and both 13" and 15" Retina MBP and I don't have any substantial heat problems. There was a 12" G4 which wasn't fanless, but still crammed too much into too small a package. It doesn't surprise me to hear this about the new 12", I think what they're going for is doable, but perhaps ambitious at this stage. I have been using aluminum Apple laptops since they had a PowerPC G4 and were called PowerBooks, and there have been some models with known heat issues.
It's possible that a lot of Mac users are simply not objecting to something they should.
I've only had heat come up as an issue once turns out it needs to be on a hard surface when you're doing something CPU intensive. Spotlight Web Content was a common culprit so I turned off Spotlight Suggestions (also Bookmarks and History) and that made a noticeable difference. I've definitely had times when battery life seemed a lot worse than it should have been but that has been solved with a quick trip to Activity Monitor to see what's eating the CPU. I've had the laptop for about a month now, and yes, Hangouts will bring it to its knees, but for some reason Hangouts will bring just about any laptop to its knees.īattery life is as advertised, you do get 8-10 hours of web browsing, and shockingly, about 6-7 hours doing some light development work with Xcode.
The 'garbled microphone input' seems a bit of a red herring, it's likely that the thermal throttling is kicking in which is causing the audio recording app to get slowed to below real time making it sound like garbled.
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