Michal Marek Although the new MacBook it's not on sale yet, it's being talked about a lot. It is also not surprising. After a few years, Apple broke down its existing range of laptops and came up with a machine that is supposed to be the next revolution after the MacBook Air and a new icon of the industry. However, the new ultra-thin 2011-inch MacBook is bringing a lot of controversy. It has only one port, is very expensive and, according to the latest reports, has the performance of the MacBook Air from XNUMX. Only practice will show how much the weaker performance will be known.
That being said, there is a lot of buzz around the new MacBook on tech servers. Yesterday, for example, we had the opportunity to take a look premature unboxing of this device. However, the more important news about the new MacBook is the output from the well-known Geekbench performance test. He took the lower model of the new MacBook to show off, which comes with an Intel Core M-5Y31 processor with a frequency of 1,1 GHz, which in Turbo Boost mode promises an increase in frequency to 2,4 GHz.
The benchmark result showed that this modern machine does not exactly have dazzling performance. The 1924-inch MacBook passed the test twice and reported scores of 2044 and 4038 points for single core and 4475 and 2011 when using multiple cores. This is the score corresponding to the benchmark result of the MacBook Air from 7, which was equipped with an Intel Core i1,8 processor with a frequency of 2881 GHz, i.e. the top line at the time. Today's MacBook Air, which was introduced together with the new MacBook, achieves a score of 5757 and 5 points. It uses an Intel Core i1,6 processor with a frequency of XNUMX GHz.
However, to be fair to the MacBook, we cannot ignore the fact that in terms of graphics, this computer greatly surpasses the older MacBook Air. The 12-inch novelty has a Retina display and an Intel HD 5300 graphics card. In addition to the graphics performance, the fact that the MacBook offers 8 GB of operating memory is also pleasing.
Based on Geekbench tests alone, we cannot yet judge how the thin Macbook will behave in real life. Much will depend on how well Apple managed to optimize everything.
For now, however, the MacBook, which will go on sale in the first wave on April 10, is rather harmed by the price, which at first glance is not exactly proportional to the performance. The basic MacBook model costs CZK 39. You can buy a more expensive model with twice the flash storage and a slightly more powerful processor for a truly unchristian 990 CZK. So it's definitely not going to be a computer for everyone.
But the new MacBook needs to be looked at a little differently. Above all, it should be a pioneering computer that will be sufficient cool to have the power to set trends. The MacBook is supposed to show that life can be done without cables, and at the same time push the technological world towards a comfortable life without cables. Once the single-port MacBook becomes the standard, manufacturers of accessories and peripherals will simply have to start mass-producing wireless devices. The MacBook Air showed that you can live without a CD drive. The new MacBook is to show that in 2015, kilometers of cables have nothing to do, and it just needs time.
In other words. Overpriced shit, which is the worst of the current offer! #AppleMoney
I see no reason to buy this instead of an iPad :P
Do you have anything from apple at all? Only a complete ignoramus would write this. Do you know the difference between iOS and MacOS or Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8?
I had an ipad. I have an iphone and I have a mbpr. And anyway, I think this is complete shit and the ipad is a much better choice. What would you like to do on that air please? It has the same performance as the shair, so it's difficult to cut photos or videos on it, and you don't compose music much either. And for surfing the net and writing some emails here and there, an iPad is enough for the rich. And even if you write for a living, there is also word for ios and three fucking bluetooth keyboards for ipads too.
So let's sum it up.
New air less than 1 kg. Retina display. Don't buy any accessories you have at home. 40 thousand
Ipad with keyboard weighs approx. 1 kg. Retina display. 25 thousand.
I don't see I don't see
he iPad costs 25k? I do not know about it..
sad. I see no reason to buy. It is clearly better to buy an Air or an older MBP
Well, if Apple is moving to Asian markets and can't meet the demand, why not increase the prices, right? Brilliant marketing…
I thought about it too
Guys, I don't know what you're dealing with. Just fine, you wouldn't buy it, okay. But stop defending it here with meaningless arguments like it's expensive, it has poor performance, etc.. It's the first generation of something new and essentially revolutionary, just like when Air started, even this development will take time and what about the price (and performance ) is concerned, it will still find its customers, for most of us it is expensive, don't pay so much attention elsewhere - in short, brand, put up with it or go to the competition, and if you don't have enough mobility and performance for purely office work, the web, etc. , for which this Macbook is targeted, buy a PRO because it goes the way of performance, period.
Consent, consent, consent ...carve in stone!
it's nothing new or revolutionary, it's a size 12 Air, that's all.
the fact that it does not have ports for the devices we have at home and that it is slower than a 4-year-old computer of the same category is a mockery of Apple. If it had happened the same way and grandfather AIR, we would not be talking about anything here today. if you send us to the competition, it will be your inability to understand that if someone sells me a new thing with the quality of an old game for this price, I will send him to hell with it. I won't rush to buy a toshiba though. could you explain this logic to me, why should I go to another machine?
Oh yeah and here it is again.
1. Am I to take it that a commando from Apple visited you yesterday and held a gun to your head and forced you to buy this notebook? Probably not, right? :) So take it as they manufacture and it is up to the customers whether they will buy and maybe they will have completely different reasons to buy this macbook than the extra high performance of the CPU.
2. For example, the wife (and I recommend not to underestimate her in the choice of equipment) would appreciate it, because it weighs another 400 grams less and considering that it is a practically usable ntb for work, which came under a kilo and its thickness is another 0,4 mm lower without the ntb bending and breaking. So, all in all, it can be considered a revolution.
3. Incantation performance. So I don't know. I myself work on a 17″ MBP from 2009, I do dozens of cuts and retouches in photoshop daily for web use (no printing sheets, but photos with the original size of around 10 MB) and I don't really need a new ntb yet. And I am 100% convinced that the vast majority of such people will be. We addressed the issue of constant performance increase 10 years ago, but today I think it is far from the most important factor about ntb. I have a friend who is a top Java programmer and until he got a new MBPro 15 Retina at the company, he was working on his 13″ from 2008, which he then gave to his daughter, but more than once I saw him doing something on it and he didn't really cry about the performance. Today, the majority of people use a browser, a text editor, and e-mail as a system, and for that I don't need performance worthy of space shuttle designers. So completely different parameters such as mobility and better control are immediately addressed.
3. Ports. I have a Wacom tablet and an Apple Wired Keyboard attached to my 17″ MBP, but that's only because I just like the keyboard. However, I only deal with this when I have the notebook at home (i.e. at work - I already do 15 from home), when we are mobile, I only use the tablet. One port is enough for me. The wife has an Apple wireless mouse and an Apple wireless keyboard on her 13″ MBP, so she doesn't use either port and has had it for several years. So he really doesn't need them and we both really work 12 hours a day on those computers and squeeze as much as we can out of them. So we really don't need more ports.
4. The new Touchpad looks good, it is really a revolutionary thing, it is again a new style of control and you need to think about it
So to sum it up. As excited as I am with the design and the surrounding things, I'm not thrilled with the price, I think it's a bit inflated and only the market will show if it is or not, but that's due to the fact that Apple is on a roll now, its sales are by no means stagnant , so of course he screws up the prices as much as possible. It won't last forever and they know it very well, so they make what they can. The fact that there is Core-M, which unfortunately has the performance it has, is also revolutionary because it is the first CPU produced with 14nm technology and I believe that Intel will do something with that performance and Apple will already have everything ready, it will not not have to fundamentally change the motherboard that you have already prepared. It is necessary to see these things in a wider context, putting together a new NTB is no fun. You don't rebuild the line that makes your chassis in 10 minutes, that's an operation for weeks (rebuild - debug) and then again you have the problem of not having spare parts for already manufactured things.
Phew, it's really long and I could write about it for a while longer, but I'd rather finish and go to work :)
It's not a big revolution, but something would be found there, just find out about it ;-)
Adam, no it's not an Air, it's a Macbook, however you're right that it's supposed to have the principle that the Air had when it was first introduced, i.e. a mobile device for basic tasks. All your arguments are true to 2008, and how quickly customer attitude has changed :-) As for the price, I won't even comment, it has been said many times, do the math, the technology, the brand, the USD exchange rate, the service, the warranty, the support OSX, communication and iOS... and you're home.
That's it, he's NOT selling it to you!, he's OFFERING it to you!, and when that
if you don't want it, then don't want it, they don't force you to do it and if you really are a graphic artist, etc., then they have a powerful MacBook PRO for you :-).
So I'll explain the logic to you :-) but only that it's you ;D.
I'm sending you to the competition because, for example, Acer has an even thinner, even more powerful (it needs it to run Win) laptop with passive cooling and standard ports for a relatively lower table price, so it might suit you :-).
This is simply the typical attitude of most Czechs :/ "I can't imagine what to use it for, it's not affordable for me, I only know a little information about it (the best I know is the title of the article), I haven't seen it on sale yet, and so I have to slander, and preferably convince those around me, to make sure I'm not the only one who doesn't buy it."
if skodova sells you the same car in 5 years, only to make a facelift, will you say the same thing? take it with a little exaggeration. don't you like toyota? it's a discussion in which people express their opinion and to have the opinion that getting the old version at an extra new price is also a little fraud on the customer, I don't think anything bad. I have it, Procka, and sit down with me, I'll start the work for you and you'll understand the extra performance and you'll laugh, it's not really enough for anything, only people who don't have it think they can do miracles with it.
You are comparing apples to pears. "Extra old performance, at an extra new price", in an extra new design, everyone sees in it, only what they want ;-)... nothing, as I said, whether you buy it (would you buy it) or not, it's up to you, no one is forcing you to buy :-).
We all have different preferences, I expect such a computer to be ideal for students, writers, journalists, etc., if you want more demanding work, the choice is clear. Personally, I have an Aira 2012 and it serves its purpose well, and if I want to do something more demanding, I do it on the desktop.
so you don't mind that it's simply a cover of an old computer
what we write just doesn't bother us. like this, in 10 years, when I produce the same comp only in pale blue, you won't have this opinion
This is not an upgrade to the Air or PRO, nor does the macbook follow in their footsteps. It's Apple's vision of the future of laptops that will continue to improve year after year. You have to take into account thinness, smaller dimensions, a glutton in the form of a retina, in short, it is the first generation of a new notebook that has to start somewhere.
How did you cover the old computer?
This macbook has a new 14nm 5W processor, 8GB of new RAM in the base, a new flash drive, new force touch, a new usc-c connector, a new body.
Which old computer had it?
For me, this macbook is not, but it is Apple's idea of an ultra-mobile macbook, which will probably replace the current macbook air. The first generation of MacBook Air was similar. It was also expensive and poorly executed.
are you still complaining about the old performance in the new price, are you a stubborn Slovak? you want performance buy pro you want style buy air or MB. NOBODY IS FORCING IT ON YOU, so stop it. Or you can't get over it? can't you admit that there are and will be people in the world for whom it might be enough? Evidently not, but with that, Slovakian smiř SK is simply not the market for this product :D
They really killed the ipad with this. Who does not buy this ipad. 900g and a full-fledged computer vs. 450g, but only an expanded mobile phone. Because of the iPad, I have to take a bag, I'll just take this beauty, which can be worked on seriously.
They didn't kill. Those who do not need a retina display will buy the significantly cheaper Air (because the Air has been on the market for a long time, so it should already be reflected). In addition, the iPad and the new MacBook are targeted completely differently. Another thing is those target categories... People who are completely robbed of how much money they will pay for a tablet / laptop is not enough to save the MacBook and bury the iPad.
They just killed your brain with this. For God's sake, you won't understand the difference between an iPad and a Macbook. :-)))
iOvce will defend it. If it was 400 EUR cheaper, I won't even say ashes. I'm not complaining, I'm just sorry, because I was looking forward to the Air with retina, but the marketing research probably suggested that they give this one.
this is the ntb of the present and the future. air is useless now, those who want mobility have a new phone and those who want performance have a pro... air will go straight to retirement, just as dust falls on tablets.
Computer performance doubles roughly every two years, but the "Pirates of Cupertino" are going against the grain, so a brand new computer has the performance of a 4 year old computer (and we'll add a 480p camera from the first iPhones). I love mobility and lightness, so I will consider it, but I will be very hesitant.
It's already sold. €1979, a decent flight. Waiting time 4 weeks.