Ashley MLP Fangirl

@GDRRiley

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I have the same model as you except 16gb of ram and currently Im running:
20 tabs in 5 windows in safari
3 tabs in chrome
3 projects in xcode + 1 simulator
octave-cli
slack
2 pdfs in preview
13 files in sublime
(18 days uptime)
 
And this is pretty much what's running on my macbook at any given time, except I don't always have chrome running and usually I have like twice as many safari tabs opened. I can't say I feel held back by my measly dual-core cpu (I wasn't even sure what cpu I had to be honest, I had to check before writing this post). I do incremental builds in xcode for the most part so performance there is not a problem but when I do a clean build it will take a while and the fans will go on full blast, but I can still watch youtube or whatever in the meantime. Very rarely do I have to do a clean build though. 
 
Out of curiosity, I just did 2 clean builds of two projects that took about 10 minutes to complete in total and I didn't notice any difference from doing just 1 project, except that it took longer obviously. 
 
Test number 2: Clean build of the same projects while also recording the screen. This took 18 minutes, most of which I spent playing a 12 minute youtube video and web browsing. Chrome was a lot more laggy than usual but safari worked pretty much like normal, spotlight took a lot longer than usual to show search results. No UI issues or anything like that. I also had all that other crap I mentioned above running while doing these tests. 
 
Lessons learned: Use native apps, there is some software stuff going on here. Also, for certain workloads (like gaming) where timing is important, this isn't really helping you because if it takes 80% longer to render each of your frames you will have a pretty bad experience. But for most other workloads it doesn't affect the experience much, except that it takes longer to complete the task (~4 minutes for 1 project clean build, ~10 minutes for 2 projects clean build, ~18 minutes for 2 projects clean build + screen recording) while still leaving the rest of the system in a good usable state.
 
Just looking at the core count and drawing conclusions seems like a very simplistic approach. 

My biggest issue with Windows is how unstable it is. I’ve had to constantly restart because something decided to not work and eventually had to wipe my drive and reinstall Windows because I guess an update folder got corrupted and the update would fail at 99% every time, reset the clock to The year 2060 for some reason which bricked most of my software and I had to fix the clock restart it again. Couldn’t delete and reinstall the update either because noooo windows like you on the most recent update so it can cram more data mining extensions into everything.

First, this is short-circuit, so less script is need. This is just Alex's opinion. 
 
Second, I have a notebook that is 2c/4t. I try to do both screen recording and play 3D games, I got lag a lot...lol. I guess Mac is more optimized to handle stuff with just 2 cores.

i skimmed through, and i already knew some things from running insider builds, but it does look like a very nice update. 
 
i'll definetily install it on my 2012 MacBook Pro that's dual-booted. 

I think people severely over estimate the hardware you require to do most things.  It's likely a consequence of living in the tech enthusiast bubble, constantly needing bigger and better and fear of not having something big enough.

Oh lol. That is definitely not true. I have a Dual Core MacBook and I ran a whole YouTube channel out of it. Nano Education. I even sometimes edited videos on that thing. My channel was a programming channel so I did lots of screen recording and like 10-20 tabs and many windows open with no lag. Sometimes the fan would go up, but thats it. 

If your computer uses 50% of its CPU cycles at "idle" then it's running a bunch of garbage that most certainly don't need to run.
Go through your startup processes and background processes. I am sure you will find a bunch of stuff that you can turn off without losing any functionality at this moment.
 
Run properly optimized programs, with proper settings, and shut off things you don't need. Your computer will run way faster on way less hardware.

omfg, hell is freezing over. Microsoft is thinking about users! Though, since all user built PCs are not going to have custom firmware to be able to download Windows 10 without any form of operating system at all, this will be a lot less useful than it would appear at first glance. 

i skimmed through, and i already knew some things from running insider builds, but it does look like a very nice update. 
 
i'll definetily install it on my 2012 MacBook Pro that's dual-booted. 

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

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LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

my macbook isn't old (2017) but it is a base model. 
my other macbook (2012) has twice the ram, 4x the storage and is about the same in terms of speed... i use both on and off, but the display on the 2017 is so much better. 

did we forget about the test i did on mine where i opened a bunch of things and monitored cpu, and it never was at 100% the whole time and recording quality was good throughout the test?

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iMovie and Garageband are free versions of those apps. they do most things the casual user would do. 
 
the free apps for other platforms aren't as good, I speak from experience. 
 
where is the 2560x1600 screen? where is the build quality? even LMG admits that Apple builds laptops better than Razer. 
 
that's not my argument at all. I just wanted to showcase that a dual-core isn't bad or anything. 
 
people saying things like dual cores are horrible and you shouldn't buy one influence people's buying decisions. someone might see a used MacBook Pro that's significantly cheaper than even the base model Air, but might avoid it due to the dual-core. and if that person doesn't do demanding things a used dual-core model is actually a great option. 
 
I never said here that you should buy the dual-core 2020 Air. I just said that dual cores aren't as bad as Alex made them seem to be. 

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

dualcore.mp4    
LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

My online accounting course requires the midterm and final exams to be screen recorded and uploaded via Tegrity. I did this on my Macbook Air, and noticed no real performance issues in chrome (though i only had one tab open, admittedly), doing okay sized excel worksheets with lots of formulas, and doing (im assuming native res) recordings of my screen and webcam.
 
Mind you, the upload process (which included re-encoding and compressing the clips) easily took an hour for the ~2 hour recording.
 
I find people underestimate the power of software optimization, as my 2014 macbook air still goes along just fine as my main laptop. On it I do light video editing, and lots of multitasking with Apple Music open, ~10 chrome tabs, discord, and word open while writing research paper. I am ONLY upgrading because of RAM limitations, as 4GB of RAM is finally becoming not enough on the macOS side of things on catalina.

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

dualcore.mp4    
LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

dualcore.mp4    
LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

who cares? you should use a case for it anyway, no matter what the back is made of. 

I have 4gb of data, and I almost never use all of it, but running out is super annoying, and I have a 128gb phone so why not download the music I most often listen to. 

Different uses. I'm a photographer for example. I never use the camera built in to the phone, it can't compare to the one I carry with me normally.
 

how? I have like 50gb of music on my phone, 10gb of pictures and video and like 20gb of apps. 

it stuck on android 8.0... 

when he said that he didn't feel much of a difference between the Note 9 and this that got me thinking... why doesn't Linus review budget phones? 

I think I spotted the Internet Explorer user here