New macbook air

[Chaos Network]

so on the product page it says LPDDR3 or something to that effect, along with 8th gen CPUs. How is this possible? doesnt 8th gen only support ddr4?

[Sauron]

The base model is most likely a 7th gen considering it's a dual core i5.

 

Yes, it's stupid.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Early 8th gen laptop CPUs were rebranded Kaby Lake CPUs https://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile

 

Kaby Lake supports DDR3L

[Chaos Network]

21 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The base model is most likely a 7th gen considering it's a dual core i5.

 

Yes, it's stupid.

The website says 8th. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Chaos Network said:

The website says 8th.

The speed on the first one says 1.6GHz.

 

There are no Coffee Lake 1.6 GHz mobile processors:

• https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/cores/coffee_lake_u
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Mobile_processors_2

The only one that fits the bill of 8th gen and 1.6GHz is the Core i5-8250U, which is a Kaby Lake processor.

 

Yes the turbo speed is off, but you could also claim it's an underclocked Core i5-8350U

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, Chaos Network said:

The website says 8th.

As @M.Yurizaki pointed out, the dual core 8th gen chips are just rebranded 7th gen chips. None of the actual new 8th gen i5s are dual cores as far as I know. Either way, you shouldn't be buying a dual core laptop for more than 400$ in 2018.

[zhubaohi]

10 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Coffee Lake

Could be Amber Lake Y

https://ark.intel.com/products/189912/Intel-Core-i5-8210Y-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3-60-GHz-

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, zhubaohi said:

Could be Amber Lake Y

https://ark.intel.com/products/189912/Intel-Core-i5-8210Y-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3-60-GHz-

Oh hey, good find.

[Akshat Sharma]

11 hours ago, Sauron said:

The base model is most likely a 7th gen considering it's a dual core i5.

 

Yes, it's stupid.

Its the core i5-8120Y Amber Lake

 

 

[D13H4RD]

Looks likely that it uses the 8120Y Amber Lake Core i5 as its baseline

 

Kind of a letdown on a performance front, tbh. Was hoping they'd use the lower tier of the U-Series chips

[Sauron]

3 hours ago, Akshat Sharma said:

Its the core i5-8120Y Amber Lake

A 7th gen rebrand, as already pointed out multiple times.