Could a MBA handle this?

[queshy]

I'll have open a large pages document, powerpoint, adium, preview, safari, and sometimes iTunes w/ absolutely no lag. Like others have said, not enough people give the Air credit for its performance...it's not "crippled" like many think, it's actually pretty fast. Remember - it has a dual core processor and 2 GB ram. The bottleneck is the slower hard drive, but even then, it's not BAD like people think it would be.

 

[neven]

I typically run the following:

- Mail
- iChat
- Safari (4-5 tabs)
- Photoshop CS3

and about a third of the time, Fusion running XP as well. I have no complaints.

 

[stakis]

Haven't you read that it will only work for a minute or so on 1,6 (or 1,8) before it throttles down to 1,2 Ghz?

check out coolbook... solves that problem....

 

[Philflow]

check out coolbook... solves that problem....

Yes I am aware of coolbook. I'm running rmclock because I do most of my work in XP.

But even after undervolting I've noticed it switches back to 1,2Ghz after 10 seconds on heavy CPU loads. And reading in the overheating thread, this is quite normal.

So really if you run apps that need a lot of CPU power, you're getting 1,2Ghz.

 

[stakis]

Yes I am aware of coolbook. I'm running rmclock because I do most of my work in XP.

But even after undervolting I've noticed it switches back to 1,2Ghz after 10 seconds on heavy CPU loads. And reading in the overheating thread, this is quite normal.

So really if you run apps that need a lot of CPU power, you're getting 1,2Ghz.

What kind of stuff are you doing under in XP?? I can say that under OSX I do alot of video encoding were cpu load will be 100% for about an hour... and I've never noticed a drop in the GHZ... I get a max temp close to about 90C

maybe thats the difference between rmclock and coolbook...

anyways, my experience doesn't show any throttling....

 

[pianojoe]

It won't run Office 2008 any worse than my MacPro w/ 9GB RAM. This piece of software lags by definition.

On the other hand, I'm typing 300 keystrokes/min, therefore my definition of "snappy" might be fastidious.

 

[Philflow]

What kind of stuff are you doing under in XP?? I can say that under OSX I do alot of video encoding were cpu load will be 100% for about an hour...

The testing I've been doing is with Prime95 torture test.

Maybe it's a different load than encoding.

I've also been doing encoding on Win XP, it stays at 1,6 Ghz.

Ps. no it has nothing to do with rmclock. rmclock is being overruled by the hardware.