Hello,
So I am usually the person that a lot of my friends come to when they need help picking a Mac and I consider myself pretty adept at being able to recommend the right amount (no more, no less) of what people need. I'm writing because I really don't know what to do for myself.
I was using a 2015 rMBP and last year picked up a 2020 i5, 16GB RAM, MBA. Simply put, I have never been more disappointed with a machine. I had never even considered an MBA previously but all the reviews I saw made this thing seem like a tank. It's not. At all. The fans go non-stop, the performance is laggy. Turbo boost switcher app cripples the performance and now I just let the fans run like jet engines b/c I need the performance.
Even though I will only get around half of what I paid, I am ready to free myself of this disappointment of a computer.
Here is my traditional use - active video conferencing for large parts of the day (Zoom, Google Meet, Blackboard), video recording for webinars, google docs/sheets for large documents. Occasional video editing. Occasional photo editing. Frequent web browsing, YouTube, Netflix.
Recommendations? From what I've read, 16GB on the M1s is more than enough but I do think that future proofing is helpful. So really, it's MBA vs MBP M1 - I know there is a difference in cooling. So my question is, for anyone who does all-day video calling, would the MBA really be sufficient? I don't want to be bitten twice by this product line...
TIA!
- Joe
So I am usually the person that a lot of my friends come to when they need help picking a Mac and I consider myself pretty adept at being able to recommend the right amount (no more, no less) of what people need. I'm writing because I really don't know what to do for myself.
I was using a 2015 rMBP and last year picked up a 2020 i5, 16GB RAM, MBA. Simply put, I have never been more disappointed with a machine. I had never even considered an MBA previously but all the reviews I saw made this thing seem like a tank. It's not. At all. The fans go non-stop, the performance is laggy. Turbo boost switcher app cripples the performance and now I just let the fans run like jet engines b/c I need the performance.
Even though I will only get around half of what I paid, I am ready to free myself of this disappointment of a computer.
Here is my traditional use - active video conferencing for large parts of the day (Zoom, Google Meet, Blackboard), video recording for webinars, google docs/sheets for large documents. Occasional video editing. Occasional photo editing. Frequent web browsing, YouTube, Netflix.
Recommendations? From what I've read, 16GB on the M1s is more than enough but I do think that future proofing is helpful. So really, it's MBA vs MBP M1 - I know there is a difference in cooling. So my question is, for anyone who does all-day video calling, would the MBA really be sufficient? I don't want to be bitten twice by this product line...
TIA!
- Joe