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secretpact

macrumors 6502
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May 24, 2007
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I stream movies alot so I'm very interested in the new MBA's netflix streaming performance. Please state which model you are using, as I don't know which one I want yet.
 

bossxii

macrumors 68000
Nov 9, 2008
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Kansas City
1.4/2gig/128ss

Streamed a couple of TV shows and a movie last night and has zero issues. I ran into the freezing issue with Hulu a few times over the course of 2 or 3 hours, but that seems to be a Flash/Mac issue, not a MBA issue. I monitored iStat while running Hulu and nothing was even remotely putting a strain on the MBA.

I went form 100% battery to self shut down from 8:45 until 12:28 last night, which nearly 3 hours of that was streaming video. It's not 5 hours but for streaming video and the fact I have been migrating my media wirelessly the entire time from my backup HDD not to bad.
 

kurzz

macrumors 6502
May 18, 2007
391
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Considering Netflix works great on an iPad with 256mb ram and a much slower CPU than the Air, it should work great.
 
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