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timsutcliffe

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Jun 18, 2007
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Hello.

I currently own a MBA 1.6 Rev. A, which is fine for what I do. One thing that disappoints me is playing video. It sometimes gets too hot, and then the video gets choppy.

As I understand it, the iPad is wonderful for watching video, particularly HD. Why is it that something with a 1GHz processor is able to cope with video better than my MBA? I assume there's some kind of graphics card involvement as well. I would have thought the MBA would have a better graphics card too?

Thanks.
 
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