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The No Touch Bar 13 Macbook Version
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For me they stay from 0 to 1/2k rpm on hard multitasking on 3 monitors and still you can't hear them. They kick at higher rpms with gaming.
Sure but cannot tell you anything more specific.. Must be somewhere near 50C, when light fan kicks in I guess
Same, I decided to order i5/16gb/512gb still worried about color but I think silver will be looking good all the time.Already getting 512GBso looks like I'll go for 2.0GHz i5/16GB/512GB. Just need to decide on the colour, worried about it looking really bad after 5 yrs if I get the space grey..
No throttling according to notebookcheck
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-...without-Touch-Bar-Laptop-Review.182374.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-...without-Touch-Bar-Laptop-Review.182374.0.html
I'm planning to return my 13"TB for the nTB as I can only get 6-7hrs while doing light work. Will upgrading the RAM to 16GB affect the battery life of the nTB? How much battery life should I be expecting with the 16GB RAM nTB? If it's not much difference than the battery life of the TB I might just ditch both and wait out for the 2017..
I think increasing the RAM would decrease battery life. But it would be very miniscule. Unless you really need that extra 8GB go for it (or save the $200).
I am getting 8-9 with mixed usage & 10-12 on light usage on the base nTB MBP 13.
Debating swapping my touchbar model for an i7 16GB nTb model I found on sale locally. Anyone have experience with battery life for this? I was working on a publication yesterday with 10 safari tabs and word open with screen around 40% on my TB model base and it died at 7h.
I keep trying to convince myself I like the silver enough.. doesn't help they don't have any 13 inch silver models in my local apple store! They are all grey
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That's the model I'm getting in replacement for my TB. Will let you know Wednesday
Interested in why you're going for the i7? I am debating whether to go with the i5 or upgrade it. Apparently the upgrade is not worth it. I think I'll go for 16GB though.
I keep trying to convince myself I like the silver enough.. doesn't help they don't have any 13 inch silver models in my local apple store! They are all grey
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Interested in why you're going for the i7? I am debating whether to go with the i5 or upgrade it. Apparently the upgrade is not worth it. I think I'll go for 16GB though.
It's about 10% faster than the i5 and this is my main machine (light gaming, mostly programming). I want it to be as powerful as possible but also take advantage of the battery life. Also, can't stand the touchbar.
I can't stand it either! Everyone keeps saying 'why don't you just get the touch bar instead of the processor upgrade on the base model', but not having the touch bar is actually a bonus for me! Plus longer battery life, and I can live with two ports.
It's very distracting when you're switching between code editor/terminal/browser/emulator. The bar controls are always changing and it's annoying. I can switch the touchbar to display static controls but it's subpar in that respect too: no ability to control display, too bright, times out, no physical keys. Maybe it just takes getting used to but it doesn't bring me any value.
For instance, take Safari. It presents a short list of favourites (already accessible via the new tab interface), the search bar (easily accessible via Cmd + l), and all open tabs. There is an argument that it's nice to see all open tabs but either you have just the right number of tabs open to do your work and it's easy to point to them with the cursor or you have too many and the visual representation of a tab gives no context to its utility.
I would argue that the touchbar is anti-pro. It's for people who still look at their keyboard when they type. It would be immensely more valuable if it acted as a slider for horizontal UI controls exclusively, but that would eliminate all the other controls (esc, brightness, etc).
Touchbar is awesome to show off at Starbucks.
Everything else? Pass.
Initially i had ordered the 13 TB with 3.1 and 16GB. After actually getting to use it in an Apple store i immediately canceled.
Now Benchmarks show that the 540 and 550 GPU are like 10% apart so no loss here.
The 2.4 i7 is a perfect match of the 3.1 i5 so again no loss here.
Im also fine with 2 Ports. I rarely use anything but USB (have the adapter now).
I just received my Spacegrey 2.4 i7 with 16GB Ram. It's a beautiful machine.
Everything else? Pass.
Initially i had ordered the 13 TB with 3.1 and 16GB. After actually getting to use it in an Apple store i immediately canceled.
Now Benchmarks show that the 540 and 550 GPU are like 10% apart so no loss here.
The 2.4 i7 is a perfect match of the 3.1 i5 so again no loss here.
Im also fine with 2 Ports. I rarely use anything but USB (have the adapter now).
I just received my Spacegrey 2.4 i7 with 16GB Ram. It's a beautiful machine.
How are you finding the battery life? I'm going to pick mine up in a few days.
Display brightness with 3 bars left until full.
Keyboard brightness on the middle.
Safari with 4 tabs open.
WhatsApp standalone app running.
Wi-Fi on.
Bluetooth mouse connected.
DropBox, iStat Menus, BetterTouchTool and SmoothScroll running on the background.
Does anyone have any dead display spots like this - seems to be a backlight defect visible on dark/black background only. This is nTB. All Macbooks I've had in the past 3 years have had backlight/display issues (especially horrible on the 12" Macbook) and I urge you to check your display using a black background. Check for backlight inconsistencies and dead spots. Apple needs to be hit hard with complaints and genius bar appointments so they get their slipping display quality act together.
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Display brightness with 3 bars left until full.
Keyboard brightness on the middle.
Safari with 4 tabs open.
WhatsApp standalone app running.
Wi-Fi on.
Bluetooth mouse connected.
DropBox, iStat Menus, BetterTouchTool and SmoothScroll running on the background.
Whats your system specs?
I too struggled with the 2.0/2.4 Upgrade. After much consideration I went for 2.0/16/512 and have been very happy with my choice. IMO, your money is much better spent on 16GB RAM or more SSD Storage.
For context, my daily usage consists of Chrome (15-20 Tabs), Chrome Remote Desktop, Windows 10 x64 VM, Spotify, Messages, Slack, Mail, Tweetbot, Terminal and some word processing.
For context, my daily usage consists of Chrome (15-20 Tabs), Chrome Remote Desktop, Windows 10 x64 VM, Spotify, Messages, Slack, Mail, Tweetbot, Terminal and some word processing.
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