Will the Air handle this?

[Aspen]

I will be streaming stock charts (one window only) and have about 6-7 other tabs open for email and general internet work. My two year old Core 2 Duo MPB with 4GB RAM handles this task just fine. Any thoughts on whether the Ultimate Air with the 2.13 GHz processor and 4GB RAM can handle this very very well? It's my understanding that the SSD helps with internal/local processing but I'm not sure about the internet/streaming capacity. The internet connection will be good.

Thanks for the help.

 

[alust2013]

As long as you have a good internet connection, it will work great for that.

 

[NicoleRichie]

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I can confirm it should work great.

 

[rkaufmann87]

I would say it could do that without breaking a sweat.

 

[simeezee]

Even my 11inch base model air can do that.

 

[rkheyfets]

Yea that should run 100% fine.

 

[gglockner]

As others have noted, this is really no big deal in terms of processing requirements. If an iPad supported multiple windows, even it would be powerful enough to do this.

 

[rkheyfets]

Just to second what others said I am currently streaming stock quotes and have 5 tabs open plus excel and several other small programs and on my 2.13 Air the cpu usage is around 8%-25%, and still have over 2GB of free Ram.

 

[meatweaver]

At what point is having multiple tabs open going to begin to strain the processor? 20 tabs? 30?

Or is this only going to be a load on the memory?

 

[zinka]

I will be streaming stock charts (one window only) and have about 6-7 other tabs open for email and general internet work. My two year old Core 2 Duo MPB with 4GB RAM handles this task just fine. Any thoughts on whether the Ultimate Air with the 2.13 GHz processor and 4GB RAM can handle this very very well? It's my understanding that the SSD helps with internal/local processing but I'm not sure about the internet/streaming capacity. The internet connection will be good.

Thanks for the help.

You don't need to upgrade to 4GB or 2.13 to handle that. The base model should do just fine.

 

[rkheyfets]

You don't need to upgrade to 4GB or 2.13 to handle that. The base model should do just fine.

the extra 2GB wont hurt helps the future resell value, and helps to future proof it somewhat for the extra $100 its almost a no-brainer.
the upgrade to 2.13 on the other hand is much more expensive, although i still recommend it as well.

 

[neteng101]

You don't need to upgrade to 4GB or 2.13 to handle that. The base model should do just fine.

Absolutely get the 4GB. 2GB will just result in a ton of swapping with enough apps running at once.

 

[KohPhiPhi]

I would certainly upgrade to 4gb RAM if he's planning on having tons of streaming windows/tabs running at once.