Will the new MBA's stutter when watching video?

[spinedoc77]

I see they are using the same CPU and GPU, so I'll assume they are going to stutter watching video like the other MBA's do. I'd be curious what someone more technically inclined has to say after looking at the specs and hardware, or if the flash memory hard drive might help with that.

 

[woody88]

not the same GPU.

 

[Stetrain]

The new MBA uses the NVidia 320M, as opposed to the 9400M.

This page on the Apple site: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/performance.html

shows a 2x-3x performance increase over the 9400M.

 

[fyrefly]

I see they are using the same CPU and GPU, so I'll assume they are going to stutter watching video like the other MBA's do. I'd be curious what someone more technically inclined has to say after looking at the specs and hardware, or if the flash memory hard drive might help with that.

Like Woody88 said, it's the 320M, which Apple says is 2x faster than the 9400m in the RevC MBA's. The 320M should be pretty capable of playing at least 720p without much stutter - depending on how much they throttle it to fit in the chassis.

The Mac Mini/MacBooks with the 320M play 1080p, do they not?

 

[C64]

My almost 4 year old 2GHz C2D MacBook with a GMA 950 and 2GB RAM runs 720p videos just fine. 1080p is a bit problematic, but even that without too many stutters (just a loud fan). So I don't think I'd be that much of a problem for this new MBA.

 

[spinedoc77]

different GPU, good to know, that will make my decision a bit easier to upgrade my Gen2 MBA to one of these new ones.