If however you have a good chip, and know it can't exceed X heat generation, and its low enough you can passively cool it, that's actually much more reliable. And that is the exact situation you have with some of the more notorious heat problems of other laptops. a lot of times you'll have people put chips that really aren't made for laptops in because they are relying on the air flow to cool it to compensate, but air flow can be very unreliable. Plus, once you have a chip that efficient, it simplifies your heat dissipation. So it'll just throttle down for a bit, not fry, no matter what you throw at it. This chip is quite unlike the ones in earlier MacBooks and is closer in efficiency and thermal performance to a chip you'd find in a phone or tablet. I don't think you have to worry about the chip getting too hot unless it turns out there is a serious manufacturing defect. In return, the tradeoff is slightly less RAM, slightly less CPU power, and a lack of extension ports.
In other words, what you are buying when you buy this machine over something else is this: the keyboard, the trackpad, the screen, the efficiency of the CPU, the battery form factor, the fanless design, and the entire form factor to bring this all together in such a tiny laptop. If I need to sit down and do some "serious" computing for a decent stretch of time (new game at max settings for a couple hours, large data crunching, long programming stretch where I really need a desk and several monitors) then, well, that's what my desktop is for (or a powerful, bulky, docked laptop which amounts to the same thing). even with the 1.1 you will likely never even notice).įor me, this device is replacing a 13" 2011 Air and so far I consider it to be superior in just about every way and my experience has been great. The CPU is relatively underpowered (though, honestly, I think this is overrated and the 1.3 in particular is quite good. 8 gig ram isn't quite enough if you are expecting to be running big VMs on it a lot. The one port thing is odd and you will need to wait for the adapter market to catch up for some of this oddness/clumsiness to disappear. You aren't going to be running a new game at max settings on it. The reviews on this device have been mixed but I think a lot of reviews are acting on the premise that it's a one-stop machine, but it's not. If price is an issue, look at other manufacturers (new Surface and new XPS are both great machines, for example, though neither are really that cheap). If power is an issue, you should consider the Pro. If the form factor is an issue, you should consider the Air.
"webdev work while traveling" is exactly this role so as long as you are OK with the form factor then you will like this laptop. The role that this laptop fits really well IMO is use as a secondary device for consistently mid-level computing tasks (with some burst activity) in an environment where mobility is important. It's a superb machine.Īs far as actual use, well that depends on who is using it. CPU performance is as expected (1.1) or slightly above (1.3, which is the one I have, is actually fairly fast). other manufacturers are going to have a really hard time getting this right on devices this thin. Keyboard and trackpad work surprisingly well (and is highly underrated.
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