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frostythesnowman
On The Verge since Dec 29, 2011
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Recommended TechEnthusiast's comment in PSA: PlayStation 3 owners report update 4.45 locks up their machines
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Recommended JonnyUtah's comment in PSA: PlayStation 3 owners report update 4.45 locks up their machines
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That’s definitely why you didn’t notice the difference, the severity of the efficiency drop on battery life is far greater on smaller notebooks like the Airs. This is because in large notebooks like your Pro the increase in CPU power use would have been well hidden behind the 17" display, HDD and off-die GPU. The CPU uses a smaller percent of system power so an increase in it’s power use would affect the system in a correspondingly similar reduced percentage.
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What kind of Mac do you have?
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It definitely is a forgotten con of Mountain Lion, along with memory use going up a decent bit and UI frame rate taking a hit on less powerful Macs. It’s good to see them essentially turning Mavericks into another Snow Leopard where the main advancement is behind the scenes.
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It definitely is both of those, but we can take a look at Windows 8’s precedence to get an idea of what to expect considering they both bring the same set of improvements.
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Recommended The Vergil's comment in If PC makers don't start putting out notebooks that get 10+ hour battery life, I'm going mac.
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This is coming from Mountain Lion, I lost that much moving from Lion to Mountain Lion and so did many others. If they can get a 10% boost over Lion that’d be impressive, otherwise it’s just expected.
Windows 8 has all the enhancements that Mavericks is bringing and 8.1 is going even further with optimizations around S0ix that Apple doesn’t seem to have brought yet. Hence why well engineered Macbook Air competitors like the Zenbooks get longer battery life out of smaller batteries using more power hungry parts like a 1080p display.
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Gizmodo at least isn’t seeing the vaunted battery boost Mavericks is supposed to bring on their 2012 MBA, someone is going to need to give it a shot on the 2013 model too but it’s likely only 30-45 minutes tops.
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Wait a month, you will see lots of notebooks in the 10-12 hour range that use the Haswell ULT. The new Asus Zenbook is quoted at 12, which I can believe based on both Asus’s last peformance and the precedence set by the 2013 Air and Acer S7.
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HP X2 probably, or a Vivobook. Anything Z2760 based, because it contains the same S0ix x86 extension that Haswell is bringing now to the Core series.
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The i5 model will be about as fast as a 4-4.2Ghz Core 2 Duo in most tasks that are computationally intensive. Go for the i7 model and you’re looking at 2.8Ghz Core 2 Quad level performance, or 5.5Ghz Core 2 Duo. Base clock is irrelevant for these things, it’s all about turbo since the MBAs have sufficient cooling. Get 8GB of RAM and it’ll pack quite a punch for several years to go.
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WTF is right, when are we going to see the improvements elsewhere, 2015
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Compared to Zune which is 1 click, still a touch slow :)
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Seriously, that’s fantastic!
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Recommended YCSMD's comment in Xbox Music redesign revealed alongside new Windows 8.1 apps
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Recommended Firefly7475's comment in Xbox Music redesign revealed alongside new Windows 8.1 apps
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Might aswell add my Macbook while I’m at it, for teh lulz.
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That feel when a bog standard HDD doubles the next best score in WEI.
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Recommended Turbofrog's comment in Sony is fooling consumers????? And that's going to cost!!!
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Nice thanks!
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You sure about that? 5120×2880 would need 21.4Gbit/s which is above the theoretical 20Gbit/s TB2 provides. That’s kinda pushing it considering the interface won’t even reach the 20Gbit/s theoretical rate. It’s awfully close, but not quite.
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What’s the widget with all your temps in the first picture? I’m gonna have to use it myself…
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet… but this photo is 5120×2880 which also happens to be the retina resolution for the 27" iMac and TB Display. Makes me wonder if we’ll see a Retina iMac/TB Display soon, 2014?
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This all makes sense, now lets get a reason for the region lock. That’s the bigger mystery here, Sony isn’t doing it so why does Microsoft; because clearly publishers don’t care.
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Don’t be fooled by the base clock speeds, both Turbo Boost up to more similar clock speeds so in many situations performance isn’t very different. 13" rMBP with the i5 which clocks at 2.5/3.1Ghz scores 1.22/2.88 in Cinebench R11.5, base 2013 13" MBA which clocks 1.3/2.6Ghz scores 1.11/2.41 in the same benchmark.
