Monday 9 March 2015

Apple New Macbook air 12 inch retina


 Apple unveiled a new MacBook. Simply called MacBook, there is no Air or Pro tag attached to it, this is an incredible machine. No, it is a dream machine. It is almost unreal as far as its metal chassis is concerned. It is sleem, looking sexy and well crafted. It looks as feature rich as any other MacBook. And it has a attracted 12-inch screen. It is everything that many iPad users, who loved the portability of iPad but hated its limited functionality, wanted from Apple.
  In its quest for the light and thin Apple has sacrificed a lot in the MacBook. The new MacBook comes with just one port. To use a regular pendrive, you will need to get an accessory. Similarly to get HDMI functionality, VGA port or other ports you will need to buy this accessory. But that is fine. The port Apple is using is forward looking and this bit of inconvenience is fine in the grand scheme of things.
 The new MacBook is powered by Intel Core M processor. These are the processor meant for tablets. They are not meant for laptops. For sleek laptops, Intel's Broadwell U series processors are more suitable. That is what Dell uses in its extremely thin XPS 13 laptops, which it unveiled just a few weeks ago.
 The new MacBook gets the Core M processor just because Apple wanted to eliminate the fan from the chassis and wanted to make it really really slim.
 Now, it is possible that Apple is thinking long term. The Core M is more powerful than processors that go into the iPad and the iPhone. It has a 5 watt TDP, which makes it suitable for use in slim chassis without a cooling fan. In comparison the Broadwell U aka Core processors have a TDP of 15 watts. But that 15 watts would be reduced in the coming years. As Intel improves its processors, it will slowly approach the 5 watts line. And once that happen, these processors will go into the thin and slim chassis of the MacBook and yet offer the kind of performance a user gets nowadays from full fat laptops.
 This could happen as early as the next year. Let’s see..


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