MBA 16gb-512gb

My mate bought the 2tb mba and mpb from Singapore the day it released. He gets it sent to his condo, and his family fedex it over. Until now haven’t gotten it. ETA is 7 December from apple cuz of supply problem

So you might have to wait a bit too

Aw sick! Thanks man for the link!!

I just ordered a MBA and MBP from super deal. Will update when it arrives.

Decided to do it cuz the feverish demand for the M1 chips would mean that I would have to wait for a while before I could get it. However I sold my MBP 16” as soon as the reviews came out to minimise the price loss. So kinda stuck to my desktop for now.

This is gonna be funnnn! My friends in Austria 🇦🇹 have said that the performance is as good as the reviews said, with some having sold off their 16” MBP’s too.

MBA is base model
MBP is 8gb/512gb

Wednesday supposedly

Yeah I snagged the last MBA n MBP I think.

I had to settle with the MBA gold because the space grey was finished, so he said to wait for the space grey was a few weeks.





EDIT: Omg sick! The MBP is OTW! Arrival is tmr.



This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Dec 7 2020, 09:58 PM

Yep! Same. It’s preactivated but I ain’t fussed Lah.

The laptop arrived a day after I ordered. It runs laps around my i9 16”.

The rumours are true. It’s as good as they say. Blazing fast and smooth. I use an app called thinkorswim that spins my 16” fan like mad once the multi screen chart is turned on.

This one, I can look at 8 charts and it still doesn’t turn the fan on.

And it’s also noticeably smoother


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Haha yeah......
I'm one of those buffons that nobody likes, except day-traders themselves.

nola. I scalp. So I have a very specific number I want to hit daily, once I hit that figure, I quit. I enter with 50-100 contract options at one go, so if I scalp the right direction [call or put], this entry exit can be within seconds.


It's too tiny. I split it between my 27" monitor and my laptop screen. Laptop screen holds the option price.
But, it might be good to note that I only focus on my first chart. The other chart are index charts, and potential stocks worth looking into. I think the professionals actually have multi monitor setups because they're trading more than one at a time.

So I can imagine if it's just a 13" screen, you might have to squint a bit.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Dec 9 2020, 01:41 PM

Hey guys. It's day 3 of me using my MBA M1 8GB/256GB. A few quirks

1. I can't drive my 144hz monitor. It runs at 60hz. Still trying out multiple different cables. Tried terminal commands, and they all don't work, so that's annoying. If anyone has better luck, do give a shout.

2. No matter if I'm on my MBA 8GB RAM or MBP 16GB RAM, it still eats into my SSD SWAP. There's no noticeable difference in smoothness on my daily use. Some have said that because the SSDs on these Macs are so fast anyway, the computer eats into the SSD swap regardless of whether there is enough RAM or not, as contingency.

3. Opening my usual apps;

- thinkorswim
- safari
- discord
- Davinci pro
- QuickTime to record my screen

on both my 8gb and 16gb laptops make no difference in how it feels. It's not because the 16GB isn't smoother. It's because the 8GB isn't at all laggy with all this. While I'm also a strict single Safari page user and no more than 5 tabs, I had my sister use it and she's a multiple browser and has nearly 30 tabs open.

No issues on her side with the 8GB either.

If you're set on getting 16GB, because you know you'll need it, all power to you. IF you're on the fence, I think 8GB might be surprisingly sufficient if your workflow's like mine.

Oh and get used to hearing "phantom" fan noises. I keep thinking I hear my MBA ramp up the fan because that's all the Intel Macs would do. But nope, no fan installed so no fan noise.

20-30 tabs seems okay so far man on the 8GB

My normal use is just YouTube playing and TDA and Microsoft Excel, so under these conditions, absolutely not.

Warm happens when I render short workout videos for my clients, but even that feels like you're holding a puppy on your thigh.

I have done the typical thing that you need to run online classes;

1. TD AMeritrade
2. Safari, going through a bunch of PDF files and websites
3. Excel
4. Streamyard + record [streaming and recording my screen]
5. Zoom

and the MBA handles it like a champ. No issues. My 16" Intel would have gone to the moon by now.

Great laptop, no issues. 10/10 would buy again.

After having both the MBP 16GB and the MBA 8GB, both my gf and I agree the MBA is better for us lighter users.

Haven't found a way to get this MBA to its knees yet if I don't deliberately stress it for no good reason.

I found Apple TV pretty awful. I gotta pay to watch on top of what I already paid for with the subscription .... because it’s not an Apple production.

🥲

https://youtu.be/ZlM96xHGLEs

Holy smokes these m1 chips... what in the world..

Btw this guy blabbers a lot, just skip to the results

Has anyone managed to get their 144hz monitor to run at 144hz on this thing?

I've a 1440p, 144hZ monitor that Im driving through display port 2.0 <- USBC but it won't run 144Hz. Someone suggested HDMI ?

Any thoughts anyone?