I bought a MacBook Air with 8 cores. My logic was that I didn’t want a crippled M1 chip with only 7 cores. The 7 core is apparently manufactured as an 8 core but 1 core failed on testing and rather than throwing it away Apple sell it as a 7 core.
That may not make any practical difference, but it made me feel better and I had the spare cash to up the spec. Unless you’re doing heavy video editing I don t think it would make much difference. Paul Owen Sent from my iPad > On 12 Dec 2020, at 21:34, 'ARMS' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I think I've justified to myself that I need to replace my ageing MacBook Air > (Mid 2012) with a new one. However I'm a little confused about the two > offerings of 7 or 8 core GPU. Do I need the 8 or will the 7 suffice. I do a > bit of photo editing and a little video editing and of course all the other > normal stuff one uses a computer for these days - emails, word processing etc. > What would the techies in the group suggest. My instinct is that the 7 should > be enough for my limited workload. > Just thought I would check before purchase. > Andy > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/55b26292-b336-4472-95e7-3fa90ef6dfd0n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/BD79F6AD-8679-4555-92A0-FBE448A45BF2%40mac.com.
