{"id":18253,"date":"2017-06-28T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18253"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:35:56","slug":"the-macbook-adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/the-macbook-adorable\/","title":{"rendered":"The MacBook Adorable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyliss.com\/2017\/6\/25\/macbook-adorable\">Casey Liss<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.caseyliss.com\/2017\/6\/25\/macbook-adorable\">\n<p>To me, the real bummer is the lack of USB-C power passthrough on most\nUSB-C devices available for sale today. As an example, when I attempted\nto do my initial Time Machine backup, I did so via the Ethernet dongle.\nHowever, I had to ensure the machine didn&rsquo;t sleep, since it was on\nbattery power. Furthermore, I had to stress out about whether or not\nit would complete the initial backup before the battery gave up, since\nI had no way to power the MacBook <strong>and<\/strong> have it connected via Ethernet.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I opted to get a maxed-out MacBook Adorable. It has the\ndon&rsquo;t-call-it-a-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Intel_Core_M_microprocessors\">m7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_Core#Low.2FMedium_power\">i7 processor<\/a>, 16 GB of RAM, and a half-terabyte SSD.\nFor such a small computer, it was far from cheap, at around $2000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Intel&rsquo;s naming seems to be almost intentionally confusing. In this case, i7 means that it&rsquo;s the high-end version of the low-power Core M processor. The i7 line name goes all the way from 3.5 W in the MacBook to 91 W in the iMac. This dual-core 1.4 GHz processor is slower than the i7 in the 2009 MacBook Pro and even the i5 in the MacBook Air.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Liss: To me, the real bummer is the lack of USB-C power passthrough on most USB-C devices available for sale today. As an example, when I attempted to do my initial Time Machine backup, I did so via the Ethernet dongle. However, I had to ensure the machine didn&rsquo;t sleep, since it was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,261,30,1155,280,260,175,1154],"class_list":["post-18253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-intel","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-power","tag-processors","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18254,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions\/18254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}