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Rayz2016 said:

ascii said:

radarthekat said:

ascii said:

When I look at it the words "climate controlled" come to mind. I can imagine that would be very inviting if I was walking down a humid street!

I wonder how they keep the windows from fogging up?

Air conditioning has two purposes; it cools the air, and it removes moisture.  

I meant on the outside. If the aircon inside makes the glass cold, the tropical moisture outside will condense on the outside of the glass.

I don't think that will actually happen, they would have done something to prevent it, was just wondering what.

There attention to detail is second to none, so they’ll have accounted for that. What has occasionally bitten them is problems with the environment control equipment, which is what led the dagger-like icicles forming on overhang on the Chicago Store. 

Icicles, yikes! Of course if the trees in the Thailand store had a dusting of snow they might get *more* people coming in.

When I look at it the words "climate controlled" come to mind. I can imagine that would be very inviting if I was walking down a humid street!

I wonder how they keep the windows from fogging up?

tipoo said:

ascii said:

I am interested in whether a fast eGPU gets bottlenecked by the 7W processor. i.e. if you install the same game on the new MBA and on a MBP, and use the same eGPU, does the MBA get a lot less fps?

Sure it would, you can already see this with the 13 vs 15 CPUs, and the Pro 13 is a higher bar not to bottleneck the GPU with four cores and higher clocks. Depends on the task/title of course, but a 7W CPU will certainly bottleneck modern mid-high end GPUs a fair bit. 

https://barefeats.com/macbook-pro-13in-2018-with-egpu.html

We also have to take in to account that that is an OpenGL benchmark and OpenGL is heavier on the CPU than Metal, but the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark on the same page (a Metal game) also showed that CPU matters.

I think even on the PC side, CPUs are starting to bottleneck GPUs, with the new 2080Ti, if you run it at less than 4k, even high end overclocked CPUs can't keep up with it.

I am interested in whether a fast eGPU gets bottlenecked by the 7W processor. i.e. if you install the same game on the new MBA and on a MBP, and use the same eGPU, does the MBA get a lot less fps?

lewchenko said:

The XR’s biggest problem is its size. I know people who have said they no longer have an upgrade path from either a 6/6S/7 etc as they don’t want a bigger phone and the XS is too expensive.  

Good point!