![]() This is the point where I should mention battery life. Both machines are running Apple’s latest macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 and the 14.0.1 version of Safari.) ![]() It’s not the most powerful MacBook Apple ever made, but it is supposed to be a step up from the Air - until now. (The older MacBook Pro is a 2.9 GhZ Dual-Core Intel i5, with 16GB of RAM and a 250GB SSD drive. Photoshop crashed, so I force-quit Safari and rebooted. At this point, the dreaded spinning beachball of death appeared every time I tried to do anything. It began to get creaky at 50 tabs, really started choking at 100 tabs, and at 150 tabs, it slowed to a painful crawl. By contrast, the Pro was unusable during the test. Half-incredulous, I tried the same thing on my previous MacBook, a relatively recent 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro. The majority of tabs are cached in the background, and are dormant until they are clicked on. I can click around with abandon! Oh happy day! I kept the tabs open all weekend while I’ve been testing and working on the new machine. As you can see in the embedded video above, there are 653 tabs open. ![]()
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