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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by balfirevic »

yosito wrote: post #5

I'm excited to get my hands on one of these. I'm a US citizen living in Hungary, and hoping to get my hands on a US version ASAP. I'm debating if it will be easier to order from Apple in the US and ship it via a third party to the EU, or order in the EU and have the keyboard swapped out after I get it. I'm mostly nervous that if I don't order right away, it will be sold out and hard to get my hands on for a few more…

What's the difference in keyboards?

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by gfiorav »

yosito wrote: post #5

I'm excited to get my hands on one of these. I'm a US citizen living in Hungary, and hoping to get my hands on a US version ASAP. I'm debating if it will be easier to order from Apple in the US and ship it via a third party to the EU, or order in the EU and have the keyboard swapped out after I get it. I'm mostly nervous that if I don't order right away, it will be sold out and hard to get my hands on for a few more…

You can order Macs with US keyboard layouts from the country's Apple Store page. It'll take longer to ship is all.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#13

Post by gfiorav »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3
t3rabytes wrote: post #2

I’m quite in love with this machine. If my corporate IT group offered them over our top spec MacBook Pro options, I would take it in a heartbeat — I don’t care about the loss of compute power.

Is there any loss anyway? I don't see any difference between Macbook Pro M2 and Macbook Air M2.

It's only noticeable when there's a sustained workload. The Pro model can use active cooling (fans) while the air can't.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by ysleepy »

yosito wrote: post #5

I'm excited to get my hands on one of these. I'm a US citizen living in Hungary, and hoping to get my hands on a US version ASAP. I'm debating if it will be easier to order from Apple in the US and ship it via a third party to the EU, or order in the EU and have the keyboard swapped out after I get it. I'm mostly nervous that if I don't order right away, it will be sold out and hard to get my hands on for a few more…

Could get expensive. Past Macbooks hat a top chassis combo of keyboard, chassis and battery. At least the MacBook air battery replacement was only like 150€, including a new keyboard/top plate. Not sure it will be the same with the new design.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Tostino »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3
t3rabytes wrote: post #2

I’m quite in love with this machine. If my corporate IT group offered them over our top spec MacBook Pro options, I would take it in a heartbeat — I don’t care about the loss of compute power.

Is there any loss anyway? I don't see any difference between Macbook Pro M2 and Macbook Air M2.

Sustained performance due to better heat management

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#16

Post by mrtesthah »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3
t3rabytes wrote: post #2

I’m quite in love with this machine. If my corporate IT group offered them over our top spec MacBook Pro options, I would take it in a heartbeat — I don’t care about the loss of compute power.

Is there any loss anyway? I don't see any difference between Macbook Pro M2 and Macbook Air M2.

The Pro M2 has excessive thermal throttling and significantly lower flash storage throughput.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by lycos »

It's very tempting, but my MacBook Air M1 has been great and performance wise any improvement is probably barely noticeable in the day to day that I'd end up feeling like I just bought a new chassis. Which could still be nice.. although most of the time it's in clamshell attached to my monitor. I'll have to sleep on this!

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by [deleted] »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3
t3rabytes wrote: post #2

I’m quite in love with this machine. If my corporate IT group offered them over our top spec MacBook Pro options, I would take it in a heartbeat — I don’t care about the loss of compute power.

Is there any loss anyway? I don't see any difference between Macbook Pro M2 and Macbook Air M2.

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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by sz4kerto »

yosito wrote: post #5

I'm excited to get my hands on one of these. I'm a US citizen living in Hungary, and hoping to get my hands on a US version ASAP. I'm debating if it will be easier to order from Apple in the US and ship it via a third party to the EU, or order in the EU and have the keyboard swapped out after I get it. I'm mostly nervous that if I don't order right away, it will be sold out and hard to get my hands on for a few more…

Just order it with US keyboard (that's what I've done -- CEE citizen living in CEE).
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