Anybody got their head around why the new 13 Mac Book Pro M2 is more expensive than the Mac Air M2? Is it the (in my opinion negative UX) touchbar?
Larger battery, active cooling, afaik the storage options go higher.
New MacBook Air with M2
31–40 of 796 posts
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the difference in keyboards?
European keyboards are often in the ISO layout, think large enter key and additional keys left of it US keyboards have the narrow enter key and different placements for many symbols
Also in France and Germany you have funny stuff such as azerty and QWERTZ. And have you seen Spanish layout? Horrible for software development
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#33Looks like a neat laptop. I don't really understand why apple feels the need to forgoe articles for their devices, however. For instance, they write "MacBook Air features..." rather than "The MacBook Air features..." as would be grammatically correct in English.
They’ve been doing this with a lot of products for a long time. “Today we announce iPhone … with iPhone you can do anything!”
I think it is very strange.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#34And now the old ones will start getting slower with new Mac updates coming in. This somehow happens. Strange.
Comments like this are so reliable around Apple product releases that we could use them to replace NTP. Over time, machines get slower. New code favors new instructions. But it's not like the machine gets 10% slower the day the new ones start shipping.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the difference in keyboards?
European keyboards are often in the ISO layout, think large enter key and additional keys left of it US keyboards have the narrow enter key and different placements for many symbols
Some European countries (eg. Poland) typically use US layout.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#36Do we still need Mighty App? M2 is significantly faster than Xeon and Epyc in single core speeds which is what matters the most in web browsing speed. There's also no latency that Mighty has. Just get yourself a 24GB M2 Macbook.
Depends, is Mighty App cheaper than $2099+existing laptop disposal cost per user?
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#37Does anyone have reviews of any comparable ARM-based (good battery backup and speed) Windows laptops? Seems like there should be a transition of the entire laptop market to ARM, given that Apple has demonstrated that ARM processors are viable on the laptop.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#38Looks like a neat laptop. I don't really understand why apple feels the need to forgoe articles for their devices, however. For instance, they write "MacBook Air features..." rather than "The MacBook Air features..." as would be grammatically correct in English.
They’ve been doing this with a lot of products for a long time. “Today we announce iPhone … with iPhone you can do anything!” I think it is very strange.
One of the first ways a cult gets everyone on the same page is altered language and speech patterns.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#39This thing is going to sell like hotcakes. The combination of single core CPU and graphics performance, device thinness, battery life in this laptop is unmatched.
It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years. Johnny I’ve doesn’t dictate things around Apple anymore but the silicone chips team now does.
Re: New MacBook Air with M2
#40Anybody got their head around why the new 13 Mac Book Pro M2 is more expensive than the Mac Air M2? Is it the (in my opinion negative UX) touchbar?
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that the M2 MBP only exists to make the increased price on the Mac Book Air look more competitive.
It’s an old sales trick. Show the customer three products in different price ranges to get them to buy the middle one.