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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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And now the old ones will start getting slower with new Mac updates coming in. This somehow happens. Strange.

I am not denying the existence of planned obsolescence but My 2013 Macbook Air lasted almost until now, better durability than any other machine I have ever owned.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#43
post #21

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?

Slightly higher capacity battery is the only strictly better feature I can see in the MBP 13". Usually the MBP is a poor buy anyway. Better the 13" MBA or on the other side the 14" MBP.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#44

Looks 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.

Just wait until the devices wake up, then it’ll be correct

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#45

Looks 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.

"MacBook Air" is an idea. A concept.

"The MacBook Air" is a thing. How mundane.

Or something like that.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#46
post #7

And now the old ones will start getting slower with new Mac updates coming in. This somehow happens. Strange.

I am not denying the existence of planned obsolescence but My 2013 Macbook Air lasted almost until now, better durability than any other machine I have ever owned.

I’m still using that! 4 gigs is pretty weak but it runs Linux and is still smooth if there is no ram pressure.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#47

Looks 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.

It's to prevent people from pluralizing the product name.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#48

Looks 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.

-- doesn't the imply there are others of similar? maybe what apple is saying is that there is no other iPhone except the iPhone so the is redundant? - just a guess - i agree it's odd --

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#49

Do 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.

I'd never heard of this browser before, but, really, for most usages Safari is out-of-the-box good enough isn't it?

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#50

Looks 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.

It certainly sounds weird to english speakers. I imagine they shorten sentences to not lose people's attention.
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