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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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post #17

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!

I'm in the same position with an M1 Pro. Although the new screens do look nice for dark mode...

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#62

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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.

Fortunately I have free-thinking windows installed on my desktop to counteract my Apple cultist indoctrination.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#63
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?

That machine shouldn’t exist - I don’t know why they kept it around. Maybe they just had lots of old hardware they wanted to try to unload.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#64
post #17

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!

For M1 owners, just wait for M3. It should be on TSMC 3nm which will be the next true node shrinkage.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#65
Having a smaller volume and more power consuming chip than M1[0], I wonder if it will match M1 air performance and battery life on heavy tasks. The media engine will definitely provide smoother experience when working with sound and videos but I kind of suspect that on other tasks it will be about the same as M1, thus prolonging the Apple's software support for the original one.

[0] Early reviews of M2 Macbook Pro indicate that the M2 chip heats up more than the M1 and consumes a more power. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVIknUcCjiQ

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#66

Does 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.

The best Windows experience is to virtualize Windows 11 on M1(or M2) Mac.....although you are still running Windows 11 unfortunately. :/

Still its the snappiest Windows I have used in a long time. Microsoft probably hasn't figured out how to use up all the resources of this chip (for dumb features).

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#67

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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.

This Air has the exact same chip as that MBP.. If the M2 in the 13" MBP (not the M2 Pro, which is currently unreleased) gets thermally throttled, we'll have to see how it performs in a device without a fan.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#68
post #55

I'm sure it's fast coming from previous intel Macs but really the main thing holding me back is seeing how many hurdles my fellow devs run into. There's always talk about something not running or being M1 incompatible. Well, that and I'd be forced to use OSX. So far the only real benefit I've seen seems to be for those who code on insanely long train commutes.

Haven't ran into a dev issue since the start of 2021.

macOS is much better to write code on due to its native *nix style terminal and it's far more usable for everything else than Linux.

To me, macOS is the best platform for writing code in 2022.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#69

Does 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.

Apple proved that their ARM processors work amazingly in a laptop, not that the ARM processors everyone else has access to work well in a laptop.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#70
Am I the only one around here that doesn't like MacBooks? The hardware is fine, yes, except the glossy screen but the software is horrible. Everything is a pain in the a*.
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