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Probably too early to tell, but anyone know how running Asahi Linux on this would be? Is M1 similar to M2 enough that stuff would just work? I'd love to use Apple hardware again, but I cannot stand the Apple software and UX, so need my laptops and desktops to run Linux.
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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.
It certainly sounds weird to english speakers. I imagine they shorten sentences to not lose people's attention.
If you say "iPhone," instead of "The iPhone," you've turned "iPhone" into a pronoun. That has a different "connection" to people that hear it.
Branding seems to be something that a lot of tecchies (including Yours Truly) have difficulty with. There's a lot of subtle psychological games that aren't easy to quantify.
I want it, but I'm not getting it until all the hardware works under Linux. MacOS is great, but someday they will stop updating MacOS for this. I see it as a device with incredible longevity because of the fanless thermals and how it sips energy. I could see myself using it 10 years later. I want to run MacOS or Fedora Silverblue, with Silverblue being my true love. Immutable OS images HAH, downvoted in seconds. Woul…
I think you're downvoted because:
1. Linux is coming to Apple Silicon sooner or later. You can buy now, enjoy macOS, and then install Linux later.
2. It's not reasonable to expect to use it for 10 years. Even if Apple stops supporting it, you can still use it. In addition, Macs have insane resale value. So you can sell it in 5 years, and then buy a new one. This is a more reasonable approach than yours.
3. Apple tends to support their laptops for a long time. Usually 7-8 years. And given that this is their own chip and it's extremely powerful, I can see it being supported for 8 years at least.
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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.
They kept it around because: 1. They don't have something to slot between the Air and the 14" Pro. The much rumored 15" Macbook Air isn't ready yet. 2. With how wacky supply chains are, it makes sense to rely on a supply chain that has been working since 2016, the year the 13" MBP came out. 3. Apple needed a device with active cooling to show off the power of the M2.
This would be the perfect computer for me, and probably most other pros in the current landscape - 13,4 is just too small for a lot of work, but few people need more power than an M1/M2.
I can see it's rumoured for spring next year, so a year is probably realistic.
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.
people getting the new MBA, how much RAM would you be getting?
At least 16G, them having a 8G offering is customer hostile. They pay like $40 for the difference, while making it a $200 upgrade, same with the SSD. - Especially since the SSD is apparently really slow with the 256G model.
My next one I'll get 16G simply because those few times (namely, creating Kubernetes labs intended to be ran on Apple Silicon) were annoying to deal with. But for I would wager 90+% of their customer base, 8G is absolutely fine. I've never once had it stutter with heavy Chrome usage, video streaming, or even gaming (not AAA titles, granted) out to an external monitor.
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It's to prevent people from pluralizing the product name.
Good point, should it be “iPhones” and “MacBook airs” or “is phone” and “macbooks air”? Apple needs to speak out on this issue. Why the coverup?
Would be the perfect laptop if it could hook up to 2 external monitors instead of just one. For that reason, I have to go for the M2 Pro.
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.