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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#131

However the cat (inflation) got the laptop, in Europe it's now 1500€ instead of the 1050€ previous gen with same specs. I think it's unjustifiable for a normal consumer.

The UK pricing is £1,249, up from £999, so 24% extra for the better CPU, webcam & display[0].

A bit disappointed to see them sticking with 256GB SSD as the base, feel like 512GB should really be the standard nowadays.

[0]https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Air-...

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#132

However the cat (inflation) got the laptop, in Europe it's now 1500€ instead of the 1050€ previous gen with same specs. I think it's unjustifiable for a normal consumer.

And you get half the IOPS, because in the base model they ship it with only one NAND chip. (Apple has stopped making the 128 GB chip)

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#133

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 don't think you're downvoted because of fanboys. 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…

>enjoy macOS

If you're wanting to use your laptop for development work, you're going to pick the best job for the task. Moving to OSX would not only slow things down due to how slow non-native Docker is (no it is not negligible, yes I have an M1 Mac and I have tested it in a side-by-side comparison), but you have much less control over your environment compared to Linux.

The vast majority of the people I've worked with choose to use Linux laptops over Macs, and I don't think CPU efficiency is something that's going to get them to change. While working from home, I can think of zero scenarios where I need more than 8 hours of battery life, which my x86 Intel laptop already exceeds.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#134
post #9

people getting the new MBA, how much RAM would you be getting?

Absolutely skip the 8 GB. I tried my luck with M1 Air, but returned it after two days for 16 GB version. Some Xcode, Sketch and web development.

Once you start swapping, you easily get multi-second delays where a system is totally unresponsive.

A 24 GB M2 Air would be great, but I expect my current M1 to last gracefully for years.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#135

This 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.

M2 is not a single core CPU, albeit it does have stellar single threaded performance. As for having the worst Mac, it's quite probable they were nerfing their last x86 models on purpose to make the jump to Apple Silicon even more impressive. Remember the models that had inadequate thermals? Now magsafe is making a comeback?

I read GP's as "combination of (single core CPU *plus* graphics) performance"

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#136
post #85

Anyone know anything about SSD performance on the Air?

No samples have made it to reviewers hands, so no. But perhaps it will mimic the M2 Macbook Pro 13", whose SSD performance scaled with size (meh at 256GB, blazing when bigger).

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#139
post #4

This is quite possibly the absolute most perfect portable laptop ever released. Thin, light, no fan, and looks great with great performance and battery life.

Looks nice but gets expensive adding ram that I'd need to have.

$200 to go from 8GB to 16GB is an atrocity.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

#140

This 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.

M2 is not a single core CPU, albeit it does have stellar single threaded performance. As for having the worst Mac, it's quite probable they were nerfing their last x86 models on purpose to make the jump to Apple Silicon even more impressive. Remember the models that had inadequate thermals? Now magsafe is making a comeback?

Read that sentence as “single core cpu performance and graphics performance” Rather than “a single core cpu. And graphics performance”
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