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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.
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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.
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)
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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.
Eh. I bought a base model M1 Air on a whim because they were in stock, and I can count on one hand the times I wished for more RAM. I have a Kubernetes cluster at home I can run things in, which also hosts a Jupyter instance. 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 cus…
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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.
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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)
Pretty sure that Apple isn't manufacturing NAND chips. Now it might be hard to procure the 128GB chips, so Apple may be at the mercy of suppliers, or it might just be cheaper to buy a 256GB chip (and suffer slower perf).
This has been coming for some time, the refreshed 14" and 16" Pro models already had their base capacity bumped to 512.
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.
I agree that Ive's influence will not be missed.
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.
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.
Or here for the original Macintosh: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterme/1253692391/
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.
