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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by ajuc »

marricks wrote: post #312
Thaxll wrote: post #280

The pricing outside the US is outrageous though. Those are very expensive laptops. €1520 for the base version with only 8GB lol

Which typical Air buyer needs 16gb ram, the college student with 50 tabs open and Spotify in the background? People complaining about low ram sound like the bros asking how many cylinders a car has. Doesn't matter for most people. Just complain about price, yeah, it is expensive! --- This is coming from someone who does light gaming on an 8gb m1 MacBook Air and has plenty of tabs open. I don't see lag. Then again, I…

> Which typical Air buyer needs 16gb ram

Typical Air user would be fine performance-wise with any laptop made in last 10 years TBH.

It's a premium product that is priced accordingly, so it's fine to complain about substandard specs.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by pivo »

marricks wrote: post #312
Thaxll wrote: post #280

The pricing outside the US is outrageous though. Those are very expensive laptops. €1520 for the base version with only 8GB lol

Which typical Air buyer needs 16gb ram, the college student with 50 tabs open and Spotify in the background? People complaining about low ram sound like the bros asking how many cylinders a car has. Doesn't matter for most people. Just complain about price, yeah, it is expensive! --- This is coming from someone who does light gaming on an 8gb m1 MacBook Air and has plenty of tabs open. I don't see lag. Then again, I…

We had to replace my wife’s intel MBP with 8G of memory because it was just not sufficient. She just does simple stuff with her laptop, web browsing, occasional videos, google spreadsheets and email. The thing would just grind to a halt. We bought a 16G MBP and she’s been fine.

I’m sure the ARM laptops are better with only 8G but I’m not going to test that idea. 16G is the bottom line for us from now on.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by petercooper »

If you want one and if it's anything like the M1 devices right now, expect to wait till mid August or later if you want anything beyond the basic specs. Even now, M1 MBPs with 32 or 64GB RAM are a good 5-6 weeks out.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by highwaylights »

tra3 wrote: post #276
highwaylights wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the real problem right here and why I was ready to upgrade day one. Not interested in the M2 Air now. I'm sure it's all very nice but the only thing missing from my Air that I really wanted was multiple display output.

You can have multiple display support with Display Link. It's not ideal because it consumes CPU, but it's working fine with my M1 MBA. If I had to do it again, I'd likely just purchase a real nice single monitor.

Looked into it but the need to grant screen recording permission really made me uncomfortable.

EDIT: not sure why this was downvoted. All DisplayLink devices need to be granted screen recording permission to work on macOS.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by whynaut »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #183
Adraghast wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean common noun instead of pronoun?

I think of it as a “pronoun.” It makes it into a “person,” or some kind of major deal, like we call localities (usually) by their single pronouns. Sometimes, “The” becomes part of the pronoun, like “ The Netherlands,” or “ The Bronx.” Usually, though, we assign pronouns (I’m not an English major, though, so the proper term may be different). Like, you can’t have “a brooklyn,” or “an amsterdam.” They want to make it s…

The term you want is Proper Noun.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by zitterbewegung »

kllrnohj wrote: post #361
carlycue wrote: post #39

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.

> 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. Well, except for the small problem that the M1 air exists and is still on sale. Same single core CPU performance and near enough multicore and GPU performance. And it's cheaper by a not insignificant amount. Which is pretty much why Linus Tech Tips wasn't…

I think you are confusing their review of MacBook Pro M2 with the MacBook Air m2.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by cwp »

adolph wrote: post #332
cwp wrote: post #268

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> the worst the Mac has ever been No. No no no. The worst was the Amelio era.

Amelio did do three good things: * replaced Spindler * failed to buy BeOS * bought NeXT Spindler's Apple is responsible for the Performa sub-brand (although Amelio didn't kill it). > After releasing a total of sixty-four different models [in five years], Apple retired the Performa brand in early 1997, shortly after release of the Power Macintosh 5500, 6500, 8600 and 9600, as well as the return of Steve Jobs to the co…

Yeah, for sure. I'm just grumbling about these kids that don't know how good they have it. Even with unreliable keyboards and Intel failing to deliver, the period leading up to the M1 wasn't even close to "the worst the Mac has ever been". I had to walk to school barefoot!

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Post by aemadrid »

zuhsetaqi wrote: post #217
vishnugupta wrote: post #201

MacBook Air M2 will most probably replace my current 2018 MacBook Pro. My only gripe with MacBook Air M1 was crappy RAM which they addressed (24GB). It's still less than what I have (32GB) I expect M2 will make up for that.

My dealbreaker for the MBA is single external monitor support

with DisplayLink I'm running two external monitors just fine.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by qsdf38100 »

tenpies wrote: post #155
ricardobayes wrote: post #110

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.

It's not just inflation, the Euro has been getting crushed as decades of negligence by the ECB show up. That's not stopping any time soon and the ECB looks like it will be in the position to either destroy the Euro or destroy the bond market.

Europe bad. Euro is getting crushed. Europe destroying itself. ECB is enemy of the people. Europe will destroy civilization.

We must destroy Europe before it’s too late!

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by ratww »

mrtranscendence wrote: post #344
dewey wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You responded to a comment about the "typical Air buyer". A developer is really not the typical Air buyer and more the target audience for a Pro line product even if that specific model is plenty fast.

For what it's worth, I bought my partner an 8gb Air a couple months ago. I had reservations about that amount of memory but she insisted on not spending more money. As far as she's told me she's experienced no performance issues whatsoever as a non-developer (she uses her laptop for video conferencing, email, and web browsing).

I use my 8GB one for development (mostly web and Cocoa, but also some 3d stuff w/Metal) and the only issues are with things like Microsoft Teams or some other memory hog, but even my co-workers with 32GB machines suffer with those, so I guess it's alright.
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