New MacBook Air with M2

Post by rollcat » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

MilaM wrote: post #395

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

Considering the shared GPU memory, 8 GB is going to be very limiting going forward. Also, this Mac is very likely going to have the same slower SSD like the recently released 13 inch M2 MBP. This means you have to upgrade the SSD as well, if you care about performance. I would not recommend buying an MBA with base specs.

Post by tomduncalf » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

leadingthenet wrote: post #298

thrwawy283 wrote: post #212

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I think we're getting faster at iterating on bringing up dev environments. Silverblue is my favorite, but it's becoming common for me to develop everything within a docker image. As quickly as we're committing to a project, we're updating the env and rebuilding that image at the same time? I'm new to this. I have a friend who's really big into k8s and ansible. Right now it feels like I'm toying around in 1 pod. He ca…

It's called docker-compose, and it's really simple compared to even a 1 pod k8s. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by bringing up a set of services.

Post by donny2018 » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:15 PM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #454

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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…

My feeling is that 8GB is barely adequate in 2020 for light or medium-light usage, a couple of MacOS updates and a few more apps switching to Electron and you're going to be chugging hard. This wouldn't be a problem except that the RAM can't be upgraded so you have a laptop that would probably last 6-8 years easy likely being kneecapped in 2-4 years instead.

Post by oynqr » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

jeffhuys wrote: post #300

duxup wrote: post #265

I gave the iPhone a try after a long time on Android (since the nexus) and I’ve been very happy. I’m going to give the Air M2 a spin for a work/ personal device too. Im excited.

Oh, man, you're in for a treat. Make sure to enable Handoff - copy on your phone (Google Authenticator, for example), CMD+V on your laptop. CMD+Tab to something on your phone (a Safari tab, for instance) from your laptop, and vice versa. A lot of other neat stuff awaits you!

Post by kzrdude » Wed, Jul 06, 2022, 5:20 PM UTC

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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 This is not something, a person that wants Linux, will enjoy. > It's not reasonable to expect to use it for 10 years. Even if Apple stops supporting it, you can still use it I'm not sure, my friend has M1 Macbook Air and he complains that it looses performance after a year.