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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by mediaman »

april_22 wrote: post #548
Aperocky wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M1 owner but since 2020, so probably the among the longest users. I'm tempted. I also think 3nm is going to beset with production problems, I don't think it's coming around anytime near.

I am reading that alot of users had issues with the 8gig model. If you have 8gigs, did you experience any perfomance issues?

I did - I believed all the '8 gig is fine' stuff at the beginning, and didn't like how much Apple charged for RAM. But for my work anyway it often starts having stuttering and slowness issues if I have too many things open. Otherwise it's quite fast.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by wiredfool »

whalesalad wrote: post #8

I’ve owned a lot of computers and my pre-retina MacBook Air was one of my faves. So much seat time, so many LoC written. I loved the wedge shape of the chassis for actual lap work. Disappointed they moved to the square chassis like other models but it’s so thin it might not be a dealbreaker.

Yeah, I had a 2012 era MBA, and it was basically the ideal laptop, until it didn't have the power to run XCode (so I bought a 2015 15"). The M1 Air is there again, fast enough, light enough, good enough keyboard, and incredible battery life.

I'm due for a work laptop upgrade soon, and I'm on the fence between a maxed MBA m2 and a 14" M1 Pro with 32G ram. It'll be mainly tethered to one big monitor, but light weight would be nice when commuting, as often as I do that.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by april_22 »

mediaman wrote: post #591
april_22 wrote: post #548

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am reading that alot of users had issues with the 8gig model. If you have 8gigs, did you experience any perfomance issues?

I did - I believed all the '8 gig is fine' stuff at the beginning, and didn't like how much Apple charged for RAM. But for my work anyway it often starts having stuttering and slowness issues if I have too many things open. Otherwise it's quite fast.

hm okay so i will maybe get the 16 gig version better

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by rootusrootus »

Pulcinella wrote: post #450
pc86 wrote: post #401

I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It's fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a little too slow for serious dev work, a little too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a little too short for my liking. I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I've ever used.

In a somewhat similar situation with the 2019 16 inch Intel MBP. I wouldn't say it's too slow, but it does get embarrassingly hot during regular use. Enabling low power mode disables turbo boost and keeps it much, much cooler, but plugging into an external monitor enables the discrete graphics card and the laptop gets hot again. Going to try to get a few more years out of it hopefully until Imagination Tech's hardwar…

The 16 inch Intel MBP was a machine I wanted to love. Big lovely screen, should be fast and capable, I was stoked to get it. But on the occasion where I have to take it off the charger and attend a zoom call, it gives me maybe 90 minutes of battery life, fan going full speed the whole time, trying to melt the desktop.

Fortunately I also have a 13 inch M1 MBP that has no such problem, and is easily my favorite MBP in many years.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by epolanski »

I was interested to pick when I saw the price in USD..

Then I realized the starting price in Italy for the 8GB version is 1829 euros, and more than 2100 to get 8 GBs of memory more.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by maybelsyrup »

joshspankit wrote: post #471
donny2018 wrote: post #457

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My M1 Air is a nearly perfect machine, but I continuously find myself looking at the yellow “memory pressure” graph and swap disk writes. I wish Apple never offered 8gb version, as I was surprised to find that MacOS wants to use more RAM than a Windows machine with the same amount of RAM.

If they gave us a way to actually disable the macOS features, 8GB would be very usable. But everything from regular wifi/bt scanning to photo tagging to adding all interactions to a giant Siri database so that the OS can suggest what it thinks you’re most likely to open at any given moment. These all need RAM and other resources even if you don’t have any open applications.

There aren't third-party ways to shut some of that stuff off? When I used OSX I remember a great app called OnyX [1] that could customize deeper, system-level stuff.

[1] https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/index.html

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Aperocky »

april_22 wrote: post #548
Aperocky wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M1 owner but since 2020, so probably the among the longest users. I'm tempted. I also think 3nm is going to beset with production problems, I don't think it's coming around anytime near.

I am reading that alot of users had issues with the 8gig model. If you have 8gigs, did you experience any perfomance issues?

I had 16g though. 8g would be horrible.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by hajile »

bastardoperator wrote: post #561
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.

My M1 MacBook Air is insanely fast and the battery life is easily the best I've ever experienced. If the M2 is anything like the M1 or better, I agree, these things are going to make Apple a nice chunk of change.

I suspect the best reason for upgrading is access to 24GB of RAM and maybe the hardware video encoders if that's your thing. Otherwise, M2 is a very solid iteration, but probably not worth dropping that much money if you already own an M1 system.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by shakezula »

cplusplusfellow wrote: post #244
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.

Honestly the keyboard prevented me from purchasing a MacBook from 2014 until 2020. I still despise the 2020 keyboard but I’ll reluctantly use it to type a password and then plug in a USB keyboard. The 2022 is a dream come true for me.

And mag safe made a comeback? And an HDMI port?! The M1 pro was a no-brainer to me when I was in the market for a new laptop.
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