Air M2 and Pro M2, one of them should just crash and burn, and you know which.
New MacBook Air with M2
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#622I really didn't like the Intel macbook air I had before. It was slow as hell. I ended up only using my macbook pro. Are the new macbook air with M1/M2 better?
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#623It's very tempting, but my MacBook Air M1 has been great and performance wise any improvement is probably barely noticeable in the day to day that I'd end up feeling like I just bought a new chassis. Which could still be nice.. although most of the time it's in clamshell attached to my monitor. I'll have to sleep on this!
I bought an M1 Air the day of the M2 announcement. $780 shipped on ebay for a mint laptop with 3 battery cycles. Battery life will be about the same, screen is good enough, 20% multicore boost is not worth an extra $450. M2 does look great though. Looks like M1 prices have dropped even more since I bought.
Are you using the Air for development? How does it hold up?
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#624Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but the silicone chips team now does You mean silicon. Silicone means something else. https://www.livescience.com/37598-silicon-or-silicone-chips-...
Do you think there is anyone here who didn't understand exactly what they meant?
I'm with you. HN pedants are so god damn annoying.
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#625Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but the silicone chips team now does You mean silicon. Silicone means something else. https://www.livescience.com/37598-silicon-or-silicone-chips-...
Do you think there is anyone here who didn't understand exactly what they meant?
Well, words do matter. This is HN...
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#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but the silicone chips team now does You mean silicon. Silicone means something else. https://www.livescience.com/37598-silicon-or-silicone-chips-...
Do you think there is anyone here who didn't understand exactly what they meant?
Getting grammar and spelling right makes for text that's much easier to read. Helping people remember these things is positive.
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MY only gripe with the M1 and M2 Air the lack of support for more than a single external screen. I feel like it's just a pure marketing play to only support more than one external screen on the 14" pro. They have Magsafe and two thunderbolt 3 / USB 4 ports, they could totally support 2 Apple studio displays, at least on the 24GB model.
Might you or someone else be able to say why the state of the art Macbook is not capable of driving two monitors? Does this apply to all model or is this only an issue on the 14" MBPs and Airs?
The M1 and M2 have the hardware to drive two displays (the internal counts as one). The M1 Pro and M1 Max support four displays and the M1 Ultra probably supports eight.
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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.
For me it's hardware nested virtualization but I'll be waiting for the M2 Pro.
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#629I really didn't like the Intel macbook air I had before. It was slow as hell. I ended up only using my macbook pro. Are the new macbook air with M1/M2 better?
yes, much better
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Long AAPL, you say? Or what else are you saying? I agree that Ive's influence will not be missed.
Aren't Macs basically a rounding error for the overall company?
Besides what other commenters mentioned, it is also the longest running revenue source for Apple.