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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by eyelidlessness »

caymanjim wrote: post #696
code_runner wrote: post #681

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Have you given a notched device a fair shake? Not suggesting you haven’t, but I never notice the notch on my iPhone I figured it would drive me nuts

I could tolerate it on a phone, although I'd rather just have a rectangular screen with a bezel for the camera. The whole phone UI can be designed to accommodate it, and it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone. On a monitor, it would drive me insane; I'm regularly running things full-screen.

> it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone

So, you just use the home screen then?

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by conartist »

sylens wrote: post #92

Would be the perfect laptop if it could hook up to 2 external monitors instead of just one. For that reason, I have to go for the M2 Pro.

I just can't understand why it isn't supported. I thought the M1 was an oversight that they would correct with the M2.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by throwaway894345 »

pleb_nz wrote: post #706
pc86 wrote: post #605

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Oh man it's been a while since I've seen this particular flavor of needless pedantry. What a blast from the past!

Lol. I haven't heard someone define mac's and PCs as different like that in a long time. Apple did an amazing job to market it as such and create an us and them division. Imagine Tesla started marketing themselves as 'we're not a car, were a Tesla' Although true, it was some what meant in jest

That may all well be true, but nevertheless, virtually everyone understands and uses the “Mac vs PC” distinction.

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Post by saagarjha »

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.

Have you checked to see how much they are using? In general it's not much.

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Post by wmeredith »

burmer wrote: post #578

So strange there's no notch in the main picture on the announcement. The top bezel does not look the same as on the product page either, even aside from the notch, it's too thick. edit: the very last picture in the article also shows the wrong bezel. So strange...

There's a notch in pictures where the OS menu bar at the top is light, and it's hidden and looks like a thicker top bezel when it's dark.

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Post by saagarjha »

kingsleyopara wrote: post #691
vasili111 wrote: post #682

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Could you please provide the link about "hardware nested virtualization"?

While not officially confirmed, it seems likely as the A15 appears too ( https://nitter.net/dylan522p/status/1438313107231842304 ), and VMware seems pretty optimistic ( https://nitter.net/denniscdietrich/status/153456512761738035... ).

I have no idea why VMware is talking about EL3 access, these chips do not have EL3. They do have nested virtualization but it's not available in the system frameworks yet.

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Post by javajosh »

april_22 wrote: post #547
retrac98 wrote: post #286

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His videos are consistently brilliant. My go-to example for people who think "YouTuber" isn't a legitimate career.

Exactly. I espcecially think his content is extremly well thought out. Like when he compared all the iPhone models from first to last.

What's remarkable is that he's been doing this for over half his life. (He's recently been critiquing some of his early work. Quarter-life crisis perhaps? But he's living proof that putting in the hours, being consistent, and yes a little lucky, really pays off over time.)

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Post by javajosh »

mft_ wrote: post #645
epolanski wrote: post #595

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.

Totally agree. The new Air to my mind is decent value at $1199. But that then becomes 1499 EUR in Germany, for... some reason. And then you see that the entry level model is specced low, and to get a reasonable 16GB memory and 512GB SSD bumps it up to 1959 EUR, which is a very different level of purchase, and also most of the way to the cost of a comparable 14" M1 MacBook Pro.

It's the 20% VAT.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by javajosh »

herpderperator wrote: post #555
azemetre wrote: post #121

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I've been using my 2013 MBP for nearly a decade. Finally replaced it with a M1 MBP a few months ago. Honestly the 2013 still works great for what I do (web, videos, and dev work that doesn't involve spinning up multiple VMs ;) ), I figured it was time to upgrade and the supply chain issues don't seem to be letting up anytime soon. I might replace the battery in the old one. I'm hoping to get at least another decade o…

Are you sure that you can watch today's VP9/AV1 YouTube videos which would be software-decoded on a 2013 MBP without spinning fans incessantly?

I am sure you cannot since I also have a long-in-the-tooth 2013 MBPr, and YouTube can definitely heat it up.
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