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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by egypturnash »

cplusplusfellow wrote: post #666
shakezula wrote: post #600

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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.

How in the world do you invent (or at least properly commercialize on a mass scale) a feature like MagSafe and then remove it from your laptops? Jonny Ive made a lot good decisions in the days when he worked for Jobs, but my theory is that Jobs kept him from being a complete idiot. Tim Cook lost control of him and it went downhill massively after that.

The lure of only having two ports, both of which are identical, and can be used for absolutely everything, is powerful. It’s pretty cool to take the laptop home and plug in one single cable to hook it up to my desk, though it’s really only a few seconds less than separate power, usb, and audio cables once you figure out how to keep them from getting lost under the desk.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by kirso »

H12 wrote: post #609

I want a 15" version of this hardware so badly. It would be my perfect personal webdev machine, assuming no significant M2 thermal issues. My workflows are all lightly threaded and CPU bound, so I don't benefit much from the Pro/Max/Ultra SKUs. So considering the base M1/M2 meets my performance needs, nothing else really comes close when it comes to portability/battery life. All I really crave is a bit more screen re…

Always wondered, where is the thin line between where you are ok with M2 Air and M1 Pro/Max... would you mind elaborating how you drew it?

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by kllrnohj »

velcrovan wrote: post #689
kllrnohj wrote: post #361

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> 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…

Linus offhandedly said the M1 had “disappointing performance” when it first came out. He’s got opinions but he’s not super credible.

The LTT review I was referring to was by Anthony, not Linus. I don't recall Linus ever saying the M1 was "disappointing performance" anyway, nor how they wouldn't be considered a credible review? Just because a reviewer doesn't give the review you want doesn't mean it's not credible.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Nursie »

dewey wrote: post #328
Nursie wrote: post #322

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> Which typical Air buyer needs 16gb ram The developer for whom a macbook air brings a huge amount of power? I mean, they aren't low-end when compared to the general laptop market, they're awesome!

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.

> A developer is really not the typical Air buyer

They may be the target of the pro line, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the performance of the M1 attracted more developers to the Air line. I saw no reason to go to the 'Pro' when I got mine.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by 0xabe »

azangru wrote: post #673
noarchy wrote: post #460

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Do you think there is anyone here who didn't understand exactly what they meant?

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In my grad school AI class I turned in a paper that I ran through a script (that I wrote) that jumbled the letters like this. The topic was related to the power of the human brain. The professor didn’t catch the double meaning and made me resubmit it normally.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by kirso »

april_22 wrote: post #593
mediaman wrote: post #591

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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

I have the 16 gig version since 2020. Overall its the best machine I have ever owned but even then, maybe in 10% of the cases when too many chrome tabs are opened, VSCode and a bunch of other apps are in, I can sometimes notice the slow down but its not super critical.

I did have severe issues with Kernel Panics, the laptop would just blink a pink pixelated screen and restart but that has been fixed.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by turtlebits »

donny2018 wrote: post #457
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 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.

Theres no need to watch memory/swap, just use it as it is intended. IME, 8gb is plenty.

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Post by bawolff »

plonk wrote: post #626
noarchy wrote: post #460

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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.

There is a thin line between times when this is true, and times when people are just being obnoxiously pedantic.
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