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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Casteil »

caymanjim wrote: post #676
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 no notch on the M1 Air. Are you expecting one? Notches are terrible and are enough all alone to make me change what I'll buy.

The presence of the notch is offset by extra pixels added to the screen height.

Considering the way MacOS's top menu works, notches are a non-issue and you're ultimately getting more screen real estate than the non-notched variants.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Casteil »

nico_h wrote: post #236
vishnugupta wrote: post #201

MacBook Air M2 will most probably replace my current 2018 MacBook Pro. My only gripe with MacBook Air M1 was crappy RAM which they addressed (24GB). It's still less than what I have (32GB) I expect M2 will make up for that.

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.

> MY only gripe with the M1 and M2 Air the lack of support for more than a single external screen.

Definitely the most valid complaint about it. Apple always seems to heavily encourage customers to spend "just a little" more.

It's really hard to justify the M2 Air if you want more than 8/256GB; by the time you upgrade to 16/512GB, you're approaching 14" M1 pro price territory which has a better screen (with MiniLED backlighting & local dimming) and better sound too. I'm very happy with mine and have zero regrets.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by vegai_ »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Personally, I think the all-in USB-C was a brilliant one. A better-looking USB-C/A adapter would have made it bearable.

I wasn't missing HDMI at all.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by akho »

cwp wrote: post #268
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.

> the worst the Mac has ever been No. No no no. The worst was the Amelio era.

That era lasted from February 1996 to July 1997. I don’t think you can call it an era. Maybe a transition period.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by tluyben2 »

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.

I exchanged my 8gb air for 16gb and it's perfect. Really cannot get it bogged down. Definitely now that most things are Apple Silicon compiled; before that it was a bit more problematic.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by fennecfoxy »

bawolff wrote: post #729
plonk wrote: post #626

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Correcting someone's language is always ok as long as it's done respectfully, which it was. I'm sure people that speak English as a second language really appreciate it, otherwise if nobody tells 'em they're using something incorrectly then they're never get to learn!

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by idk1 »

Nobody here seems to be discussing which colour they like the most, so I'll start that thread.

I am split between the silver, which I have always had since the Powerbook G4. And the new Midnight, which is brand new, and I think the colour of a dark laptop I've always wanted.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by idlehand »

fennecfoxy wrote: post #757
bawolff wrote: post #729

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Correcting someone's language is always ok as long as it's done respectfully, which it was. I'm sure people that speak English as a second language really appreciate it, otherwise if nobody tells 'em they're using something incorrectly then they're never get to learn!

Yup - I owe my above-average native fluency to my mother's incessant correcting, and my English proficiency to countless kind strangers on the internet.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by gorbypark »

yosito wrote: post #5

I'm excited to get my hands on one of these. I'm a US citizen living in Hungary, and hoping to get my hands on a US version ASAP. I'm debating if it will be easier to order from Apple in the US and ship it via a third party to the EU, or order in the EU and have the keyboard swapped out after I get it. I'm mostly nervous that if I don't order right away, it will be sold out and hard to get my hands on for a few more…

If you order from Apple in the EU (to a friends place for example) you get a choice of keyboards. Apple generally ships direct from China for online orders. I have a US keyboard Mac purchased in Spain.
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