Almost 10 years ago we purchased a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for approx 2K UK pounds. It's really surprising and disappointing that a decade later these same specs essentially cost the same!
Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
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#112I don’t buy 60hz displays in 2022. No way this comes without 120hz „Pro Motion“. Disgusting.
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#113Pricing looks excellent ($1200 to start); I was expecting a bigger bump. We'll see about the 16G price and availability.
No it doesn't. It's essentially Air with just a few incremental upgrades, the same chip just with a few updates. It's a money grab. They will keep selling Air for $999 and pressure consumers into a higher price, as they typically do/and is their business mantra.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
For web dev the base model (8GB RAM) MacBook Air M1 is a viable dev machine - makes the maxed out i7 MacBook Pro I had from work feel sluggish in comparison.
It’s viable but you’ll spend a lot of time with memory compression/swap working hard. Not a great experience IMO. Looking forward to upgrading from the 8GB air to a 24GB air now.
why does web development require so much memory and computing power?
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#115"One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz." [1]
Same for the new M2 Macbook Pro.
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#116Only 18% CPU performance improvement.. looks like we are finally getting diminishing returns.
3nm TSMC process isn't ready yet, we have to wait more for it. I agree that it's not a huge upgrade like what M1 was.
I completely agree with "not a huge upgrade", but calling it "diminishing returns" is way too extreme.
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#117Pricing looks excellent ($1200 to start); I was expecting a bigger bump. We'll see about the 16G price and availability.
16GB is $200 more, 24GB is $400 more. Not horrible but can't help feeling it should start at 16GB at this point.
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#118The 24GB unified memory is a really nice upgrade (the M1 MBA has 8GB upgradeable to 16GB). The CPU/GPU upgrades are predictable and wlecome but the memory is huge. A lot of development isn't CPU bound but is memory bound or at least can really benefit from more memory. This upgrade makes the MBA an entirely viable dev machine for many workloads. I have a MBP (Intel) but it's expensive. Getting a viable machine for $1…
I have the M1 air with 8GB and it's unusable with pycharm on an external 4K display.
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#119I am deciding on a new Laptop. I am still worried that my workflow (heavy on docker) will suffer under Apple Silicon. Has someone some (very) recent experience on Docker + M1/2?
Depends - I've had a world of pain with Python because of incompatibilities. It's not my main language though so if you're as deep down the rabbit hole as I am in my main languages you might be able to get it working.
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#120I drooled over the black Macbook waaay back in 2006, so happy it's back.
I'm a little sad they didn't have an actual dark color available for the M1 MBP (just light silver and medium silver), I assume it'll be offered on the next MBP.