Does anyone know if this will support egpu?
It does
Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
191–200 of 392 posts
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#192I wonder if a lot of people are leaving the Mac ecosystem. Apple has been selling roughly ~19M Mac per year since 2012, and its new user to Mac has also been steady at ~50%. Apple has had 60M Mac user in 2012 announced in WWDC, and they has been nearing 100M since early 2017. I assume that actual number is larger than 90M at the time, so after nearly 20 Months, ~20M New Mac Users on board, it manage to add a total ~1…
> So for every 2 new Mac Users, there is one leaving.
The vast majority of this fluctuation could be down to Macs in the education and business leasing programs, rather than individual user-owners.
Specifically, schools are switching from Macs (in computer labs) and iOS devices (for students), to Chromebooks;
and some very large companies like IBM, who assign their employees Macs, are downsizing, and so returning/selling off those Macs.
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#193Summarizing a bit: * Starting price of $1,199 * 13" display with trimmed bezels * 2.75 lbs * Higher resolution screen ("Over 4M pixels") * HD front facing camera * No Touch Bar (Yay!) * No USB ports (Boo!) Assuming it doesn't have any odd dust or logic board issues cropping up in the next couple months, I can see myself getting one of these.
> HD front facing camera
It amazes me that notebook makers still advertise a 720p camera as being a feature. Are we never going to get anything more than 720p for webcams? Am I the only one who wants 4k video conferencing?
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#194The current line is a bit weird. MacBook 12” vs MacBook Air 13” vs MacBook Pro 13” without Touch Bar. I just wish they release a 14” MacBook. That would have made more sense.
I said this exact thing to a coworker less than 3 minutes ago!
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#195The difference to the entry level MacBook Pro seems very minimal. The form factor is pretty much 100% identical - the Pro even is listed to be thinner overall on the tech specs (0.59" vs 0.61), even though the Air is slightly thinner at the front. So it seems like the difference is 100$ price, 100g weight, and a slightly slower CPU.
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
New keyboard has a "4x more stable butterfly mechanism." I'm still limping along on a 2012 Air. This could finally be the upgrade.
What does "stable" mean? Keys don't stop working because of dust anymore..?
> What does "stable" mean?
They mean the entire keys descends evenly even if you press the key near the edge, see: https://youtu.be/afNHG3jyPU4?t=265
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
The EU has higher warranty coverage (2 years instead of one), and that is priced in. The second year of keyboard replacements surely drives up the price.
> The second year of keyboard replacements surely drives up the price. Isn't keyboard replacement free worldwide for 4 years?
That program doesn’t cover the 2018 models.
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought my first 15" MBP in 2006 after Apple switched to Intel. I was a student back then and I got it for about 1800 EUR. It was a beautiful machine, I could replace the battery myself without unscrewing anything, and if I wanted to upgrade the memory or HDD I could do that easily. Now here we are 12 years and a couple of Macs later. The current MBP is a bit more beautiful than the first one I got, it's noticeably…
> It just feels natural to look for an alternative at this point. I don't consider myself an Apple fanboy (I'd certainly not buy an iphone). But as far as laptops go, I don't see any viable alternative. I'd get a MBP for Mac OS alone, but the hardware is great too.
If anything, there's plenty of alternatives in laptop space. From Surfaces, Lenovos, Dells, Huaweis to bunch of other really good hardware that is only marginally different. Even the OSes have converged to the point where they differ in mostly in the keyboard shortcuts and types of annoyances you deal with.
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No USB ports No USB- A ports. There are still 2 USB ports, but they are Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports.
Gah, just what I need, another adapter. I guess in this day and age pretty much everything is in the cloud but still, I like having at least one USB port. A little surprised they kept the mic jack
I'm probably going to get crucified for this, but I wish they would have dropped the mic jack in return to a third TB3 port (so they would be accessible form either side of the computer).
Re: Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
#200Am I the only one, who is excited and considering buying this thing? I'm still on 2012 Air. It's good device, but showing it's age (slow CPU and only 4GB of Ram, the screen resolution is joke). But new Air seems very compelling to me. I'll miss the magsafe though. Also I would like to know if the SSD can be upgraded later (unofficially of course). 2012 Air SSD can be replaced, using cheap reduction (from proprietary…
I would wait about 6 more months to see how reliable the updated butterfly mechanism is. Having a failing keyboard is no fun, repair apparently takes ~1 week. The new Pro's (and probably the new Air) use a membrane to keep the dust out, but I'd wait and see if it works well enough.