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Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by jmyeet »

The 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 $1200 would be great. You feel less bad about losing it or breaking it or upgrading it more often.

Really happy to see this.

As an aside, having 8GB of unified memory even as an option in 2022 is a joke. It should just be 16Gb minimum.

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by terramex »

jbverschoor wrote: post #23

How many external screens?

> Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:

> One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by happyopossum »

bayindirh wrote: post #19
achow wrote: post #13

Macbook Pro 13" is smaller than Macbook Air at 13.6". What's the point of Macbook Pro 13"?

Pro is a dockable workstation with a small form factor. Pros have insane amount of internal bandwidth. M1 was able to edit 30 4K streams or 7 8K streams simultaneously IIRC.

The M2 air and the M2 13" Pro have the same internal bandwidth - it's the same chip, just one has a fan and one doesn't.

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by agloeregrets »

jbverschoor wrote: post #23

How many external screens?

Literally my only question. If they don't understand that then this is a massive market-research fail. I went Windows before the M1 Pro Macs just because I could not run two displays well on the Air (Displaylink sucks so so much).

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by copperx »

Finally, Apple has seen the light! This is going to be an instabuy for many, including me. This feels like 2012 when Apple introduced Retina displays: Everything that's good about Apple in a single package, and unavailable at any price anywhere else. The nitpicky in me will complain about the lack of a glass touchpad, but I feel Apple is justified in leaving it as a Pro feature.

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by fdgsdfogijq »

agloeregrets wrote: post #27
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #16

Just spent 4k on the M1 max. These chips are coming out too fast

M2 does not hold a candle to the M1 Pro or Max, don't worry. Every improved spec is much better in the M1 Pro/Max.

Yeah but my guess is soon the M2 Max will be revealed. Its probably already developed, they just need to wait six more months to reveal. Clearly apple is able to jump straight to the M2, but they are releasing M1 to maximize profit.

Re: Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

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Post by Escapado »

I am torn... One one hand I think I want this as an upgrade to my 2016 MBP, on the other hand the 14" Pro has a 120hz display. And although I mostly code on it on the go I got so used to 144hz on my desktop monitor that I kinda feel like an upgrade should include that too. I get that this would totally canibalize their more expensive models but one can dream.
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