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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 Schiendelman »

diffeomorphism wrote: post #527
cassianoleal wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What tops out at 8gb by the way? The previous gen Air gos up to 16Gb, and this gen's goes up to 24Gb.

Their website presentation tops out at 8. If I go to their store website it shows me only two options: - 8 core, 8 core gpu, 8gb, 256 - 8 core, 10 core gpu, 8gb, 512 No indication whatsoever that this 8gb is not fixed. Nor is the storage fixed. But the only way to find out is to try and buy it, at which point I can just turn the first model into the second or something else entirely. Also, none of the presented optio…

It says “configure yours on the next step.”

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Post by Schiendelman »

dijit wrote: post #416
standyro wrote: post #396

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I definitely have used multiple VMs in VirtualBox and Docker on a daily basis on my Macbook Air M1. It's a phenomenal machine.

With 8gb? I am aware that macOS is better than Linux with low memory conditions but I can’t imagine this, granted I have an older (2020) MacBook Pro, but I have ran out of ram and I specifically opted for the 32G one. As in: I got the infamous “your system is low on memory” dialog. All it took was teams, slack, chrome, MS word, docker (vm with default config) and 2 1G VMs invirtualbox

The M1 machines have hardware compression on data going into memory. It goes very very far.

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

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Post by grumpyprole »

coldtea wrote: post #344
grumpyprole wrote: post #111

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!

Yeah, only - the processor has several times more transistors and cores, - plus several special purposes devices for encoding video, AI tasks, and so on - the video performance is several times faster - the battery lasts 4 times as much, - the RAM is several times faster, - the SSD is 4-5x faster, - the display has twice the resolution and extremelly improved brightness and color rendition... and so on So dissapointi…

I never complained about the speed or battery life of the machine, so your mocking tone is unjustified. Apple's system-on-a-chip M1 architecture has essentially got a lot of its speed/efficiency gains at the expense of limiting RAM options. Today even web browsers running typical web pages consume gigabytes of RAM. So yes, 8GB of RAM for such expensive machines is disappointing for me personally. My work issued laptop has 32GB of RAM.

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Post by diffeomorphism »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #342
haswell wrote: post #286

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What do you propose, then? Should they just not say anything at all? Or is your contention that the product should not even exist?

Yes, they should say nothing at all. Instead of saying things like "This means that every Mac Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral." Carbon Neutrality is branding and does nothing to reverse CO2 or climate change. It is all green washing. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article256-the-carbon-ne... Better for the environment is never buying another computer. Yes, I am say…

> Better for the environment is never buying another computer.

Really? An older core2 computer uses like 10 times more electricity at idle than a halfway modern one. Also, since it is much less powerful, you might need multiple old computers to manage the sane workload.

I am completely unconvinced that wasting huge amounts of electricity is "better for the environment".

...but you could upgrade components. Yeah, and by now the only component in that computer that is still the same as when bought would be the case. So you threw out and bought 95% of a computer instead of 100%....

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Post by diffeomorphism »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #150
rnernento wrote: post #10

Why does my $500 Samsung Galaxy Book Flex have the webcam in a tiny little bezel and this thing has a giant notch?

Compare the webcams. 1080p resolution looks mighty different on some cameras than others and isn't a good descriptor by itself of quality.

Considering how the one in the studio display is famously bad, that is not reassuring at all.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/26/apples-studio-displays-poor-w...

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

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Post by diffeomorphism »

Schiendelman wrote: post #531
diffeomorphism wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their website presentation tops out at 8. If I go to their store website it shows me only two options: - 8 core, 8 core gpu, 8gb, 256 - 8 core, 10 core gpu, 8gb, 512 No indication whatsoever that this 8gb is not fixed. Nor is the storage fixed. But the only way to find out is to try and buy it, at which point I can just turn the first model into the second or something else entirely. Also, none of the presented optio…

It says “configure yours on the next step.”

Not in German, no. And even then, how would you know that ram is confugurable?

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Post by Toutouxc »

duxup wrote: post #331

Anyone do full time web dev work on an Air? I’m thinking of switching from PC land but not sure.

Yes, an M1 Air. I don't do containers, but everything else I use (mainly Ruby + Rails, Elixir + Phoenix) works nicely. No compatibility issues whatsoever.

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

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Post by Toutouxc »

StreamBright wrote: post #28

In Europe we are waiting for the M1 chip enabled Apple computers to arrive (as of the delivery). I ordered mine in January, still has not arrived.

That's brutal, where are you from? The Czech store doesn't show any delivery dates beyond August, even on weird CTO MacBooks.

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Post by Aeolos »

copperx wrote: post #402
fumar wrote: post #263

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Where did you catch that the trackpad was different than the Pros? My M1 Air has a glass trackpad.

I just checked and you are right, my M1 Air has a glass trackpad too. However, the trackpad on the 14" MBP is much smoother and more responsive; I thought it the difference was glass vs non-glass. It must be something else.

You are seeing the effects of the 120Hz screen: 8.3ms of display latency vs 16.6ms on a 60Hz screen.

Yes, it's noticeable.

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

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Post by voidr »

Feels like a downgrade to add the MagSafe charger, maybe if they would have been practical about it and added it to the opposite side and re-assured everyone that charging through USB-C is just as good.

Feels like a cash grab to get people to buy more obsolete MagSafe chargers instead of moving towards a world where chargers are ubiquitous and universal.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that they just didn't have the data capacity to add another USB-C port and wanted to free up one of the USB-C ports, however other manufacturers seem to be coping with this.

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