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New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by wiseowise »

dataworm wrote: post #162
samatman wrote: post #108

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Better monitor, better speakers (much better in both cases), HDMI, SD. Fan, meaning less throttling on heavy workloads. Support for high-resolution and multimonitor setups. If any of these are attractive, you get the Pro. Apple's "Pro" branding has become increasingly meaningless but in the MacBook category, which I believe is where it originated, it's meant to suggest "media professional", a demographic which has re…

I think the parent meant the opposite: why buy an Air and not Pro?

No noise, no dust inside, lighter.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by jedberg »

owenversteeg wrote: post #600

Fun fact, the M3 Air is exactly the weight of one m3 air at room temperature; at 15C, one m3 of air at 1ATM is 1.23kg, which is the exact same weight as the M3 Air.

Ok this is really a fun fact! That had to be intentional right? I wonder if they added something to it just to make this true.

If it wasn't intentional they should incorporate it into their marketing -- "exactly the same weight as air!"

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by ponector »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #457
numbers wrote: post #355

I was recently buying a Dell laptop for my sister and it boggles my mind how most other companies (maybe Framework is an except) still have dozens or even 100s of SKUs for consumer laptops. I didn't enjoy the process of looking through dozens of various lines that Dell has and then other companies like Lenovo and HP earlier in the process, just to find a "mid-range usable computer with a decent screen". If you didn't…

I finally made the switch to Apple after being thoroughly frustrated with Windows laptops. It's not even close to a competition. Macbooks are just so far ahead of everyone else that you can't even compare them. Most Windows laptops have abysmal batteries, to the point that you can barely call them laptops. The trackpads are downright unusable. The keyboards are a hit or a miss. And for some reason, so many companies…

>>Anything even remotely within Macbook vicinity costs the same as a Macbook anyway.

It is not correct, unless you select minimal amount of ram and SSD. Select versions with proper amount of memory and MacBook becomes much more expensive than comparable windows machine.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by Dah00n »

DinaCoder99 wrote: post #580
itsoktocry wrote: post #474

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> Macbooks are just so far ahead of everyone else that you can't even compare them. They are awesome, but not perfect. Way over-priced storage and RAM upgrades, can't connect multiple monitors unless you pay up, and you're stuck with MacOS. Any one of these could be reason enough for people to look elsewhere.

> you're stuck with MacOS Interesting way of thinking about probably the biggest draw of the hardware.

Depends. To me, software is the thing that will keep me from Apple products. IMO Linux and Android are light-years ahead and are becoming even further ahead every year.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by kruxigt »

goosedragons wrote: post #541
nacs wrote: post #482

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You'll like the way Apple does their screens even more then. They're 3-5k screens but they essentially scale up their UI 3X so it still looks like a 1080p except 3x sharper. They are what Apple calls "Retina" displays.

If you can't see the extra sharpness it's not really a pro... A 13"-15" 1080p screen is pretty similar PPI to a 27" 4K display. This is pretty nice because if you have both at the scaling level elements are the same size on both.

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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Perepiska wrote: post #453
dzhiurgis wrote: post #382

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What? I’ve caught Safari using 22GB of memory another day. Open 1000tabs and it will kill any machine.

Since a person cannot look at 1000 tabs at the same time, most of the tabs can be frozen. I'm writing to you from Firefox which has 826 tabs right now.

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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by aae42 »

DinaCoder99 wrote: post #580
itsoktocry wrote: post #474

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Macbooks are just so far ahead of everyone else that you can't even compare them. They are awesome, but not perfect. Way over-priced storage and RAM upgrades, can't connect multiple monitors unless you pay up, and you're stuck with MacOS. Any one of these could be reason enough for people to look elsewhere.

> you're stuck with MacOS Interesting way of thinking about probably the biggest draw of the hardware.

i'd say the M processors are the biggest draw...

but yea, i agree, probably the 2nd biggest draw

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by yodsanklai »

numbers wrote: post #355

I was recently buying a Dell laptop for my sister and it boggles my mind how most other companies (maybe Framework is an except) still have dozens or even 100s of SKUs for consumer laptops. I didn't enjoy the process of looking through dozens of various lines that Dell has and then other companies like Lenovo and HP earlier in the process, just to find a "mid-range usable computer with a decent screen". If you didn't…

This will sound slightly provocative but I genuinely wonder: why would anyone buy anything else than an apple laptop? Gaming? ideology? budget constraints? lack of familiarity with MacOS?

They are marginally more expensive, but they also very easy to sell second-hand. I'm speculating that the monthly cost is on par with a PC.

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