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Limited-time deal: Apple 2024 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M3 chip: 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display, 8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD Storage, Backlit Keyboard, 1080p Fac - $989.00

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Just came across this that Amazon is having a special on the newer MacBook Air with the M3 chip. Seems like a decent deal but don't kill me on it. I'm neither a Mac or PC fan just came across this and looking for a deal for my kids seems like this might be a pretty good offer at this point, take it or leave it. Your choice just wanted to share to the community. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX23V2ZK
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Model: Apple MacBook Air 13.6" with M3 Chip (Early 2024) Midnight 8-Core / 8-Core 8GB 30W Adapter 256GB SSD

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lesterhung
04-27-2024 at 10:03 PM.
04-27-2024 at 10:03 PM.
Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
That 8gb on Mac slowed down significantly after a month. I only use office and chrome with 10 tabs. It's slower than my i3 1220p with 12GB ram $259 laptop. I recommend against anyone buying it unless you are those people who can not even differentiate 60hz and 120hz screen side by side.
8GB what do you expec in 2024?
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04-28-2024 at 12:18 AM.
04-28-2024 at 12:18 AM.
Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
That 8gb on Mac slowed down significantly after a month. I only use office and chrome with 10 tabs. It's slower than my i3 1220p with 12GB ram $259 laptop. I recommend against anyone buying it unless you are those people who can not even differentiate 60hz and 120hz screen side by side.
I have a 2012 MacBook which seems plenty fast for what 99% of us are doing
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04-28-2024 at 08:28 AM.
04-28-2024 at 08:28 AM.
Quote from trip1ex :
yeah and even better if one stocks up on discounted apple gift cards.
true!
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m_ajmera
04-28-2024 at 03:47 PM.
04-28-2024 at 03:47 PM.
I have a M1 Mac Mini with 8GB RAM and it does fine with most day to day activities like browsing, email, occasional RAW photo editing on Affinity Photo. I don't have a need for video processing but for my needs the 8GB performs just fine.
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AnthonyL5622
04-28-2024 at 04:56 PM.
04-28-2024 at 04:56 PM.
I have a M2 15" 8gb and have had zero issues over the past year. Had the old air before that with no issues same spec.
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04-29-2024 at 11:15 PM.
04-29-2024 at 11:15 PM.
Does the 8GB M3 chip exist due to yield issues? I mean, the only other reason Apple would keep it around is because…it sells. Right?

That said, M4 better start with 12GB minimum.
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UniquePollution582
04-30-2024 at 08:22 AM.
04-30-2024 at 08:22 AM.
Quote from SennamonTea :
For those with trigger fingers… 8gb in 2024 is indeed a travesty. If you really want it you need at least 16gb.

Unless the only thing you do is have no more 1-5 tabs open at once on browser and do VERY light office work.

if that's the case just grab a m1 MacBook for way cheaper

However I will say if you plan to do any video editing with h265 codec m3 chips can decode and encode which is way faster. But I would still suggest a 16gb for creative work

I can have like 30 tabs of youtube, ChatGPT, run 50 epochs on large data sets so you're wrong here unfortunately.
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UniquePollution582
04-30-2024 at 08:26 AM.
04-30-2024 at 08:26 AM.
I know many are hung up on the 16gb ram option. I've had this laptop for about a month now, the only semi crashes I have had is from leaving my laptop on sleep mode for too many days.

Besides that, my m3 is lighting fast, able to handle multiple tabs, excel, powerpoint, obsidian, pyCharm, my terminal and some youTube videos without a single performance issue.

I also work with kaggle data sets and was surprised how well I was able to train a model on this light laptop. If your tasks are heavier than what I described I recommend a desktop you virtual machine to with a cheaper laptop.
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04-30-2024 at 10:14 AM.
04-30-2024 at 10:14 AM.
Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
That 8gb on Mac slowed down significantly after a month. I only use office and chrome with 10 tabs. It's slower than my i3 1220p with 12GB ram $259 laptop. I recommend against anyone buying it unless you are those people who can not even differentiate 60hz and 120hz screen side by side.

That's a problem with chrome and how it uses ram. I have the same issues with it on both macOS and windows. Try the same thing with safari and I bet you won't have issues.
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Spankybean
05-01-2024 at 07:35 AM.
05-01-2024 at 07:35 AM.
I have a Mac mini m1 with 8GB and it runs circles around my work laptop with 32GB. Don't compare Mac to windows with respect to memory, it's not an apples to apples comparison. If you're doing light duty work, this is completely adequate for most. If you're doing heavy workloads, get something more powerful. If you have a HS or college student that just needs laptop with an insane battery life, anything from m1-m3 base model is an excellent pick.
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05-02-2024 at 12:08 PM.
05-02-2024 at 12:08 PM.
Quote from SlickCrayon1512 :
That 8gb on Mac slowed down significantly after a month. I only use office and chrome with 10 tabs. It's slower than my i3 1220p with 12GB ram $259 laptop. I recommend against anyone buying it unless you are those people who can not even differentiate 60hz and 120hz screen side by side.

I remember when the 8GB m1 mini came out and I bought one. I was absolutely crucified and continously down voted on here for saying that 8GB was not enough and it was coming to a crawl and crashing and when I bought a 16GB it ran perfectly. People believed random articles over real world experience. Bunch of lemmings! 😅
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srikanthkm
05-02-2024 at 02:37 PM.
05-02-2024 at 02:37 PM.
bestbuy is 1099$ now. only at amazon its availble

thanks.
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tuanmle
05-02-2024 at 04:54 PM.
05-02-2024 at 04:54 PM.
Not slick. Even with Apple silicon, it is 2024 please stop posting close to $1k machine with 8gb ram and call it a deal. Should be a ban.
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qning
05-02-2024 at 06:12 PM.
05-02-2024 at 06:12 PM.
M1 8GB 256GB worked fine for me, but when upgraded to M3 I went with 26GB RAM.
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05-03-2024 at 07:08 PM.
05-03-2024 at 07:08 PM.
Quote from tuanmle :
Not slick. Even with Apple silicon, it is 2024 please stop posting close to $1k machine with 8gb ram and call it a deal. Should be a ban.
Hard.......


Agree.


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