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Apple Education Store has Apple Macbook Air M2 13.6" Laptop + $150 Apple eGift Card (Email Delivery) starting at $1,099. Shipping is free.
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- 13.6" 2560x1664 500-nit True Tone Liquid Retina display
- Apple M2 octa-core processor / octa-core graphics processing unit / 16‑core Neural Engine
- 8GB LPDDR4X 3733MHz RAM
- 256GB PCIe solid state drive
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera
- Backlit Magic Keyboard w/ Touch ID
- Four-speaker sound system
- 802.11ax WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.0
- 52.6 WHr battery
- macOS
- Weight: 2.7 lbs.
- Ports
- 2x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) w/ USB4 support
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Includes 30W USB-C Power Adapter
- 1-Year AppleCare Warranty
Editor's Notes
Written by RevOne | Staff- About this deal:
- This deal offer $100 off (8.33% savings) the listed retail price of $1199 (before counting the $150 gift card).
- Ratings & Reviews:
- Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars by PCMag.
- About this store:
- Click here to view Apple Store's return / exchange policy.
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Apple Education Store has Apple Macbook Air M2 13.6" Laptop + $150 Apple eGift Card (Email Delivery) starting at $1,099. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member dh010447 for finding this deal.
Thanks to community member dh010447 for finding this deal.
- Note: Gift card added to cart automatically during checkout.
- 13.6" 2560x1664 500-nit True Tone Liquid Retina display
- Apple M2 octa-core processor / octa-core graphics processing unit / 16‑core Neural Engine
- 8GB LPDDR4X 3733MHz RAM
- 256GB PCIe solid state drive
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera
- Backlit Magic Keyboard w/ Touch ID
- Four-speaker sound system
- 802.11ax WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.0
- 52.6 WHr battery
- macOS
- Weight: 2.7 lbs.
- Ports
- 2x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) w/ USB4 support
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Includes 30W USB-C Power Adapter
- 1-Year AppleCare Warranty
Editor's Notes
Written by RevOne | Staff- About this deal:
- This deal offer $100 off (8.33% savings) the listed retail price of $1199 (before counting the $150 gift card).
- Ratings & Reviews:
- Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars by PCMag.
- About this store:
- Click here to view Apple Store's return / exchange policy.
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Imho, the M1 air at the 999 (and sale price of 8-850) was a good deal, but it's too hard to excuse 8/256 in a $1300 laptop.
I will be completely honest in saying that while using my MacBook or Dell XPS laptop, I don't notice that one is any better (performance-wise) than the other. They run different OS's but the MacBook definitely isn't night/day better than the Dell or vice versa.
With regards to minimal RAM and swap to SSD, we'll see how the SSD wear is on that Mac SSD in a few years vs a system with 16/32GB RAM, where swap to disk is minimal. And while SSD is fast, RAM is magnitudes faster.
Having the flexibility to upgrade RAM or SSD is great. Buy small, pay less to upgrade yourself compared to giving Apple 10X more money for the same thing and having it fixed in there for life.
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MacOS certainly has plenty of quirks, and while the M1 is a good processor, without a hibernate mode, I find my 13 MBP actually lasting less than my prior Windows laptop -- given I only use it an hour or two per day. My Windows laptop would hibernate and I'd come back a day or two later and I'd still have almost the same battery life remaining, meanwhile my Macbook has drained 15-20%.
Some people are married to the Apple ecosystem, and that's fine. But in 2022, charging $1300 for a computer with 8/256 is a complete ripoff. That's where my issue lies. The original M1 Air was a good deal when on sale. But the higher end models, and/or any upgraded RAM/Storage get into the realm of F-U pricing.
For day-to-day usage, something like this below would be more than enough for 95% of people. More RAM, more storage.
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And for those who want a 16", this would be solid at a fraction of the price of the 16MBP.
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There is no such thing as a sleep mode on the PC: the machine will turn the fans to high and drain the battery within hours, even if I close browser and other windows.
Granted, my IT department may run some funky software in the background, however I couldn't identify it.
On the other hand, my 2016 MBP will keep its battery for weeks in sleep mode (after simply closing the lid) and it will come back instantly when I open the lid.
They feel like from different universes.
Also, my 2016 MBP can run circles around the brand new windows machine when it comes to usual daily tasks, such as browsing web (granted the Dell is with a somewhat modest i5, 11th gen, 2.6 Ghz, 16 GB of RAM, however the MBP also has 16 GB of ram and a 6 year old intel i7)
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16 GB on a Windows machine mean nothing when compared to a Mac. Quality, performance and optimization are the attributes that you are likely missing.
I'm no IT guy but I know that M1 and M2 are a game changer and they even use the ram differently, to a point where for most users, the amount of ram isn't very important due to almost instant swap and access to SSD and CPU.
If you are a professional, the cost of the upgrades on a Mac will be worth it and not a problem for you.
Otherwise you probably don't need those upgrades.
I will be completely honest in saying that while using my MacBook or Dell XPS laptop, I don't notice that one is any better (performance-wise) than the other. They run different OS's but the MacBook definitely isn't night/day better than the Dell or vice versa.
With regards to minimal RAM and swap to SSD, we'll see how the SSD wear is on that Mac SSD in a few years vs a system with 16/32GB RAM, where swap to disk is minimal. And while SSD is fast, RAM is magnitudes faster.
Having the flexibility to upgrade RAM or SSD is great. Buy small, pay less to upgrade yourself compared to giving Apple 10X more money for the same thing and having it fixed in there for life.
also lol at your macbook pro apparently losing 15-20% while its asleep, you have a crypto mining virus on a mac (somehow.) if you leave a m1 mbp open with the screen on and turned off sleep altogether it wouldnt even lose 20% in 24 hours, thats how efficient they are.
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16 GB on a Windows machine mean nothing when compared to a Mac. Quality, performance and optimization are the attributes that you are likely missing.
I'm no IT guy but I know that M1 and M2 are a game changer and they even use the ram differently, to a point where for most users, the amount of ram isn't very important due to almost instant swap and access to SSD and CPU.
If you are a professional, the cost of the upgrades on a Mac will be worth it and not a problem for you.
Otherwise you probably don't need those upgrades.
There is no such thing as a sleep mode on the PC: the machine will turn the fans to high and drain the battery within hours, even if I close browser and other windows.
Granted, my IT department may run some funky software in the background, however I couldn't identify it.
On the other hand, my 2016 MBP will keep its battery for weeks in sleep mode (after simply closing the lid) and it will come back instantly when I open the lid.
They feel like from different universes.
Also, my 2016 MBP can run circles around the brand new windows machine when it comes to usual daily tasks, such as browsing web (granted the Dell is with a somewhat modest i5, 11th gen, 2.6 Ghz, 16 GB of RAM, however the MBP also has 16 GB of ram and a 6 year old intel i7)
There are three modes in Windows for non-use -- Hibernate, Sleep and Off. Sleep uses the most battery (but not much), whereas Hibernate uses next-to-none as your RAM is saved to disk when it enters hibernate mode. Off, of course is Off (except in Mac Land where Off doesn't exist).
I close my laptops all the time and the battery lasts days. The fact your fans are running high speed is a hint something is not right. I've seen IT departments load up computers with so much spying/security/management software that the CPU is constantly above 25%.
Your single experience with a particular Dell Latitude from your IT department is not representative of all Windows laptops.
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And their chips do not blow away everything else. They're highly optimized for certain tasks for which they're great, but they fall behind in other tasks. At least they can virtualize now.
M1 Pro Macbook Pros has better multi-core performance, Mini LED screens, built in HDMI/SD card reader, a faster SSD, etc.
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Apple honestly should not have released the 8gb m2 system the way it is.
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