Apple Store is offering their
Apple MacBook Air M2 Chip Laptop on
sale/pre-order with
Apple Education Discount listed below. Additionally, earn
$150 Apple eGift Card w/ purchase (
automatically added to cart).
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
dineshkumar.erd for finding this deal
Note, ensure that you purchase this device on your verified Apple Student Discount account to avoid any issues/any verification status.
This product is currently available as a pre-sale and available starting June 13, 2023
Available Products(s)
Specs/Key Features- Apple M2 Chip w/ 8-Core CPU/10-Core GPU/16-Core Neural Engine
- 15.3" Liquid Retina Display w/ True Tone + 1080p FaceTime HD Camera
- 8GB Unified Memory
- 256GB/512GB Solid State Drive SSD
- Backlit Magic Keyboard w/ Touch ID
- MagSafe 3 Charging Port
- 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter
- Two Thunderbolt/USB 4 Port
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Before speaking on product performance. Please test it for yourself. Apple's new M series computers run laps around any Windows machine I have ever owned. I am a long-time user of Windows and will recommend these new Macbooks to anyone.
I disagree as 8gb is good enough for the 99% of the folks here. I would even argue spend the money on more storage than the ram. 8GB RAM on a mac OS is a much different (AND MUCH BETTER) experience than 8GB on a windows 10/11 OS.
I have had 30 chrome tabs open with no delays while playing music and doing everyday regular stuff.
Only get 16GB if you're the 1% that needs that extra BEYOND netflix, youtube, casual gaming, 100+ chrome tabs.....
exactly... save the money and ignore the people spitting out random nonsense "16GB RAM is much better than 8GB on a Mac OS". They watch too many youtube videos of benchmarks (like Max), that 99% of the people will NEVER hit. 8GB is more than enough.
Also, just let people buy what they want. If everyone bought the "best value" computer then we'd all have the same thing. Why care so much about what people spend their money on?
(Of course Dell's screen will be better in resolution with that option but FHD screen vs Mac's 2K screen are similar diff as well.)
EDIT: Seems InifinityEdge allows 4050 as well, so $1999 as lowest price with 3.5K display for XPS 15.
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No option to use GC if I check out using payments.
Anyone know how to get around this issue?
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You can find cheaper laptops and you can find better laptops, but the 13 and now 15" Airs at their list price or Edu discounts will not disappoint, I think.
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It isn't that 8GB is enough. It is just that when 8GB runs out, the SSD is fast enough to swap out stuff. Nothing special for Mac, except you can't replace the SSD either, so if that 256GB of storage fails, you are out $1000.
It is especially disastrous if you keep your storage more than 90% full, because with flash it needs empty space to do something called wear leveling. If you keep your drive full, all the swapping will be done to the same regions on the SSD over and over and that significantly reduces the lifespan (rather than 100s of TBW rated, it could be shortened to less than 10TBW without write leveling).
Anyway. I'm here to say, the 24GB Mac Mini for students looks like a great deal because of the additional giftcard. And you can attach an external storage to it without much problem.
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