Best Buy has for
Plus or Total Paid Memberships:
Apple 13.6" MacBook Air (2022, Select Colors) on sale for
$899.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.
Available Colors:
Specs:
- 13.6" 2560 x 1664 Liquid Retina Display
- Apple M2 8-Core Chip
- 8GB Unified RAM
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 8-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine
- Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.0
- Thunderbolt 3
- FaceTime Full HD 1080p Camera
- Backlit Magic Keyboard
- Force Touch Trackpad | Touch ID Sensor
- macOS
- Includes:
- 30W USB Type-C Power Adapter
- USB Type-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (6.6')
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I have the base Mac mini m1 with 8gb. I run dozens of browser tabs on it without it breaking a sweat. It can generate AI images locally (about 2 minutes per 512x512 image). I was very skeptical of Apple's move away from Intel but they hit it out of the park with these.
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Oh -- I upvoted just to cancel your downvote.
I have the base Mac mini m1 with 8gb. I run dozens of browser tabs on it without it breaking a sweat. It can generate AI images locally (about 2 minutes per 512x512 image). I was very skeptical of Apple's move away from Intel but they hit it out of the park with these.
Though conversely, they actually do have a lot of mobile games available since the M processors are ARM processors, same as mobile devices, so you can play the games on the Appstore. I don't really mobile game, so this wasn't a major thing for me, but it could be useful for many, esp those with kids.
Games aside, they've been out for a while now, so you won't have the early adopter issues that were a product of moving to ARM from x86. If you use some niche and/or legacy applications, it's worth looking up how those perform, but otherwise, most major applications are now natively supported.
My unraid server ran countless dockers full time on 8gb ddr5. It wasn't until I started doing full 4K UHD h265 transcodes with 7.1 audio that I ran into a bottleneck.
Im still amazed at people's assumption of how much ram they need. Either that or actual power users, company people who are in here looking. macOS does well with memory allocation too.
Looking at the 512 ssd and trading my 2018 MBP
With trade in and taxes (including Best Buy plus)
I am at around 980 from Best Buy
And 1140 from apple (plus the 150$ GC)
The Best Buy config is stock 8gb / 10gpu and apple 8gpu and 16gb ram
Apple is paying 315 and BB 360 for my old MBP.
I don't buy much from apple so not sure if I need the 150gc (that I am effectively paying for)
This is for regular use (email, browsing, videos and MS office)
I know there is a lot of debate about RAM. Is 16 gb really worth it? Planning to keep maybe 3 years…
Finally I am not a student but my wife has an edu. Email in case.
Anyway thoughts welcomed
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Mine only has 30 cycles too. This was a steal.
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