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expired Posted by reptarSnax • Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 10:05 PM
MacBook Air Laptops: 13.6" M2 Chip (2022) $899, 13.3" M1 Chip (Late 2020)
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Soldered ram and cpu are due to thickness and speed. Soldered ram CAN run like 1.5x as fast as slotted.
Apple does it for greed, because they can charge $200 upgrade for a $20 ram stick or ssd upgrade.
I own several apple products, not a hater.
for office duties, there are pretty good windows alternatives. as someone mentioned, a second hand Dell Latitude 7300 or 7390 series (13.3" FullHD Touch, Intel 8th gen, 16GB, 256GB NVMe, 10+ hour battery) is a solid buy. you could auction one of this (in pretty good conditions) for less than $200 on eBay (I've done that several times). you buy a new battery (~$30) just in case and you're good to go.
if you want a new laptop, an HP Aero 13 (I've got one) is also a great alternative (13.3" FullHD, Ryzen 5, 6+ hour battery, less than 1kg!!!) for $600 give or take.
but none of them comes close to the staggering 16+ hour battery of my MacBook Air M1. build quality is great. the laptop feels solid (although it feels cold too, I prefer the warmer but more flimsy Aero 13). people say 8GB is not enough in 2023. I was one of them too. and I am for Windows laptops. but the M1 processor (and assume the M2 too) is really efficient managing the RAM. probably with some RAM intensive tasks you will notice the memory deficit. but for normal usage you won't. storage is lame, that is true. but if you have a cloud service you won't need more anyways. and something that is not talked about enough. the audio is impressive. I can't understand how such an small laptop produces that audio quality. also, you can charge the laptop with a 20W phone charger (my Aero 13 needs +45W chargers and doesn't work with some of them).
TLDR, the MacBook Air M1 is a solid buy. sincere advice from an apple hater.
Razer, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung
Those are your options.
I have a $3k+ Windows machine given to me by my work.
My wife's M1 16GB Macbook Air runs circles around the Dell XPS and cost $1300 LESS
Love the people that come into Apple deal threads just to crap all over Apple's products
Enjoy using the trash that's out there ill keep loving my iPhone 15 Pro Max, 16" Macbook Pro, my iPad for easy travel movie viewing and document work, my Airpods and Airpods Pro the best wireless earbud sets on the market literally created and dominated a whole new product segment bluetooth ear buds.
But yeh you are right a few people had issues with the display ribbon and Apple is a trash company
Razer, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung
Those are your options.
I have a $3k+ Windows machine given to me by my work.
My wife's M1 16GB Macbook Air runs circles around the Dell XPS and cost $1300 LESS
Love the people that come into Apple deal threads just to crap all over Apple's products
Enjoy using the trash that's out there ill keep loving my iPhone 15 Pro Max, 16" Macbook Pro, my iPad for easy travel movie viewing and document work, my Airpods and Airpods Pro the best wireless earbud sets on the market literally created and dominated a whole new product segment bluetooth ear buds.
But yeh you are right a few people had issues with the display ribbon and Apple is a trash company
95% of users are not using the full potential of any current cpu... so benchmark jerking is not that important as it was 10 years ago.
I was a apple fanboy a decade ago but realize i did not want to be locked into an $$ ecosystem. My "thrash" product can easily view documents and movies as well. My sony buds sounds great too. Thank you.
That being said, i think this is a great deal on the mac air.
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m2 has magsafe, so if you accidentally trip on the wire while it's charging, it won't bring down the whole laptop
I personally got an m2. someone else in another thread pointed out that it will have a few more years of updates.
Without question, it is the BEST laptop I have ever used when it comes to the whole package: fast, light, astounding battery life, durable, stylish.
I would imagine the M2 would even better. Seriously, Laptops used to have major compromises in some aspect (weight, speed, screen, etc) but this one was a home run for Apple. Rivals the original iBooks, which changed the whole industry when they came out.
The 16gb/512gb are going to last much longer than 8gb/256gb models, its pure facts. Even Apple supports this statement in their TBW specs and tech support.
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I am using a 2017 MacBook Pro. And I'm starting to see signs of slowing down but not totally unusable. iMessage does takes a few minutes to update every time I open it. Software updates will start to fade out. Would you upgrade to the M2 now or wait for the 2024 MBA at this point?
Perhaps if I do a factory reset I can get some more life out of it? Thoughts?
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