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Amazon has
Select 15.3" Apple M2 MacBook Air Laptops (2023) on sale below for prices starting
from $1049.99.
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Available:
- 256GB Solid State Drive:
- 512GB Solid State Drive:
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At $1250 for 512gb, this feels like a better deal.
I'd buy this 15" / 512gb M2 if I was in a buying cycle.
For comparison, in Mar '23 I paid $1499 for 14" M1 Pro 16gb/512gb
It's a good machine but I overpaid.
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Caveat emptor.
I was strongly considering getting an M1 Air, but ended up with a Dell business laptop refurbish from woot for $160. Upgraded the memory to 16gb ($23) and put in a 2GB NVMe drive ($60). It's fast enough for everything but gaming.
Scored an M1 Mac Mini for $300 from a local buyer which seems to be where the real value is...
Also, Just a heads up I haven't had a lot of luck with android VMs on MacOS as most of the best standalone ones aren't well supported on apple silicon ( unless you are talking about android studio for your own applications, that is supported). If anyone has a suggestion for this outside of android studio I'd love to hear it.
My wife has been a Mac user for a while and I appreciate that the previous Macs really held up. Her current Mac is 10 years old. However, more memory/HD are two things that can really extend the life of a computer and those are two things Apple locks you out of. It makes it really hard for me to willingly hand over so much cash for a system that is already gimped at time of purchase. Yes, you can get soldered Windows machines. In fact I have an HP "Surface" with such limitations. But when it was released in 2017 8gb, 256gb were more impressive and for the same money I could have decided to go for a different laptop with more upgradability for the same money. When you add it Apple's decidedly unfriendly right to repair efforts it's just so much harder to want to buy a current Apple computer even though I like so much about them (great track pad, very good screens, decent keyboards on the latest models, very good battery life).
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- m2 is ofc excellent for mobility. battery life cleans the floor with pc easily. processor is speedy enough and good clean performance. I would definitely get 16gb but I would not feel handicapped at 8gb because quite frankly if you are desperate for ram why are you doing that kind of work on a tiny mba?
- there's some wierd mba things. most notably is shockingly poor support for more than one monitor. anything more than that you have to buy an expensive hub (like $200). also doesn't support things like dell usb c chaining.
- and of course, the ports. you get two. that's it.
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