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Best Buy has the Apple MacBook Air 15" Laptop - M2 chip - 16GB Memory 1TB in Space Gray & Starlight for sale. This is the first time in this configuration with the additional colors. Midnight is also still available.
This deal is $100 cheaper that the previous with additional colors. This is the lowest price for this configuration that I have seen.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/appl...mpid=10451
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Just look at them side by side man. It's not rocket science.
I was just offering my own experience, which happened to stand in contrast to yours. For whatever reason you felt the need to invalidate my view, and act like your view was the only possible correct one. You could have just respectfully disagreed and left it at that. This is a deal discussion thread where varied experiences should be encouraged. If you think your opinion is the only one that matters, go start a blog instead.
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My M1 MBA used 4.1GB RAM with only istatmenu running. So I only have 3.9 GB free RAM left to use. My windows show 6.7GB in use with more background tasks including Norton antivirus, iCloud, WD discovery, Lenovo Vantage, etc., but I have 16GB total RAM. I still have 5.4 GB more ram left on windows than Mac.
From my test, Firefox and Chrome use similar amount of RAM on windows and mac. So I don't think Mac use less RAM for extra apps user run.
Overall Windows still win with extra RAM installed. And I can easily swap it to 32GB for $50.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/20...l-m3-chip/
This laptop, when I bought it, was $1500 but I had several thousand dollars expiring in card points, so ultimately I paid $900 out of pocket. I would never have bought a MacBook Pro for what "I" do (which is 90% of us - basic laptop use, shopping, paying bills, listening to music, media consumption, nothing too crazy) for $1500 because any cheaper laptop could do all these things and then some.
Then why did I even spend the $900? Well, this was my first MacBook, I wanted to experience MacOS, and literally no other laptop offered the kind of loudspeakers, build quality, and keyboard and touchpad experience like MacBook Pro. To this day, these are my most favorite parts about owning this MacBook Pro.
What I absolutely hate about this Intel based MacBook Pro is thermals. The laptop always runs hot, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. It was like this on day 1. And of course, the TouchBar is a mild annoyance but everyone hates on it anyway.
I am now at crossroads - should I get what I can (about 700 bucks cash at Best Buy or maybe 800 from a private party but even that's a bit of a stretch) and go to a 15" Air or 14" Pro?
The prices on these newer laptops are eye watering though! A 15" Air with merely two USB ports and no multi-screen support with 16 RAM and 512 storage cannot cost $1600, it's highway robbery to me.
Change specs in link
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/appl.../6534602.p
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Any thoughts?
Either machine will satisfy most users in terms of power, so just have to weigh those items. I went back to the 14" M2 MacBook Pro myself (It's got a lightly smaller footprint and weighs almost the same as the MBA anyhow).