Apple MacBook Air (4 Colors): 13.6", M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Expired

It's called pricing strategy. It's keeps the base model cheap, so that normal people can get a cheaper laptop. Things like the 700$ MacBook Air m1 would not be possible if not for this pricing strategy.

And again, I can already tell you never used a Mac. Compare a 8gb windows laptop and 8gb MacBook Air, and the MacBook Air would smoke the windows laptop in everyway

$899 at Apple Edu wait for back to school $150 gift card. 3% back with Apple Card. Alternatively buy iTunes gift cards from certain vendors that sell for 10% discount to get even more saving.

I was looking for new computers. And is Woot safe? I have never heard of it before.

Woot is basically Amazon. They sell stuff that AMZ can't get rid of, or open box stuff at decent deals.

Very silly comment. Apple gets their BOM parts, like memory and other ICs, for dirt cheap because they drive so much volume at their suppliers. Their strategy is actually a COBM play where they have very high margins on their HW sales. You are paying for the brand. It's OK to like Apple products and buy them, but they are not doing you any favors.

It's also very silly to think that a $1000 Windows laptop couldn't benchmark similarly to a $1000 Mac laptop.

Very silly comment. Apple gets their BOM parts, like memory and other ICs, for dirt cheap because they drive so much volume at their suppliers. Their strategy is actually a COBM play where they have very high margins on their HW sales. You are paying for the brand. It's OK to like Apple products and buy them, but they are not doing you any favors.

It's also very silly to think that a $1000 Windows laptop couldn't benchmark similarly to a $1000 Mac laptop.

Very silly comment. Apple gets their BOM parts, like memory and other ICs, for dirt cheap because they drive so much volume at their suppliers. Their strategy is actually a COBM play where they have very high margins on their HW sales. You are paying for the brand. It's OK to like Apple products and buy them, but they are not doing you any favors.

It's also very silly to think that a $1000 Windows laptop couldn't benchmark similarly to a $1000 Mac laptop.

pay for the brand? There was a time when only cool kids carried a machine with mac logo. long ago. now macs are so pervasive out of the normal boring corporate words it's beyond just branding of the apple logo.

+ seamless integrated eco-system with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, etc.

+ many macOS and iPad integrations such as iMessage. RCS coming soon is a non-factor while many of us enjoyed iMessage and not have to ever lift up to look at the phone while we're on a Mac or iPad.

+ robust os, certainly I favor it vs. Windows with endless updates on drivers and 3rd party stuff and have to re-install or remove many bloatware that I don't want from the initial install. I don't remember how many times I've gotten blue screen of death (too many) but I recall less than 5 white screen of death in macOS in the past 7 years.

+ many good starter software that you can use without additional purchase or worrying about getting a pirated copy if you are on Windows and didn't want to buy software. iMovie (it's no premier but it's free), productivity if you need basic local editing instead of using web google doc etc, garage band, etc.

+ rtg and favored by many dev for the more recent work such as the L-LLMs. Where can you get a Windows laptop with GPU that has access to 64+GB of RAM? You can't macOS on macPro with 96GB of RAM? no problem. Not that I have a language model I need to run. You can't even run a 26GB language model on $3000 Windows laptop on the GPU but you can do it on $3000 Macs for sure since you can get to 32-48GB unified memory which the GPU can access enough of it to load the 26GB model into memory.

+ better support than running WSL if you want a *nix type subsystem.

+ never had to install adobe acrobat reader to view PDF. avoided a gazillion updates for vulnerabilities. Not to say macos never had any vulnerabilities but certainly no adobe helped a ton as that was a huge attack surface.


paying for the "brand" -