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Limited-time deal: Apple 2024 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M3 chip: 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display, 8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD Storage, Backlit Keyboard, 1080p Fac - $989.00

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Just came across this that Amazon is having a special on the newer MacBook Air with the M3 chip. Seems like a decent deal but don't kill me on it. I'm neither a Mac or PC fan just came across this and looking for a deal for my kids seems like this might be a pretty good offer at this point, take it or leave it. Your choice just wanted to share to the community. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX23V2ZK
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Model: Apple MacBook Air 13.6" with M3 Chip (Early 2024) Midnight 8-Core / 8-Core 8GB 30W Adapter 256GB SSD

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PapaG87
04-26-2024 at 10:52 AM.
04-26-2024 at 10:52 AM.
Quote from KaatuPaadi :
Folks. Plz decide if 8gb is enoughnor not. I haven't opened mine yet which I got for 790..
We missed the memo where it was our responsiblitiy to make decisions for you. Google is a thing, get on it.
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helloredfoxes
04-26-2024 at 12:21 PM.
04-26-2024 at 12:21 PM.
I'l agree that 8gb of RAM is egregious in 2024, however, I just bought the $699 MacBook Air M1 from Walmart, and I use it as follows:
Apple Music open and playing, 5-8 tabs open doing school work, iMessage open, run SurfShark VPN, and compile code here and there in my terminal for school projects. I upgraded from a 2018 MacBook with a dual core i5. I think it's very speedy and it never heats up with the workload I mentioned.
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KaatuPaadi
04-26-2024 at 12:27 PM.
04-26-2024 at 12:27 PM.
Quote from HotWingsAndBeer :
We missed the memo where it was our responsiblitiy to make decisions for you. Google is a thing, get on it.
Sad you didn't get the joke..LOL
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PapaG87
04-26-2024 at 12:41 PM.
04-26-2024 at 12:41 PM.
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Sad you didn't get the joke..LOL
Jokes are supposed to be funny. Nice attempt at playing it off though.LOL.
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KaatuPaadi
04-26-2024 at 12:45 PM.
04-26-2024 at 12:45 PM.
Quote from HotWingsAndBeer :
Jokes are supposed to be funny. Nice attempt at playing it off though.LOL.
Sorry boss.. You know better..
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Mamiww6
04-26-2024 at 01:34 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:34 PM.
Absence of additional RAM and at least 90hz screen is criminal. Even cheap budget phones over $200 offer these specs.
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04-26-2024 at 01:37 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:37 PM.
Quote from robertw477 :
I think 8GB for the average user is no issue whatsoever. I do know that laptop sales are DEAD. Look for more price cuts. The only issue is that Apple makes alot more at 8GB than 16GB.
The question is do average users spend $1,200 for MacBooks to spend time for average things on it? We always like to slap the term "average user", but where is the research is coming from? I bet SD members are not average. And we see the RAM debate with every post for MacBooks.
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04-26-2024 at 01:40 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:40 PM.
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8gb is just not justifiable. I like apple products, Im using MacBooks since 2003, and Apple possess as a premium brand, but still the prices for very basic specs are outrageous. For that money, 16gb ram and 512gb ssd should be the bare minimum.
Apple is a PRO when it comes to use the base models as a decoy lol. And most people defend this for some reason
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04-26-2024 at 01:44 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:44 PM.
'That' crowd will defend if apple sold a fancy shiny full metal brick with 1GB RAM..
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matttheman
04-26-2024 at 08:56 PM.
04-26-2024 at 08:56 PM.
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Glad we got the RAM comments out of the way early. For what it's worth, my M1 with 8GB of RAM has no problem doing any kind of office work– MS Office, Edge browser, connecting to remote computers, light photo editing. Battery life is a beast on top of it.

Amen. 2.5 years into an m1 air with 8gb ram and still runs amazingly. No lag, no slowness. And I'm a software developer.
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Kernalzero
04-27-2024 at 03:39 AM.
04-27-2024 at 03:39 AM.
I used to buy Mac laptops and desktops until they stopped users from upgrading themselves. I should be able to upgrade ram and the harddrive anytime I want. I won't buy an iMac or MacBook or Mac mini until I can upgrade these basic parts myself. 8gb of ram was enough in 2010….not now.
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jlnelson373
04-27-2024 at 06:16 AM.
04-27-2024 at 06:16 AM.
Quote from KaatuPaadi :
Folks. Plz decide if 8gb is enoughnor not. I haven't opened mine yet which I got for 790..

It's entirely dependent upon what you do. If you do normal everyday tasks web browsing office work running probably no more than 10 Chrome tabs You're going to be fine. If you're doing heavy editing if you're doing a lot of Photoshop work if you run a lot of multiple programs or multiple Chrome tabs definitely jump to 16 GB
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jlnelson373
04-27-2024 at 06:19 AM.
04-27-2024 at 06:19 AM.
Quote from Kernalzero :
I used to buy Mac laptops and desktops until they stopped users from upgrading themselves. I should be able to upgrade ram and the harddrive anytime I want. I won't buy an iMac or MacBook or Mac mini until I can upgrade these basic parts myself. 8gb of ram was enough in 2010….not now.

Unfortunately, with the new architecture for the processors utilizing unified memory meaning the memory is actually part of the chip fabrication itself. We won't be seeing user upgradable memory for some time if ever. They were rumoured to be working on that for the Mac pro but as we know that never happened.
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martz0509
04-27-2024 at 06:58 AM.
04-27-2024 at 06:58 AM.
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'That' crowd will defend if apple sold a fancy shiny full metal brick with 1GB RAM..

Agreed
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jlnelson373
04-27-2024 at 08:17 AM.
04-27-2024 at 08:17 AM.
Quote from helloredfoxes :
I'l agree that 8gb of RAM is egregious in 2024, however, I just bought the $699 MacBook Air M1 from Walmart, and I use it as follows:
Apple Music open and playing, 5-8 tabs open doing school work, iMessage open, run SurfShark VPN, and compile code here and there in my terminal for school projects. I upgraded from a 2018 MacBook with a dual core i5. I think it's very speedy and it never heats up with the workload I mentioned.

Even M1 is a huge upgrade over the old Intel. Congrats! And thanks for the real world run down. Folks here will appreciate that!
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