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Grade A Refurb: Apple MacBook Air 13.3" Laptop: M1, 2560x1600, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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StackSocial has Grade A Refurbished: Apple MacBook Air 13.3" Laptop (2 Colors) for $399.99. Shipping is free.
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- Space Gray (MGN63LL/A) $399.99
- Gold (MGND3LL/A) $399.99
- Apple M1 Chip 8-core CPU + 7-Core GPU
- 13.3" 2560x1600 Retina IPS LCD Display
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 8GB LPDDR4X RAM
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.0
- Integrated 720p FaceTime HD Camera
- Backlit Magic Keyboard with Force Touch Trackpad
- Weight: 2.8 lbs
- Ports
- 2x Thunderbolt 3/ USB 4 Ports
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- This product is listed with a Grade "A" rating. It arrives in a near-mint condition and may have very minimal to zero amounts of scuffing on the case. To learn more about refurbished products, click here.
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- Returns accepted within 30 days of shipment for orders within the Contiguous US.
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StackSocial has Grade A Refurbished: Apple MacBook Air 13.3" Laptop (2 Colors) for $399.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member wildbird12 for finding this deal.
Available:
Thanks to Community Member wildbird12 for finding this deal.
Available:
- Space Gray (MGN63LL/A) $399.99
- Gold (MGND3LL/A) $399.99
- Apple M1 Chip 8-core CPU + 7-Core GPU
- 13.3" 2560x1600 Retina IPS LCD Display
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 8GB LPDDR4X RAM
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.0
- Integrated 720p FaceTime HD Camera
- Backlit Magic Keyboard with Force Touch Trackpad
- Weight: 2.8 lbs
- Ports
- 2x Thunderbolt 3/ USB 4 Ports
Editor's Notes
Written by SubZero5 | Staff- About this deal:
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
- About this product:
- This product is listed with a Grade "A" rating. It arrives in a near-mint condition and may have very minimal to zero amounts of scuffing on the case. To learn more about refurbished products, click here.
- About this store:
- Returns accepted within 30 days of shipment for orders within the Contiguous US.
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This M1 8gb won't be good for AI or heavy workloads, but is more than enough power for the average internet based user. At this price point, they only have premium chromebooks or crappy Windows laptops. I'd take my M1 8gb over any other if this was my price cap or giving it to a basic user.
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With casual admin use (email, discord, onenote, firefox), I'm hitting 65-70% on a 16gb M1 Air. You'll be slamming the swap memory -- or having to treat it like a mobile by single tasking. Just with that stuff alone, I'm occasionally hitting that swap memory like it owes me money.
You're better off looking at the entry-level M4 Air which routinely hits $850. Yes, it's more than twice the price -- but you're getting a CPU that is significantly better AND twice the ram (just in the base config). For $1000, you can get that same config in a 15" chassis. All with the option to get a spanking fresh 3-year warranty.
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With casual admin use (email, discord, onenote, firefox), I'm hitting 65-70% on a 16gb M1 Air. You'll be slamming the swap memory -- or having to treat it like a mobile by single tasking. Just with that stuff alone, I'm occasionally hitting that swap memory like it owes me money.
You're better off looking at the entry-level M4 Air which routinely hits $850. Yes, it's more than twice the price -- but you're getting a CPU that is significantly better AND twice the ram (just in the base config). For $1000, you can get that same config in a 15" chassis. All with the option to get a spanking fresh 3-year warranty.
At $400 you're dipping into the territory of Chromebooks and semi-disposable cheapo Walmart bargain bin laptops (while being a heck of a lot nicer), and those are rarely used for anything more than browsing with a handful of tabs open, for which 8GB is fine.
I'm a dev and technical person of 20+ years and I have 16GB machines that rarely see their RAM usage exceed even half their capacity simply because their purpose isn't RAM intensive.
More is better, obviously, but at some point you gain nothing. macOS holds onto cached files that may not be read again simply because there's no reason to evict them.
An 8GB m1 might not be the best multitasker but it's god damn good at it anyway. I would not advise someone to pay double for an m4 16GB *if all else were exactly equal*. It's a deal!...
Not saying more ram isn't better, but your point is majorly flawed and irrelevant. They sell the minimum they can because margins. That minimum went uo because Ai is a marketing point now that outweighs the hardware expense.
In other words, if you turn on Apple Intelligence or Apple doesn't let you disable it, you may not be gaining anything between and 8 and 16 machine because 8 of it could be reserved
And whatever they do today is kind of irrelevant since they can and do make changes like this on a whim. They already have made it so even if you disable Apple intelligence you can't reclaim the storage space it consumes
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