You need to buy another product if you don’t like this one.
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… too heavy… grow some biceps
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15" M2 MacBook Air is too heavy
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… too heavy… grow some biceps
You should read pretty much all reviews for LG Gram. They said LG Gram looks stunning, weights stunningly light, but feels like cheap plastic and sometimes feels a bit flimsy. That's magnesium alloy material behaviour for lightness you want.
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You want a solid, sturdy laptop, I think this is the maximum weight threshold for aluminium unibody construction + dense battery. You can hollow it more, lessening the battery a bit more, but you'll ended up with a somewhat flimsy feeling laptop which you'll complain again.
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Titanium? Well...don't you even dare to ask. 100% titanium unibody laptop will have an astronomical price tag. The only titanium laptop on the market today is Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, and it's only the lid that's titanium. The rest is still magnesium alloy.
3.3 pounds is indeed impressive for a 15” laptop. Prior to it, the lightest 15” model Apple had made was a touch over 4 pounds, and those models had defective keyboards and poor cooling, things the Air does not suffer with.
I think we are in the first world mentality on stuff like this. Remember people use to lug around a PowerBook Wallstreet back in the 90s. I can understand it being heavy if you are constantly carrying it with you a backpack. At that point, maybe having a notebook is probably not an essential tool you need if its weight is more noticeable. Maybe M1 Air, iPad or iPhone would be really all you need. If I look at my scenario traveling with a notebook:
0.4 miles to bus stop.
5 min wait for bus
Take my backpack off put on floor or available
20 min ride to office
5 min walk to the office
Backpack off, laptop out on desk for the next 8 hours
0.2 miles to bus stop.
5 min wait for bus
0.4 miles walk home.
The max amount of time spent carrying the device would be 30 to 40 mins a day.
If you are spending more time than 1 hour carrying the device around, its possible you don't need it. Also, I am using a mixture of different devices throughout the day. My scenario is likely not applicable to you. But there has to be compromises.
0.4 miles to bus stop.
5 min wait for bus
Take my backpack off put on floor or available
20 min ride to office
5 min walk to the office
Backpack off, laptop out on desk for the next 8 hours
0.2 miles to bus stop.
5 min wait for bus
0.4 miles walk home.
The max amount of time spent carrying the device would be 30 to 40 mins a day.
If you are spending more time than 1 hour carrying the device around, its possible you don't need it. Also, I am using a mixture of different devices throughout the day. My scenario is likely not applicable to you. But there has to be compromises.
Well, in a nutshell, ALL of Macrumors is 'first world'
What can I say, I've also returned my aluminum Kindle Oasis in favor of a plastic Kobo-ish reader because the latter felt much nicer. Okay, I'm not being serious now, there is no way Apple or most of us Mac users would go back to plastic after the 2006 MacBook (and its hallmark yellowing topcase with cracks on every edge). Edit: Oh man, but the black variant looked great, further edit: and so did the iPhone 5c.
I know, but there are so many different Grams in the 15-17" range that I'd have to build a spreadsheet first. That's probably just one more indication that they're all half-hearted junk.
LG still wins in the "ports per pound" metric, but that's not hard.
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Concerns about weight, heft, density, and handling are legitimate matters of taste, subjective experience, and personal comparisons with previously used devices. ‼️
We should avoid responding with physical fitness prescriptions, even if in jest!
The issue is design, elegance, and comfort — NOT physical fitness. Yet, I’ve seen the same shopworn cracks used to mock those who prefer lighter iPads to heavier ones! Or, those who still wish Apple would put out a Silicon-based 12” MacBook, because they feel the 13“ M1 or M2 is not as light as they would like… or falls short of what they believe would be an ideal coffee shop, travel, commuter laptop.
After all, if it's just a question of getting into shape, then we should never be discussing the issue of weight at all! Or, we should be making the case that most people should be content with — and welcome — 6-8 pound laptops with a huge battery and ginormous display. (Haven't we been there, done that?! 🙈)
If you think that would be too big, too heavy, and too dense, you're complaining needlessly, suffering from a 1st world problem, and should hie yourself to a gym!
Hence, let's demand that Apple jettison the current line up and bring out the 8-pound MacBook Air, the 5-pound iPad, and the 2-pound Apple Watch each with week-long battery life!
To any naysayers, I say, “Get in shape, you weak-wristed, cosseted First Worlders, and STOP 🛑 your complaining!” 😎
/s (obviously)
We should avoid responding with physical fitness prescriptions, even if in jest!
The issue is design, elegance, and comfort — NOT physical fitness. Yet, I’ve seen the same shopworn cracks used to mock those who prefer lighter iPads to heavier ones! Or, those who still wish Apple would put out a Silicon-based 12” MacBook, because they feel the 13“ M1 or M2 is not as light as they would like… or falls short of what they believe would be an ideal coffee shop, travel, commuter laptop.
After all, if it's just a question of getting into shape, then we should never be discussing the issue of weight at all! Or, we should be making the case that most people should be content with — and welcome — 6-8 pound laptops with a huge battery and ginormous display. (Haven't we been there, done that?! 🙈)
If you think that would be too big, too heavy, and too dense, you're complaining needlessly, suffering from a 1st world problem, and should hie yourself to a gym!
Hence, let's demand that Apple jettison the current line up and bring out the 8-pound MacBook Air, the 5-pound iPad, and the 2-pound Apple Watch each with week-long battery life!
To any naysayers, I say, “Get in shape, you weak-wristed, cosseted First Worlders, and STOP 🛑 your complaining!” 😎
/s (obviously)
I personally couldn’t disagree more. I think the 15 inch MacBook Air is a perfect size and weight for the size of computer.
I bought an M1 Pro 16” as needed a bigger screen. Holy porker. Compared to its Intel 16” replacement it’s ridiculous. I would have loved the Air 15” but it wasn’t available back then. I remember my Dell XPS had white carbon fibre wrapped around the frame and weight wise it was superior to anything Apple builds.
Apple never marketed this product as weighing “nothing at all”, which is impossible. Even air has weight — almost 15 pounds per square inch. So in that regard, Apple is being conservative with their use of the term “Air”, wouldn’t you say?
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I have been using an M1 MBA since release. I went to the store to try and buy the 15" MBA. I was surprised how dense it felt. But I quickly came to understand that this is the density of a MacBook with the screen size I'm after.
It differentiates itself from my other screen sizes:
15" MBA
11" iPad Pro
8.3" iPad mini
5.4" iPhone mini 13
The 13" MBA and 11" iPad Pro have always felt a little too close to each other.
It differentiates itself from my other screen sizes:
15" MBA
11" iPad Pro
8.3" iPad mini
5.4" iPhone mini 13
The 13" MBA and 11" iPad Pro have always felt a little too close to each other.
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Thanks. The Gram actually fared much better than I thought. I expected Apple to win the SSD benchmark, and I was even more surprised that the CPU benchmarks were almost a tie. Sure, the M2 GPU absolutely dominated the Intel Iris chip, but anyone who requires GPU power should choose neither of these laptops.
Anyway, I'm just looking at some patches of grass that seem greener on the other side. Realistically, nothing could ever pull me back into the Windows world.
Edit: Also, I felt really old during the trackpad comparison. Yes, it is hard to push down the upper area of most trackpads with your index finger. Apple's own trackpads used to be like this. That's because the thumb at the bottom does the clicking! But that battle is probably lost, just like holding phones upright.
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If you look you can see that the MacBook Air was on its way to beating the Gram at the random read/write test quite handily but for some reason that test was stopped on the Gram. Typical of Max Tech. For most uses, random read/write is far more important than sequential.
Do you even lift bruh?
Screens and batteries are heavy. Get over it or buy a smaller laptop.
The complains about being too light, and Ive like designs will start.
This is a wild complaint. The bigger machine (15" Air) is lighter than the smaller machine (14" Pro). It's thin and light relative to its performance. If it's not light enough in absolute terms, go for the 13" Air.
The Titan sub was made of carbon fiber.
The best thing to always do is feel it in the Apple store for yourself. To me, the 15” is way too large and heavy for my preference, while the 13 seems just right. I’m used to the 11-inch MacBook Air and iPads, which are lighter even than the current 13-inch Air.
https://www.amazon.com/10-0740-Digi...hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001431864519&psc=1
I think that'll immensely help OP. This should lighten up the MBA M2 for little money.
I think that'll immensely help OP. This should lighten up the MBA M2 for little money.
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Gram supports 3 external monitors and Air supports one… just apples and oranges. Gram include actually still useful usb-a ports. Nuff said.
An underpowered ultra slim computer driving up 3 external monitors.. hmm I won’t want to do that. /thread
Seriously? What do you dislike about the M2 MBP? I absolutely love mine, including far preferring the display to the MBA display. But the main reason for the MBP is way more available RAM (IMO the 24 GB maximum MBA RAM is likely suboptimal for many folks' 2023-2029 life cycle), more i/o bandwidth and multiple external display capability.
MBA has just two redeeming features: cheaper and lighter.
Apple's TiBooks worked fine. I doubt if any commercial product is pure titanium; Ti is invariably alloyed.