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Anyone else disappointed with the new M2 Air announcement?

How did you feel about the M2 announcment?

  • Disappointed. I expected something more like the rumors.

    Votes: 78 24.8%

  • Encouraged. I'm utterly satisfied. This is the perfect MacBook Air.

    Votes: 237 75.2%
  • Total voters
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Color! I wanted a green one. I guess we'll have to wait a little bit longer for that, though. If ever.

I'm not too picky though, not like I was going to be buying one anyway. I've already got a 2020 M1, hopefully that'll last me through to the refresh after the next refresh.
 
Purchased a refurb M1 8/8. 25% more for the M2, but midnight and MagSafe are tempting. It’s not a slam dunk IMO, but the M1 is supremely capable, I’ll take it.
 
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The base price of £1,249 is the dealbreaker. Would have preferred M1 chip at £999. Or should have started at 16GB.
 
Yep, got this today with 20% discount was same price as the same config air 2. 14" 16GB/1TB.

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I kind of wished they made it a little thicker and put a fan in to be able to fully utilise the new M2, call it the Pro instead and then make a much smaller laptop to stick the Air label on to. The new M2 Air and M2 Pro are too similar in size. It's hardly an Air.
 
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I'm mostly disappointed. I wish it would support more than one external monitor and that its display was 120hz for such a price. I doubt I would even notice the difference between M1 and M2.
The design and colors are pretty though.
 
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blairh said:
I was expecting much lighter. .1 lbs is barely lighter.

The brighter screen is a big deal. I prefer the new form factor as well.

I wish they would give us black. This midnight looks too blue to me and I'm hearing rumblings that it is a fingerprint magnet. Regardless that is the color I'd get as I'm tired of the other colors.

Lastly, man do I wish they'd make a 15" MBA. Supposedly coming next year.
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Of course the darker colors will be fingerprint magnets so you wanting a black color would have had the same issue. I don’t think the industry has a good answer against skin oils.
 
I wanted colours. I am SO sick of grey and washed out gold. I bought the yellow iMac and it makes me happy everyday. Even if they delayed it and released it later this year I would be happy to wait. I feel like they just rushed this release to make the form factor match the pro.
 
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I’m not sure where some of the hate is coming from. They improved the screen quality and the screen-to-body ratio, provided four speakers, added a high-impedance 3.5mm jack, full HD front camera, all on top of a faster SoC.

What are you guys expecting? A larger, more powerful MacBook? Those are in the Pros…
 
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ian87w said:
The MacBook Air won easily a decade ago. However, today, plenty of laptops that are actually lighter than the MacBook Air. My HP Pavillion Aero 13 is less than 1kg, lighter than the M2 MacBook Air.
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I think this is one of the cases where regular exposure to older tech is healthy: spending regular time with computers from 10-25 years ago puts a lot of things in perspective. Here's my 14" MBP next to my ThinkPad X220 and PowerBook G3 "Wallstreet" to illustrate what a truly "chonky" (and mildly "chonky") laptop actually look like, if that term is to have any actual meaning:

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Keep in mind that the new Air is only 73% of the thickness of my MBP.

Again, my point isn't that the MBA is the thinnest laptop around, only that it's still incredibly thin for a laptop and that it's very weird to me that people would describe it as excessively thick. It's like calling a 70" TV "small" because there are also 80" and 85" TVs on the market.
 
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ahurst said:
I think this is one of the cases where regular exposure to older tech is healthy: spending regular time with computers from 10-25 years ago puts a lot of things in perspective. Here's my 14" MBP next to my ThinkPad X220 and PowerBook G3 "Wallstreet" to illustrate what a truly "chonky" (and mildly "chonky") laptop actually look like, if that term is to have any actual meaning:

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Keep in mind that the new Air is only 73% of the thickness of my MBP.

Again, my point isn't that the MBA is the thinnest laptop around, only that it's still incredibly thin for a laptop and that it's very weird to me that people would describe it as excessively thick. It's like calling a 70" TV "small" because there are also 80" and 85" TVs on the market.
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Highlighting the Macbook Air's thinness and weight worked well a decade ago. But today, it's nothing special. Pretty much all ultrabooks are within the Macbook Air's weight (~1.2kg), with some are even lighter (LG Gram, HP Pavillion Aero 13, for example).
My point was, today's laptops are already within the size/weight range of the Macbook Air. So it's not really that special anymore. And pointing out how big and heavy older laptops were, was a bit pointless as today's laptops are simply not that bulky anymore.
 
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ian87w said:
Highlighting the Macbook Air's thinness and weight worked well a decade ago. But today, it's nothing special. Pretty much all ultrabooks are within the Macbook Air's weight (~1.2kg), with some are even lighter (LG Gram, HP Pavillion Aero 13, for example).
My point was, today's laptops are already within the size/weight range of the Macbook Air. So it's not really that special anymore. And pointing out how big and heavy older laptops were, was a bit pointless as today's laptops are simply not that bulky anymore.
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I think we're talking past each other here. You're of course correct that the Air isn't *uniquely* thin and light anymore, there are other ultrabooks on the market that are marginally thinner and lighter. My point is that from a practical standpoint, *all* modern ultrabooks are so thin and light compared to the laptops we carried around 10-15 years ago that complaining about a millimetre or two of thickness just seems like petty spec-chasing instead of a genuine practical concern.

Everyone's entitled to their own specific preferences and preferred design trade-offs of course, my main issue is the absurdity of calling a laptop that's barely more than 1cm thick "chonky" (which colloquially means "excessively/cartoonishly thick") when it's nearly 1/3 of the thickness of the main laptop I used daily until late last year (the X220, which is ~3.1 cm thick). Words have meaning, dang it!

...wow, I knew this was going to be a slow morning for me, but I didn't expect to spend this much of it arguing the semantics of the word "chonky" on an internet forum. Hope your Wednesday's going better than mine.
 
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ahurst said:
I think we're talking past each other here. You're of course correct that the Air isn't *uniquely* thin and light anymore, there are other ultrabooks on the market that are marginally thinner and lighter. My point is that from a practical standpoint, *all* modern ultrabooks are so thin and light compared to the laptops we carried around 10-15 years ago that complaining about a millimetre or two of thickness just seems like petty spec-chasing instead of a genuine practical concern.

Everyone's entitled to their own specific preferences and preferred design trade-offs of course, my main issue is the absurdity of calling a laptop that's barely more than 1cm thick "chonky" (which colloquially means "excessively/cartoonishly thick") when it's nearly 1/3 of the thickness of the main laptop I used daily until late last year (the X220, which is ~3.1 cm thick). Words have meaning, dang it!

...wow, I knew this was going to be a slow morning for me, but I didn't expect to spend this much of it arguing the semantics of the word "chonky" on an internet forum. Hope your Wednesday's going better than mine.
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Never said anything being "chonky." That was a different user... :D
I'm actually getting to bed now. :D Cheers.
 
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Nope.

1) screaming fast
2) great display (way better than most comparable windows machine which have lower res and lower brightness)
3) great speakers
4) still lightweight and slim
5) faster, better, than existing MBA at only a little more, and under the 13 MBP which only has the active cooling as a differentiator
6) cheaper than comparably equipped windows PCs, go ahead configure one, to get a 500 nits screen, ~9000 Geekbench CPU, premium speakers, fast SSD. Every time I do, wow so expensive
 
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Wahlstrm said:
The "trash can", base model was about as much as a 16GB/1TB M2 Air.
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I'm pretty sure the base trash can Mac Pro started at like $3K.

EDIT: Damn, my guess was spot on. Google says the 2013 Mac Pro started at $2,999.
 
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