i highly disagree. I use a surface for work and it’s a 100% consensus from everyone that it sucks. It’s very frustrating. I do not see any similarities or how windows has become closer to macOS.
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Apple Announces New MacBook Air With 13-Inch Retina Display and Touch ID
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On the plus side the old Air is still available at the same price it's been going for since 2015
Exactly. I'm really bummed they took out the SD Card reader. Having it built in is so helpful.
Is the battery glued in as well? I have to know before I buy because it is important to me, it has to be glued or I will not fill safe because it can fall out while I'm using it and explode in my crotch.
That’s a pretty quick judgement for having no understanding of how it’s designed.
100% consensus?!?!?! spoken like a true apple evangelist.
That hole is for custom water cooling, not audio?
No but seriously, I am also bummed out about the ports and that awful keyboard. I would rather build my own portable computer out of a Mac Mini because that got all the ports I need.
Apple's prices have increased and these forums continue to be a hotbed of nastiness.
Says the guy who is living in my shoes and knows where I work and what I do and what my coworkers say.
On the other hand it makes no sense, IMHO, in not updating rMB. A little heavier, faster MBA with a fan and a lighter, smaller and fanless rMB, why the latter was left with no upgrade?
i mean, literally EVEN single one of apple's "high end" laptops suffers from throttling and logic board failures because of no thermals.
there is no way that a tiny fan in something the size of a piece of paper can handle CPU heat - no way. i don't care how many little videos they show you of designers praising it, because it won't work.
that said, it is impressive what they achieve with no room, but the fact still remains that these overheat.
It’s the poor reliability I’m having issues with. Now that Apple no longer makes a laptop keyboard that actually withstands normal use, I’ll be looking elsewhere.
You’re complaining about price and I simply pointed out that perhaps you’d be paying the same amount as your $1000 criteria. Or very close to. [after a little math]
only 100g lighter than the quad core macbook pro, that can be had for a very similar price (refurbished).
I think it's a no brainer for me. buying the macbook pro.
I think it's a no brainer for me. buying the macbook pro.
Yup, particularly on the higher end, the rMB with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM is the exact same price as the MBA with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM, but the Air has 2xTB3 to the rMB's 1xUSB-C and a much better CPU and while it's bigger, it's pretty damn close. You have to really need that extra size reduction to want the rMB at this point
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Agreed, when I saw the new Air I thought ‘ah, now they’re going to kill the MB line they just don’t want to announce it on stage.’
Maybe Intel will update the processors it uses, soon, but it’s still got a previous generation trackpad and the problematic keyboard.
Who on earth would willingly buy this now there’s the new Air? It’s superior in pretty much every way.
But throttling has been a normal process of every computer ever.
I have not seen a wide spread report of logic board failures. I have seen a lot of conjecture.