New color is great, no longer RAM-anemic base model, M4, and starting at $999? Somebody pinch me… This is the definition of a good deal for what you get.
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Apple Announces New MacBook Air With M4 and 'Sky Blue' Color Option
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The base model M3's had 16GB RAM
(was adjusted last year once they were suddenly "built for Apple Intelligence")
All products in 2025 are kinda disappointing…
They’ve never done the actual conversion rate of the Euro. Unless it benefits them when the Euro falls. 1 USD = 1 EUR for them, so they’re adding VAT to the 999, not to the actual EUR price which would be ~930. You get exactly €1199.
Hmm. The cheapest option starts at $100 less which is nice but it's also getting less GPU cores compared to the base M4 Mini and M4 MBP. 8 GPU cores compared to 10 GPU cores in the Mini/MBP. Not sure how big of a difference it will be but worth noting.
How many times I heard the word: Apple Intelligence ☹️ 😅
UK / Euro purchasers get stronger purchase protection with longer warranties mandated by law. This increases the price for UK / Euro customers.
Maybe the fall releases will change that...and maybe not.
You already did in the forums.
I don't care about the other features; the screen on the Pro is better but not extra $$ money better, and I preferred having no fan...oh. and the Air is lighter.
...and I DESPISE the fan grills on the sides.
It’s actually 100$ less than the M3
Old Air with 16Gig Ram and 500 Gig SSD is 1529,00 Euros is Germany. 1449,00 Euros for the new one, so it is cheaper. It's even cheaper than what I payed for my M1 back then! And the US price is without taxes, in Europe taxes are included in the listed price.
...they increased their Canadian ssd prices.
From 250 to 300 per 256 GB.
Lol.
Edit: actually not quite? Going from 256 to 512 is indeed more expensive by 50. But then going to 1 tb is, I think, less expensive by 200? If I'm remembering right.
From 250 to 300 per 256 GB.
Lol.
Edit: actually not quite? Going from 256 to 512 is indeed more expensive by 50. But then going to 1 tb is, I think, less expensive by 200? If I'm remembering right.
That’s for USA only bro… in Canada it’s 50$ less expensive so around 35 USD less expensive bro… I guess Europe has the same problem
I think everyone with an M3 15" MBA should fire sell theirs and upgrade straight away...
(...as he starts perusing FB Marketplace...)
(...as he starts perusing FB Marketplace...)
Why remove Space Grey? That was probably the most popular option. Doesn’t make sense to me.
2x faster than M1, will stick to my M1 then - youtube and netflix still run smoothly
If you pick a 512gb model it won’t be less expensive than the M3… if you pick a 1tb model it will be 50 cad more expensive…
I noticed we have the same problem with RAM and they increased from 25$ the price to upgrade to 10 cores GPU so it will only be 25$ cheaper than m3 instead of 50.
New color looks great, price cut is also very nice. Not enough to entice me upgrading my M3 MBA though I think.
For Apple devices not really but for many other tech yes. I’ve never had one fail or show a defect after some time passes, usually it’s stuff you see right out of the box like something being weird cosmetically or something not working from factory
