I mean... that's what you sign up for when you buy an Air. If you want fans, get a Pro.With no fans?
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Apple Has Finally Solved One of the MacBook Air's Biggest Limitations
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They will probably catch the discrepancy once they get the laptop, so they may not honor the $445 offer. Safe bet is to use your manually inputted information
Except they created this issue by not resolving it before the M1 Air's came out, and now its a feature that we are excited about having.
All a simple chip swap can do. It’s a miracle 🙏🏻
I know they dont' want to kill mb pro sales, but this laptop with 120hz, sd card slot, and the same ports as a 14" MBP would be the perfect laptop. As a IT Admin, I don't need the horsepower beyond maybe a Windows VM, so that would be my dream laptop...but I want the ports, high refresh rate, and sd card slot, so my M1 Pro 14" keeps on rocking.
Yeah, I mean how much compute power does it take to run office productivity apps - those apps greatly benefit from multiple displays, and up until today the MacBook Air was less than ideal. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.
People who need computing power in their local machines are not the "top of the bragging chain". If Apple were selling a 12" mac with an Axx Pro chip, I'd go for it, still would need as many display real estate as possible.
…very few Air users that…
…would never have spent any thought about using two external display - plus (!) the book’s internal one.
Experience. From selling and supporting Macs.
Very few “normal people”, let alone potential Air customers, would use more than one external display. Except, maybe, a few enthusiasts frequenting forums like this. Don’t get me wrong, I am counting counting myself among the latter and applaud Apple to have done it.
Enterprise deployments - yes, some. Not a big target demographic for macOS anyways.
A much bigger “quality of life improvement” would be another USB-C port on the right side.
Or HDMI.
Or a standard USB-A port (gasp!).
Again, it’s great that Apple finally brought support to the Air. But…
👉 As much as this gets touted as overcoming the biggest limitation, Apple should be chastised for resorting to the bargain bin for chips and not adopting Apple Intelligence for their entire 2025 iPad line.
I don’t remember reading about that “biggest limitation” of the new iPads.
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Glad Apple silicon finally caught up with chromebooks in the clearance section.
This would actually give me a reason to upgrade my M2 but I have zero interest in spending money right now.
This would actually give me a reason to upgrade my M2 but I have zero interest in spending money right now.
Happy to see proper two external display support. Was one of the key missing features of the older models. Happy to see that issue no longer exists.
Glad they’ve finally sorted this out, absolutely nuts that it was ever an issue in the first place.
If you want multiple screens and you don’t need major power, you are likely best off getting a Mac Mini for a desktop with multiple displays and either a MacBook Air or iPad Air/Pro for portability. The Mini solves needing a dock, connects to everything and is a good workhorse. Anything you need a laptop for you can have loaded on both with your data synced across devices via iCloud, OneDrive or a backup solution.
I’ve got LG’s 5K2K 34” 21:9 monitor. It has 2x HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C inputs. I use three and switch between connected machines. It was sub $1k.
That's not the biggest limitation. Few users use more than one screen. The biggest limitation is battery life. Period.
Same crowd that simps for 60hz and 256 gig base storage on macbooks, bootlickers unite!
Battery life? Isn't that up to 18 hours? How long do you work per day?
Asking the important questions. Heading into the monitor threads to see what the consensus is.