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Apple Now Accepting Pre-Orders for New MacBook Air With M2 Chip

Got a sweet deal on a 14" Pro for the wife (she's one of them multi-screen, creative types ;)), handed off my M1 Air to a high school-bound daughter (her Windows machine just kicked the bucket) and ordered a space gray M2 16/512 Air (inbound July 25) for myself ... computers all sorted for the next couple of years🤩).
 
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pardon my ignorance, but where in the world did the dollar destroy other currencies recently, other than places it already did for a very long time?
at least here in Europe the Dollar is now almost 1:1, so the $ caught up some good bit (or the € simply lost), but at least in my book, destroying means something different than almost catching up

edit: according to the xe currency converter, $1 = 0.98520538 €
 
erckrns said:
Wait… I could’ve used the edu store even though I have no children and graduated in 2015?
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Bro, I've been ordering via the edu store for over a decade now and I graduated in 2004 :D
They never once checked if I'm a student. You just have to acknowledge that you are LMAO
 
Starting to have second thoughts... MBP 14" is only around $400 more since I got 16/512 M2 MBA config with a much better screen, processor, ports and such. If I cancel the online order I could still purchase the MBP online today right? Not sure how Apple pre-auths work.
 
philipc121 said:
Ordered — silver, full chip, 24GB & 2TB — "delivers 25 Jul - 1 Aug".

Not too bad, was expecting longer!
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I agree. Perplexing how people are 😞 a BTO machine shipping from China in the current climate in....4 weeks. BTO was never going to ship 15 July at launch. You'd need the stock model for that.

I've ordered in-stock garden furniture which has taken months to arrive! This is ultra-quick in comparison.
 
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I was looking at the MBA 8/10 24gb 1tb for a month and didn’t pull the trigger because the 14” MBP is so near in price. I’m still using my mid 2014 mbp. I can wait a bit more to see how this settles out.
 
Ordered base midnight 8/256 as soon as it went live. Said delivers July 15, but email confirmation says July 18-25. When I first tried to upgrade the charger to the new compact one, it said August, so I skipped it.
 
unrigestered said:
pardon my ignorance, but where in the world did the dollar destroy other currencies recently, other than places it already did for a very long time?
at least here in Europe the Dollar is now almost 1:1, so the $ caught up some good bit (or the € simply lost), but at least in my book, destroying means something different than almost catching up

edit: according to the xe currency converter, $1 = 0.98520538 €
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If the dollar "catches up" to (or flips the Euro for the first time in history, since it's nearly there), then that in itself is the act of destroying the Euro. The US Dollar has been on a tear for several months now. Actually, it's at a 20-year high almost every day this week.

If the DXY (dollar index) rallies to a 20-year high, it means other currencies are getting murdered (relative to the dollar). It means both the Euro and Sterling are taking a beating. When I was in Europe in 2014, 1 Euro was 1.38 USD. Now it's $1.01.

"Destroyed" is putting it lightly. So yeah, technically everyone in Europe is paying a lot more for a MacBook nowadays vs years ago, considering that wages have remained relatively stagnant.
 
unrigestered said:
pardon my ignorance, but where in the world did the dollar destroy other currencies recently, other than places it already did for a very long time?
at least here in Europe the Dollar is now almost 1:1, so the $ caught up some good bit (or the € simply lost), but at least in my book, destroying means something different than almost catching up

edit: according to the xe currency converter, $1 = 0.98520538 €
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Being 1:1 isn't a thing that has any meaning. It isn't like the Euro is supposed to be 1:1 or something like that. Currency valuation changing by something as large as a 20% drop in less than a year against the dollar is significant. Think of it this way, if the true value of anything and everything in the world is based on its US dollar value, basically everything in Europe (including all of its companies, everything they make, and all the value of the labor of all the workers of Europe) has dropped by 20% in one year. That is notable. However, this level of fluctuation is also not very unusual.

I will agree though, "destroy" is not a great description. This is just a significant decrease in value.
 
rr23 said:
If the dollar "catches up" to (or flips the Euro for the first time in history, since it's nearly there), then that in itself is the act of destroying the Euro. The US Dollar has been on a tear for several months now. Actually, it's at a 20-year high almost every day this week.

If the DXY (dollar index) rallies to a 20-year high, it means other currencies are getting murdered (relative to the dollar). It means both the Euro and Sterling are taking a beating. When I was in Europe in 2014, 1 Euro was 1.38 USD. Now it's $1.01.

"Destroyed" is putting it lightly. So yeah, technically everyone in Europe is paying a lot more for a MacBook nowadays vs years ago, considering that wages have remained relatively stagnant.
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or global inflation?
 
rr23 said:
If the dollar "catches up" to (or flips the Euro for the first time in history, since it's nearly there), then that in itself is the act of destroying the Euro. The US Dollar has been on a tear for several months now. Actually, it's at a 20-year high almost every day this week.

If the DXY (dollar index) rallies to a 20-year high, it means other currencies are getting murdered (relative to the dollar). It means both the Euro and Sterling are taking a beating. When I was in Europe in 2014, 1 Euro was 1.38 USD. Now it's $1.01.

"Destroyed" is putting it lightly. So yeah, technically everyone in Europe is paying a lot more for a MacBook nowadays vs years ago, considering that wages have remained relatively stagnant.
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Yeah, 20-year high is very significant. But from 2000 to 2002 the US dollar was worth more than 1 Euro. And from 2015 to 2017 it was close to 1:1. So we are not in unprecedented territory.

I agree with the other poster that none of these changes meet the definition of "destroy". If you want to use that term, you won't have any descriptive words for a shift to 2:1. Though admittedly that would be inconceivable. Insert Princes Bride reference here.
 
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rr23 said:
Nope. Mine did the same. They charged me exactly $150, which was NOT the tax.
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It’s the charge for the gift card if purchased through EDU store. Apple knocks off the 150 from the computer price.
 
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kp98077 said:
or global inflation?
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There is global inflation, but there is also dollar rallying to 20-year highs against other currencies. Even if you adjust for inflation, the European pricing on MacBooks increased far more than American pricing.
 
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Hmmm I got one yesterday... (for the boss ;) )

13.3 SPG/8C CPU 10C GPU 16GB 1TB

Did a Migration from the M1 to this M2 took 1 1/2 hours.

seems nice
 

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No, I mean they literally charged me just $150 right away. Not the order total plus $150. Weird huh?
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If you ordered through EDU - that’s the charge for the gift card. Apple will knock off the 150 from the machine cost.
 
rr23 said:
There is global inflation, but there is also dollar rallying to 20-year highs against other currencies. Even if you adjust for inflation, the European pricing on MacBooks increased far more than American pricing.
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so with tax and everything whats is the M2 price?
 
Just a heads up: Changing the power adapter to the 67 watts one, cuts the estimated shipping dates by 1 week.
 
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