I purchased the new MBA with 24 GB and 1Tb drive. Apple delivered two weeks early. It's a splendid and fast machine.
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Apple Still Trying to Keep Up With M2 MacBook Air Demand Almost a Month After Launch
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I'm confused, are you implying I and others don't know what to look for? 😂 It isn't bias, it is just you knowing what your needs are.
Local storage is just less and less important for many people - Apple knows that, they have the data.
They underpromised on mine. I ordered a Midnight 512 on 7/19 with an original delivery date of 8/17. That got moved up to the 10th, and it actually showed up on the 5th.
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Yep. By golly, I started my career on a VT-100 with my data "out there somewhere" and now we're right back to it.
Now get off my lawn.
not only do they have the data, they’ve been actively doing things to make local storage less and less relevant.
Music library: unless you have a huge collection of rare Lossless rips/downloads, they have iCloud music library, and Apple Music.
Photos: same thing as music.
Documents in desktop: are now stored in iCloud.
Downloads: option to erase after 30 days.
The majority of people have barely anything on their actual hard drives outside of the system and applications.
Of course, there are plenty of exceptions, and I’m sure several of them are reading this exact message.
This is true but 2TB in the cloud is not enough and adding apple one on top to get 4TB is still not enough for myself and family of 6.
Of course it’s not for everyone.
And I really do not understand why they still have a 2 TB iCloud limit when they sell iPads with that same amount of storage.
But I think my original point remains valid, the reason that they start all of their Macs with 256gb is not only to save on cost, but also because they know that *a lot* of customers store nothing on their computers outside of the system and applications.
At least wait is only 2 to 3 weeks unlike the waiting period for MacBook Pro's, a couple of months back. MacBook Air is a great laptop.
My friend bought one for her daughter through the Apple store as she wanted to take advantage of the educator discount. Funny thing was the Apple store told her that they had zero stock, and that it was faster for her to order online.
Imagine the irony of placing an order via the Apple store website, inside the Apple store.
Delivery time was about 3 weeks. They had ready stock of the 14” MBP but it wasn’t an option as they both found it too bulky and heavy.
Maybe they will get their delivery time bumped up as well, but it should come as zero surprise that Apple has a very clear handle on who their target audience is, and what they want.
You're sacrificing a ton of potential forum cred by not reflexively slagging on Apple. STOP!
wouldn't you rather get a Macbook Pro?If you make a good product, people will buy it
My state, Massachusetts, has our sales tax holiday tomorrow and Sunday so I’m placing my order for this MBA in blue, fully maxed out, except for the SSD - got 1TB which is only $200 more than the 512GB which I was going to buy after reading this article:
Base Model MacBook Air With M2 Chip Has Slower SSD Speeds in Benchmarks
The first embargoed reviews of the new MacBook Air with the M2 chip have now been published. One notable detail confirmed by The Verge is that the...www.macrumors.com
I dunno still one the fence hearing the M1 MAX 2021 MacBook Pro is a better overall machine than the M2's. I think I might just wait for the M2 Pro's. rocking a 2020 Pro currently
the low level machines are only good at their base price or maybe 1 upgrade. after a few upgrades, you start questioning why you wouldn't just get a macbook pro which has a superior display and performance. if you need more ram, upgrade to 16gb. if you need more storage, upgrade to 512. if you need more ram and storage, just get a macbook pro
Yep! And I am going to bet the 2020 M1 MacBook Air will be discontinued soon as it is taking sales away from M2's. It is a far better option for anyone needing a laptop for basic tasks than the M2. Better and cheaper.
I am seeing availability for M1 MacBook Air's slipping on Best Buy with PLENTY of M2's available for immediate pickup.
If you want a great laptop for basic tasks at a great price, get an M1 while you still can, and wait for the M3
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My first job out of college was as a student intern on an Air Force base in the mid 1980s. When we ordered computers they came in pieces. Extra Ram? Here are your chips. You insert them along with the video card and hard drive. Of course you had to install the operating system too. It took a month or more for the order to arrive and then the standard procedure was to wait for the computer division to assemble it. Well, I had a little computer background so I took on the job. I became the division’s computer guy. At my next job I ended up as the network manager part time. Didn’t really fall into my chemical engineering degree but it paid the bills.
I really don't see how the 14" MBP and M2 MBA can be considered viable alternatives for each other. I find the difference in thickness and weight to be very noticeable, and I expect the target market for the MBA (such as university students) to view this to be just as important, if not more, than the supposed better performance of the MBP.
Breakthrough? Put ARM chip in laptop and call it a breakthrough? Hardly.
Innovation yes. Breakthrough is a bit of a stretch.
imo it's hard to say. i'd say that the m1 basic is the best "pound for pound" chip, relative to it's competitors, that was ever released in a very long time. it's probably the biggest thing since SSDs. now this is not without it's problems. apple silicon definitely has software and hardware incompatibility to keep it from being amazing. it's the reason why my job place won't deploy these computers for at least 3 years. and thanks to some good competition, intel and amd didn't take long to catch back up.
There are folks on ScrewTube who make their money not by being calm and rational but by being rash and hyperbolic.
Dig around, go play with an M2 MacBook Air, and see what you think.
Dig around, go play with an M2 MacBook Air, and see what you think.
Yes, but I, and many other elite users here, are the foundation of the 1%. And we will not be mollified nor coddled. Our rage about hard drive access time is pure, no matter how much more powerful this computer is compared to Wintel laptops.
It is something worth complaining about and may be a dealbreaker for very few people. But seriously, who would get the 256GB Air for the kind of workflow that may ever see a significant change because of that?
I think Apple made a mistake simply because a downgrade always looks bad, more so if you don’t even mention it. But if it wasn’t a downgrade, that SSD would still be ok for that kind of product and for the users they are targeting.