Keeping the M1 Air old design and the 13" MBP mega old design around is just so many SKUs of really overlapping products.
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Apple Store Back Up With Previews of New M2 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, Preorders Next Month
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HUGE HUGE HUGE miss. Everyone I know who works in an office and works remote uses two external screens. Apple is throwing this huge market in the trash can. These people are not creative pros. They don't need high horsepower They just need two MATCHING screens. Apple seems very out of touch with the market right now.
Yup. Surprising. But everything else is unambiguously better. And the Midnight color is great.
So you're paying about $1500 for an 8GB RAM upgrade and 15 or so % higher performance and that's it. Fan boy much?
And only two USB-C ports. If they aren't going to include MagSafe, they should at least include 4 USB-C/TB ports. My old 2018 MBP even has four!
The 2012 MacBook Pro was sold as "new" in 2016. The 2014 MacBook Air was sold as "new" until 2018.
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It looks like they added new wallpapers? So that's nice.
The lineup is just as bizarre as before, where the MBA looks like a better/newer machine than the 13" pro. Does the M2 then slot underneath the M1 pro/max?
8GB RAM on base MBA *and* 13" MBP still? 🤦♂️ That's so Apple of Apple
New MBA starting at 1,500 Euro wth I miss those days when Apple simply replaced the Dollar Sign
The new Air is more expensive than the ”new” MBP 13”. So you have to pay more to get rid of the touchbar.
Yes. It has slightly faster single core performance, but slower multicore performance.
UK getting shafted again with that price
Disappointed with the lack of a new Mac Mini. New MBA looks more like a low end MBP, like the Aluminum MacBook:
$1,200 for 8GB is ridiculous though. Even more ridiculous given that Mac OS isn't exactly the most memory efficient operating system and will always be slightly slower than a monolithic kernel because it runs on Mach. And that 8GB is shared with the GPU, and the screen is very high definition. So, expect to run out of memory if you leave too many tabs/apps open. And the MBP starts at $1,300. The same spec'd MBP is the exact same price as the MBA. Why would anyone choose the MBA? For the lack of touchbar?
$1,200 for 8GB is ridiculous though. Even more ridiculous given that Mac OS isn't exactly the most memory efficient operating system and will always be slightly slower than a monolithic kernel because it runs on Mach. And that 8GB is shared with the GPU, and the screen is very high definition. So, expect to run out of memory if you leave too many tabs/apps open. And the MBP starts at $1,300. The same spec'd MBP is the exact same price as the MBA. Why would anyone choose the MBA? For the lack of touchbar?
Wow, I was about to buy this until I realized that these don't have HDR support (guess it is reserved for mini-LED) and that the entry price point is €1500 for 8 GB of RAM and 256 SSD. That is quite frankly insulting and embarrassing.
Seems to be an excellent machine, but inflation, supply chain issues and increased cost of chip production is real. €1500 for 8 GB of RAM is too much though. I was thinking of 16 or 24 and I'm looking at over €2000. Really shafting europeans.
Wow, the price in Sweden is even more insane. 2600 USD (including 25% VAT) for the 16 GB and 512 GB SSD config. Why would anyone buy this over the MacBook Pro? The MacBook Pro is actually cheaper at that point.
Edit: For context, the entry level Pro is at 23 995 SEK with 16 GB of RAM and 512 SSD. Which has an HDR screen and other goodies. Apple messed up the price points for the Air in Scandinavia. The value proposition is sort of whack.
Seems to be an excellent machine, but inflation, supply chain issues and increased cost of chip production is real. €1500 for 8 GB of RAM is too much though. I was thinking of 16 or 24 and I'm looking at over €2000. Really shafting europeans.
Wow, the price in Sweden is even more insane. 2600 USD (including 25% VAT) for the 16 GB and 512 GB SSD config. Why would anyone buy this over the MacBook Pro? The MacBook Pro is actually cheaper at that point.
Edit: For context, the entry level Pro is at 23 995 SEK with 16 GB of RAM and 512 SSD. Which has an HDR screen and other goodies. Apple messed up the price points for the Air in Scandinavia. The value proposition is sort of whack.
Sure. It is lighter than the current M1 MBA with a slightly larger display. I love the new Midnight color. I don't know about you but $1500 isn't a lot of money for me. And I can spend the effort to sell my M1 MBA and cut the cost down to about 1200-1300 if I want. I have no use for the Pro-Res encoder/decoder though. I'd rather have gotten a second external display instead but whatever. That is pretty minor to me since I only use one external 4K display right now anyway.
Come on YouTube reviewers. Get your reviews done on the 16GB RAM M2 MBA's ASAP and then flood the Apple Refurb store with them so I can pick one up for cheap in 4-5 months 
Nope, the M2 is still using 2 RAM chips like the M1 but they are now sourcing 12GB in addition to 4 and 8GB chips.
Is this confirmed? I don't see any clear info on this, and is a key point for me.
Apple's page says the same thing for both M2 Air and Pro:
Edit: ah, but the older M1 Pros (14" & 16") say 2 or 3 external:
So both new M2 13" MacBooks are limited to 1 external display... that really sucks. I was thinking insta-buy, but maybe not now.