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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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I was asking myself the opposite question. Why would anyone choose the new MBP? The screen and camera are inferior. I don’t understand why Apple even bothered to introduce it. Am I missing something?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?
Good point. Everyone knows the 8GB is simply not enough for any of the M1 machines. They could bump it up to 12GB as the standard minimum, and it would solve the issues, and still leave people tempted to upgrade to 24GB as an optional extra.
Can someone please explain to me why anyone would want to buy the new MacBook Pro? It seems inferior to a new MacBook Air. What am I missing?
Right now the options are either 16GB or 24GB. To be honest, it's a either too expensive and have longer running device or cheap-out and perhaps upgrade sooner than expected.
Yeah, and once you've added the actual RAM and SSD you need, at full Apple Tax Mega Rip Off Upgrade Prices, rather than the pathetically inadequate base specs, and then compare the M2 MBA with the M1 Pro 14" MBP prices, then you may as well get the 14" with the screen and audio quality, and all the other extras.
The MBA has now become an expensive laptop.
24GiB of RAM is plenty enough. I would like to know what you could possibly be doing on a laptop to cause it to swap with 24GiB of RAM. The swapfile size is dynamic and is negligible compared to the rest of the files on your computer. It is normal for the memory manager to move some things to swap even when the RAM isn't full. Optimally, any bit of your RAM not being used for programs should be used to cache files.
I love how they still hide the notch with the wallpapers, as well as hide the notch in the promotional video for as long as possible. What are you afraid of, Apple? That people will think it's a stupid design?
Can't wait to order a maxed out midnight blue MBA to replace my 2016 MBP TB. I feel the MBA is now a serious computer and not just something for blogging at starbucks. This is EXACTLY the computer I have been waiting for, powerful, easy to carry around and will run my 4K monitor perfectly. Yay!
You’re missing the fans for sustained “Pro” 24/7 workloads. The Air is great at bursts, like everyday people use it, of power. It’s not meant to be pushed all day long at peak with video workflows.
Praise yourself lucky you aren't a Microsoft customer. They just released Surface Laptop with 4Gb of RAM and 128 Gb SSD.
As usual upgrade options on RAM are costly. Also with preorders opening in July, seems like delivery may be even later.
200 instruments in Logic Pro to begin with, while running 15 tabs in Safari and/or Firefox. Very amateurish editing in FCP for starters.
Yes these are Pro apps (logic and fcp), but Apple has these listed as upgrades when building out ANY of their computers for years and they know it’s ram intensive so if we shouldn’t run them on such an ultraportable then why would Apple even list them?
I'm willing to pay $1000 extra for a laptop to be void of fans.
If I could get a silent physical keyboard I would pay an extra $1000 for that too.
Not the impression I get by reading Macrumors.
Seems "no-one" is going to buy the new M2 Air, which is nice for me since I am ordering it on the first day.
inferior? How
Pro has:
2 hour extra battery life Bigger battery (58.2 vs 52.6-watt-hour vs the air)
base has 10gpu cores /$100 upsell cost option on air which makes the air and pro the same price…
slightly Higher performance (thicc chassis plus fan cooling to keep M2 temps low for higher sustained clocks)
67W power brick standard (30w on air/67w is $20 upsell on base spec airs)
no notch
Touchbar
It would be a smarter pick to get the pro over the overpriced air, the 10 gpu air is the same price as the pro anyway so to me the pro looks like a better deal as a pure performer as most of most of the air’s so called benefits are subjective:
revised thinner design, unique new colors – you might impress npc's at the coffee shop but that's still subjective ‘benefit’ over the pro
lighter – cant see a few ounces being a deal breaker
magsafe – nice but not a must have, need to pay more apple tax if the cable breaks vs usb-c on the pro
1080p web cam (720p on pro) – not a big deal if you don’t facetime
slightly bigger screen – difference will be virtually unnoticeable especially when most apps crop out the notch anyway so screen real estate will be identical to the pro
imo the pricing of the M2 air is all wrong, It’s too expensive. The M2 air should be under $1000 as an “everyday use” laptop. Apple should’ve kept this at $999 (there is zero justification for this being 20% more expensive, doesn’t even have mini-led, multi monitor support, pro motion or big performance gains from the ‘M1.5’ chip, standard storage bump or ram increase to justify a massive 20% price hike), M1 airs should be priced 849-899 to compete with the 8gb 256gb Surface Laptop 4 which now sell under $900 .
I definitely notice the extra display space on the 14" MacBook Pro. The menu bar and status icons fit nicely around the notch. It's almost like having a 3:2 display.
The 13" Pro is somewhat easier to justify this year than last year since it is the same price as the 10-GPU Air, but those who would benefit most from the active cooling system likely would be looking at the 14" Pro, which is $300 more similarly configured, but has been out long enough that the authorized resellers frequently offer discounts.