Apple increased the price of the MacBook Air with the launch of the M2. So Apple is going to do the same with the 15” M2 MacBook Air.
The current M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max / M1 Ultra didn’t receive a price increase yet due to inflation & chip shortages.
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Apple Working on 15-Inch MacBook Air and 12-Inch MacBook for 2023
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Apple increased the price of the MacBook Air with the launch of the M2. So Apple is going to do the same with the 15” M2 MacBook Air.
The current M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max / M1 Ultra didn’t receive a price increase yet due to inflation & chip shortages.
They can’t increase the price of the 15” M2 MacBook Air because it does exist and doesn’t have a price yet.
My comments were just about it’s price relative to the 13” M2 MBA which is currently $1199 base price. If you add a $200 larger screen price (From the different in price between the small and large MBP) you get $1399 for a possible 15” MBA.
Correct, like the 13 MacBook Pro Pro Pro
Oh I guess you don't understand THEIR products
When the M1 came out Apple was pushing the M1 to businesses, how unethical of them pushing a product that was to for Pro's to so many companies.
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A $2.000 laptop should support at least two external monitors. I need support for three, actually, for the work I do, but I could use a 15” screen on the laptop itself as a third monitor (still a compromise). So, I expressed my opinion, and you should just move on with your life instead of stalking me online.
It sounds like you would be better off with a $2000 14” MBP that can support multiple external monitors and be done with it.
I don't understand all the demand for 3 monitor setups on a *laptop*
I use 3 screens at home on my Desktop PC.
It works really well to read one screen, type on another, and have a web browser open in the 3rd.
I use my Macbook when I'm traveling, or doing some light work at a cafe or park.
I bought the cable to use a 2nd monitor for my Macbook and think I've used it once, because it's just a pain to plug and unplug for some light work.
I don't see the practicality of plugging and unplugging cables to get 3 screens going from a laptop. It sounds like people are using their laptops as their primary computer. Apple has 2 desktop lines they make for that use. Sure, we all want One Machine To Rule Them All, but apple wants us to buy phone/ipad/computer/laptop/watches from them. Why would they make a cheap laptop replace a desktop sale?
I use 3 screens at home on my Desktop PC.
It works really well to read one screen, type on another, and have a web browser open in the 3rd.
I use my Macbook when I'm traveling, or doing some light work at a cafe or park.
I bought the cable to use a 2nd monitor for my Macbook and think I've used it once, because it's just a pain to plug and unplug for some light work.
I don't see the practicality of plugging and unplugging cables to get 3 screens going from a laptop. It sounds like people are using their laptops as their primary computer. Apple has 2 desktop lines they make for that use. Sure, we all want One Machine To Rule Them All, but apple wants us to buy phone/ipad/computer/laptop/watches from them. Why would they make a cheap laptop replace a desktop sale?
Because an IPad Pro is not a laptop. I’ve got both a 14”MBP and 13” iPP. The crossover of what I use them for is minimal.
I’d buy a 12” MacBook Air or Pro in an instant.
And therefore their strategy worked. You bought a MacBook Pro instead of a $999 laptop.
You really showed them!
I’d buy both in an instant. I spend a lot of time drawing, sketching and marking up drawings on the iPad Pro. The bigger the better.
My laptop on the other hand spends most it’s time on email and I connect to a 27” external in the office.
I had an old 2015 12” MacBook. That thing was awesome
It makes a lot of sense: it is called saturation of the market segments, it serves a company to expand the range of offers to the public and cover all the attractive market segments, countering the competition. Is it confusing? This is no longer Steve Jobs's Apple, with two colors for popular iPods / Macs, and one color for Pro products. It's Tim Cook's Apple, and where it can fill gaps, it fills them, while keeping 5-year-old watches, 7-year-old phones, 22-year-old iPods on sale.. It's ridiculous? Maybe, but when Jobs presented the iPhones in two colors or other that he found "minimal", you laughed at him and bullied his disciple and friend Ive, then it is useless to complain.
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I've really lost sight of what you are trying to say.Correct, like the 13 MacBook Pro Pro Pro
Oh I guess you don't understand THEIR products
When the M1 came out Apple was pushing the M1 to businesses, how unethical of them pushing a product that was to for Pro's to so many companies.
Apple pushes all products to the business (AKA Pro) sector, where Apple deems appropriate. There are businesses, and professionals (AKA people getting paid for their work) that use Apple's consumer-oriented products for their work as well.
It is up to the customer to decide which Apple product fits their needs and purchase accordingly. Apple is not being opaque about their devices capabilities or limitations.
If their limitations do not fit the workflow you or your co-workers/employees need, then it's simple: buy something else. Apple is OK with this.
My solution to this, even on my work pro since it can't handle all 3 screens on my desk, is to use displaylink for non-main displays. I'm considering a new air for myself, and I figure I'll switch the other side monitor to be plugged into a displaylink port and when I'm docked at my desk both machines will use displaylink for the side displays and drive my main center display directly. Works fine for me, may not for other's workflows though (I have a TS3+ and then a dell dock with displaylink chained off that, so still one cable for everything)
I keep thinking about the recurring iPhone 14 Max non Pro rumors when I need hope that 15” Air is really happening. We shall see this September.
You said that people who are being paid at work are pro's, if that's the case why would Apple put the M1 as the #1 reason for business to switch to MAC, you have already said that these macs are not meant for Pro's. Seems unethical to push a product to professionals that you have already said was not meant for pro's.
Actually the 14" can only support 2, My brother in law has his 15" MBP stolen and replaced it with a 14", when he went to work he could not get his 3 external displays to work.
Do you not also use the built-in screen? i don’t understand people who use a laptop in clamshell mode. Why waste that screen?
Another beautiful exemple of “I’m American don’t you dare tell me about something different from my views” you know the rest of the world (yeah yeah, us who didn’t go to the moon… bla bla bla) use and have different units, formats, languages and even cultures… we use the , where I’m from for currency 💁♂️ You know there’s a whole world out there and that the US is only a small 335 million people out of 7.9 billion right?
Never said they did not, for myself I have mac mini with dual 34" ultrawides, not much room on my desk for a laptop, I would take dual 34" over a 34" and a 13" any-day
I have the same setup, I have my MBP 16” placed on a mount behind the 2 LG Ultrawide 34”
I simply asked you to define serious work and you continue to deflect. If you are going to make a statement of opinion wrapped in the illusion of fact, the least you could have done is try and define the parameters.
I never said I was buying the base M1 Air. My intention was to buy the M2 Air with 16/512 but only if it was the same price as the M1 Air. At $1200 for the base, though, it’s only a couple hundred cheaper than the MBP 14” after adding more memory and storage, and since the 14” is almost a year old, I‘ve come to the conclusion that both are bad deals and decided not to buy either one.
Define serious work? I couldn’t possibly do that. There are thousands of use cases for multiple monitors: Graphics designers, programmers, architects, network engineers, sound engineers, video editors, stock traders, etc.
I’m in one of these occupations. I need a multiple-monitor setup.